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Samsung C&T Backs Kairos Power’s Google Reactor Plan
The binding term sheet adds capital and construction expertise to a proposed reactor project linked to Google’s future data-center power supply.
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Topic: Data Centers
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Crusoe’s $3.9 Billion Round Prices the AI Power Bottleneck
A $30.9 billion valuation tests whether controlling power, construction and compute can become a durable advantage in the AI infrastructure race.
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Huawei’s Atlas 960 Shows How China Is Rebuilding the AI Stack
The new Atlas 960E SuperPoD shifts the contest with Nvidia from individual chips to tightly integrated systems spanning compute, interconnect, memory and software.
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Google and Nvidia Back Flexible Power for AI Data Centers
A new coalition wants AI facilities to shift noncritical computing when grids are stressed, potentially shortening connection queues without treating every workload as constant demand.
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Poll Finds Rising Concern Over AI’s Environmental Cost
A national AP-NORC poll found 53% of U.S. adults are highly concerned about AI’s environmental impact, up from 41% last year.
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Nscale Adds Fidji Simo as AI Infrastructure Grows Up
The former OpenAI and Instacart executive brings product, marketplace and public-company experience as the AI infrastructure race shifts toward operating discipline.
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Nvidia Says AI Compute Demand Still Outruns Supply
Nvidia’s long-range growth forecast rests on AI-computing demand extending beyond Big Tech—even as memory and infrastructure remain constrained.
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Massachusetts Makes Clean Power a Data Center Requirement
A new executive order links permits for large data centers to clean-energy supply, community agreements and protections against shifting costs to ratepayers.
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Amazon and Qualcomm Link AI Chip Deal to Billion Warrant
A multigenerational Amazon partnership gives Qualcomm a path into AI data centers while tying potential equity ownership to future purchases.
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Google-Backed Nuclear Restart Wins .9 Billion U.S. Loan
Federal financing moves Iowa’s only nuclear plant closer to a 2029 restart as Google secures long-term power for growing cloud and AI demand.