Microsoft unveiled its Community-First AI Infrastructure initiative, pledging to cover full electricity costs, reject local property tax breaks, and replenish more water than its data centres consume. The company has been developing the initiative since September 2025, responding to shifting public sentiment observed in Wisconsin, where concerns shifted to electricity
Road, bridge, and sewer infrastructure improvements face delays as the AI data centre construction boom diverts resources from the construction market. Private spending on data centre construction reached an annualised run rate exceeding $41 billion, roughly matching state and local government spending on transportation construction, according to Census Bureau data.
The rapidly growing energy demand of AI data centres in the United States is directly accelerating the expansion of renewable energy. Industry leaders argue that AI-driven investments require several gigawatts of new capacity each year, and with fossil fuels burdened by cost and supply risks, capital is increasingly flowing toward
OpenAI and NVIDIA have announced a landmark strategic partnership aimed at creating one of the world’s largest AI infrastructures. As part of the deal, the two companies will develop 10 gigawatts of data centre capacity, a massive leap in scale that could redefine the availability and performance of generative
The world’s biggest technology companies are pouring money into AI infrastructure at an unprecedented pace. Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta together spent more than $300 billion on this area in 2025 alone. At the same time, Gartner estimates that global spending on data centres will reach $475 billion this
Amazon.com announced an expanded nuclear energy partnership with Talen Energy on June 11, 2025, to supply up to 1,920 megawatts of electricity from its Susquehanna plant in Pennsylvania to Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres until 2042. The long-term deal ensures Talen a steady revenue stream while supporting
Amazon has announced a $10 billion investment in North Carolina, one of the company's largest investments in the state to date, aimed at expanding artificial intelligence and cloud computing capacity. The announcement came on June 4, 2025, and is expected to create at least 500 new high-skilled jobs
Atomic Canyon, a startup founded by Trey Lauderdale eighteen months ago, closed a $7 million seed funding round in May 2025 led by Energy Impact Partners to provide AI-powered document search solutions for the nuclear industry. The company aims to accelerate the traditionally slow nuclear sector whilst tech companies urgently
Data centers form the backbone of the digital ecosystem, and their geographical distribution provides a significant strategic advantage to the United States. The United States hosts 45.6% of the world's 11,800 data centers, far exceeding countries such as Germany and the United Kingdom (4.4% each)
China’s AI infrastructure boom, which began following the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, is collapsing, with a significant portion—up to 80%, according to sources—of the more than 150 government-backed data centres now standing empty. The national ambition to become a leader in artificial intelligence technology has
