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UK's Healey offers grid access incentives for critical data centres

Finance minister John Healey on Wednesday unveiled plans in his budget ​to support the development of ‌data centres in Britain, linking the measure to the government's artificial intelligence and...

AI Data Center Backlash Threatens Australia’s $70 Billion Dream

More than three-quarters of data centers set to be built around Australia’s biggest cities are at risk from stretched power grids and local opposition, threatening the country’s ambition to become an...

Data dive: The carbon bill for the UK’s datacentre boom | Computer ...

The UK’s existing datacentres emit about 1.5 million tonnes of CO2e a year. A 14.6GW committed pipeline would add about 12 million tonnes a year – or 38 million tonnes if it all runs on gas.

Why CoreWeave is in the crosshairs of the AI scare

Loss-making and deeply indebted US cloud company CoreWeave became an easy target this week for investors concerned about an artificial intelligence bubble. Its selloff, though, has greater signific...

Putin envoy says Russia and US are discussing joint deals including on data centres

Russia and the US are discussing a ​range of new joint projects including nuclear-powered data centres in the wake of last week's agreement on ‌diesel, President Vladimir Putin's investment envoy...

Building influence online: as AI content becomes profuse, trust is moving towards visibly human,...

As AI makes it easier to produce content at scale, value has shifted towards the things it cannot easily replicate: human evidence, expertise, and a distinct point of view a leader can carry. One...

Fast-track permits turn Spain's Aragon into a $70 billion data centre magnet. At what cost?

Aragon, a sparsely populated region of northeast Spain, has become one of Europe's fastest-growing digital infrastructure hubs due to what tech companies hail as its agile local permitting laws and...

Data Center Nordics Market: Realities

The Nordics are mainly defined in the data centre industry as advantageous due to cold weather and abundant renewable energy. We gleaned a more nuanced, detailed and authoritative overview of the...

Nscale and Figure Sign Strategic Partnership to Power the Next Generation of Physical AI | Nscale

The Data Centre Industry: Engaging with Public Scrutiny

A debrief on what our research shows When I founded Lets Talk Tech, digital and energy infrastructure conversations were still, for the most part, internal to the industry. The people building this...

Emerald AI Raises $150 Million Series A at $1.05 Billion Valuation to Scale Power-Flexible AI Data...

Emerald AI Raises $150 Million Series A at $1.05 Billion Valuation to Scale Power-Flexible AI Data Centers

UAE tycoon Al Ashram, MTN agree to build Africa AI data centres

'The approach that we are taking on the building of our AI business is to partner with third parties and the entity that we are partnering with has built data centres in the UAE,' MTN Chief Executive...

Google’s $15 billion India data centre project battles water, wildlife concerns

Andhra Pradesh state, governed by an ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has denied allegations that the Google project was fast-tracked without weighing risks.