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Meta President Dina Powell McCormick warned that breaking ground on brand-new data centers in the United States will become significantly harder following midterm election results, pointing to existing project expansions as the more viable path forward.
Brazilian digital services provider Locaweb is shifting data center capacity planning further forward and evaluating substitute hardware configurations with Dell Technologies to mitigate supply chain bottlenecks.
Voters approved restrictions on planned artificial intelligence data centers in 40 of 41 local ballot contests, underscoring mounting civic resistance to the resource demands of multi-gigawatt computing campuses.
Foxconn plans to capture half of the global artificial intelligence server market within two years, supported by an 18-month manufacturing backlog from cloud platforms and frontier labs.
Taiwanese semiconductor maker Macronix International is winding down its legacy read-only memory business, shifting manufacturing allocation to meet surging enterprise demand for NOR and NAND flash memory chips.
Grassroots resistance to rapid AI infrastructure expansion is mounting across the United States, stalling nearly $200 billion in data center investments as communities push back on zoning opacity and grid demands.
Microsoft has signed a 20-year, 1,100-megawatt power supply agreement with NiSource for its AI data centers while navigating potential regulatory designations in the UK and Congressional inquiries in the US.
Google faces a complex landscape, balancing the significant expansion of its cloud division with the departure of key AI talent to other leading research labs and startups.
Tesla and SpaceX are set to invest significantly in a new chip manufacturing facility in Texas, aiming to address future computing demands.
SoftBank contributed $50 million to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Fund in January, several months before securing a federal land lease for a major data center project in Ohio.
Across the United States, communities are uniting in opposition to the development of new AI data centers, transcending traditional political divides.
Chevron and Williams are making significant investments in power generation for data centers, signaling a new revenue stream for the fossil fuel industry.
A new resolution aims to empower local communities with greater control over data center development.
Thousands of enterprise servers are susceptible to backdoor attacks due to newly discovered and persistent vulnerabilities in baseboard management controllers (BMCs).
AI data-center customers are securing long-term supply, leaving consumer-device makers with higher component costs into 2028.
The temporary generators will remain while a permanent 1.2-gigawatt gas plant is built for the Colossus data centers.
AWS revenue rose 37%, helping the company defend infrastructure spending that would be harder to justify without a clear hosting business.
PJM Interconnection will begin curtailing facilities of 50 megawatts or more in June 2027 when supply cannot meet demand.
