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SoftBank donated $50 million to Trump’s library months before federal data center deal
SoftBank contributed $50 million to the Trump Presidential Library in January, just months before announcing that it's leasing land from the federal government to build a sprawling data center in Ohio. The Japanese company revealed the timing in response to…
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The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers
Today, I’m talking with Gaby Del Valle, a policy reporter here at The Verge, about the growing backlash against AI data centers. Gaby recently reported a fantastic piece about Hernando County, Florida, where last month the county commission unanimously approved…
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AMD’s data center business is booming while gaming takes a backseat
Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That's up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and jumping 107 percent from the $3.2 billion it reported for…
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Texas says data centers must pass an audit before connecting to the grid
Texas announced new a audit on data centers that could slow approval for new facilities seeking to connect to the state energy grid. Governor Greg Abbott (R) on Monday directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and the Electric…
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How Data Centers Broke American Politics
What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.
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LinkedIn Won’t Be Expanding Its Data Centers in the Next Year
Despite the ongoing AI boom, LinkedIn is holding the line on compute spending. Instead, it’s challenging engineers to make every GPU count.
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OpenAI fixed GPT-5.6 Sol’s most frustrating flaw: Burning limits while it waits
OpenAI introduced GPT-5.6 Sol earlier this month as a model built for more demanding coding tasks. But it didn’t take The post OpenAI fixed GPT-5.6 Sol’s most frustrating flaw: Burning limits while it waits appeared first on The New Stack.
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From Co-Packaged Optics to Nanolasers: Photonics Moves Inward
CEA-Leti, Scintil Photonics, and NcodiN show how optical interconnects are moving from data center racks toward co-packaged optics and chiplet-level communication. The post From Co-Packaged Optics to Nanolasers: Photonics Moves Inward appeared first on EE Times.
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Warning Shots Fired as AMD Announces New Data Center GPUs
Red team’s new Helios racks offer 30% more tokens per dollar than Nvidia. The post Warning Shots Fired as AMD Announces New Data Center GPUs appeared first on EE Times.
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