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AI trends in energy management, optimization, and sustainability.

Sunrun Wants to Turn Homes Into Tiny AI Data Centers

Sunrun is piloting AI compute in customers’ homes, betting distributed AI compute can ease data center backlash and create new revenue.

Microsoft says carbon emissions rose 25% in 2025 as AI datacenters expanded, highlighting the growing climate cost of its AI push.

The AI compute market is rotating from Nvidia GPUs to memory chips as DRAM and HBM prices surge and GPU rental rates cool.

Microsoft layoffs hit about 4,800 workers as the company expands AI spending and reshapes Xbox and sales around new priorities.

A British startup launches microgravity research into orbit to study disease proteins and build AI tools for drug discovery.

Ashton Kutcher leaves Sound Ventures to launch an AI infrastructure-focused VC firm with Morgan Beller, signaling a shift in AI investing.

South Korea unveils a $900B AI infrastructure push, with Samsung and SK Hynix leading new memory fabs, HBM packaging and data centers.

SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son questions Musk’s orbital data centers, saying AI needs compute now, not a space project years away.

Databricks veteran Naveen Rao’s startup says a new chip design could cut AI power use by 1,000x and reshape inference economics.

AI power struggles are spilling into Hollywood, data centers and Meta’s workplace surveillance after a week of major corporate clashes.