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Data Centers Are 'AI Factories.' Google and Meta Are Spending Big Bucks to Build Them

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-16 20:19:20

Tech giants Google and Meta have a lot riding on the growth and success of AI, and to support those efforts, they're also committing significant sums of money to build the data centers they're going to need to run that power-hungry technology. On Tuesday, Google announced that it plans to invest $25 billion in data centers and other AI infrastructure tied to the PJM Interconnection, the biggest electric grid in the US. The PJM Interconnection reaches across 13 states in the eastern half of the

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Meta announces new data centers, gobble up millions of gallons of water per day

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-17 15:31:56

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company plans on investing "hundreds of billions of dollars" to power AI. Meta is building several gigawatt-sized data centers to power AI, as reported by Bloomberg . CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company will spend "hundreds of billions of dollars" to accomplish this feat, with an aim of creating "superintelligence." The term typically refers to artificial general intelligence (AGI), which describes AI systems that boast human-level intelligence across multiple dom

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Coreweave stock pops after company announces $6 billion AI data center in Pennsylvania

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2026-01-18 09:56:06

CoreWeave Inc. signage in Times Square in New York, US, on Friday, May 9, 2025. Coreweave stock climbed more than 9% on Tuesday after the company announced a $6 billion artificial intelligence data center project in Pennsylvania. The commitment includes an initial 100 megawatt data center built in Lancaster, a city about 70 miles west of Philadelphia. The data center will be able to expand to 300 MW. "The demand for high-performance AI compute is relentless," said CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrat

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Meta is reportedly using actual tents to build data centers

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-01-19 05:25:13

In Brief Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are in a hurry to build their superintelligence tech. The company has been poaching AI researchers, while Zuckerberg announced on Monday that Meta is building a 5-gigawatt data center called Hyperion. The urgency is palpable. As SemiAnalysis reported last week and Business Insider noted, Meta is so eager to boost its computing power that it’s literally erecting tents for temporary data center capacity while its facilities are still under construction. The

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Meta announces huge new data centers, but they could gobble up millions of gallons of water per day

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-20 15:40:00

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company plans on investing "hundreds of billions of dollars" to power AI. Meta is building several gigawatt-sized data centers to power AI, as reported by Bloomberg . CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company will spend "hundreds of billions of dollars" to accomplish this feat, with an aim of creating "superintelligence." The term typically refers to artificial general intelligence (AGI), which describes AI systems that boast human-level intelligence across multiple dom

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Meta Is Building Massive Gigawatt Data Centers as It Pours Billions Into AI

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-01-20 15:40:19

Meta’s AI spending spree continues. After reportedly offering tens (or in some cases, hundreds) of millions of dollars to lure away top researchers from competing artificial intelligence operations, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced via Threads that the company plans to build several multi-gigawatt superclusters to ramp up its compute power. Zuckerberg said the first of the superclusters, called Prometheus, will come online sometime in 2026, with “multiple more titan clusters” to follow. According

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AI’s fourth wave is here — are enterprises ready for what’s next?

venturebeat.com Vb Staff 2026-01-20 20:28:21

Yesterday’s emerging tech is now essential to business success — and the next wave is coming fast. To maintain competitive advantage through the next five years, which innovations must forward-thinking companies prioritize right now? At VentureBeat’s Transform 2025, Yaad Oren, global head of SAP research & innovation and Emma Brunskill, associate professor of computer science at Stanford, spoke with moderator Susan Etlinger, senior director, strategy and thought leadership, Azure AI Microsoft,

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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building a 5GW AI data center

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-01-20 20:16:52

Meta is currently building out a data center, called Hyperion, which the company expects to supply its new AI lab with five gigawatts (GW) of computational power, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Monday post on Threads. The announcement marks Meta’s latest move to get ahead of OpenAI and Google in the AI race. After previously poaching top talent to run Meta Superintelligence Lab, including former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and former Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross, Meta now seems to be t

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Trendy New Startup Makes You Pay to Tour Apartments When You're Looking for Housing

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-21 23:17:58

Back in the stone age, landlords would have to go through the ridiculous process of meeting prospective tenants, showing them their potential homes, and sharing information on the rental. No longer. Thanks to a property tech company with the amazingly mawkish name Rently, landlords can now kick their feet up and relax — even more than they used to, that is. Rently's big idea? What it calls "self-guided touring," a system where would-be renters receive a one-time door code to tour apartments on

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Everything to Remember Before ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Returns for Season 3

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-01-22 00:45:39

It’s been a long wait for the return of Strange New Worlds: almost two whole years since the cliffhanger of season two’s ending. It all resumes in next week’s season three premiere, picking up where we left off with the Enterprise crew. And while it was quite a place to leave them, we’ll forgive you if you’re hazy on the details. Here are a few things to remember from the finale, and things to know about the next season, as we get ready to return to the world of Star Trek. The Grip of the Gorn

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Woman Says Zuckerberg's AI Data Center Filled Her Tap Water With Sediment

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-22 14:05:38

"I'm afraid to drink the water." Tainted Water A retiree in rural Georgia has accused Meta's new AI data center, which is situated around 1,200 feet from her home, of polluting her water. As the BBC reports, the resident, Beverly Morris, believes the construction of the tech giant's data center disrupted her private water well, causing a buildup of sediment. "I'm afraid to drink the water, but I still cook with it, and brush my teeth with it," Morris told the broadcaster. "Am I worried about

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At Amazon's biggest data center, everything is supersized for AI

news.ycombinator.com Karen Weise 2026-01-23 10:03:11

A year ago, a 1,200-acre stretch of farmland outside New Carlisle, Ind., was an empty cornfield. Now, seven Amazon data centers rise up from the rich soil, each larger than a football stadium. Over the next several years, Amazon plans to build around 30 data centers at the site, packed with hundreds of thousands of specialized computer chips. With hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber connecting every chip and computer together, the entire complex will form one giant machine intended just for

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At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I

news.ycombinator.com Karen Weise 2026-01-24 10:03:11

A year ago, a 1,200-acre stretch of farmland outside New Carlisle, Ind., was an empty cornfield. Now, seven Amazon data centers rise up from the rich soil, each larger than a football stadium. Over the next several years, Amazon plans to build around 30 data centers at the site, packed with hundreds of thousands of specialized computer chips. With hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber connecting every chip and computer together, the entire complex will form one giant machine intended just for

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More Than 2,100 NASA Staff Are Getting Gutted

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-26 10:10:14

Elon Musk might have been deposed from DOGE, but the government cuts are still coming. As reported by Politico, some 2,145 high-level NASA employees are about to be launched out of the agency as efforts to cut US government spending continues. The employees represent those with G-13, G-14, and G-15 status — typically specialized or managerial roles which start around the six-figure salary range. The workers are part of a group of nearly 2,700 civilian employees who've agreed to leave NASA volu

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NASA will lose over 2,000 senior staff due to proposed Trump budget cuts

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-27 20:01:09

NASA is set to lose at least 2,145 senior staff members as part of the Trump administration's push for budget cuts, Politico reports. The brain drain could severely impact future research and missions, and is happening not long before the organization plans to send a new crew of astronauts to the Moon in 2026. Of the over 2,000 departing staff members, nearly all of them are in senior positions, requiring specialized skills or management experience. "Those leaving include 1,818 staff serving in

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macOS Tahoe has big Control Center upgrades, here’s everything new

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-28 10:03:29

macOS Tahoe brings a lot of exciting updates to the Mac, like a supercharged Spotlight, Liquid Glass design, and three brand new apps. One of my personal macOS Tahoe favorites: Control Center is getting a lot of great upgrades. Here’s what’s new. Control Center in macOS Tahoe takes inspiration from the iPhone Last year in iOS and iPadOS 18, Apple launched a brand new Control Center for iPhone and iPad. Control Center got more powerful and customizable than ever. And all throughout this past y

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CoreWeave acquires data center provider Core Scientific in $9B stock deal

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-02-03 05:37:09

In Brief CoreWeave announced Monday that it signed a $9 billion all-stock deal to acquire Core Scientific, a data center infrastructure provider. As a result of the deal, CoreWeave says it will gain access to more than a gigawatt of data center capacity — enough energy to power more than 850,000 homes — that it can rent out for AI training and inference workloads. Much like CoreWeave, Core Scientific previously offered Bitcoin mining services, but now its GPUs will run and train generative AI

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Nvidia challenger Groq expands with first European data center

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2026-02-04 17:59:22

Jonathan Ross, chief executive officer of Groq Inc., during the GenAI Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. Artificial intelligence semiconductor startup Groq on Monday announced it has established its first data center in Europe as it steps up its international expansion. Groq, which is backed by investment arms of Samsung and Cisco , said the data center will be located in Helsinki, Finland and is in partnership with Equinix . Groq is looking to take advantage

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Ted Cruz’s Bid to Reclaim Space Shuttle Discovery Could Cost $400 Million

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-02-07 02:00:30

At a time when money is too tight for NASA’s science exploration endeavors, Texas senators are willing to pour millions into a risky process to relocate the Space Shuttle to Houston under the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill. President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill, which passed the Senate on Tuesday, includes a provision to move the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum in Virginia to Space Center Houston. The Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act was added to t

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Dust hits $6M ARR helping enterprises build AI agents that actually do stuff instead of just talking

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-02-08 10:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Dust, a two-year-old artificial intelligence platform that helps enterprises build AI agents capable of completing entire business workflows, has reached $6 million in annual revenue — a six-fold increase from $1 million just one year ago. The company’s rapid growth signals a shift in enterprise AI adoption from simple chatbots toward sophi

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Writer CEO May Habib to take the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2026-02-09 00:00:00

AI agents are reshaping how work gets done across industries, and at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, one of the leading voices in that transformation is stepping onto the AI Stage. May Habib, CEO and co-founder of Writer, will join us in San Francisco, October 27-29, for a fireside chat that dives deep into how enterprises are operationalizing AI — at scale and with speed. With more than 10,000 startup and VC leaders attending the event, this session is set to be one of the most timely and talked-about

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Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring Enterprise BDRs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-09 04:00:28

At Kyber, we're building the next-generation document platform for enterprises. Today, our AI-native solution transforms regulatory document workflows, enabling insurance claims organizations to consolidate 80% of their templates, spend 65% less time drafting, and compress overall communication cycle times by 5x. Our vision is for every enterprise to seamlessly leverage AI templates to generate every document. Over the past 8 months, we’ve: 20x’d revenue and are profitable. Landed multiple si

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Samsung is cooking up a privacy and security powerhouse in One UI 8 (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-15 09:30:25

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung seems to be developing a new “Alert Center” in One UI 8 to notify users about sneaky apps, security risks, and aging account settings. Code strings describing “Alert Center” and its features were discovered in an internal One UI 8 build. It’s unclear when Samsung will launch the new security hub, but it should be available in your phone’s Settings when and if it goes live. Samsung seems to be going one step above Android’s built-in security and pr

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From chatbots to collaborators: How AI agents are reshaping enterprise work

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-02-15 23:38:53

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Scott White still marvels at how quickly artificial intelligence has transformed from a novelty into a true work partner. Just over a year ago, the product lead for Claude AI at Anthropic watched as early AI coding tools could barely complete a single line of code. Today, he’s building production-ready software features himself — despite n

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Texas politicians make headway in effort to wrench space shuttle from Smithsonian

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-16 10:16:14

A political effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston has been merged with the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill," a major economic and policy package now nearing a vote in the US Senate. The "Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act," first introduced by Texas Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn in April, has now been added to the Senate's version of the bill championed by President Donald Trump. While the latter legislation primarily focuses on tax cuts

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Data Centers, Temperature, and Power

news.ycombinator.com Stephanie Doyle 2026-02-13 17:42:10

It’s easy to open a data center, right? All you have to do is connect a bunch of hard drives to power and the internet, find a building, and you’re off to the races. Well, not exactly. Building and using one Storage Pod is quite a bit different than managing exabytes of data. As the world has grown more connected, the demand for data centers has grown—and then along comes artificial intelligence (AI), with processing and storage demands that amp up the need even more. That, of course, has real

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iPhone 17 Pro may reposition the Apple logo once again, says leaker

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2026-02-17 11:29:54

According to Apple leaker Majin Bu, Apple will once again be repositioning the Apple logo on the next iPhone. Apple last repositioned the Apple logo with the iPhone 11 lineup, and it’s remained centered on the iPhone ever since. Six years later, that may be changing once again – if this rumor holds up. Majin Bu has a spotty track record with Apple rumors, though they have shared a number of accurate tidbits in the past, including the ‘Desert Titanium’ marketing name for the new iPhone 16 Pro co

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AI agents are hitting a liability wall. Mixus has a plan to overcome it using human overseers on high-risk workflows

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2026-02-17 18:27:45

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more While enterprises face the challenges of deploying AI agents in critical applications, a new, more pragmatic model is emerging that puts humans back in control as a strategic safeguard against AI failure. One such example is Mixus, a platform that uses a “colleague-in-the-loop” approach to make AI agents reliable for mission-critical work

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OpenAI’s API lead explains how enterprises are already succeeding with its Agents SDK and Responses API

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2026-02-19 00:02:25

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more At VentureBeat’s Transform 2025 conference, Olivier Godement, Head of Product for OpenAI’s API platform, provided a behind-the-scenes look at how enterprise teams are adopting and deploying AI agents at scale. In a 20-minute panel discussion I hosted exclusively with Godement, the former Stripe researcher and current OpenAI API boss unpac

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This battery recycling company is now cleaning up AI data centers

technologyreview.com James Temple 2026-02-20 18:30:00

The event marked the launch of the company's new business line, Redwood Energy, which will repurpose (rather than recycle) batteries with years of remaining life to create renewable-powered microgrids. Such small-scale energy systems can operate on or off the larger electricity grid, providing electricity for businesses or communities. Redwood Materials says many of the batteries it takes in for processing retain more than half their capacity. “We can extract a lot more value from that materia

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Data Centers Are 'AI Factories.' Google and Meta Are Spending Big Bucks to Build Them

Meta announces new data centers, gobble up millions of gallons of water per day

Coreweave stock pops after company announces $6 billion AI data center in Pennsylvania

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This battery recycling company is now cleaning up AI data centers

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