AWS CEO Matt Garman said in a company blog post that it will allocate $1 billion over five years to key issues that data center communities raised, including education, workforce pathways, energy affordability, and more. This amounts to grants of $200 million annually, even as the company allocates $220 billion on data center infrastructure for 2026.

Data center developer proposes paying checks of $10,000 per household to sway public sentiment.

Russia has begun targeting data centers and internet infrastructure in its latest attacks, disrupting critical services for Ukrainian civilians. The attacks have left 100,000 households in the area without an internet connection, although a senior government official claimed that the country’s internet network is highly decentralized.

Elon Musk says that the Colossus 2 will receive 220,000 GB300 GPUs by next week, with another two tranches of the same amount expected to arrive later this year. This will put the site at over a million AI GPUs, finally hitting the goal the billionaire set two years ago.

The DataOne data center is facing a record fine of $1.07 million for operating portable turbine generators without permission. Residents say that the penalty is a drop in the bucket for these big tech companies.

Google will launch an experimental satellite into orbit on October 1, taking four tensor processing units with it.

UK-based Nscale signed a deal with Spring (SG) Pte Ltd, which is a subsidiary of Chinese tech giant ByteDance. The company did not make any direct mention of the TikTok parent in its filings for a U.S. IPO, while a supporting document only labeled Spring as a significant customer.