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Last month, Meta launched an “AI is good, really” PR campaign. My response: Words are fine, but why not cut people checks?On Monday, Meta announced it’s taking my (free) advice: It says it will create a $1 billion fund to boost communities where it is building AI data centers.There’s very…
Meta has more than a quarter trillion dollars in future lease obligations — largely tied to AI data centers — as the tech giant races to build out its artificial intelligence infrastructure, a new regulatory filing shows.In its quarterly securities filing released a day after its earnings report, Meta said…
An Alabama animal shelter is barking back against a massive AI data center that’s under construction next to its planned veterinary hospital campus in Birmingham.The Greater Birmingham Humane Society filed a lawsuit earlier this month in a bid to block the project, alleging that the city of Birmingham, AL, and…
A proposal to build a massive AI data center roughly 20 miles from President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, was rejected late Wednesday by county commissioners after a marathon hearing.The Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners’ 5-1 vote on “Project Tango” followed months of organized opposition…
Meta is scaling up what was already slated to become its largest AI data center, a Louisiana campus that the tech giant says has fueled “life-changing returns” for local teachers and businesses.The company behind Facebook and Instagram said in a blog post on Monday that the Richland Parish data center,…
The Marine Corps is standing up a new organization designed to rapidly turn battlefield drone lessons, like best practices for defeating hostile drones or using them to spy on and attack an enemy, into standardized training for more Marines.Drone warfare is evolving quickly and has reshaped battlefields. To meet the…
Ashburn, Virginia, is in the heart of America’s “data center alley.” Over the July 4 weekend, diesel generators at a Digital Realty data center switched on as temperatures spiked.Dark smoke floated above ACC9, one of dozens of data centers clustered in Ashburn and nearby cities, according to a video and…
Officials in the city of Cheyenne, Wyoming, say a massive, under-construction Meta data center campus located just south of the city is responsible for contaminating part of its recycled water system.Cheyenne’s Board of Public Utilities said in recent public notices that water discharged by Goat Systems, a Meta contractor at…
Fox News issued an apology after Kevin O’Leary said during an appearance on the channel that opponents of his Utah data center were proxies for the Chinese government.Several Fox News and Fox Business hosts, including Maria Bartiromo, read out rare on-air apologies after O’Leary made the comments on the network…
A proposed data center near the Nashville Zoo is drawing pushback from local community members, including 14-time Country Music Award winner Brad Paisley.Paisley called the proposed data center — backed by DC Blox, a digital infrastructure company — a “monstrosity” in an Instagram video on Friday. He compared the development,…
