Alabama residents left powerless to stop massive Bitcoin mining data center despite county and town moratoriums — hole in state zoning laws lets facility through

Alabama residents left powerless to stop 50 MW Bitcoin mining facility despite county and town moratoriums thanks to the state’s lack of appropriate zoning laws.

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Elon Musk says xAI will increase data center capacity 7x by 2027 — targeting 10 gigawatts of compute, up to $500 billion in revenue by the end of next year
 Elon Musk says xAI will increase data center capacity 7x by 2027 — targeting 10 gigawatts of compute, up to $500 billion in revenue by the end of next year

Elon Musk expects xAI to increase its nameplate power draw to 10 GW by late 2027, which will increase its performance by orders of magnitude what is available to AI today.

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Cerebras shares plunge nearly 20% after missing earnings expectations — hardware sales drop but AI cloud revenue climbs 281%
 Cerebras shares plunge nearly 20% after missing earnings expectations — hardware sales drop but AI cloud revenue climbs 281%

Cerebras keeps growing, but misses forecast as hardware sales dip amid explosive increase of AI cloud revenue.

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The current state of PCIe 6.0 SSDs and controllers — Marvell, Phison, and SMI prepare controllers as drives finally come to market following years of delays
 The current state of PCIe 6.0 SSDs and controllers — Marvell, Phison, and SMI prepare controllers as drives finally come to market following years of delays

PCIe 6.0 SSDs are almost here. We review the state of PCIe 6.0 SSDs and controllers from Micron and Samsung, as well as controllers that can handle 2 Petabyte-class SSDs with 28 TB/s read/write speeds.

Oracle plans more layoffs weeks after spending most of its $2.1 billion restructuring budget, report claims — some teams face double-digit percentage reductions, 21,000 full-time positions already eliminated
 Oracle plans more layoffs weeks after spending most of its $2.1 billion restructuring budget, report claims — some teams face double-digit percentage reductions, 21,000 full-time positions already eliminated

Oracle plans to cut more jobs this month, with reductions on some teams reaching double-digit percentages.

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AI data center developers begin suing local jurisdictions behind bans and moratoriums — claims range from officials exceeding authority to violations of due process and equal protection laws
 AI data center developers begin suing local jurisdictions behind bans and moratoriums — claims range from officials exceeding authority to violations of due process and equal protection laws

Some data center developers are suing local governments for passing temporary bans and moratorium, saying that they such moves violated their rights to due process and equal protection. This move has gotten one county to reverse their decision, while others are still fighting the cases in court.

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Suspected China-linked hackers used AI to run the first-ever end-to-end autonomous cyberattack on Taiwan’s government, Israeli firm says — open-source-built tool continuously devised effective hack strategies in real-time

Suspected China-linked hackers used autonomous AI agents to breach Taiwanese government systems, compromising 85 accounts and stealing 2,500+ records.

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How optical interconnects and silicon photonics emerged as AI’s next hot commodity — looming US-China summit puts photonics into the crosshairs

The U.S. wants Chinese optical transceivers out of future AI data centers, but China’s current dominance of the rapidly evolving photonics supply chain could make a ban complicated

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YMTC breaks into the top three NAND makers for the first time as AI servers swallow 48% of all flash — Chinese vendor has 14% share, according to research
 YMTC breaks into the top three NAND makers for the first time as AI servers swallow 48% of all flash — Chinese vendor has 14% share, according to research

Samsung led with 25%, SK hynix followed at 22%, and Micron rounded out the top five.

Claude will begin digitally watermarking marking AI-generated text and images — Anthropic details how it’ll comply with the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act

European users of Anthropic’s Claude models can expect that future versions of those tools will begin embedding digital marks in generated text and images to identify them as the product of AI.

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