Fundraising is reportedly flowing for Fluidstack after it secured a $50 billion deal to build data centers for Anthropic.
Ayr Energy is using a shortage of power conversion equipment to break open a decades-old market.
In a first, the U.S. Energy Information Agency said it will require data centers to disclose details of their energy use.
L.D. 307 would have imposed the country’s first statewide moratorium on new data centers — lasting, in this case, until November 1, 2027.
Natural gas power plant costs have nearly doubled in two years and take 23% longer to build as data center electricity demand skyrockets.
Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital, has a new venture that is reportedly buying land near large power sources.
The push for new data centers at Microsoft is putting its key clean power goals at risk.
PJM Interconnection — which oversees the grid for some of the densest data center developments on Earth — wants to overhaul itself. Not everyone thinks it’s up to the task.
The apparently insatiable demand for AI compute has data center entrepreneurs looking to the stars. There’s a key problem: There aren’t enough rockets to put data centers in orbit around Earth, and they’re too expensive.
Gas turbines at xAI’s Colossus 2 data center have drawn a lawsuit over the company’s use of “mobile” gas turbines as power plants.