A Startup Has a Plan to Make Water From Air Using Data Centers’ Waste Heat
Atoco’s new machines use specialized materials that can harvest water from some of the driest air on Earth without using electricity.
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'Need for data centres outweighs other considerations': local council in the London commuter belt approves Amazon's massive M25 hub despite air quality fears
Massive 1.5 million sq ft data center campus planned for West Texas — bringing the state's total regional AI investment to $12 billion
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‘You probably have one election cycle’: Quiet warning about data centers sparked a grassroots movement that is ousting Oregon politicians and threatening tech giants
Oregon’s data center expansion faces organized opposition after tax incentives trigger lawsuits, political consequences and demands for statewide policy changes.
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Trump defends data centers in Ohio, warns they’ll go to China if US turns them away
"There's so much money to be made for Ohio. You can’t just turn them off. They’ll go to China,” Trump told supporters at an Ohio rally.
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Trump defends data centers in Ohio as he rallies to boost Jon Husted in a tight Senate race (World)
Trump took several minutes during his campaign rally in southwestern Ohio to promote his administration's action on data centers, saying he was seeking to ensure they “benefit local communities" and praised Republican Sen. Jon Husted for an ill-fated…
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Trump defends data centers in Ohio as he rallies to boost Jon Husted in a tight Senate race
VANDALIA, Ohio (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday defended data centers that power artificial intelligence projects but have become a contentious campaign issue nationwide, as he took his midterm tour to Ohio to insist his party will keep its…
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A hyperscaler wants to buy a site almost 3X bigger than Central Park in Osceola County, Florida — as its residents worry about a future surrounded by data centers
Residents in Florida’s Osceola County are concerned about plans for a huge 2,000-plus acre data center.
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Shocker: Last Night’s ‘Viral’ Pro-Data Center Party Is Tied to Thiel, the Koch Institute, and Other AI Boosters
That pro-data center party was propped up by, well, data centers.
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New Jersey hits data center powering Microsoft Copilot with $1m fine after drone expose 62 secretly-installed gas generators
DataOne data center responsible for Microsoft's AI accused of running 62 natural gas generators without any permits.
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Google is sending a teensy-tiny AI data center to space
It's an experiment to see how the chips hold up in the harsh vacuum of the cosmos.
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Data centers are black boxes, but California wants to change that
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data - and more say - on how data centers impact their electricity bills and water supply. As data centers invade a growing number of communities across the US, they've triggered protests over how the infrastructure underpinning AI […]
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Anthropic and OpenAI announce more powerful (and cheaper) AI models
I thought we were supposed to be slowing down the frontier.
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Nearly $200 Billion Worth of Data Center Projects Have Been Blocked or Delayed This Year
Communities across the U.S. continue to push back against proposed data center projects.
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E-waste from AI boom and building data centers could stretch six times around the Earth by 2050, report warns
New report reveals just how much AI data center e-waste is likely unaccounted for, and how much each campus likely uses.
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'Every solar plant is a latent data center': US startup plans to turn wasted solar energy into GPU-ready DCs in weeks, not years, without major water use
Rune's RELIC system uses unused solar electricity to power GPUs, avoiding grid connections and conventional data center construction requirements.
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Bill to make AI data centers pay for power grid upgrades reaches critical milestone
States could soon enforce the Ratepayer Protection Act to force 100MW+ data center operators to pick up the grid upgrade costs.
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RTX 5090s are going for as much as $9000, as AI server builders reportedly buy Nvidia's flagship by the pallet, but the photos behind the story may be AI-generated
AI firms are reportedly buying RTX 5090s by the pallet, which Nvidia's own driver license has prohibited since 2017.
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NVIDIA and Google's new coalition wants to speed up AI data center power grid connections
A new coalition of tech giants aims to speed AI data center grid connections in exchange for more flexibility.
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World’s second-biggest data center proposed in Scotland meets “huge” opposition — and it's part of a wider trend across the United Kingdom
Data centers are being opposed in every region of the UK, and it could cause some problems for the government's plans for AI
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Diamonds, Crescents and Wildcats: Intel shows off its hardware for the next generation of agentic AI workloads
Intel laid out its whole agentic AI hardware stack at Hot Chips 2026, but two of the three chips are still a year or more from shipping.
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X claims it found a Chinese bot farm posting anti-AI data center sentiments
X found a bot farm in its investigation of inauthentic Chinese accounts. Out of 200,000 bots, 200 allegedly focused on posting against AI data centers.
