Ask how much a single chatbot query costs the planet and the answers scatter wildly: anywhere from a tenth of a watt-hour to several watt-hours, and from five drops of water to roughly 45 millilitres. None of those figures is invented. Each measures a different thing, on a different model, inside a different data centre … Read more
Microsoft has unveiled Maia 300, an inference accelerator that the company says will make its own silicon the primary engine behind Copilot, Azure OpenAI and its in-house models from 2027. The headline claims: 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems and up to seven times the rack-scale token throughput of its predecessor, Maia … Read more
West Texas now hosts two of the most water-hungry industries in the United States at the same time: oil and gas extraction, and the artificial intelligence buildout. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin argue that the vast volumes of salty wastewater pulled up alongside Permian Basin crude could be treated and redirected to … Read more
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has signed a nuclear power supply agreement with Constellation Energy for 890 megawatts across eleven reactor units in three states: Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. The commitment exceeds $4.3 billion (roughly €4.04 billion). It is the largest corporate nuclear energy contract in tech industry history, arriving as electricity demand from AI … Read more
Finland’s national authority LVV has ordered Tuike Finland Oy, Google’s Finnish subsidiary, to immediately suspend land-preparation work at two planned data center locations: Muhos, where roughly 330 hectares are affected, and Kajaani/Otanmäki, covering about 200 hectares. The reason: trees were felled before the mandatory Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) had been completed. Google has until 14 … Read more
Finland’s environmental licensing authority has ordered Google’s Finnish subsidiary to immediately suspend environmentally significant site preparation at two planned data center locations after contractors cleared hundreds of hectares of forest before mandatory environmental reviews were finished. The affected sites are Muhos and Kajaani, both part of a broader €13 billion Finnish buildout that the company … Read more
Amazon Web Services has quietly retired one of the most criticised tools in its data center playbook: the nondisclosure agreement. AWS chief executive Matt Garman confirmed the shift in a single line buried inside a long blog post defending the company’s infrastructure buildout, stating that Amazon no longer uses NDAs with the government agencies it … Read more