Snowflake is doubling down on its AI strategy with a massive $200 million expansion of its partnership with Anthropic. The goal is to build “agentic” AI that can reason across sensitive corporate data without it ever leaving the Snowflake environment. This comes as the company reports strong Q3 earn
The AI boom is forcing tech giants to become major energy players. New deals show Meta and Google securing massive power supplies from NextEra Energy, while Google flips the script to sell AI analytics back to the utility.
A coalition of environmental groups is demanding a national pause on new data centers. They argue the AI and crypto boom is driving up electricity and water use, impacting communities and consumer costs.
IBM is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire data infrastructure company Confluent for a massive $11 billion. The deal, which could be announced as soon as Monday, December 8, is seen as a major move to revitalize IBM’s cloud growth.
KKR & Co. is making a massive play for AI infrastructure, agreeing to invest several billion dollars into a portfolio of data centers owned by Compass Datacenters. The deal highlights the intense rush by financial giants to secure physical assets powering the artificial intelligence revolution.
The CEOs of IBM and AMD don’t see an AI bubble bursting. But IBM’s Arvind Krishna paints a stark picture: the industry’s planned data centers could cost $8 trillion, a bill that might never be paid. Meanwhile, AMD is busy selling chips into the frenzy.
Everyone’s talking about Nvidia and cloud providers in the AI race. But a new report highlights the massive, hidden industry that has to build the stage before the AI show can even start. The real money and logistical nightmares are in the trenches of construction and infrastructure.
Kohler’s new $599 Dekoda toilet camera uses AI to analyze your poop for gut health. The company claims data is “end-to-end encrypted,” but a security researcher found that’s not the full story, and Kohler can access and decrypt the information.
Google and Japanese memory maker Kioxia have signed a deal to buy clean electricity from a retrofitted hydropower facility in Japan’s Chubu region. The project, owned by Chubu Electric Power, aims to boost output from existing dams. Kioxia says it will get 160GWh per year, helping it toward a 2040 r
Europe’s telecom giant and its largest retailer are joining forces on a major AI infrastructure play. They’re reportedly seeking EU funding to build a data center packed with 100,000 next-gen AI chips. This is a direct bid for European AI sovereignty.
