Canada's getting its first Meta data center, and it's built for AI

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A bird's eye view of Meta's Alberta data center site.
Meta's data center facility in Alberta, Canada, is expected to bring 300 operational jobs, the company said.

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A Wyoming city found a rare bacterium in wastewater tied to a Meta data center

Tech Insider : Business, Environment, Style
Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities.
City officials in Cheyenne, Wyoming, said a Meta data center under construction caused the contamination of the city's wastewater treatment facility.

Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities

A new Kentucky AI data center will power Anthropic as part of a 20-year deal

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Anthropic signed a 20-year lease for a data center being constructed in Hawesville, Kentucky.
Century Aluminum Company's smelter in Hawesville, Kentucky. in 2017. The site was sold to Terawulf, which is developing it into a data center.

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Meet the MAGA darling mobilizing Americans against Big AI

Tech Insider : Politics, Business, Environment
Amy Kremer
Amy Kremer is the cofounder of Women for Trump and Women for America First. Now she's taking on AI data centers.

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Rural Americans say they're worried AI data centers will drain their wallets

Tech Insider : Business, Environment
Data Center sign
Many rural Americans are resisting data center developments.

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Fox News apologizes for airing Kevin O'Leary's claim that his Utah data center opponents are Chinese government proxies

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Kevin O'Leary
Kevin O'Leary has been one of the most vocal advocates of building more data centers.

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AI's next bottleneck is power. That's why I left the creator economy to build a data center startup.

Tech Insider : Business, Economy
Patrice Becker and Leonhard Soenke standing in office
Patrice Becker (left) and Leonhard Soenke (right) founded a creator economy startup in 2021 — and recently pivoted to energy and data centers.

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Nvidia is quietly staffing up around its AI ambitions in outer space

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Jensen Huang smiling and wearing a black leather jacket.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

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Kevin O'Leary has entered a new villain era

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Kevin O'Leary
O'Leary Ventures is developing data center campuses in Utah and Canada.

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Country music star Brad Paisley calls a proposed data center near the Nashville Zoo 'a monstrosity'

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Brad Paisley
Brad Paisley is urging Tennesseans to protest a proposed data center near the Nashville Zoo.

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