During Nvidia’s Hot Chips presentation on the Rubin GPU, the company emphasized power as a hard limit on data center capacity and touted the amount of compute that Vera Rubin NVL72 systems can deliver within an example fixed facility power budget of 100MW.
A proposed change to the EPA’s regulations would remove the requirement for states to seek public input on air pollution permits, particularly around AI data centers.
Recent data published in the Soufan Center’s July IntelBrief found hundreds of posts with threat language between July 2025 and July 2026, and a volume surge beginning in April.
Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.
Jason Kelce joked that people should cool data centers with their pee, rather than potable water — but his suggestion is not completely ludicrous.
Ypsilanti Township is blocking a University of Michigan data center designed for researching nuclear weapons by temporarily stopping the electrical substation it needs to operate. It also put a one-year moratorium on the data center’s water connection request earlier this year/
Loudoun County recently changed its zoning policy which treated data centers as office parks. These projects now have to go through an approval process from the people and the local government, a significant change after more than 25 years of easy approvals.
The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost for anyone building AI products. But for all that spending,…
Chinese tech giants are putting up data centers in rural Chinese provinces with zero resistance. The abundance of land and energy in these areas allowed infrastructure to easily be built with limited issues, although some experts still question how much development they can bring to these areas.
TerraPower’s nuclear power plant possesses a strategic advantage over competitors, especially when chasing after data center deals.