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.
Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI sign the White House 'Ratepayer Protection Pledge,' committing to fund their own electricity generation and grid upgrades to prevent AI datacenter expansion from driving up energy bills for American households and small businesses, though experts warn Trump's fossil fuel energy focus could …
Industry 5.0 promises a human-centered manufacturing revolution blending AI, robotics, and sustainability, but a survey of 250 global leaders reveals most companies remain trapped in cost-cutting mode, failing to invest in the higher-value, human-centric use cases needed to unlock its full potential.
Amazon is investing $12 billion to build AI data center campuses in Louisiana, creating over 2,200 jobs while committing $400 million to public water infrastructure and covering 100% of energy infrastructure costs, as part of a record $200 billion capital expenditure push this year.