
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son plans $50B AI and data center push in Malaysia
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says the money will target AI, new technology and data centres in Kuching and Peninsular Malaysia.
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Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says the money will target AI, new technology and data centres in Kuching and Peninsular Malaysia.

The preliminary update puts the quarter $4 billion above the top of the company's own August guidance, with gross margin running above plan too.

Drone footage exposed generators running 50 times above state permit limits at the Vineland site powering Microsoft Copilot workloads.

The Nvidia CEO told Ezra Klein that AI's climate cost is like surgery — pain now, healing later. Health researchers dispute the framing.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed seven bills Monday requiring monthly energy reporting and separate utility rates for AI data centers starting next year.

The order bans NDAs on data center projects, tightens noise rules, and creates a state AI task force to weigh workforce and privacy risks.

A new Basel Action Network report says prior AI e-waste estimates missed 87% of data center infrastructure, dramatically expanding the trash forecast.

The AI Energy Management Alliance debuts with 18 members including Anthropic, National Grid, AES and NRG to speed AI power interconnections.

Grays Ferry residents who lived next to the East Coast's largest oil refinery are organizing against two proposed AI data center sites.

A fire at TeraWulf's Somerset site revealed dry hydrants and no clear owner among TeraWulf, Fluidstack, Google, and Anthropic.

Tata Consultancy Services' infrastructure arm is placing one of India's largest bets yet on domestic AI compute capacity.

The Hiranandani-backed operator is preparing a January–March 2027 listing to fund capacity expansion for AI workloads.

Hochul signed a one-year data center moratorium in July and wants AI regulation aimed at kids under 18 — while claiming the tech-jobs crown from California.

Watney, Kinova, and ABB robots are running trials in Altoona and Ohio, with one bot targeting up to 80% of a technician's workload.

Jensen Huang's company tells investors the AI capex cycle has years left, guiding to 70% top-line growth into next year.

Data center revenue hit $89B, profits doubled to $59.7B, and Nvidia is now one quarter away from joining the $100B-per-quarter club.

The five-plank pledge asks candidates to back mandatory model safety reviews and end tax breaks for data center construction.

The electrical connection and protection supplier is doubling down on AI data center infrastructure with its largest deal to date.

DeepSeek, ByteDance and Alibaba are among the Chinese firms racing to build in the Inner Mongolian city, dwarfing OpenAI's 10GW Stargate footprint.

A Liquid Death spoof about cooling servers with urine hides a real shift: recycled water now handles 43% of Loudoun County's data center load.

The Bill Gates-founded startup will announce its first data center customer this year, betting a 345-MW reactor with thermal storage beats rivals on load-following.

The chipmaker is moving down the stack into power generation as OpenAI's compute buildout outpaces available grid capacity.

An OCP-backed direct-current architecture aims to unblock rack density as Wood Mackenzie projects $9 trillion in AI infrastructure spend through 2040.

The letter positions OpenAI alongside Texas as the state courts data center buildouts and hyperscaler investment.

GW Ranch, a 7.65-gigawatt gas plant in Pecos County built to feed one Amazon site, holds a permit exceeding the largest US coal plant.
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