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China drafts $295 billion plan to build national AI data center grid running on 80% homemade silicon

By Luke James Published

China is drafting a plan to spend roughly 2 trillion yuan over five years on a nationwide grid of AI data centers.

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Elon Musk's first-gen orbital data center craft spans wider than a Boeing 747 and runs an interchangeable chip payload

By Luke James Published

Elon Musk laid out the first detailed design of SpaceX's AI1 satellite in a 30-minute video posted to the company's X account.

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SpaceX Gigasat factory
SpaceX unveils 11-million-square-foot Gigasat factory, a new manufacturing facility for space-based data centers

By Etiido Uko Published

SpaceX's new Gigasat factory will mass-produce AI satellites for orbital data centers. Musk says the company is targeting 1 GW of space AI compute by 2027 and 100 GW per year by 2030.

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Most new U.S. AI data centers are being built in drought zones

By Luke James Published

About two-thirds of the 809 data centers planned across the U.S. are slated for land that has been in drought over the past year.

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Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for data center development

By Mark Tyson Published

Texas farmland originally donated in 1999 to be used only as a public park has been sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

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Google signs $920M monthly compute deal with SpaceX

By Jowi Morales Published

SpaceX is set to make big money from its data centers.

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Seattle to pass one-year AI data center moratorium next week

By Jowi Morales Published

Some of the biggest spenders on AI data centers can't put one up in their own backyard.

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Tents at the Prometheus data center in New Albany, Ohio
Meta putting up tents across the US to house AI servers, like ‘a scene out of the movie Mad Max’

By Jowi Morales Published

These "makeshift" structures are housing hardware that costs millions of dollars in total.

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Indiana mayor secretly recorded saying AI data center protestors have 'sh***y ,' unkempt houses

By Jowi Morales Published

Shelbyville mayor Scott Ferguson (R) made these remarks likelly without knowing that he was being recorded, and it has ignited a political firestorm in the small town.

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Terafab site
Elon Musk's SpaceX secures 100% property tax exemption for planned $55 billion Terafab semiconductor factory in Texas

By Etiido Uko Published

The majority of residents oppose the agreement

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