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PartnershipInfrastructure

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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Government actionPolicy

Trump Administration Backs OpenAI’s Fair-Use Defense in New York Times Case

The government’s intervention puts U.S. competitiveness, scientific progress and national security beside a copyright dispute over training data. The filing may carry weight, but it does not decide whether OpenAI’s use was lawful. The government has cast the dispute as a test of whether the United States can sustain a competitive AI industry, not solely as a conflict over a publisher’s material.

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Google’s RT-2 Made Language Models Robot Controllers, Defining a VLA Template

The 2023 system joined web-trained visual knowledge to physical commands, a design that has shaped modern robot research. Its reliance on teleoperation data and remote computing shows how far the path to capable machines still runs. Google ’s RT-2 offered a consequential answer to a robotics problem: instead of asking a large model to describe what a robot should do, train it to output the movements itself.

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Nvidia’s Huang Urges G20 Countries to Build AI Infrastructure for Economic Growth

The Nvidia chief’s pitch puts domestic data centers at the center of national AI strategy. Nvidia’s Ohio project illustrates the physical requirements behind that argument: land, electricity and buildings alongside computing hardware. Jensen Huang wants the world’s largest economies to treat AI capacity less like a software purchase and more like a utility buildout.

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AWS Makes Its Contact-Center AI Designer Generally Available With Rules Beside the Model

The product separates flexible conversation from fixed decisions such as identity checks and eligibility, while linking voice calls to on-screen choices and preserving context during a transfer. AWS has made agentic CX designer generally available in Amazon Connect Customer, giving contact-center teams a no-code canvas that places generative AI conversation steps alongside fixed business-rule steps.

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Government actionPolicy

Independence Voters Recall Council Member After $6B AI Data-Center Tax-Break Vote

The recall is the third election loss for an Independence official who backed the incentives, while a city pause on future projects does not affect Nebius’s approved plan. Independence, Missouri, voters recalled City Councilmember John Perkins after his vote for tax breaks tied to Nebius ’s proposed AI data center. Nearly 70% of his district supported removal, according to unofficial Jackson County results.

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LaunchInfrastructure

Databricks Pushes Lakebase Postgres as the Backend for Apps and Agents

The developer push pairs managed PostgreSQL with Databricks Apps, handling application identities and connection details inside the workspace while leaving teams to choose their database environment and data-access model. Databricks is positioning Lakebase Managed Postgres as a managed PostgreSQL backend for web applications and AI agents. Connection details are injected into the application as environment variables.

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FundingStartups

Wonderful Raises $550M at Reported $5B Valuation to Expand Enterprise AI Deployments

The financing puts more capital behind Wonderful’s high-touch approach to enterprise AI: combine a shared software layer with local teams that connect and scale systems inside customers’ existing operations. Wonderful has raised $550 million in a Series C led by Insight Partners, at a reported $5 billion valuation. Salesforce participated with Index Ventures, IVP, Vine Ventures, 9Yards and Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Infrastructure

Loudoun County Confronts Data-Center Backlash After Reaping a Tax Windfall

Virginia’s Data Center Alley shows the bargain confronting new AI-infrastructure hosts: commercial revenue can transform public services, while the physical costs become harder for residents to ignore. Loudoun County, Virginia, built one of the world’s largest concentrations of data centers into a local fiscal engine. The result is a strong case for hosts seeking an expanded commercial tax base.

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Infrastructure

Musk Warns of AI Power Shortfall as Zuckerberg Cites Data-Center Labor Gap

At the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, two leading AI infrastructure backers pointed to limits outside the data center: available electricity and the people qualified to build facilities. Elon Musk warned G20 technology ministers that AI could face a significant power shortfall next year. The G20 Innovation Ministerial runs September 1–2 at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill.

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Aranya Raises $11M for Software It Says Can Ready GPU Clusters in 48 Hours

The startup is targeting the operational work that follows GPU procurement: configuring workloads, storage and networking into infrastructure that can run AI services. Its deployment and scale figures are company-reported. Aranya has raised $11 million to build software for a stubborn stage of AI deployment: turning delivered GPU servers into clusters that can run production workloads.

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