Elon Musk is eyeing the acquisition of Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup founded last year by three former SpaceX engineers that is developing hardware for faster data center communications. potential acquisition, which was revealed in a Federal Trade Commission filing and first of all Reported by Bloombergconfirmed that the agency has expedited its antitrust review….
Elon Musk’s The power plants are considered “mobile” by the state of Mississippi because they sit on flatbed trailers, thus allowing them to avoid air pollution regulations for a year. The NAACP, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of area residents, says uncontrolled emissions from the turbines are worsening air quality in an already polluted…
Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital and hedge funds, has a new plan to generate big returns on AI beyond its big stake. anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and data center companies like Singapore’s DayOne corewave. It has launched a venture called Next Frontier to buy land near large power sources with the goal…
The Energy Information Agency told two US senators that it plans to require data centers to disclose details about their energy use. According For wired. The development comes a month after Senators Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren sent a letter Asking EIA to collect data on data centres. The request was an attempt to pressure…
As data centers have grown and proliferated, so has the response. A new Harvard/MIT survey found that 40% of people supported the construction of a data center in their area, while 32% were opposed when asked about the construction of various industrial facilities in their neighborhood. An interesting news from the survey, Per Axios: More…
French lab Mistral AI has reportedly raised $830 million in debt to build a new data center near Paris, which will be powered by Nvidia chips. reuters And cnbc. Mistral first announces construction plans a data center last yearWhen its CEO Arthur Mensch said it would explore different financing options in February 2025. It plans…
AtherFlux, the space solar energy startup launched by Robinhood founder Baiju Bhatt, is in talks to raise $250 million to $350 million for a Series B round, which will value the company at $2 billion. was raising money first reported by The Wall Street Journal, which said Index Ventures is leading the deal. AetherFlux has…
For generations, Ida Huddleston and her family have owned a farm in Northern Kentucky. And he has turned down an offer of at least a million dollars to preserve it. Last year, a “major artificial intelligence company” offered him $26 million to sell part of his farm for a proposed data center, According to a…
Google announced earlier this week that it was Building a new data center in Minnesota It will be powered by a mix of wind, solar and a very unique battery built by the startup form energy Which is capable of discharging for several days. Now we know the price of that feat of electrochemical engineering:…
Google parent company Alphabet has agreed to buy Intersect Power, a data center and clean energy developer $4.75 billion cash As well as the assumption of the company’s debt. The acquisition, which was announced on Monday, will help Alphabet expand its power generation capacity with new data centers without relying on local utilities that are…
