Data centres

Nvidia in talks with OpenAI to guarantee $322b financing for data centre, WSJ reports

The backstop from Nvidia would help the ChatGPT maker lease a 10 gigawatt project that SoftBank’s energy subsidiary is developing in southern Ohio.

Australia’s AI ambitions add to construction squeeze as housing target looms

Meta quits clean energy pledge amid gas-powered data centre push

Meta said it still aims to match its electricity use with 100 per cent clean energy.

Singtel supports potential listing of its data centre business in India, it tells shareholders

Singtel’s data centres in India are part of STT GDC, which it acquired as part of a consortium with global investment firm KKR for $13.8 billion in February.

‘Trillion-dollar question’: How extreme heat is shifting corporate bottom lines

Increasingly severe heat disrupts operations for a variety of industries, but it also creates business opportunities for others.

Over 200 firms, politicians in US pledge to prevent high utility bills due to AI data centres

In March, the White House secured promises from tech companies such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft to pay a greater share of the enormous costs associated with delivering electricity to new data centres.

US data centre protests go national as backlash grows

Protest organisers want the data centre development process to be transparent.

Opposition to data centres grows in cramped urban Japan

The site of a data centre construction project in Hino, Tokyo prefecture.

Trump calls New York pause on AI data centres ‘terrible decision’

New York ranks fifth in the US for the number of currently operating data centres, according to an April Pew Research report.

Australia to enact AI laws, protect creative content: PM Albanese

The new standards require large data centres to generate surplus power, minimise water use, and avoid using land intended for housing.

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