Startups
Nvidia Promises $500B Backstop for Used GPUs, Spooking Bond Markets
TechCrunch AI · Aug 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Nvidia just pulled off one of the more audacious financial moves in recent tech history. The chipmaker announced that A...
Topic: data-centers
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Explore our coverage of data-centers — 37 curated articles, summaries, and related resources from the Inblix archive.
Industry
Nebius plans 1 GW AI data center buildout, says financing won't be the obstacle
The Register AI · Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius is done being vague about its ambitions. The company now says it has a concrete path to 1 giga...
AI News
Anthropic locks in a 20-year, $9.1B data center deal with a Bitcoin miner in Texas
The Decoder · Aug 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Anthropic just signed a $9.1 billion lease with Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms for a data center in Rockdale, Texas — 191...
Industry
Amazon's new Texas data center will burn gas off-grid, sidestepping all permits
Ars Technica AI · Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Amazon is building its first major off-the-grid data center in Texas, and it won't be powered by wind or solar. The fac...
Product
OpenAI pitches Abbott on Texas data centers but sidesteps energy and water costs
OpenAI Blog · Aug 10, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI wants a seat at the table in Texas. The company sent a letter to Governor Greg Abbott this week, pitching itself...
AI News
Amazon's new Texas gas plant can emit 33M tons of CO2—more than any US coal plant
The Verge AI · Aug 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Amazon is bankrolling a natural gas power plant in West Texas so massive that its pollution permit allows it to spew mo...
AI News
AI agents burn 600x more energy than chatbots, climate scientist finds
The Decoder · Aug 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Forget the polite fiction that a single AI query sips less power than a few seconds of TV. When climate scientist Zeke...
AI News
SoftBank gave Trump's library $50M in January. By March, it had a federal land deal.
The Verge AI · Aug 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Timing is everything, and SoftBank's is raising eyebrows across Washington. The Japanese conglomerate confirmed it dona...
AI News
Florida county's data center ban reveals a populist revolt scrambling party lines
The Verge AI · Aug 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Gaby Del Valle, a policy reporter at The Verge, recently embedded with a protest in Hernando County, Florida, where the...
AI News
SpaceX's rockets brought in under $1B last quarter — Starlink and AI compute are the real business
The Verge AI · Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read
SpaceX's first public earnings report reveals a company whose identity is completely disconnected from its name. The sp...
Startups
SpaceX dropped $295M on Tesla Megapacks last quarter to feed xAI's power-hungry data centers
TechCrunch AI · Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
The financial plumbing between Elon Musk's companies just got a lot more visible. SpaceX's latest earnings report revea...
Startups
Texas hits the brakes on data centers as grid queue balloons to 474 GW
TechCrunch AI · Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
The free-for-all is over. Texas, the nation's second-biggest data center hub, is slamming the brakes on new projects af...
Startups
Runware's shipping-container data pods slash AI inference costs without water
TechCrunch AI · Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
Runware just threw a shipping container-sized wrench into the AI infrastructure race. The company unveiled its Sonic In...
Startups
Laser startup with $10.75M seed aims to replace undersea internet cables
TechCrunch AI · Aug 4, 2026 · 3 min read
The world's data doesn't truly float in the cloud. It travels through roughly 1.4 million kilometers of fragile fiberop...
AI News
Texas hits brakes on data centers with new grid audit as power requests surge 5x
The Verge AI · Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read
If you're building a data center in Texas, the math just got harder. Governor Greg Abbott ordered state regulators on M...
Startups
OpenAI’s luxury influencer ‘Summer Club’ backfires as creators face data center outrage
TechCrunch AI · Aug 3, 2026 · 3 min read
OpenAI’s first attempt at a classic influencer brand trip has turned into a case study in how not to sell artificial in...
Startups
SpaceX to scrap 69 unpermitted gas turbines at Memphis xAI hub by 2027
TechCrunch AI · Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read
SpaceX confirmed it will yank the 69 natural gas turbines currently screaming away at its xAI Colossus data center comp...
Startups
PJM to cut power to massive data centers by 2027 as grid strains under AI boom
TechCrunch AI · Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read
The largest U.S. electrical grid just drew a hard line with Big Tech. PJM Interconnection, which manages power for 67 m...
Startups
3.49 GW of data centers slammed offline in 30 seconds, lights flickered from DC to Chicago
TechCrunch AI · Jul 25, 2026 · 2 min read
A routine power line failure near Washington, DC, this week exposed a growing structural weakness in America's electric...
Startups
AMD's Helios rack beats Nvidia's Vera Rubin on key metrics, ships this year
TechCrunch AI · Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
AMD is done playing catch-up. At the company's packed Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on Thursday, CEO Lisa Su...
AI News
‘Fight, fight, fight’: Why conservative boomers and progressives are uniting to ban data centers
The Verge AI · Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
On a muggy Saturday in a Tampa exurb, a retired country music host named Carol stood in a bedazzled visor, collecting s...
Startups
OpenAI’s $750B spending blitz kicks off with a 3.2 GW gas-powered campus in Georgia
TechCrunch AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI’s latest infrastructure budget is now $750 billion through 2030 — a 25% jump from its earlier projection and a n...
AI News
OpenAI's Georgia data center will draw 3.2 gigawatts — enough to power 2.5 million homes
The Decoder · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI just inked a deal with Georgia Power that puts the scale of AI infrastructure in stark relief. Project Camellia,...
AI News
80% of US power providers just pinky-swore they won't stick you with AI's bill
The Verge AI · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read
Nearly 200 utility giants and data center operators have signed the White House's "rate payer protection pledge" — a vo...
Startups
US data centers will consume 20% of the nation's electricity by 2035
TechCrunch AI · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read
American data centers are on track to gobble up a fifth of all U.S. electricity by 2035. That's a fourfold jump from to...
Industry
New York Freezes All Massive New Data Centers for a Year
Ars Technica AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
New York just slammed the brakes on the AI infrastructure boom. Governor Kathy Hochul announced a one-year moratorium T...
Startups
New York freezes all large data center permits in US first
TechCrunch AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
New York just did what no other state has managed: it slammed the brakes on big data center construction. Governor Kath...
Research
What Anthropic really found inside Claude's 'brain'
MIT Technology Review · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
The breathless headlines around Anthropic's latest research would have you believe we can now read an AI's mind. Not qu...
AI News
New York just blocked massive data centers for up to a year
The Verge AI · Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Governor Kathy Hochul just made New York the first state in the nation to slam the brakes on hyperscale data centers, s...
Product
OpenAI, Oracle lock in 4.5 GW Stargate deal to power 2M chips
OpenAI Blog · Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read
The Stargate project just got a lot more concrete. OpenAI and Oracle have inked a deal to develop 4.5 gigawatts of addi...
Product
OpenAI plants Stargate in Norway with 100,000 GPUs by 2026
OpenAI Blog · Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI is taking its infrastructure ambitions to the Arctic Circle. The company announced Stargate Norway, its first Eu...
Product
Stargate hits 7 GW, $400B as OpenAI, Oracle lock in 5 new sites
OpenAI Blog · Jul 12, 2026 · 2 min read
The Stargate project just got a lot more concrete. OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank are adding five new U.S. data center si...
AI News
830+ grassroots groups are now fighting the AI data center boom
The Verge AI · Jul 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Apple thought it had a sweetheart deal in 2015: a $1 billion Irish data center, 100% renewable energy, walking trails,...
AI News
S&P cuts Oracle rating as OpenAI bet becomes a $638B gamble
The Decoder · Jul 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Oracle's AI moonshot just got a credit downgrade, and the culprit isn't some abstract market jitter — it's OpenAI. S&P...
Product
OpenAI eyes Argentina for Latin America's first Stargate data center
OpenAI Blog · Jul 12, 2026 · 2 min read
Argentina is making a serious play to host Latin America's first Stargate data center, with OpenAI and local energy dev...
Product
Stargate heads to Michigan with a gigawatt-scale AI campus
OpenAI Blog · Jul 12, 2026 · 2 min read
The $500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure project just planted a flag in the Midwest. A new campus in Saline Township...
Product
OpenAI caught a Chinese influence op using ChatGPT to attack US data centers
OpenAI Blog · Jun 1, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI has banned a covert influence operation, likely originating from a private Chinese tech company, for using its m...