Google’s Weirdest AI Dataset Yet: Garbage

The search giant had previously created a machine learning data set out of food scraps from its kitchens. Now it’s partnering ...
CoinDesk

Core Scientific seeks $3.3 billion bond sale to further AI data center pivot

The company is building six AI data centers, leased to CoreWeave for 12 years, expected to generate approximately $10 billion ...
Business Insider

'Tokenmaxxing' has techies debating if leaderboards tracking AI token use are a good idea

Engineers are debating "tokenmaxxing," or the idea of spending as many AI tokens as possible. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan embraced the term: "We've been tokenmaxxing longer than most people." Others ...
Houston Public Media

Texas is giving data centers more than $1 billion in tax breaks each year

Construction continues on the Meta Platforms data center complex on a 1,000-acre site in far Northeast El Paso, near the Texas-New Mexico state line, as seen March 12, 2026. This story was supported ...
Wall Street Journal

TikTok Invests $1.16 Billion to Build Second Finland Data Center

ByteDance’s popular short-video platform TikTok is investing the equivalent of $1.16 billion to build a second data center in Finland, stepping up efforts to localize data storage in Europe amid ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Coweta votes to turn this 800-acre forest into $17B data center campus

County leaders an hour south of Atlanta approve one of Georgia’s largest data center campuses after 15 months of debate. An aerial image from May shows a large wooded area near Newnan, where the $17 ...
Newsweek

What Barack Obama Said About Giving Iran $1.7 Billion

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. President Donald Trump took a swipe at former President Barack Obama for giving Iran $1.7 billion in 2016, but the former ...
The New York Times

How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company

Who needs more than two employees when artificial intelligence can do so many corporate tasks? It’s super efficient — and a little bit lonely. Who needs more than two employees when artificial ...
Business Insider

The dealmakers stitching together multi-billion-dollar bets on AI infrastructure

The AI race is triggering a Wall Street financing surge for massive data centers. Dealmakers are rewriting the financing playbook to raise eye-popping sums. Meet the power players moving tens of ...
Microsoft

Microsoft Deepens Thailand Partnership with more than US$1 billion Investment, Spanning Technology, Trust, and Talent

Microsoft today announced a major expansion of its partnership with Thailand following a meeting in Bangkok between Vice Chair and President Brad Smith and Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul. From ...
Fast Company

The Trump administration is paying this company $1 billion to quit building wind farms. Experts question the arrangement’s legality

After failing to stop multiple offshore wind projects from moving forward on the East Coast, the Trump administration is trying a new tactic: paying companies not to build wind farms. Last week, the ...
GeekWire

Orbital AI: Seattle-area startup Starcloud hits $1.1B valuation to build space-based data centers

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Lisa Stiffler on Mar 30, 2026 at ...