AI-generated summary Microsoft is reportedly exiting a 2023 compute capacity agreement with Oracle that utilized older Nvidia hardware to power an AI-assisted version of the Bing search engine. According to Bloomberg, Microsoft declined to renew the contract because the older hardware did not meet its current specifications.
AI-generated summary SpaceX plans to build a twenty-four billion dollar data center and natural gas power plant in Starbase, Texas. The proposed facility will reportedly operate with thirty-five turbines to produce seven hundred forty-eight megawatts of power.
AI-generated summary China reportedly recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to gather intelligence on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang regarding American artificial intelligence chips. Three House committees requested that Jensen Huang appear for a joint briefing concerning his interactions with Alice Huang.
AI-generated summary SpaceXAI has applied for a special development permit in Cochise County, Arizona, to build a data center campus that the firm claims could reach 6GW of capacity. The company states that construction could begin in March 2027 if it receives zoning approval, with the project planned to be developed in four 1.5GW stages.
AI-generated summary Lenders financing GPU infrastructure face important questions regarding how operational outages and service level agreements impact expected debt repayments and cash flows. Operators may use service level agreement insurance to help offset financial consequences when independent service performance crosses predefined thresholds during an outage.
AI-generated summary Nvidia Corp. faces stricter scrutiny from a new Democratic majority in Congress regarding its artificial intelligence chip sales and export controls. Democrats plan to summon executives like Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang to testify publicly and provide information for investigations into industry practices.
AI-generated summary Data centers help enable net-zero goals by powering the artificial intelligence and digitization required to electrify high-emitting industries. A Schneider Electric whitepaper explores how data centers can decouple surging 2050 power demands from carbon output.
AI-generated summary Alphabet Inc.'s Google plans to invest seventeen billion dollars to construct a new data center located in Wyoming. The investment announcement follows recent US midterm elections where voters and candidates supported stricter regulations and limits on artificial intelligence projects.
AI-generated summary Chemours has launched its new Faizeon dielectric fluids targeted at two-phase direct-to-chip and immersion cooling systems for data centers. Chemours says that its Faizeon 200 fluid maintained a GPU at up to 19°C lower than a single-phase, water-based fluid.
AI-generated summary TeraWulf secured Google as a financial backstop for the Justified Data Campus project in Hawesville, Kentucky. The campus is contracted to Anthropic under a nineteen billion dollar lease signed in July 2026.
AI-generated summary ZincFive states that its nickel-zinc technology brings high power capability and usable energy storage together as rack power requirements rise in data centers. ZincFive says its nickel-zinc batteries use a nonflammable, aqueous electrolyte and have no risk of thermal runaway at the cell level.
AI-generated summary About 600000 Nvidia artificial intelligence chips are stored in Hong Kong waiting for shipment to mainland China according to a Reuters report citing people familiar with the matter. Beijing has not approved large-scale imports of the H200 chips despite demand from technology companies while several major Chinese internet companies have each received about 10000 H200 chips in recent months.
AI-generated summary Huawei states that the next stage of enterprise artificial intelligence will depend less on purchasing graphics processing units and more on rebuilding data infrastructure. Huawei introduced the OceanStor A800 and OceanStor Pacific products to serve as an artificial intelligence data platform and data lake for knowledge and memory generation.
AI-generated summary Microsoft decided not to double its compute capacity agreement with Nscale in Texas, according to reporting from the Financial Times. The decision involved capacity at an Nscale-owned site adjacent to its Ionic Digital data center in Barstow, Texas.
AI-generated summary IREN shares dropped 18 percent Thursday after a report detailed Microsoft raising concerns regarding data center delays and execution risks. Microsoft officials met with IREN last week to negotiate a revised timeline that could delay completion by several weeks or months.
AI-generated summary According to Wasabi Technologies, the Wasabi 2026 Global Cloud Storage Index found that UK organizations allocate 62 percent of their AI budgets to data, storage, and compute. The research from Wasabi Technologies also indicates that 48 percent of UK respondents exceeded their cloud storage budgets last year.
AI-generated summary Oracle has reportedly dropped its contract with Tencent following pressure to reduce ties to Chinese customers, according to a report from the Financial Times. The agreement would have involved Tencent leasing advanced AI chips hosted at Oracle data centers in Southeast Asia.
AI-generated summary More than 130 Democratic candidates ran anti-tech advertisements during this cycle as public resentment against artificial intelligence grows. OpenAI recently hired the former Army secretary while technology firms prepare for a potential regulatory shift in Washington.
AI-generated summary Smartbird, previously known as Allbirds, is worth less today than before its pivot to AI cloud services. The company sold its shoe brand to American Exchange Company for $39 million and reported a net loss of $16.37 million in Q2.
AI-generated summary Yucca Growth Infrastructure released its right to a deadline for action on an air permit regarding Oracle Corp.'s data center in New Mexico. State environmental regulators receive additional time to review the application rather than facing a denial of the permit.
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