Amazon Just Secured the First New American Copper in a Decade. Bacteria Did the Work.
Maria Garcia / implicator - AWS just became the first buyer of American-mined copper in over a decade. The source? Bacteria eating rock in an Arizona desert. As AI data centers consume 47 tonnes of copper per megawatt, Amazon is securing supply chains before the squeeze hits.
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AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty
Lindsay Clark / theregister - EU-only ops, German subsidiaries, and a pinky promise your data won't end up in Uncle Sam's hands Amid continued trade and geopolitical volatility between Europe and the US, Amazon Web Services is making its European Sovereign Cloud generally available to…
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OpenAI Forges $10 Billion Deal With Cerebras for AI Computing
Ian KingShirin Ghaffary / bloomberg - OpenAI signed a multiyear deal to use hardware from Cerebras Systems Inc. for 750 megawatts’ worth of computing power, an alliance that will support the company’s rapid build-out of AI infrastructure.
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Microsoft Vows to Pay Full Cost of AI Data Centers After White House Pressure
James Maguire / techstrong - Microsoft has moved to blunt growing public opposition to its expanding data-center footprint, pledging to absorb the full cost of the electricity, water use, and local taxes associated with its AI infrastructure. The commitments mark the company’s most s…
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Meta Platforms creates new organization to lead its AI infrastructure buildout
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Meta Platforms Inc. is launching a new infrastructure division called Meta Compute that will be tasked with overseeing its aggressive data center buildout for artificial intelligence. Reuters reported that Meta plans to deploy new infrastructure that will…
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Nvidia’s Blackwell gaming GPUs go through blower-style transformation to fuel AI data centers — RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5060 Ti blower GPUs up for purchase in China
tomshardware - China's underground GPU operations have birthed a few more spectacles, new Nvidia RTX 50-series SKUs with blower-style coolers, aimed at data centers and server farms. Listed on Taobao, the RTX 5080, 5070 Ti, 5060 Ti & more are all priced higher than thei…
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Meta lines up massive supply of nuclear power to energize AI data centers
techxplore - Meta has cut a trio of deals to power its artificial intelligence data centers, securing enough energy to light up the equivalent of about 5 million homes.
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OpenAI and SoftBank announce $1 billion investment in SB Energy as part of massive AI buildout
cnbc - OpenAI and SoftBank agreed to invest $1 billion into a SoftBank-backed energy provider as the companies prepare for a massive buildout of AI data centers.
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Meta signs nuclear energy deals to power Prometheus AI supercluster
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Nvidia says H200 demand in China is 'very high' as export licenses near completion — a month after the green light, Huang has high hopes for China buy-in despite political sensitivity
tomshardware - Nvidia says demand in China for its H200 data center GPU is “very high,” as it works through the final stages of U.S. export licensing, according to comments from Jensen Huang at CES 2026.
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Bitfarms Exits Latin America with $30M Sale as Stock Jump 11%
Maxwell Mutuma / parameter - TLDR Bitfarms sold its 70 MW Paso Pe site in Paraguay to Sympatheia Power Fund for up to $30 million. This sale completes Bitfarms’ full exit from Latin America, ending all regional operations and ownership. CEO Ben Gagnon confirmed plans to reinvest proc…
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Nvidia's $20 billion Groq IP deal bolsters AI market domination — hardware stack and key engineer behind Google TPUs included in bombshell agreement
tomshardware - Nvidia has announced a $20 billion deal to acquire Groq’s intellectual property, though not the company itself, and absorb key members of its engineering team.
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DigitalBridge shares jump 50% after report SoftBank is in talks to acquire firm
cnbc - The premarket move comes shortly after Bloomberg reported Japan's SoftBank was in advanced talks to acquire the data center investment firm.
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Alphabet to Buy Intersect for $4.75 Billion as AI-Investment Plans Grow
Katherine Hamilton / wsj - Google-parent said it would buy Intersect’s data-center projects that are in development, plus multiple gigawatts of energy and the Intersect team as part of the deal.
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Enlightra Raises $15M To Develop Energy-Efficient AI Data Centre Lasers
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Enlightra, a deeptech startup focused on developing chip-scale multiwavelength lasers for next-generation data transmission, has raised $15 million in funding. Investors include Y Combinator, Runa Capital, Pegasus Tech Ventures, Protocol Labs, Halo Labs, …
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Oracle stock dips 6% on report Blue Owl Capital won't back $10 billion data center
cnbc - The cloud company later said the project was moving forward and "on schedule," but that Blue Owl was not part of equity talks.
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Ford is starting a battery storage business to power data centers and the grid | TechCrunch
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(LEAD) Presidential AI council prioritizes data center expansion, cybersecurity in S. Korea's physical AI road map
Kim Boram / co - SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Yonhap) -- A presidential artificial intelligence (AI) strategy ...
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Valued at $800 Billion, as It Prepares to Go Public
Ryan Mac / nytimes - A sale of insider shares at $421 a share would make Mr. Musk’s rocket company the most valuable private company in the world, as it readies for a possible initial public offering next year.
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Oracle reportedly delays several new OpenAI data centers because of shortages — tight material and labor supply frustrate expansion plans, possibly by a year or more
tomshardware - Oracle reportedly delays some of the data centers for OpenAI from 2027 to 2028, citing labor and materials shortages.
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