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SPAN pitches home-attached AI data center nodes in 100-home 2026 trial
The San Francisco startup wants 80,000 XFRA nodes in US homes by 2027, each packing 16 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, in exchange for subsidized power.
QTS data center used 30M gallons of unbilled water in drought-hit Georgia county
Fayette County found two unmonitored industrial hookups at the QTS site; the company paid $150,000 in back charges and faced no fines.
Cowboy Space raises $275M to build its own rockets for orbital AI data centers
Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt's startup is going vertical — rockets and satellites — to beat a launch-capacity bottleneck by 2028.
Morgan Stanley Lifts 2026 Hyperscaler Capex Forecast to $805 Billion
The bank's analyst sees AI infrastructure spending potentially reaching $1.1 trillion by 2027, rivaling all non-tech S&P 500 capex combined.
Reuters warns investors are running out of time to brace for an oil shock
A Reuters column argues markets are underpricing the odds of a genuine crude disruption — a risk that lands directly on AI data center economics.
SoftBank lines up Roze AI, a robot-built data center venture, for a $100B IPO
The Japanese conglomerate wants to take Roze AI public as soon as the second half of 2026, with autonomous robots assembling US server farms.
Rural America turns on the AI data center boom as 67% of new builds head for farm country
Pew finds 67% of planned data centers are now in rural areas, flipping a decade of urban concentration and igniting fights from Illinois to West Virginia.
Meta signs deal with Overview Energy for solar power beamed from space
The capacity reservation covers up to 1 gigawatt from a planned 1,000-satellite constellation, with first launches targeted for 2030.
Maine Governor Janet Mills vetoes statewide data center moratorium bill
L.D. 307 would have paused new data center permits until November 1, 2027 and stood up a 13-person study council.
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