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Texas is auditing data-center grid requests and weighing tougher conditions, turning AI infrastructure growth into a test of power, water and public legitimacy.
Amazon has confirmed plans for a Pecos County data-center campus tied to GW Ranch, whose state permit allows up to 33.2 million tons of greenhouse-gas emissions a year.
Tehran’s six conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz tie commercial passage to wider military, sanctions and financial negotiations.
China’s underwater data centers show real gains in energy, land and freshwater use. But the case for scaling them depends on what happens to the heat, marine habitat, maintenance economics and a seafloor we still barely understand.
Record semiconductor profits and a proposed $100 billion Kentucky data-center complex show how AI investment is expanding beyond models and software.
