The industry is spending billions on more efficient chips, cooling, and grid connections. But what about making computers do less work – or doing it at a better time?
No more AI training in Russia? Destiny of two Nvidia-powered Russian supercomputers is unknown as drones hit Yandex data center in Sasovo.
EV charging firm Xeal plans to use its existing U.S. network to deploy the ‘world’s first edge inference compute network using idle EV charging capacity.’
Census Bureau data shows U.S. data center construction spending hit a record $85 billion annual rate in August, up 73% in a year.
Tencent is reportedly renting 100,000 AI chips from Oracle data centers in Southeast Asia for about $7 billion over five years.

Google’s latest data center construction project in Finland is being investigated after the company representing the search giant reportedly cleared over 300 hectares of forest before obtaining a mandatory environmental impact assessment.
AWS CEO warns that growing opposition to data centers could undermine U.S. AI leadership, while defending buildouts against concerns over water consumption, electricity costs, pollution, and community impact.

The U.S. Senate has blocked the Ratepayer Protection Act in a 57-43 vote, killing legislation that would have pushed regulators to consider making data centers pay the incremental grid costs created by their massive electricity demand.

Microsoft is bringing nature-inspired landscaping to more than 20 data center sites as critics question its motives.
The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.