Amazon says misinformation and outright lies are fueling opposition to data centers. Its response includes more than $1 billion in community spending and a lengthy defense of the infrastructure powering the AI boom.
Google is helping 25,000 veterans and military family members enter skilled trades as the AI boom fuels demand for the human workers needed to build and maintain data centers.
Fidji Simo is joining Nscale’s board just two months after leaving her full-time OpenAI role because of health concerns. The timing raises an obvious question, but Nscale itself may be the bigger story.
President Donald Trump says American communities rejecting data centers risk becoming “backwards and poor,” arguing the facilities bring jobs, lower taxes, and economic prosperity.
Big Tech is expected to spend nearly $700 billion in 2026 as the AI infrastructure boom accelerates. HTX Research says AI technology may still be early, but spending and valuations are already showing warning signs.
Sandisk and SK hynix have released the first open High Bandwidth Flash specification through the Open Compute Project, aiming to create a new memory tier for AI inference systems.
OpenAI says its enormous spending on data centers, GPUs, and infrastructure will eventually make artificial intelligence cheaper and more widely available. For now, abundant intelligence sounds like expensive branding for a very large gamble.
Kioxia’s new NX1 Series brings faster PCIe 5.0 storage and direct liquid-cooling support to dense AI servers and hyperscale data centers.
SK hynix reported record quarterly revenue and operating profit as demand for HBM4, server DRAM, and other AI infrastructure products continued to grow.