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We Have AI at Home Chapter 1: A Box of Scraps (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: ai data center, nvidia gpu, large language model

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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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Batteries Powered By Rust? This Startup Raised $750 Million to Build Them. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-13 | by Jonathan Small | tags: rust batteries, form energy, weirton plant

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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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Oracle plans more layoffs weeks after spending most of its $2.1 billion restructuring budget, report claims — some teams face double-digit percentage reductions, 21,000 full-time positions already eliminated (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Luke James | tags: oracle, ai data center, restructuring plan

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Form Energy raises $750M to build more 100-hour batteries for the grid (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-12 | by Tim De Chant | tags: form energy, iron-air batteries, west virginia

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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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Amazon's new Texas data center could become the single largest polluter in the US (techspot.com)

2026-08-11 | by Kishalaya Kundu | tags: amazon, texas data center, pecos county

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Nvidia Is Close to a $500 Billion Deal to Build AI Infrastructure. Why Aren’t Some Investors Happy About It? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | by Jonathan Small | tags: nvidia, ai infrastructure, openai

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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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Amazon’s New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States (futurism.com)

2026-08-11 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: amazon web services, ai data center, pecos county

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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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‘You Can’t Get Food Out of a Data Center’: Family Rejects Tech Company’s $26 Million Offer for Their Farm (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: data center, kentucky, ida huddleston

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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

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Four takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s massive AI manifesto (theverge.com)

2026-08-10 | by Jess Weatherbed | tags: meta, mark zuckerberg, artificial intelligence

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Amazon Used a Startlingly Dirty Trick to Build a Data Center Without Consent of Community (futurism.com)

2026-08-10 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: amazon, data center, gilroy

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Data-Center Backlash Leads to a New Land Rush in the Texas Oil Patch (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-10 | tags: permanent basin, texas oil, data center

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Amazon’s new 7.65GW Texas AI data center power plant could become the largest source of CO₂ pollution in the US — custom 35-turbine gas plant authorized to emit 33 million tons of annual greenhouse gases (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Etiido Uko | tags: center, data center, data centers

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Reading the Room Perfectly, Donald Trump Becomes Greatest Defender of Data Centers (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: centers, data centers, projects

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Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the US (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-08 | by Anthony Ha | tags: amazon, pecos county, natural gas

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Amazon circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules — Gilroy residents locked out of public comment window (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Jowi Morales | tags: amazon, center, city

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Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules — Gilroy residents locked out of public comment window (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Jowi Morales | tags: amazon, center, city

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AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: centers, data centers, emissions