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OpenAI confirms its data centre chief left as it pivots to leasing

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OpenAI has confirmed that the executive running its data centre buildout has left, and it has already broken up the job he was doing. Chris Malone, its head of data centers, is no longer with the company, an OpenAI spokesperson told Dina Bass at Bloomberg on Monday. Anissa Gardizy broke the story earlier that day […]

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Emerald AI raises $150mn at a $1.05bn valuation to flex data centre power

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A two-year-old company is now worth $1.05bn. It writes software that makes data centres use less electricity on demand. Emerald AI raised $150mn in an oversubscribed Series A, the company announced on Tuesday. Energize Capital and DCVC co-led it, and the round takes total funding past $220mn. The investor list is the tell. Nvidia, Siemens, […]

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UK digital infrastructure investment hit £11.2bn in 2025

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Britain’s businesses put £11.2bn into digital infrastructure last year, roughly three times what the official measure had been reporting. The jump in UK digital infrastructure investment did not come from a building spree. Almost none of the difference is new money. The Office for National Statistics changed what counts on Monday. What the ONS actually […]

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Southeast Asia is planning four times the data centre capacity it runs

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Southeast Asia has 306 data centres running and 173 more in the pipeline, according to figures published on Tuesday. The capacity being planned is nearly four times what is already operating. Southeast Asia data centre investment will rise from $15.72bn in 2025 to $35.08bn by 2031, according to Arizton. The Chicago research firm puts that […]

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Trump says refusing a data centre is a mistake. Abbott disagrees

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Texas governor Greg Abbott says data centre companies brought the backlash on themselves. “They basically dug their own grave for the problem that’s been caused for them,” he told ABC’s Jonathan Karl on Sunday. “And that’s why they got the backlash they deserve.” Andrew Pantazi and Ben Geman reported the remarks for Axios. They called […]

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SpaceX is hiring a natural gas trader for its rockets and chips

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SpaceX is hiring a natural gas trader. The company wants someone to build and lead a trading team for its own fuel and power needs, according to Bloomberg. Julian Hast, who covers US gas markets from Houston, spotted the job on Friday. The role “focuses on physical and financial natural gas trading”, the posting says. […]

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Australian data centres will use seven times more power by 2036

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Australian data centres will take 13% of the country’s main electricity market by 2035-36, up from 3% today. That is almost a sevenfold rise in a decade, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator. Keira Wright reported the forecast for Bloomberg. The figure lands in AEMO’s annual Electricity Statement of Opportunities. The document is the […]

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Inner Mongolia signs $27bn of AI computing projects

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Inner Mongolia signed 12 green computing projects worth 186.46 billion yuan on Saturday, about $27.49bn. It also broke ground on a platform to sell Chinese AI services abroad. The state news agency Xinhua reported both from Hohhot, the regional capital. The conference that hosted the signings was held on the Cilechuan Grassland. China builds the […]

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Nvidia has bought into a third land and power company this month

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Nvidia took a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure on Friday. Cloverleaf secures land and electricity for data centres. It is the third company of that kind Nvidia has bought into in quick succession, according to The Information. Neither company disclosed terms. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday morning that Nvidia was expected to invest […]

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A 60-year-old geothermal company just became an AI infrastructure play

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Ormat, a geothermal company founded six decades ago, has signed a power purchase agreement with Google for up to 150MW in Nevada and is running enhanced geothermal pilots with Sage Geosystems and SLB. Europe has the same demand problem and is meeting it with restraint rather than contracts. A company that has been drilling for […]

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