Chipmaker Intel said it is planning layoffs within its data center group amid a broader effort to become a “more focused and efficient” company. “As part of our broader strategy to become a more focused and efficient company, Intel’s Data Center Group (DCG) is aligning its organization to ensure it has the right roles and
Big Tech earnings season begins next week with Google, but the most important number won’t be profits or revenue. It will be how much these companies say they will spend on AI data centers. Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta have already laid out plans to spend more than $700 billion this year. Investors know that
The US movement against data centers went national on Saturday. Protesters across the United States rallied against the massive facility as part of a nationwide demonstration organized by Humans First, a newly founded conservative nonprofit organization taking on what it calls “Big AI.” The group planned more than 100 rallies throughout the day, from Wasilla
In May, “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary made a series of media appearances accusing some vocal opponents of his data center plans in Box Elder County, Utah, of being foreign-backed agents. Now, Mr. Wonderful is being sued for defamation. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal district court in Utah, Alliance for a Better Utah,
President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized New York’s new pause in developing AI data centers, arguing that the state is rejecting one of the biggest economic opportunities from the AI boom. “One of the biggest drivers of employment in the future is data centers,” Trump wrote in Truth Social, calling the facilities “money machines” and
Meta is expanding what was already planned to become its largest AI data center, a Louisiana campus that the tech giant says has generated “life-changing returns” for local teachers and businesses. The company behind Facebook and Instagram said in a blog post Monday that the Richland Parish data center, known as Hyperion, will now grow