Elon Musk’s Solution to Data Centers: Just Put Them in Space

Blasting data centers into orbit would come with its own challenges and potential advantages, but Musk says SpaceX is going to do it.
The Indianapolis Star

Is Franklin Township data center dead? Google withdraws petition just before Council hearing

A proposed Google data center in Franklin Township might be dead. Minutes before a highly-anticipated City-County Council vote on Sept. 22, Google withdrew their rezoning petition. Opposed Franklin ...

Qualcomm’s AI200 turns up the heat on Nvidia — and puts inference economics in the spotlight

Qualcomm Inc. shares spiked as much as 20% early today after the company unveiled new data center artificial intelligence ...
The Washington Post

Towns are saying no to AI data centers. One got sued over it.

When a developer approached Saline Township, Michigan, with a proposal to turn 250 acres of farmland into a data center, the town board said no, citing opposition from residents. Then came the lawsuit ...
Reuters

Meta commits $1.5 billion for AI data center in Texas

NEW YORK, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab said on Wednesday it would invest $1.5 billion in a data center in Texas, breaking ground at its 29th such facility globally, as the ...
Investopedia

Nvidia, Microsoft, and BlackRock Just Struck a Massive AI Data Center Deal

Bill McColl has 25+ years of experience as a senior producer and writer for TV, radio, and digital media leading teams of anchors, reporters, and editors in creating news broadcasts, covering some of ...
Reuters

Aligned Data Centers in spotlight after $40 billion sale to BlackRock, Nvidia-backed group

Oct 15 (Reuters) - An investor group, which includes BlackRock (BLK.N), opens new tab, Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab, xAI and Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab, will buy Aligned Data Centers from ...
Wall Street Journal

A Giant New AI Data Center Is Coming to the Epicenter of America’s Fracking Boom

An Nvidia NVDA2.81%increase; green up pointing triangle-backed AI startup is planning to build a massive data-center complex with CoreWeave CRWV 2.65%increase; green up pointing triangle that is ...
NBC News

The sleeper issue that could play a huge role in Virginia and New Jersey — and the midterms

Leaders in both parties are locked in competition to encourage tech giants to put sprawling data centers in their states, looking for an economic leg up and an innovation edge in the early days of the ...
Grist

As data centers upend electric grids, the largest operator in the US is facing down a revolt from state officials

On a quiet road in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, not far from the field where George Washington’s starving soldiers waited out the winter in 1778, sits the headquarters for PJM Interconnection, the ...
Chicago Tribune

Grayslake data center could become largest county development; water and energy concerns remain

Grayslake is moving forward with potentially one of the largest single development projects in Lake County’s history, with a multi-billion-dollar data center campus that, if fully built out, would ...