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Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-17 | by Rebecca Bellan | tags: groq, ai chips, neocloud

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Nvidia may have just built its own hyperscaler without owning a single data center (techspot.com)

2026-08-17 | by Julio Franco | tags: nvidia, hyperscaler, ai data centers

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Why Big Tech’s AI Spending Is $3 Trillion Higher Than It Seems (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-17 | tags: big tech, ai spending, data centers

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Report on Candidates for Office Finds AI Is More Talked-About Than Racism or Israel (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: data centers, u.s. elections, racism

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Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’ (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-16 | by Anthony Ha | tags: anthropic, dario amodei, ai regulation

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The Bank of Nvidia (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-16 | tags: nvidia, anthropic, chatbots

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The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by About The Author | tags: flock, alpr, deflock

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Why are RAM prices so high right now? (engadget.com)

2026-08-15 | by Daniel Cooper | tags: ram prices, ai companies, openai

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Big Manufacturers Find New Demand in Equipping AI Data Centers (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-15 | tags: caterpillar, cummins, ai data centers

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Influencer Melts Down That People Didn’t Like Her Being a Paid Shill for OpenAI (futurism.com)

2026-08-15 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: openai, chatgpt, ai data centers

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Data Centers Will Eat 12% of US Electricity by 2030. This Platinum Fuel Cell Fix May Help (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: data centers, hydrogen fuel cells, platinum fuel cell

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The Summer That America Became a Nation of Luddites (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-15 | tags: flock cameras, data centers, america

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The Summer That America Became a Nation of Luddites (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-15 | tags: flock cameras, data centers, america

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AI’s Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds (futurism.com)

2026-08-14 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: microsoft, npj climate action, fossil fuels

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Enterprise SSDs now consume 48% of global NAND flash supply (techspot.com)

2026-08-14 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: samsung, sk hynix, enterprise ssd

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The Real Reason Data Center Gas Power Plants Are So Dirty (wired.com)

2026-08-14 | by Molly Taft | tags: amazon, texas power plant, gas turbines

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Ukraine shuts down 94 fraudulent call centers, seize millions in cash (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: ukraine security service, call centers, bank accounts

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Nvidia’s new $500B plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUs (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-13 | by Julie Bort | tags: nvidia, gpu, ai data centers

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Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | by Francisco Rodriguez | tags: iron mountain, nine pbs, open source storage

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Elon Musk says xAI will increase data center capacity 7x by 2027 — targeting 10 gigawatts of compute, up to $500 billion in revenue by the end of next year (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-13 | by Anton Shilov | tags: xai, spacex, elon musk

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Cargo thieves are staging car crashes to steal AI data center hardware (techspot.com)

2026-08-13 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: ai data centers, cargo theft, silicon valley

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AI data center developers begin suing local jurisdictions behind bans and moratoriums — claims range from officials exceeding authority to violations of due process and equal protection laws (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Jowi Morales | tags: ai data centers, k&l gates, hill county texas

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Protests Against Data Centers Are Now Threatening $130 Billion of Big Tech’s Crucial Investments (futurism.com)

2026-08-12 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: data centers, big tech, ai boom

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Why Jensen Huang’s $500 billion AI financing plan faces a big risk from China (cnbc.com)

2026-08-11 | by Hugh Son | tags: nvidia, jensen huang, ai chips

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AI’s biggest climate problem may not be data centers (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: fossil fuel, data centers, emissions

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Wall Street giants hand Nvidia $500bn to fund boom in AI projects (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-10 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: nvidia, ai chips, blackrock

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Mark Zuckerberg lays out Meta’s AI vision in a 6,500-word essay: 6 things to know (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: meta, mark zuckerberg, open-weight ai

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Mark Zuckerberg lays out Meta’s AI vision in a 6,500-word essay. 6 things to know (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: meta, mark zuckerberg, open-weight ai

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AI data center bans surge past 500 nationwide as local US politicians begin blocking new developments — growing public outrage and bipartisan pushback threaten big tech expansion plans (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Ben Stockton | tags: ai data centers, texas, greg abbott

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Over 70% of Americans oppose AI data centers; US protests intensify as more arrests are being made — almost 40 arrested this year in backlash to AI factory buildout (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Jon Martindale | tags: ai data centers, nashville zoo, freddie o'connell