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Updates on Data Centers

Every AI story we track on Data Centers — 161 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked back to the publisher that reported it.

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Today's stories

Chips & Compute5 min read

Celero raises $275m to bring coherent optics inside AI data centres

The Next Web

Huawei Lifted Prices for Its Best AI Chip By 60% This Summer

Bloomberg

Fire Marshal Uncovers House of Horrors Lurking Inside Bitcoin-Mining Data Center

Futurism

SK Group chief to visit AI data center under construction in Ulsan

Yonhap News Agency

States That Gave Data Centers Billions in Tax Breaks Are Now Ripping Up the Deals

The Wall Street Journal

A $1bn Spanish data centre deal, with no customer and no address

The Next Web

This week

Qualcomm Lands Amazon as Customer for Push Into AI Chips

Covered by 2 sources
Public Sector4 min read

Mark Cuban shared a 10-point checklist for towns getting their first data center

Business Insider

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)

Techmeme

Firmus Signs OpenAI as Anchor Customer for Malaysian AI Factories

Unite.AI

Tech companies are scouting Argentine Patagonia for AI data centres, Reuters reports

The Next Web

US Tech Firms Eye Australia for AI Centers, Local Operator Says

Bloomberg

Australia’s AI Boom Risks Demand Surge and Higher Rates, BE Says

Bloomberg
Chips & Compute6 min read

Thinking Machines is in talks to raise $6bn, The Information reports

The Next Web

TCS commits $7.4B to a one-gigawatt AI campus in Hyderabad

The Next Web

College Graduate Employment Is Cratering Where Data Centers Are Being Built

Futurism

Sam Altman says AI developers have fumbled at communicating the technology’s benefits

The Next Web

SpaceXAI apologizes for outage that affected Grok and other 'compute partners'

Engadget

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)

Techmeme
Politics9 min read

Americans love AI. They don't want the data centers that power it.

Business Insider

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)

Techmeme
Public Sector7 min read

Hate AI Data Centers? Big Tech’s New Ad Campaign Aims to Change Your Mind

CNET
Public Sector5 min read

At G20, Big Tech and Global Leaders Can’t Escape AI’s Data Center Problem

CNET

Kingspan Sells Green Bonds as Data Center Demand Lifts Firm

Bloomberg
Public Sector5 min read

Lutnick Declares Administration’s Trust in Anthropic at G20 Meeting

Unite.AI

CPP Investments, Equinix Close $4B atNorth Deal as Partners Group Keeps 10%

Unite.AI
AI Research1 min read

Anthropic Signs $35 Billion Pact With Nvidia-Backed Lambda

Covered by 2 sources
Energy & Climate3 min read

Elon Musk says SpaceX will build its own gas turbine parts to meet surging AI power demand

Business Insider
Chips & Compute4 min read

SB Energy gave OpenAI $5.5bn in warrants to sign a 20-year lease

The Next Web
Chips & Compute3 min read

AI Data Center Investment Could Reach $7 Trillion By 2030: Who Wins?

Forbes
Chips & Compute4 min read

a16z has raised $1.1bn to invest in the physical layer of AI

Covered by 3 sources
Chips & Compute6 min read

NVIDIA Posts $96.2B Quarter as Data Center Revenue Hits $89B

Covered by 6 sources

Amazon to Buy 2 Million Nvidia Chips for Data Center Build-Out

Covered by 3 sources
Chips & Compute3 min read

Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with Britain’s Nscale

Covered by 2 sources

UAE Tycoon Al Ashram, MTN Agree to Build Africa AI Data Centers

Bloomberg

Huawei AI Data Center Bid in Egypt Spurs US to Mull Counter

Bloomberg

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)

Covered by 3 sources

Australia Data-Center Power Use Seen Up Sevenfold by 2036

Covered by 2 sources
Public Sector5 min read

New York AI data center fight comes to Geneva

Hacker News
Energy & Climate3 min read

Texas Governor Suddenly Turns on Data Centers as Backlash Grows

Futurism
Chips & Compute5 min read

Lancium and NVIDIA Partner to Deploy Gigawatt-Scale AI Factories

Unite.AI
Energy & Climate3 min read

Amazon's 7.65GW AI data center power plant could be largest CO₂ emitter in US

Hacker News
AI Research4 min read

Tech tries a new message: You'd love data centers if China wasn't making you hate data centers

Business Insider

AI Cloud Firm Nebius Seeks $4.5 Billion in Convertible Bonds

Covered by 2 sources
Chips & Compute4 min read

Nvidia’s H200 finally reaches Chinese buyers, though maybe not mainland China

The Next Web
AI Research2 min read

Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project

TechCrunch
Chips & Compute6 min read

Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone Secures £300M Financing as Dell Establishes Scottish Base

Unite.AI

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)

Techmeme
Chips & Compute3 min read

Wall Street giants hand Nvidia $500B to fund boom in AI projects

Hacker News

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)

Techmeme

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)

Covered by 2 sources
Energy & Climate3 min read

Virginia cracks down on electricity firms hiking prices for AI data centers — move could save ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ for everyday users

TechRadar
Chips & Compute3 min read

Global AI Closes First Debt Raise to Expand Sovereign AI Data Centers

Unite.AI
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