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More than 200 data centers are going up in dozens of competitive House districts — and neither party knows how to handle their political fallout heading into the midterms.The energy-hungry computing infrastructure being built to meet the explosive demand for artificial intelligence has sparked opposition to rising electric bills, water…
Kevin O’Leary is not one to give up.The “Shark Tank” investor, who also this year took a spin as the villainous businessman in “Marty Supreme,” says that despite all the local resistance to his massive Utah data center, he’s holding firm.”I don’t tap out. I don’t even know what that…
The way Jeff Bezos sees it, AI and the data centers that support the novel technology are like knives.”You don’t want to accidentally outlaw the knife because it can be used in a bad way,” the Amazon cofounder said on CNBC on Thursday.”Knives are important tools and yes, every once…
SpaceX is going all in on AI data centers in space — and the company kicked off its IPO week with a sneak peek.In an interview with a SpaceX employee uploaded onto X on Monday, Elon Musk revealed the most detailed look yet at the AI satellite the company is…
The robot-training gold rush is coming for gig work.Instawork, best known for matching hourly staff with shifts at hotels, warehouses, and stadiums, is launching a wearable camera system that helps gig workers collect real-world data for training machines.Business Insider got the first look at the new system, called Instacore. It…
Kevin O’Leary’s company says it was caught off guard by a Utah lawmaker’s demand to dramatically shrink its proposed AI data center campus.On Monday, Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams said he sent a letter to the celebrity investor calling for a 75% reduction in the proposed data center campus.Adams…
Big Tech is expanding into communities across the country — and they aren’t all that happy about it.Many residents in cities and towns where tech companies are looking to build large data centers to power their AI products are mobilizing against them, concerned about a possible drain on water supplies,…
The arrest of a data center protester is drawing public attention to a rural town in northwestern Illinois, where a roughly 400-acre plot of land is being pitched as a “data center development opportunity.”Harley Delander of Dixon, a small city about two hours west of Chicago, was arrested on Wednesday…
A mass outpouring of data center opponents has prompted the California city of Coachella to consider a moratorium on development of the facilities there.It’s the latest example of community backlash tempering local authorities’ acceptance of data centers — which are being built across the country to accommodate the rise of…
US troops could be at risk of being targeted by enemies using commercial location data from their cellphones, the same kind that apps and advertisers use to track everyday users.Written responses from US Central Command, which oversees US military operations in the Middle East, to lawmakers said that the command…
