After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — state regulators crack down, governor says move will save civilians ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’
 After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — state regulators crack down, governor says move will save civilians ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’

Virginia’s public utility regulator now requires all data center projects to pay for the infrastructure needed to supply their power. This makes it one of the first states to convert the ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ into an actionable policy.

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Nashville attempts to block controversial data center near zoo with eminent domain — city could force developer to sell the land for public use, rather than $700 million installation
 Nashville attempts to block controversial data center near zoo with eminent domain — city could force developer to sell the land for public use, rather than $700 million installation

The Nashville Metro Council just gave the go ahead for the mayor’s plan to buy the land that a proposed data center will sit on through eminent domain. This will force the developer to give up the land, which sits beside the Nashville Zoo, although there is still a legal avenue that it can take to stop the action.

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Apple is taking OpenAI to court over alleged theft of trade secrets — ChatGPT maker suggests it doesn’t want Cupertino’s knowledge anyway

Two of the world’s largest companies are heading to court over claims of trade secret theft. Apple alleges ex-employees took key Apple secrets and technologies to OpenAI. In responding, OpenAI claims this is based on false truths and misinformation, but even if it wasn’t, it doesn’t want Apple’s trade secrets anyway.

Rogue OpenAI models behind ‘unprecedented cybersecurity incident’ teamed up to break out of their testing environment — multiple agents left each other messages for months, communicating undetected
 Rogue OpenAI models behind ‘unprecedented cybersecurity incident’ teamed up to break out of their testing environment — multiple agents left each other messages for months, communicating undetected

The rogue OpenAI models that broke out of their testing environment in an “unprecedented cybersecurity incident” recently reportedly spent months communicating with each other.

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Kentucky family snubs $26 million offer to convert their farmland into an AI data center — ‘they call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not,’ says landowner
 Kentucky family snubs $26 million offer to convert their farmland into an AI data center — ‘they call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not,’ says landowner

A Northern Kentucky family has refused an anonymous AI company’s $26 million offer to buy their land and transform it into a data center.

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US military GPS jamming exercise suspected of contributing to civilian plane crash in New Mexico — medevac flight lost signal before flying into a mountain, killing everyone onboard
 US military GPS jamming exercise suspected of contributing to civilian plane crash in New Mexico — medevac flight lost signal before flying into a mountain, killing everyone onboard

A medevac flight in New Mexico suffered from GPS interference due to activities by nearby U.S. military units. Although it didn’t directly cause the plane to crash, it added to the stress and workload of the pilots, causing them to miss one crucial piece of information.

Elon Musk says SpaceX will exclusively use Nvidia GPUs ‘because they are the best’ — says optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 will be launched into space next year

Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI will exclusive use Nvidia AI accelerators for training and inference as companies believe Vera Rubin is the best AI compute architecture available today.

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AMD doubles data center revenue year over year, but gaming revenue plunged by 31% — CEO Lisa Su says prices have ‘weighed on’ consumer demand but is ‘optimistic’ about client market
 AMD doubles data center revenue year over year, but gaming revenue plunged by 31% — CEO Lisa Su says prices have ‘weighed on’ consumer demand but is ‘optimistic’ about client market

AMD reported record revenue in Q2 2026, including doubling its data center business year-over-year, but gaming revenue dived 31%.

US mulling ban on key Chinese networking tech in data center component crackdown — White House wants to impose restrictions in 2026, China says it will respond if necessary
 US mulling ban on key Chinese networking tech in data center component crackdown — White House wants to impose restrictions in 2026, China says it will respond if necessary

Sources say that the FCC is drafting a ban on optical transceivers for data centers. These components, which convert electrical signals into light signals, are said to pose a risk as they can be used to steal data, install malware, or disrupt data center operations in the U.S.

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Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are five times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are now subject to new moratorium
 Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are five times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are now subject to new moratorium

Gov. Greg Abbott (R) instructed PUCT and ERCOT to pause all data center applications until they complete an audit on all the information that data center developers must submit. The move reportedly came after PUCT asked 377 data center operators to submit water and power use, of which only 28 complied.

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