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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…
Fewer diners visited Taco Bell and lettuce-heavy restaurants, including Panera, as a cyclospora outbreak grew late last week.Early data from location intelligence firm Placer.ai shows that US foot traffic at some of these chains began to decline in the second half of the week as reports of the diarrhea-causing parasite…
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,…
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…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth shed new light on the data leak that made the company pause its unpopular Model Capability Initiative.In an interview with The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson, released on Wednesday, Bosworth spoke about why Meta paused the AI training program that involved tracking employee keystrokes. The interview was…
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…
The US energy secretary said that a lot of concerns about data centers are real but “overblown.”At an Amazon Web Services conference on Tuesday, Chris Wright urged supporters of data centers to push back on those who criticize their development because of environmental concerns and job losses.”The pluses are way…
