OpenAI announced Wednesday that it will spend $750 billion on infrastructure through 2030, about 25% more than it estimated earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal reported. The renewed blitz comes as its Stargate data center project appears to have stalled. The first salvo in OpenAI’s spending spree will be a $20 billion data center
Data centers are expected to use one-fifth of the electricity generated in the US by 2035, four times more than today, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. The report predicts that an increase in AI computing will increase data center capacity to nearly 200 gigawatts over the next decade. Nearly half of that capacity
New York became the first state to halt data center construction after Governor Kathy Hochul today signed an executive order temporarily prohibiting the state from approving new permits for large projects. Hochul’s order applies to data centers of 50 megawatts or more, which could affect more than a dozen projects. The state Department of Environmental
