Browsing: Data Centers

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.

Amazon’s planned Pecos County data center comes with its own 35-turbine gas plant, permitted to release 33 million tons of CO2 a year. That is roughly double the emissions of the dirtiest power plant currently running in the United States.