Three Kansas cities—Emporia, Edgerton, and El Dorado—have filed lawsuits to block citizen petitions that would restrict large data centers, with courts already ruling in favor of the petitions in Empo…
A survey of 250 IT leaders in North America and the UK by SIOS Technology Corp. found that 66% experienced at least one outage lasting more than 10 minutes in the past year, yet only 7% test their hig…
Tim Cook stepped down as CEO of Apple Inc. on Monday after a 15-year tenure that grew the company's market value from $350 billion to more than $4.5 trillion, with annual sales rising from $108 billio…
President Donald Trump defended AI data center development on Truth Social, warning that communities opposing the projects risk becoming 'backwards and poor' and ceding ground to China in the AI race.…
Together AI, a San Francisco-based cloud infrastructure provider for open-source AI models, has partnered with Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN to build a 250-megawatt data center that will supply 120,000 AI chi…
Meta Platforms is testing robots from Watney Robotics, ABB, and Kinova for hands-on data center maintenance tasks such as cabling, server restarts, and equipment inspections at facilities in Iowa and …
Cisco is partnering with Teleport to secure IT infrastructure access using short-lived cryptographic identities instead of static credentials, and is taking an undisclosed equity stake in the company.…
Amazon Web Services plans to deploy 2 million additional NVIDIA GPUs in 2027 and 2028, on top of more than 1 million GPUs previously planned beginning in 2026, according to an announcement at NVIDIA G…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is advancing a rule change that would make public notification requirements for air pollution permits voluntary, potentially affecting data centers powering t…
SpaceX plans to launch its first AI-focused orbital data centers in the fourth quarter of 2027, moving up its previous 2028 timetable, and has asked the FCC for authority to deploy up to one million A…
Enterprises need an AI database administrator (DBA) as new engineers lack deep database expertise while AI-driven workloads and agentic workflows increase database complexity and demand, according to …
NVIDIA Corp., Apple Inc., and Amazon.com Inc. are raising prices as AI-driven memory chip shortages push server DRAM prices to double in Q1 2026 and overall memory costs up 80% to 90% quarter-over-qua…
President Donald Trump is backing rapid AI data center expansion, saying communities that reject the projects are 'making a mistake,' even as voter opposition grows across party lines. An Annenberg Pu…
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) approved a new electricity rate for data centers that will raise their power costs by about 10%, effective Oct. 1, to prevent AI data centers from shifting infrast…
A wave of off-grid, gas-powered data centers built to meet AI compute demand is triggering a rural health crisis in Texas, with roughly 130 proposed facilities that could emit pollution equivalent to …
Rep. Andrea Salinas, D-Ore., introduced the Data Center Community Reinvestment Act of 2026, which would impose a 1-cent-per-kilowatt-hour federal excise tax on data centers with more than 1 MW of powe…
A confidential memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee warns top AI executives that public backlash against data centers threatens Republican efforts to retain the Ohio U.S. Senate seat…
Cerebras Systems unveiled the CS-4 AI system, its fourth-generation rack-scale machine built on three Wafer Scale Engine-3T processors, delivering up to 750 petaFLOPs of AI compute and inference speed…
Generac Power Systems is investing $250 million to expand production of industrial power systems for AI data centers, with a $1.6 billion backlog and plans to add about 1,000 workers. Analysts project…
Humanoid robots from Figure, Agility Robotics, and UBTech are progressing in real-world deployments, but a new Techstrong Special Report warns that impressive demonstrations do not yet translate into …