Tag: data-centres
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Most of the power from the DOE’s $5 billion nuclear loan is already sold to Big Tech
The department calls it support for homes and businesses, and the reporting found no sign household bills will fall.
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Microsoft has dropped a 23,000-chip Nscale data centre near London because the grid cannot power it until the 2030s
The grid operator says capacity may not exist until the early to mid 2030s, against a plan to be live in early 2027.
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Google has put AI chips in orbit, and its space data centre plan needs Starship to fly 180 times a year
The prototype is the easy part; the economics rest on a rocket that has never flown more than five times in a year.
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Crusoe cancelled a $1.25 billion turbine order from Boom, and says it still wants turbines
Boom has lost its launch customer, and Crusoe is keen to say the problem was the supplier, not the plan.
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Oracle invoked force majeure on the data centre at the heart of Stargate
Oracle says nothing has slipped, but it has just secured the contractual right to pay late if it does.
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Alibaba says its new chip is China’s most powerful, and it will not ship until 2027
The Zhenwu V900 is built to run in clusters of 500,000, but Alibaba has not said who will manufacture it under US export controls.
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Mistral raised EUR 3 billion, the largest round in European tech, and Samsung led it
The French lab says it will spend the money owning data centres rather than renting them, a bet its far larger rivals have mostly…
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Google can buy $12.2 billion of Marvell stock, if it keeps buying chips
The warrant ties Google’s future stake to how much custom silicon it purchases through 2033, which makes Marvell’s win conditional on Google’s demand holding…
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Nvidia has arranged $500B in loans against its own chips
Six Wall Street firms will lend to Nvidia’s customers with GPU compute as the collateral, which requires GPUs to hold their value.
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Anthropic says it will pay for the grid upgrades it causes
A new venture with Macquarie and GIC funds dedicated data centres, and comes with an unusual promise about consumer power bills.