President Donald Trump says data centers might need a new image. “I would say that maybe it could use a little public relations help,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday after an event focused on cryptocurrency. Trump made clear that, whatever the vibes might be, he remains a staunch supporter of the AI industry and the
Former NFLer Jason Kelce is jokingly telling people to send their urine to data centers over the mail. USPS rules say most people should just flush. On Tuesday, Kelce, the co-owner of Garage Beer, starred in a now-viral ad campaign featuring the canned water brand Liquid Death. After standing next to a toilet, he turns
Bashing AI data centers is all the rage, and brands are cashing in. “AI data centers waste millions of gallons of water,” former NFL player Jason Kelce says as he appears to pee into a jar in a new ad for his beer brand, Garage Beer, and the canned water brand Liquid Death. “We want
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is cracking down on data centers, becoming the latest state leader to scale back support for the massive facilities critical to the future of AI. Shapiro painted a stark picture of communities being overrun by half-baked data center proposals, even as he stressed that only five such facilities have the permits
What came first—the chicken or the egg? Or in AI’s case, the investment or the revenue? Nvidia is guaranteeing up to $105 billion for OpenAI’s planned data center campus in Pike County, Ohio, coming in lower than the roughly $250 billion guarantee it was considering, according to reporting by the Wall Street Journal and CNBC.
A new analysis of the 60 largest data centers under construction in the US by Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft estimates the sites could produce a cumulative 101.5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually once they’re fully up and running, Financial Times reports. That’s about 7% of all 2025 US power-sector emissions. Put another way,