AI data center investment projected to hit $32 trillion by 2050 — infrastructure spending estimated to exceed capital requirements for railways, electrification

GPU development is happening at breakneck pace, with Nvidia, AMD, and other manufacturers releasing new generations every two to three years. In fact, one Google architect said that a data center GPU service life is only…

Startups want to rent your idle gaming PC for AI tasks — Startups pitch an ‘Airbnb for AI inference,’ but profitability remains unproven

All that aside, distributed AI compute has a credibility problem to overcome. A research preprint from June claimed that Pearl, a blockchain marketed as converting cryptocurrency mining into AI work, ran the equivalent o…

Arm faces potential shareholder revolt over CEO’s ‘excessive’ $800 million pay package — huge stock award would only be fully realised if chip designer hits $2

The compensation is arranged through a one-time Value Creation Plan (VCP) consisting of 425,000 Performance Share Units (PSUs), with the award divided across three market-cap milestones, according to Arm’s regulatory fil…

Trump says communities that reject data centers ‘want to end up being backwards and poor’ — President claims China ‘could not be happier’ with AI data center ba

Local pushback has been widespread and consistent across the country. Earlier this month, an Amazon data center came under fire for circumventing public feedback based on old laws. Since April, leaders across the nation …