NVIDIA's next-gen Rubin AI servers eliminate fans entirely with 100% liquid cooling, running at 45°C to enable chiller-free operation, slashing hyperscale data center cooling costs by over $4 million annually while reducing facility water consumption by up to 100%.
NV Energy is cutting power to 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents by 2027, driven by surging data center demand in Nevada, leaving Liberty Utilities scrambling for a new energy source amid a growing national backlash against AI infrastructure.
Microsoft is considering abandoning its 2030 clean energy goal of matching 100% of its electricity use with renewable energy, as rapidly expanding AI data centers create power demands that make the ambitious target increasingly difficult to meet.
Meta secures a landmark deal with startup Overview Energy for up to 1 gigawatt of space-based solar power, harnessing satellite-collected energy to fuel its rapidly expanding AI data centers.
Meta signs a massive deal with AWS to deploy tens of millions of Graviton5 processor cores, positioning itself as one of AWS's largest Graviton customers as it races to power next-gen agentic AI workloads at a billion-user scale.
Microsoft secures 30,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs at a 230 MW Arctic data center in Narvik, Norway, swooping in after OpenAI's Stargate negotiations collapse, expanding its $6.2 billion campus commitment while powering European AI with zero-carbon hydroelectric energy.
A global 'frugal AI' movement is gaining momentum, delivering small, energy-efficient models that run on cheap, offline hardware to serve communities excluded from mainstream AI, including preserving endangered Indigenous languages using minimal data on sub-$50 devices.
OpenAI is in advanced talks to buy up to 50 gigawatts of fusion energy from startup Helion by 2035, a landmark deal that could reshape AI's power future — though key milestones, including a production site, remain unresolved.
OpenAI is in talks to buy fusion energy from startup Helion, targeting 5 gigawatts by 2030 and 50 gigawatts by 2035, as skyrocketing AI energy demands push the US toward a 13-gigawatt power shortfall by 2028.
Over 300 gather at MIT's 'Gender, Empire, and AI' symposium where experts challenge Big Tech's AI expansion, arguing that smaller, community-centered tools are more beneficial and sustainable than massive large language models.