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OpenAI has confirmed that the executive running its data centre buildout has left, and it has already broken up the job he was doing. Chris Malone, its head of data centers, is no longer with the company, an OpenAI spokesperson told Dina Bass at Bloomb…

A two-year-old company is now worth $1.05bn. It writes software that makes data centres use less electricity on demand. Emerald AI raised $150mn in an oversubscribed Series A, the company announced on Tuesday. Energize Capital and DCVC co-led it, and t…
The record for the average sea surface temperature for the oceans around the world for the month of August was broken on Saturday (22 August).

Britain’s businesses put £11.2bn into digital infrastructure last year, roughly three times what the official measure had been reporting. The jump in UK digital infrastructure investment did not come from a building spree. Almost none of the difference…

Southeast Asia has 306 data centres running and 173 more in the pipeline, according to figures published on Tuesday. The capacity being planned is nearly four times what is already operating. Southeast Asia data centre investment will rise from $15.72b…

Texas governor Greg Abbott says data centre companies brought the backlash on themselves. “They basically dug their own grave for the problem that’s been caused for them,” he told ABC’s Jonathan Karl on Sunday. “And that’s why they got the backlash the…

SpaceX is hiring a natural gas trader. The company wants someone to build and lead a trading team for its own fuel and power needs, according to Bloomberg. Julian Hast, who covers US gas markets from Houston, spotted the job on Friday. The role “focuse…