America’s data centers are thirsty. Rural towns are paying the price
In the first week of May, two data center developments, one in Arizona and another in Georgia, were caught taking ...
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A Start-Up Aiming to Make Geothermal Energy Mainstream Goes Public
For decades, geothermal energy has been a niche source of electricity available in a few areas like California and Iceland.But ...
Start-Up Raises $1.3 Billion for an A.I. ‘Grid’
The world’s leading artificial intelligence companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on the computer data centers needed to ...
Anthropic’s C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year
Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, said on Wednesday that his artificial intelligence company had planned for growing about ...
David Sacks says AI now accounts for 75% of US GDP growth
President Donald Trump has framed the current state of the U.S. economy as a “golden age,” and in some ways ...
Fort Bliss data center could use more power than all of El Paso
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A.I. Spending Sets a Record, With No End in Sight
For the past two years, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta have repeatedly set records for how much they are spending ...
From Indiana to Idaho, a Backlash Against A.I. Gathers Momentum
Though none of them had been politically active before, they became part of a growing national movement that pits the ...
Utility giant Duke Energy plans to spend industry record $103 billion on growth as data centers boom
Utility giant Duke Energy may not be a household name, but it sits at the epicenter of the AI data ...
Musk’s SpaceX Goals Shift Ahead of Its I.P.O.
For years, SpaceX’s mission was clear: Get humans to Mars.“The most powerful thing we could do is establish a second, ...
Feud between AI power startup Fermi and fired CEO and top shareholder heats up over proposed sale
The new leadership of the AI power startup Fermi is feuding with its fired CEO and top shareholder over a ...
Amazon Plans to Invest Up to $25 Billion in Anthropic
Amazon has agreed to invest as much as $25 billion more in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence start-up that created the ...
Texas grid operator’s demand forecast likely an overestimate
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Texas losing a billion dollars a year on data center tax break
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Microsoft and Chevron enter exclusivity deal on powering West Texas data center complex
Big Oil is joining the data center game, with Chevron and Microsoft entering an exclusivity agreement on talks to colocate ...
Embattled former BP CEO takes over Wyoming hyperscaler
Bernard Looney, whose tenure as CEO of BP ended with him embattled in controversy, is entering the AI age as ...
Microsoft is picking up a Texas data center project OpenAI didn’t want
Microsoft is taking over a data center construction project in Texas after OpenAI declined to pursue it, in a move ...
AI boom is fueling demand for skilled trades—and demand for technicians, HVAC workers, and electricians is soaring, with six-figure salaries to match
White-collar tech roles have faced waves of layoffs in recent months, as companies like Amazon, Meta and Oracle trim headcounts ...
Oracle called this its best quarter in 15 years — its free cash flow just hit negative $24.7 billion
Oracle called the third quarter of fiscal 2026 its best in 15 years with revenue up 22% to $17.2 billion ...
Oracle under pressure from more than $100 billion in debt and massive layoffs
The $400 billion enterprise software and cloud infrastructure giant Oracle is in the hot seat with a fiscal third quarter ...
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