An AI data center is reportedly watering its lawn despite the area suffering from a drought. One resident said that we can’t water our lawns until next summer, but you better believe that they are watering their entire green with so many sprinklers.
Nvidia expands beyond AI hardware with its $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, gains control of a major open AI model platform, vows to preserve its support for competing models, clouds, and hardware platforms.
Nvidia’s Personal AI Router (PAIR) clustering utility lets agentic AI workloads take advantage of every spare GPU cycle on a home network, potentially making for faster execution and more private inference.
The people of Independence, Missouri, voted to recall councilor John Perkins after he voted to give a Nebius data center tax breaks amounting to more than $6 billion. Perkins said that a single vote should not be enough grounds to overturn an election from two years ago.
Sam Altman says that a single almond uses up more water than 38,000 ChatGPT queries. He said that the concerns of people about data centers using up so much water are nothing but a “robust meme,” and that the claim doesn’t hold up to any scrutiny.
TSMC’s equipment requirements have nearly doubled in just eight months as AI demand drives an unprecedented fab expansion, yet its 2026 CapEx budget has risen by only around 15%.
Hybrid bonding, the copper-to-copper joining technique that replaces solder microbumps in 3D chip stacks, is in high-volume production on logic and freshly postponed on memory.
GoPro is merging with optical-photonics company Starman Optical in a deal worth at least $285 million. This move will wipe out the company’s $92 million outstanding debt, let it start manufacturing its cameras in the U.S., and expand its portfolio to include optical transceivers for AI data centers.
Russian national faces US charges over a phishing campaign that allegedly infected 80,000 PCs and stole credentials and personal data
The leak was traced to a major ID-authentication service based in Louisiana, serving major companies like Hertz, Target, and the United States Coast Guard.