SpaceX, Blue Origin, and others want enormous orbital data center constellations, prompting warnings over atmospheric pollution, debris, and an astronomy problem satellites are already making worse.
Oregon set to start charging service providers for undersea cables using its sea floor. It will funnel the millions accrued toward state schools.
OpenAI will spend the equivalent of Sweden’s GDP on infrastructure through 2030.
BNEF’s December outlook put 2035 demand at 106 GW, and that figure was itself 36% above the projection the firm published in April 2025.
New data centers built through 2033 could consume as much electricity as India uses today.
The Amazon site has suffered multiple hits since the start of the U.S. bombing campaign in Iran. The IRGC claims to have ‘destroyed’ AWB Bahrain, but the company has moved operations off the facility since early April.
An FTC document revealed that Elon Musk purchased APR Energy, a mobile natural gas and diesel turbine generator provider, for an estimated $1 billion. The deal wasn’t announced publicly and was only discovered after the FTC filing.
The population of the communities surrounding the Colossus 2 site, which is in the center of a lawsuit involving unpermitted natural gas turbines and pollution, is predominantly black.
New York has become the first state to temporarily halt approval of large data centers, as Gov. Kathy Hochul argues the AI-driven building boom shouldn’t come at the expense of higher electricity costs, water supplies, or local control.
New York is the first to pass a statewide data center moratorium, which pauses all projects greater than 50 MW for one year. The governor’s office said that it will create a GEIS to hold developments to “consistent standards,” and also study the environmental impact of the construction and operation of data centers.