US data centers may burn more gas than Germany and Japan by 2035
By 2035, U.S. data centers are projected to consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined, according to a new BloombergNEF report.
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246 storiesNscale adds Fidji Simo to board ahead of planned IPO
Nscale, the U.K.-based AI data center startup, has appointed former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo to its board ahead of its anticipated IPO this fall.
Google Cloud enlists Accenture engineers to speed AI adoption
Google Cloud and Accenture are launching a joint unit that will send up to 1,000 engineers into enterprises to help them adopt Google's AI tools.
Google's revived Iowa nuclear plant gets $1.9B US loan
The US Department of Energy issued a $1.9 billion loan to NextEra Energy to refurbish the Iowa nuclear plant Google is helping revive for its data centers.
AI compute provider Nscale is reportedly looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing
Nscale, a two-year-old British AI infrastructure company, is reportedly in talks to raise an additional $3.5 billion ahead of a possible IPO as early as later this month.
Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation
Data center developer Crusoe reportedly raised $3 billion at a $30 billion valuation, tripling its valuation in ten months, according to Bloomberg.
Utilities race to link up with fusion startups, Realta included
Fusion startup Realta Fusion struck a deal with utility Madison Gas and Electric to explore a 200-megawatt grid-connected fusion plant in Wisconsin by the mid-2030s.
Google buys nearly 400 MW of geothermal power from Fervo
Google agreed to buy 396 megawatts of geothermal power from Fervo's Cape Station plant in Utah, with an option for 600 MW more through June 2030.
Mukesh Ambani's Jio opens cloud PC service to all of India
Reliance Jio has opened its JioPC cloud computing service to any Indian internet user, pitching it as a way to make computers up to eight years old AI-ready.
Microsoft 365 outage drags on, but things are improving
Microsoft's multi-day Exchange Online and Microsoft 365 outage continued into a second day, with mail flow and search improving but not fully resolved.
Microsoft tests fix for widespread, hours-long Outlook outage
Microsoft confirmed a multi-hour Exchange Online outage on Monday, causing Outlook email delays, failures, and authentication issues that it was still working to resolve by 5 p.m. ET.
Musk's push for faster gas turbines raises a pollution problem
Elon Musk confirmed SpaceX is building a turbine-blade foundry in Bastrop, Texas, aiming to cut up to 18 months off gas-turbine production time for AI data centers.
Nvidia's edge is shifting from GPUs to the systems around them
As AI hyperscalers build their own chips, Nvidia's earnings this week pointed investors toward a new advantage: the specialized hardware needed to orchestrate GPU compute at gigawatt scale.
Lambda raises $1B in debt to buy more Nvidia chips for Microsoft
AI cloud company Lambda has raised $1 billion in private, short-dated debt to buy Nvidia chips it will lease to Microsoft, Bloomberg reports.
Anthropic signs about $45B compute deal with UK's Nscale
Anthropic has agreed to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from British infrastructure company Nscale, its latest in a string of large compute deals, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.
Nvidia invests in data center developer Cloverleaf
Nvidia has taken a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a data center site developer, in a deal likely worth several hundred million dollars.
Starcloud raises $250M for orbital AI data centers
Orbital-compute startup Starcloud raised a $250 million extension to its Series A, valuing the company at $2.3 billion as launch capacity tightens.
No, you shouldn't pee to cool data centers — but recycled water already does
A viral Liquid Death ad joked about using human urine to cool AI data centers, but water experts say recycled wastewater already does something close to that at scale.
TerraPower's energy-storage edge could give it an advantage powering AI data centers
Bill Gates-founded TerraPower plans to announce its first data center project this year, betting that its molten-salt energy storage gives its nuclear reactor an edge over rivals competing to power AI infrastructure.
Relativity Networks raises $22M for faster data center fiber
Relativity Networks raised $22 million in SAFE note funding to deploy hollow-core fiber that transmits data 50% faster than conventional fiber.