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Crusoe Reportedly Raises Over $3 Billion at a $30 Billion Valuation

The financing would put a far larger private-market mark on the AI infrastructure company. Its ability to turn customer demand into delivered cloud and data-center capacity remains the operating test. Crusoe has reportedly completed a financing of more than $3 billion at a valuation of roughly $30 billion, raising the private-market mark on a company that builds AI data centers and provides cloud capacity.

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Realta Fusion Gains Utility Investment and Grid Support for 200-MW Wisconsin Plant

The proposed mid-2030s plant pairs Realta’s early power-conversion work with utility help on siting, permits, interconnection and financing—steps that can advance a future project before construction begins. Realta Fusion is exploring a 200-megawatt fusion power plant in Wisconsin with Madison Gas and Electric, bringing a utility’s capital and development support behind a project targeted for the mid-2030s.

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Google Agrees to Buy 396 MW of Geothermal Power for a Planned Utah Data Center

The agreement gives Fervo a defined customer for Cape Station while tying Google’s future data-center supply to a geothermal project still under construction. Google has agreed to buy 396 megawatts of electricity from Fervo Energy’s Cape Station geothermal plant in Utah for a planned data center. Google also has an option to purchase another 600 MW through June 2030, from a project expected to come online in 2028.

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Build American AI Takes Multimillion-Dollar Data-Center Ads to Three Election States

The campaign brings organized political advertising to a facilities fight that has become a flashpoint in contests for Congress and state and local government. Build American AI is launching a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign promoting data centers in Kansas, Ohio and Wisconsin. The nonprofit says the effort is meant to shift public opinion as disputes over the facilities enter statewide election politics.

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Nvidia Rolls Out Vera Rubin as AI Competition Shifts to Data Traffic

The architecture packages compute with storage and networking hardware, betting that efficiently moving data through large AI systems is becoming its own competitive layer. Nvidia is rolling out Vera Rubin, an architecture that combines Rubin GPUs with Vera CPUs, Groq 3 LPX inference accelerators, and storage and networking racks. Related on X NVIDIA Vera is heading to @awscloud.

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Google Sets February 2027 Android Memory Rules as AI Strains Chip Supply

The new quality requirements put measurable limits around app resource use, while a separate April 2027 rule is meant to keep users signed in when they move phones. Google is turning memory discipline into an Android app requirement, citing supply constraints that are changing available device memory. Developers have until February 2027 to meet new thresholds meant to reduce performance-related slowdowns and crashes.

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Infrastructure

OpenAI Loses Data Center Chief While Pursuing a Reported $600 Billion Compute Target

The personnel change puts new leaders in charge of turning OpenAI’s large compute ambitions into data-center capacity and delivered facilities. OpenAI is pursuing a reported target to spend roughly $600 billion on compute by 2030. Chris Malone, who led the company’s data center work, has left as OpenAI reorganizes the infrastructure group meant to support that scale.

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OpenAI’s Jalapeño Claims 1.5–1.9x More AI Work Per Watt, Faces 2027 Scale Test

The custom chip gives OpenAI an early efficiency claim against available Nvidia systems, but production qualification, broader workloads and a small initial rollout will determine whether it becomes a meaningful serving platform. The company presented Jalapeño’s first benchmark results at Hot Chips, framing the chip as the opening generation of a longer-term silicon platform. Source: openai.com.

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August 2026

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