The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has ordered major grid operators to fast-track interconnection requests from data centers to support rapid AI expansion. This directive addresses severe grid backlogs that threate...
Australian data center operator AirTrunk has committed to investing $30 billion in India by 2030 to develop 5 gigawatts of new computing capacity. This investment aligns with India's efforts to attract foreign cloud and...
SoftBank Group has announced plans to invest up to €75 billion to develop 5 gigawatts of data center capacity in France by 2031. This project represents the firm's largest AI infrastructure investment in Europe, aimed at...
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have introduced legislation to ban construction of data centers with peak power loads exceeding 20 megawatts until comprehensive AI regulation is enacted...
The article reviews major AI developments in early 2026, focusing on three key stories: Anthropic's standoff with the Pentagon over military AI use restrictions leading to OpenAI filling the void, the viral rise of OpenC...
New York State Assemblymember Alex Bores sponsored the RAISE Act, New York's first AI safety law, and became a target of a Silicon Valley lobbying group spending $125 million on attack ads. The episode discusses the broa...
Public opposition to AI data center construction is intensifying across the United States, with several states and municipalities proposing or passing temporary moratoriums on new facilities. New York has introduced a th...
Mukesh Ambani's Reliance has announced a $110 billion plan to build AI computing infrastructure in India over the next seven years, including gigawatt-scale data centers and edge computing networks. The investment is par...
New York state lawmakers have introduced legislation to impose a three-year moratorium on permits for new data center construction and operation, joining at least five other states considering similar pauses. The biparti...
Amazon and Google are leading massive capital expenditure increases for 2026, with Amazon projecting $200 billion and Google $175-185 billion, primarily for AI infrastructure and data centers. Despite the companies' conv...
