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AI

Can the AI industry persuade data center opponents by getting rid of NDAs? | TechCrunch

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Startups

Petra Power looks to modernize energy for data centers and defense vehicles | TechCrunch

As AI gobbles up an ever larger amount of energy, the hunt is on for efficient and cost-effective...

The satellite carrying Google's first TPU into orbit was built by Planet Labs PBC.
AI

Google thinks SpaceX’s Starship has to launch 1,600 times before space data centers get off the ground | TechCrunch

Google’s prototype of its orbital compute satellite took off today onboard a SpaceX rocket launched from California —...

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
AI

Nvidia’s $3.5B MediaTek bet reveals its plan for tackling Big Tech’s AI chip buildout | TechCrunch

Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. As part of the deal, MediaTek will adopt Nvidia’s...

In Brief

SoftBank says it will invest up to €75B to build French data centers | TechCrunch

SoftBank Group announced today that it plans to spend up to €75 billion (around $87 billion) to expand...

Flared natural gas is burned off at Apache Corporations operations at the Deadwood natural gas plant in the Permian Basin.
Climate

US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035 | TechCrunch

The AI race has grown so frenzied that, by 2035, U.S. data centers are projected to consume more...

Startups

Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute | TechCrunch

Loading the player…The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a...

In Brief

Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation | TechCrunch

Data center developer Crusoe, which counts Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI as its customers, has raised a new $3...

Three Mile Island Nuclear power generating station.
AI

Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction | TechCrunch

Frontier AI labs are convinced that scaling up computation is the path to improving artificial intelligence, and they’ve...

Oracle CTO Larry Ellison onstage at Oracle Open world
AI

Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center | TechCrunch

Oracle has sent a force majeure notice to the developer of Project Jupiter, a Stargate data center campus...