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Amid the AI boom, California looks to address water use by massive data centers  Los Angeles Times

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2 w. ago Inside Stargate AI's massive Texas data center campus, with 5 more sites announced

The Stargate Project has brought the global artificial intelligence race to the West Texas desert.

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2 w. ago OpenAI is building five new Stargate data centers with Oracle and SoftBank

OpenAI is continuing to build out massive AI data centers to train and serve increasingly powerful AI models.

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2 w. ago Amid a data center boom, California lawmakers pass a bill to track water use

Amid a data center boom, California lawmakers pass a bill to track water use  Los Angeles Times

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Al Gore and Lila Preston of Generation Investment Management talked with TechCrunch about recent headlines, including the tech industry's growing appetite for rare earth minerals, how the AI boom's demand for massive data centers could impact global energy consumption, and whether the space industry's rocket launches are truly a net positive.

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3 w. ago Karen Hao on the Empire of AI, AGI evangelists, and the cost of belief

OpenAI’s rise isn’t just a business story — it’s an ideological one. On Equity, Karen Hao, author of Empire AI, explores how the cult of AGI has fueled a billion-dollar race, justified massive spending on compute and data, and blurred the line between mission and profit.

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