5 Burning Questions About Elon Musk’s Terafab Chip Partnership with Intel
… Texas and much of the US are facing a shortage of tradespeople like plumbers and electricians needed to build data centers and semiconductor fabs. …
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Worker shortages may add to the challenges Musk faces turning his vision for the Terafab into reality. He has yet to announce where the new plant will be built, but construction is underway on a 2-million-square-foot chip-design lab on the Tesla automotive campus near Austin, and the state has increasingly become Musk’s home and central to his sprawling corporate universe. Texas and much of the US are facing a shortage of tradespeople like plumbers and electricians needed to build data centers and semiconductor fabs. The data center industry is proving to have the deepest pockets to recruit wo
5 Burning Questions About Elon Musk’s Terafab Chip Partnership with IntelMicrosoft Reports a Massive 25 Percent Jump in Emissions
… But the data center build-out is set to accelerate—and some of Microsoft’s recent investments could drive its emissions higher. Notably, the new report covers the 2025 fiscal year, which ended last June, and has made a number of deals since then involving gas-powered data centers. …
Two Fossil Fuel Companies Are Betting Big on Data Centers
… Williams is now building six behind-the-meter gas plants for data centers across the country, including four projects serving Meta data centers in Ohio. …
Iran Warns US Tech Firms Could Become Targets as War Expands
… Many of these companies operate regional offices, cloud infrastructure, or data-center operations across the Gulf, including in the United Arab Emirates. …
Nvidia Wants to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data Centers
… Over the past two years, AMD has significantly grown its share of the market for CPUs used in data centers. The company has long been recognized as a pioneer of the modern chiplet architecture used in x86 processors, which still account for the vast majority of data center CPU revenue. …
Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
… Emissions from gas turbines at the data center have prompted numerous complaints from local residents. …
SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers
Anthropic and SpaceX announced a deal earlier this month that gives the Claude developer access to GPUs at Colossus and Colossus II, a pair of data centers straddling Tennessee and Mississippi with more than one gigawatt of computing power. …
Qualcomm Buys Buzzy Chip Startup Modular for Nearly $4 Billion
… But Qualcomm has also been making a big push into the data center market, which requires more powerful chips. …
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
… When I follow up with her later, as the data center furor in Georgia reaches new heights, she tells me that everyone on her timeline seems to have agreed that data centers are being installed to conduct surveillance on the population. “It’s, I feel like, a ubiquitous fear,” she says. “Like it’s alm… …
Oura’s New Ring 5 Is Smaller and Lighter—and Adds an AI Health Coach
… A new time-based Data Deletion feature lets users—across all Oura generations—erase data from specific periods without wiping their long-term history. Members also have more granular oversight with configurable controls over how their data is used and shared with third parties. …