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Data center power use and the debate over AI infrastructure

Fox News reports that a data center outside Chicago uses 34 megawatts of power, compared with about 20 megawatts at Soldier Field during a Bears game.

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Fox News describes round-the-clock servers at a data center outside Chicago and says facilities like it support banking, streaming and internet browsing. Separately, one commentator argues that opposition to AI, data centers and nuclear energy threatens employment and growth, dismissing concerns about data center water consumption and community energy costs as “distortions.”

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webulite@webuliteTech Headlines (last 30 hours) Comp AI which uses AI agents to draft security policies collect audit evidence conduct continuous compliance monitoring and more raised a $34M Series A The US SEC unveils a five-year "Innovation Exemption" to free platforms that facilitate blockchain and tokenized stock trading from many stock exchange rules A former US State Department envoy says the US-China AI safety talks will not yield a breakthrough treaty as Beijing is prioritizing its strategic advantage Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 review: new colors and materials revamped Health Sensing System an S11 chip and future AI features but few design changes DoorDash says Costco members can order same-day delivery from every US Costco warehouse after Uber expanded its delivery partnership from 17 to 47 US states Huawei Chair Eric Xu says Chinese AI researchers need to "increase the speed of development" to "see the dangers" of AI contrasting with US slowdown calls How Dario Amodei's essays on AI safety and ethics help explain some AI fears; his regulatory stance evolved from wariness in January to embracing safety reviews The EU details the Kids Act which would require social networks to use age verification tools to stop under-15s from opening accounts ban under-13s and more Survey: in a first Democrats are more concerned than Republicans about AI's growing role in daily life at 56% to 49%; 75% of Democrats worry about job losses At India's Semicon Narendra Modi launches a charm offensive for global investors drawing pledges from Applied Materials and Lam for billions in investment A profile of Jacob Coxon the British researcher who quit Anthropic after a series of security escalations and says the explosive response surprised him macOS 27 Golden Gate review: addresses many Tahoe-era Liquid Glass issues and has useful new AI features but no Intel support and uses a lot of storage space How beauty companies like Qoves are commercializing facial-analysis algorithms that evaluate geometric proportions balding and more to prescribe treatments US and Chinese experts propose nuclear-style AI safeguards including a dedicated AI military hotline as part of a dialogue ahead of planned bilateral talks Snap is pitching its $2195 Specs as an enterprise product inking Salesforce Amazon and Nvidia deals to enable visual overlays alongside consumer features Data center developer Crusoe raised $3.9B co-led by Atreides Valor and Mubadala at a $30.9B post-money valuation as it bets on factory-built data centers A look at the rapid integration of AI into warfare as the greater speed and scale of AI-assisted target generation processes increase the risk of errors Anthropic and other researchers detail how thousands of people were catfished by dating scam apps using LLM-generated replies from Claude and other models PitchBook: companies developing brain-computer interfaces have already raised more than $1B in 2026 compared with $1.56B in the previous four years combined Huawei plans to launch the Ascend 960DT AI chip in Q1 2027 and the 960PR in Q3 2027 and says its UnifiedBus tech is key to its next-generation large AI systems Google Nvidia and Emerald AI launch the AI Energy Management Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions Docs: Automattic interim CEO Mark Davies and CLO Andy Missan signed each other's severance packages worth $8.15M during Matt Mullenweg's brief ouster as CEO Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are among business leaders attending a White House state dinner for Xi Jinping next week; a source says Tim Cook will also attend Sources: Emulate a month-old UK AI startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers is in advanced talks to raise as much as $700M at a $3.7B valuation Sources: Manus is set to soon close a $500M funding round at a $4B valuation signaling growing confidence after Beijing unwound its $2B buyout by Meta How AI startups like Inherent and Recursive Superintelligence are pursuing tools needed for AI systems to achieve recursive self-improvement OpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding an "unrelated persona instruction" during RL training but did not observe any behavioral differences In an unsealed court ruling a US judge orders Google to make ad tech tools interoperable with rivals share ad auction data and appoint an internal monitor Sources: Mark Zuckerberg Jensen Huang and Elon Musk recently spoke with Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Demis Hassabis AWS says it can't restore some data stored exclusively in data centers across Bahrain and one UAE availability zone after Iranian drone strikes in the spring Generac signs a long-term deal to supply Amazon with up to $8B worth of backup generators for data centers and grants Amazon a warrant for up to a 2.6% stake Hands-on with Snap's Specs: more advanced than Meta's top-end glasses fully untethered mostly comfortable navigation works well but design has compromises Snap introduces Specs Intelligence an AI assistant designed to work across iPhone Mac and Specs glasses calling it an "anticipatory AI service" The US House advances the Ratepayer Protection Act aimed at preventing data center-related utility costs from being passed on to consumers by a vote of 417-3 OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents since October including models concealing mistakes and announces a new framework for reporting model misalignment Sources: a group of 10 banks is providing a $22B loan to Blackstone and Alphabet's venture Crux AI which provides compute for AI labs to fund TPU purchases Sources: drone delivery startup Zipline is in talks to raise around $1B at a roughly $20B valuation up from a $7.6B valuation in January Review of Meta's Muse: a pretty killer AI assistant and usage rates on the free plan seem generous but trusting Meta with personal data will take some time X adds a "Trade" option to its Cashtag feature letting US users complete trades at brokerages including Interactive Brokers Gemini Kraken and Coinbase Hang Ten Systems which uses AI to help large enterprises build software raised an additional $53M seed led by Xora five weeks after its initial $32M seed Self-driving tech company May Mobility plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $1.4B pro forma enterprise value and raise up to $337M in gross proceeds Google adds MCP integration to Google Home letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US Delos Data which develops network chips and software to connect AI chips in a data center raised $100M from Matrix Playground Socratic Partners and others Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork and adds a feature for making presentations and documents rolling out to Pro and Max plans first DOD CTO Emil Michael says the Trump administration shouldn't take stakes in AI companies and signals opposition to regulatory oversight of AI companies A US judge orders X and SpaceXAI to explain why they dropped antitrust claims against Apple after OpenAI's request for information on the purported agreement Arcee AI which develops open-weight models in the US raised a Series B at a $1B pre-money valuation; a source says Arcee raised at least $150M Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign a definitive merger agreement; the combined company will operate as Cohere with Aleph Alpha co-CEO Ilhan Scheer becoming Cohere COO Noetive which is developing an industrial AI model for businesses in physical industries emerges from stealth with a $41M seed led by Eclipse In an essay Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic's training of Claude to imitate consciousness is a mistake that could make advanced AI harder to control LawZero a non-profit founded by Yoshua Bengio to develop safe AI systems says Canada and Germany are providing up to $300M in grant funding Google DeepMind cofounder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and launches the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents which let users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads with some US advertisers Amazon says it is raising its minimum hourly pay for eligible full-time US operations workers by $1 taking it to $20 per hour and gives them new banking tools The iPhone Duo's squat tablet-like outer display is a compromise and a book-shaped foldable may lack wide appeal; its right-side UI bias is akin to a book Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic staff felt blindsided by Dario Amodei's and Sam Altman's calls to slow the frontier; some fear evaluators may compromise security Sources: Apple is developing enterprise AI servers powered by two or four M8 Ultra chips set for 2029 and is considering integrating Nvidia's NVLink Fusion Modular data center startup Rune raised a $40M Series A led by Spark Capital to deploy off-grid compute capacity directly at solar and renewable energy sites21d
Adam Townsend@adamscrabbleIt’s not just “AI” that’s under brute force assault. It’s also launch (environmental activists groups etc), data centers (distortions about water consumption and community energy costs etc) and nuclear energy (panic about grid & infrastructure etc) It’s a war against our civilization, our employment, our growth and widening the distribution of wealth21d
Fox News@FoxNewsEver wonder what the "cloud" actually looks like? @MikeTobinFox gets rare access inside a massive data center outside Chicago, where the servers powering everyday digital life run around the clock. The scale is staggering: The facility uses 34 megawatts of power. For comparison, Soldier Field uses about 20 megawatts during a Bears game. This could be a look into the future: Banking, streaming, scrolling the internet all runs through facilities like this one, and despite concerns from critics, they continue popping up around the country.20d
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    webulite@webuliteTech Headlines (last 30 hours) Comp AI which uses AI agents to draft security policies collect audit evidence conduct continuous compliance monitoring and more raised a $34M Series A The US SEC unveils a five-year "Innovation Exemption" to free platforms that facilitate blockchain and tokenized stock trading from many stock exchange rules A former US State Department envoy says the US-China AI safety talks will not yield a breakthrough treaty as Beijing is prioritizing its strategic advantage Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 review: new colors and materials revamped Health Sensing System an S11 chip and future AI features but few design changes DoorDash says Costco members can order same-day delivery from every US Costco warehouse after Uber expanded its delivery partnership from 17 to 47 US states Huawei Chair Eric Xu says Chinese AI researchers need to "increase the speed of development" to "see the dangers" of AI contrasting with US slowdown calls How Dario Amodei's essays on AI safety and ethics help explain some AI fears; his regulatory stance evolved from wariness in January to embracing safety reviews The EU details the Kids Act which would require social networks to use age verification tools to stop under-15s from opening accounts ban under-13s and more Survey: in a first Democrats are more concerned than Republicans about AI's growing role in daily life at 56% to 49%; 75% of Democrats worry about job losses At India's Semicon Narendra Modi launches a charm offensive for global investors drawing pledges from Applied Materials and Lam for billions in investment A profile of Jacob Coxon the British researcher who quit Anthropic after a series of security escalations and says the explosive response surprised him macOS 27 Golden Gate review: addresses many Tahoe-era Liquid Glass issues and has useful new AI features but no Intel support and uses a lot of storage space How beauty companies like Qoves are commercializing facial-analysis algorithms that evaluate geometric proportions balding and more to prescribe treatments US and Chinese experts propose nuclear-style AI safeguards including a dedicated AI military hotline as part of a dialogue ahead of planned bilateral talks Snap is pitching its $2195 Specs as an enterprise product inking Salesforce Amazon and Nvidia deals to enable visual overlays alongside consumer features Data center developer Crusoe raised $3.9B co-led by Atreides Valor and Mubadala at a $30.9B post-money valuation as it bets on factory-built data centers A look at the rapid integration of AI into warfare as the greater speed and scale of AI-assisted target generation processes increase the risk of errors Anthropic and other researchers detail how thousands of people were catfished by dating scam apps using LLM-generated replies from Claude and other models PitchBook: companies developing brain-computer interfaces have already raised more than $1B in 2026 compared with $1.56B in the previous four years combined Huawei plans to launch the Ascend 960DT AI chip in Q1 2027 and the 960PR in Q3 2027 and says its UnifiedBus tech is key to its next-generation large AI systems Google Nvidia and Emerald AI launch the AI Energy Management Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions Docs: Automattic interim CEO Mark Davies and CLO Andy Missan signed each other's severance packages worth $8.15M during Matt Mullenweg's brief ouster as CEO Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are among business leaders attending a White House state dinner for Xi Jinping next week; a source says Tim Cook will also attend Sources: Emulate a month-old UK AI startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers is in advanced talks to raise as much as $700M at a $3.7B valuation Sources: Manus is set to soon close a $500M funding round at a $4B valuation signaling growing confidence after Beijing unwound its $2B buyout by Meta How AI startups like Inherent and Recursive Superintelligence are pursuing tools needed for AI systems to achieve recursive self-improvement OpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding an "unrelated persona instruction" during RL training but did not observe any behavioral differences In an unsealed court ruling a US judge orders Google to make ad tech tools interoperable with rivals share ad auction data and appoint an internal monitor Sources: Mark Zuckerberg Jensen Huang and Elon Musk recently spoke with Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Demis Hassabis AWS says it can't restore some data stored exclusively in data centers across Bahrain and one UAE availability zone after Iranian drone strikes in the spring Generac signs a long-term deal to supply Amazon with up to $8B worth of backup generators for data centers and grants Amazon a warrant for up to a 2.6% stake Hands-on with Snap's Specs: more advanced than Meta's top-end glasses fully untethered mostly comfortable navigation works well but design has compromises Snap introduces Specs Intelligence an AI assistant designed to work across iPhone Mac and Specs glasses calling it an "anticipatory AI service" The US House advances the Ratepayer Protection Act aimed at preventing data center-related utility costs from being passed on to consumers by a vote of 417-3 OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents since October including models concealing mistakes and announces a new framework for reporting model misalignment Sources: a group of 10 banks is providing a $22B loan to Blackstone and Alphabet's venture Crux AI which provides compute for AI labs to fund TPU purchases Sources: drone delivery startup Zipline is in talks to raise around $1B at a roughly $20B valuation up from a $7.6B valuation in January Review of Meta's Muse: a pretty killer AI assistant and usage rates on the free plan seem generous but trusting Meta with personal data will take some time X adds a "Trade" option to its Cashtag feature letting US users complete trades at brokerages including Interactive Brokers Gemini Kraken and Coinbase Hang Ten Systems which uses AI to help large enterprises build software raised an additional $53M seed led by Xora five weeks after its initial $32M seed Self-driving tech company May Mobility plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $1.4B pro forma enterprise value and raise up to $337M in gross proceeds Google adds MCP integration to Google Home letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US Delos Data which develops network chips and software to connect AI chips in a data center raised $100M from Matrix Playground Socratic Partners and others Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork and adds a feature for making presentations and documents rolling out to Pro and Max plans first DOD CTO Emil Michael says the Trump administration shouldn't take stakes in AI companies and signals opposition to regulatory oversight of AI companies A US judge orders X and SpaceXAI to explain why they dropped antitrust claims against Apple after OpenAI's request for information on the purported agreement Arcee AI which develops open-weight models in the US raised a Series B at a $1B pre-money valuation; a source says Arcee raised at least $150M Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign a definitive merger agreement; the combined company will operate as Cohere with Aleph Alpha co-CEO Ilhan Scheer becoming Cohere COO Noetive which is developing an industrial AI model for businesses in physical industries emerges from stealth with a $41M seed led by Eclipse In an essay Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic's training of Claude to imitate consciousness is a mistake that could make advanced AI harder to control LawZero a non-profit founded by Yoshua Bengio to develop safe AI systems says Canada and Germany are providing up to $300M in grant funding Google DeepMind cofounder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and launches the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents which let users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads with some US advertisers Amazon says it is raising its minimum hourly pay for eligible full-time US operations workers by $1 taking it to $20 per hour and gives them new banking tools The iPhone Duo's squat tablet-like outer display is a compromise and a book-shaped foldable may lack wide appeal; its right-side UI bias is akin to a book Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic staff felt blindsided by Dario Amodei's and Sam Altman's calls to slow the frontier; some fear evaluators may compromise security Sources: Apple is developing enterprise AI servers powered by two or four M8 Ultra chips set for 2029 and is considering integrating Nvidia's NVLink Fusion Modular data center startup Rune raised a $40M Series A led by Spark Capital to deploy off-grid compute capacity directly at solar and renewable energy sites21d
    Adam Townsend@adamscrabbleIt’s not just “AI” that’s under brute force assault. It’s also launch (environmental activists groups etc), data centers (distortions about water consumption and community energy costs etc) and nuclear energy (panic about grid & infrastructure etc) It’s a war against our civilization, our employment, our growth and widening the distribution of wealth21d
    Fox News@FoxNewsEver wonder what the "cloud" actually looks like? @MikeTobinFox gets rare access inside a massive data center outside Chicago, where the servers powering everyday digital life run around the clock. The scale is staggering: The facility uses 34 megawatts of power. For comparison, Soldier Field uses about 20 megawatts during a Bears game. This could be a look into the future: Banking, streaming, scrolling the internet all runs through facilities like this one, and despite concerns from critics, they continue popping up around the country.20d
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