Category Compute

Conservative Anti-Data Center Revolt Spreads Across Florida as Republicans Split Over AI Growth

Florida conservatives are leading a data center backlash over AI, energy costs, and local control, creating new pressure on GOP leaders.

Google Cloud revenue jumped 82% as Alphabet’s AI spending drew scrutiny, giving investors fresh evidence the bet may be paying off.

OpenAI’s AI spending plan rises to $750B, led by a $20B Georgia campus that could reshape power, policy and the AI infrastructure race.

AMD and Anthropic strike a $5 billion AI infrastructure deal, pairing huge GPU deployment with a multi-year compute partnership.

Glow raised $180M at a $1.2B valuation to build endpoint security for the AI era, targeting risky software and AI agents.

Trump’s AI energy bill pledge gains more signatories, but weak enforcement and state control over rates limit its impact.

Pat Gelsinger is betting on Moore’s law revival through light-based chipmaking, AI hardware, and energy innovation at Playground Capital.

BloombergNEF says data center electricity demand could quadruple by 2035 as AI compute strains U.S. grids and pushes prices higher.

Nvidia is pitching Vera Rubin as a full-stack AI data center platform with CPUs, GPUs and cooling, ahead of AMD’s product event.

Solar robotics startup Gritt raised $34 million to automate panel installation and expand its AI systems into broader construction work.