Today's stories Celero raises $275m to bring coherent optics inside AI data centres T The Next Web 1h ago Anthropic Investor Leads Funding for Off-Grid AI Power Startup B Bloomberg 2h ago Huawei Lifted Prices for Its Best AI Chip By 60% This Summer B Bloomberg 7h ago Fire Marshal Uncovers House of Horrors Lurking Inside Bitcoin-Mining Data Center F Futurism 2h ago SK Group chief to visit AI data center under construction in Ulsan Y Yonhap News Agency 13h ago States That Gave Data Centers Billions in Tax Breaks Are Now Ripping Up the Deals T The Wall Street Journal 1d ago A $1bn Spanish data centre deal, with no customer and no address T The Next Web 22h ago This week Qualcomm Lands Amazon as Customer for Push Into AI Chips B A Covered by 2 sources 2d ago Samsung-Backed MangoBoost Makes Profit on AI Data Center Demand B Bloomberg 1d ago Mark Cuban shared a 10-point checklist for towns getting their first data center B Business Insider 2d ago Argentina's Patagonia region is drawing interest from hyperscalers and data center developers due to its cold climate, expanses of land, and renewable energy (Leila Miller/Reuters) T Techmeme 2d ago Firmus Signs OpenAI as Anchor Customer for Malaysian AI Factories U Unite.AI 3d ago Tech companies are scouting Argentine Patagonia for AI data centres, Reuters reports T The Next Web 3d ago US Tech Firms Eye Australia for AI Centers, Local Operator Says B Bloomberg 3d ago Australia’s AI Boom Risks Demand Surge and Higher Rates, BE Says B Bloomberg 4d ago Thinking Machines is in talks to raise $6bn, The Information reports T The Next Web 4d ago TCS commits $7.4B to a one-gigawatt AI campus in Hyderabad T The Next Web 5d ago AI Waste H Hacker News 6d ago College Graduate Employment Is Cratering Where Data Centers Are Being Built F Futurism 6d ago Sam Altman says AI developers have fumbled at communicating the technology’s benefits T The Next Web 7d ago SpaceXAI apologizes for outage that affected Grok and other 'compute partners' E Engadget 7d ago This month Sources: Riyadh-based AI startup Humain is planning to raise an initial $2.5B fund to help finance data center capacity of 250 MW in Saudi Arabia (Omar El Chmouri/Bloomberg) T Techmeme 7d ago BUUU Group to Buy 60% of Brightray in AI Data Center Push U Unite.AI 7d ago LITEON Takes 25% Stake in Liquid-Cooling Maker DCX in $176M Deal U Unite.AI 7d ago Americans love AI. They don't want the data centers that power it. B Business Insider 8d ago A look at Loudoun County, Virginia, dubbed "Data Center Alley", which hosts ~250 data centers and offers a glimpse into data centers' impact on communities (Lauren Feiner/The Verge) T Techmeme 8d ago Hate AI Data Centers? Big Tech’s New Ad Campaign Aims to Change Your Mind C CNET 8d ago At G20, Big Tech and Global Leaders Can’t Escape AI’s Data Center Problem C CNET 8d ago Kingspan Sells Green Bonds as Data Center Demand Lifts Firm B Bloomberg 8d ago Lutnick Declares Administration’s Trust in Anthropic at G20 Meeting U Unite.AI 8d ago CPP Investments, Equinix Close $4B atNorth Deal as Partners Group Keeps 10% U Unite.AI 8d ago Anthropic Signs $35 Billion Pact With Nvidia-Backed Lambda B T Covered by 2 sources 10d ago Elon Musk says SpaceX will build its own gas turbine parts to meet surging AI power demand B Business Insider 10d ago SB Energy gave OpenAI $5.5bn in warrants to sign a 20-year lease T The Next Web 10d ago AI Data Center Investment Could Reach $7 Trillion By 2030: Who Wins? F Forbes 10d ago a16z has raised $1.1bn to invest in the physical layer of AI T B U Covered by 3 sources 13d ago NVIDIA Posts $96.2B Quarter as Data Center Revenue Hits $89B U T B +3 Covered by 6 sources 15d ago Amazon to Buy 2 Million Nvidia Chips for Data Center Build-Out B T A Covered by 3 sources 15d ago Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with Britain’s Nscale T T Covered by 2 sources 15d ago UAE Tycoon Al Ashram, MTN Agree to Build Africa AI Data Centers B Bloomberg 14d ago Huawei AI Data Center Bid in Egypt Spurs US to Mull Counter B Bloomberg 15d ago Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers in March 2025, has left the company amid a broader exodus (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal) T T T Covered by 3 sources 16d ago AI gold rush draws crypto firms away from Bitcoin B BBC 16d ago Australia Data-Center Power Use Seen Up Sevenfold by 2036 B T Covered by 2 sources 17d ago New York AI data center fight comes to Geneva H Hacker News 17d ago Texas Governor Suddenly Turns on Data Centers as Backlash Grows F Futurism 17d ago Lancium and NVIDIA Partner to Deploy Gigawatt-Scale AI Factories U Unite.AI 17d ago Amazon's 7.65GW AI data center power plant could be largest CO₂ emitter in US H Hacker News 20d ago Tech tries a new message: You'd love data centers if China wasn't making you hate data centers B Business Insider 20d ago Thai PM’s Family Firm Eyes $1.5 Billion Data Center Bids B Bloomberg 21d ago AI Cloud Firm Nebius Seeks $4.5 Billion in Convertible Bonds B T Covered by 2 sources 22d ago Nvidia’s H200 finally reaches Chinese buyers, though maybe not mainland China T The Next Web 22d ago Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project T TechCrunch 24d ago Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone Secures £300M Financing as Dell Establishes Scottish Base U Unite.AI 24d ago Sources: Vantage Data Centers, a major hyperscale developer, is exploring options including a sale or an IPO at a valuation of about $100B as soon as next year (Reuters) T Techmeme 28d ago Wall Street giants hand Nvidia $500B to fund boom in AI projects H Hacker News 29d ago Sources: Singapore-based data center operator DayOne confidentially files for a US IPO, aims to list as soon as next quarter, and is considering raising ~$5B (Bloomberg) T Techmeme 29d ago Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 20-year compute deal worth $9.1B with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of capacity at Riot's Rockdale, Texas campus; RIOT jumps ~25% (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg) T T Covered by 2 sources Aug 11 Virginia cracks down on electricity firms hiking prices for AI data centers — move could save ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ for everyday users T TechRadar Aug 10 Global AI Closes First Debt Raise to Expand Sovereign AI Data Centers U Unite.AI Aug 10 Showing the 60 most recent of 161 stories on Data Centers