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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.

9 hours ago

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Partnership Infrastructure

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.

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Earlier this week

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Partnership Infrastructure

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.

Yesterday

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Launch Infrastructure

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.

Aug 31, 2026

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Last week

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Launch Infrastructure

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.

Aug 29, 2026

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Regulation Infrastructure

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.

Aug 27, 2026

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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.

Aug 25, 2026

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Benchmark Infrastructure

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.

Aug 25, 2026

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August 2026

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Partnership Infrastructure

Nvidia Takes a Minority Stake in Cloverleaf to Push AI Data-Center Development

The partnership brings Nvidia into the early work of securing power and preparing sites for AI campuses, alongside a separate 4.25-gigawatt Ohio commitment. The scale of Cloverleaf’s role will depend on projects yet to be identified.

Aug 23, 2026

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Infrastructure

TerraPower’s Data-Center Pitch Is a Heat Battery Attached to a Nuclear Reactor

The project is expected to break ground in 2027, but its customer is not public. The central question is whether stored reactor heat can respond to volatile computing demand without forcing the reactor itself to slow down.

Aug 21, 2026

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Infrastructure

Loudoun’s Recycled Water Covers 43% of Data-Center Use. Treatment Capacity Sets the Limit.

Northern Virginia’s data centers show recycled water can reduce reliance on drinking supplies at scale. But the approach depends on large treatment systems that take time and money to build.

Aug 20, 2026

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Funding Infrastructure

Groq Raises $350 Million to Build an Nvidia-Powered Cloud After Its Chip Pivot

The financing gives Groq more capital to expand cloud capacity after it moved from developing its own AI chips to operating Nvidia systems. Its lower valuation, conflicting capacity reports and private financials leave the economics of that new model unresolved.

Aug 17, 2026

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Funding Infrastructure

Nvidia’s Reported Lancium Deal Would Put Grid Connections at the Center of Its AI Buildout

The reported investment would make additional grid interconnections a condition of part of Nvidia’s funding. A separate Ohio project shows the company combining capital, credit and compute around the power needed to run a large AI site.

Aug 17, 2026

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