
Microsoft’s Carbon Emissions Rose 25% in 2025 as AI Data Centers Expanded
Microsoft says carbon emissions rose 25% in 2025 as AI datacenters expanded, highlighting the growing climate cost of its AI push.

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.

French startup ZML launches a free AI inference product to run models across Nvidia, AMD, Google, Apple and Intel hardware.

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.

Omen AI raises $31 million to monitor data center cooling fluid in real time and reduce downtime as AI infrastructure expands.

A humanoid robot from Flexion Robotics shows how the humanoid robot market may hinge on AI skills, simulation and autonomy.

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

Netris raised $15M from a16z to help AI neoclouds launch faster with hardware-accelerated network automation.