Browsing: Data Centers
The buildings behind the cloud and the AI boom, covering power demand, water use, local opposition and the enormous sums being spent on them.
Drone strikes on Yandex facilities in Sasovo, Kaluga and Vladimir took down maps, payments, taxis and cloud services across Russia and beyond. Bot traffic from Yandex’s network collapsed too, but that does not mean Russia’s troll farms went quiet. Here is what actually broke and what the Cloudflare chart really shows.
The world’s richest man says he is living in an Airstream trailer parked at xAI’s Memphis site so he can sleep steps from the servers. The trailer is the charming part. The 2 gigawatt facility it sits beside is the story.
A phone was carried onto the stage at the All-In Summit, Jensen Huang answered it, and the President of the United States spent five minutes on speakerphone calling AI safety concerns a hoax. The word was doing more work than it sounded like.
Google is putting €13 billion into Finnish AI infrastructure and has signed a 22-year deal for up to half of the Loviisa nuclear plant’s output. The agreement rescues a reactor from retirement, and Finland’s opposition is not entirely thrilled.
A national emergency declaration restricts foreign made transformers, breakers, inverters and grid control software. The catch is that a replacement transformer already carries a 128 week wait, and US power demand is climbing for the first time in fifteen years.
Global smartphone shipments are on track to fall close to 14 percent in 2026, the sharpest drop ever recorded. Manufacturers are absorbing the memory crisis by quietly cutting RAM, storage and chipsets instead of raising prices further. Here is what changed and how to spot it.
Cherokee Nation banned hyperscale data centers on tribally owned and trust land after a task force found 64% of citizens opposed them. The same survey found 73% of those citizens use generative AI, and the report says so out loud.
Jason Kelce and Liquid Death are asking Americans to mail their urine to AI data centers. It is a stunt, but the water figures behind it are real: 4.5 trillion liters in 2025, and 7 in 10 Americans now oppose a data center near them.
Stripe’s $7 billion purchase of AI gateway OpenRouter turns a payments giant into the meter and the router for AI traffic. Here is what the deal means for developers, pricing and the future of AI infrastructure.
Nvidia signed agreements with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure. The structure is clever, and the criticism it is drawing has a long history behind it.