Podcast: opposition and permitting still slow data center builds
Ascend Analytics' Brent Nelson says the announced pipeline is inflated and only a fraction of projects will be built.
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CoreWeave turns to prepayments and shorter contracts to fund AI growth
Third-quarter revenue was $3.66 billion, up 168%, with a $709 million loss and a $132.5 billion backlog.
Anthropic IPO faces pushback over $1.5 trillion valuation
Potential backers doubt next week's roadshow can start, and one investor reportedly suggested $1 trillion instead.
Ukraine's fiber-optic drones get squeezed by AI data center demand
BlueBird Tech says fiber prices rose about six to ten times as battlefield drones compete with data centers.
CoreWeave 2032 bond yield tops 16% as AI credit stress rises
Its five-year credit default swaps spiked above 1,289 basis points Thursday, then eased to about 1,155 Friday.
Turkey previews voluntary AI climate pledge ahead of COP31
Delegates may endorse the Antalya pledge before its November 16 launch, but the text creates no new obligations.
Data center backlash is more about electricity than culture war
Virginia now requires data centers to pay fully for new transmission lines, and developers expect peak-demand cutoffs.
Anthropic buys $3.4 billion of Caterpillar gas turbines
The generators can produce up to 1.7 gigawatts; Anthropic also pays xAI $1.25 billion a month for compute.
Anthropic strikes $3.4bn deal to generate gas-fired power for data centres
Anthropic has signed a $3.4 billion agreement to generate gas-fired power specifically for its data centres.
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Midterm results pose challenges for data centers and AI companies
Democrats' midterm victories lead to rejected data center ballot measures and restrictions in states like Texas, prompting OpenAI to release a compute campus policy.
Big Tech courts Democrats after midterms as AI oversight pledges loom
OpenAI hired Sen. Chuck Schumer’s daughter and began calling data centers “compute campuses.”
Data centers face voter backlash after US midterms
OpenAI commits to NDA transparency and launches Grid Protectors program amid local opposition to AI infrastructure.
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Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”
Voters supported AI and data center restrictions in 2026 elections, but Big Tech argues it reflects an anti-Trump wave rather than opposition to innovation.
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Protesters enter Microsoft data center site under construction in Amsterdam
About 100 people with Geef Tegengas entered the Pure Data Centres site and hung anti-AI and anti-Microsoft banners.
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ING said to be selling $500 million data center loans
Bloomberg’s article body is blocked, so only the headline’s reported sale is available.
Americans vote against data center construction in 10 states
Residents in at least 10 states supported proposals to restrict data-center development and several towns recalled mayors.
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Meta warns election backlash could hinder AI expansion
Midterm election results may complicate building data centers for AI due to community pushback.
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Election results spark AI regulation calls and data center moratoria
Democrats gain House and Senate control amid bipartisan opposition to AI data centers and promises of new regulations.
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OpenMatter Network pitches decentralized computing as alternative to centralized AI data centers
The company claims distributed, verifiable infrastructure can support agentic AI workloads while easing voter concerns about energy costs and environmental impact of large facilities.
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OpenAI pledges voluntary data-center rules after voters reject new sites
The pledges cover only future sites OpenAI owns and operates, not partner-built capacity such as Oracle’s.
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Big Tech plans $720B on AI data centers
Amazon Microsoft Alphabet and Meta commit to over $1 trillion in AI infrastructure spending with no near-term returns expected.
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Voters reject data centers in 38 of 40 ballot measures
Ballot measures in 13 states saw voters oppose data centers 38-2, with six cities banning them outright and twelve limiting megawatts amid AI infrastructure concerns.
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Data centers lost the midterms
76 percent of voters oppose data centers in their communities, leading to new restrictions on AI development.
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US voters reject data centers in ballot measures
Voters in over 30 localities across nine states approved bans and moratoriums on data centers, impacting AI infrastructure projects.