xAI's Colossus 2 - First Gigawatt Datacenter In The World, Unique RL Methodology, Capital Raise

Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal

There weren’t a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday’s Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they’ve struck with SpaceX/xAI to use …

Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal

There weren’t a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday’s Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they’ve struck with SpaceX/xAI to use …

Musk's xAI gets go-ahead for 41 natural gas turbines in Mississippi to power Colossus data centers

Campaigners criticize rushed decision by regulator

Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute | TechCrunch

Elon Musk's xAI surprised the AI world when it made a deal to sell compute to Anthropic. Now we know how much it's worth.

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

AI Data Centers: Big Tech's Impact on Electric Bills, Water, and More via @ConsumerReports

Massive data centers are gobbling up resources across the United States. The boom has just begun—and you may be paying for it.

Dave Troy on Twitter / X

Fears over datacenters are distorted along a few important axes:1) anxiety over AI, future employment, and control; they symbolize what people fear they are losing,2) compute centralization, which is actually probably not going to actually occur, because of financial…— Dave Troy (@davetroy) August 21, 2026

US data centers’ energy use amid the artificial intelligence boom

Data centers accounted for 4% of total U.S. electricity use in 2024. Their energy demand is expected to more than double by 2030.

2025 Global Data Center Outlook

The data center sector will continue to grow at a phenomenal pace in 2025.

AMD and OpenAI Announce Strategic Partnership to Deploy 6 Gigawatts of AMD GPUs

News Highlights OpenAI to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs based on a multi-year, multi-generation agreement Initial 1 gigawatt OpenAI deployment of…...

Elon Musk's Memphis AI empire is the epicenter of the data center backlash

Data center-related policy proposals, protests and litigation are underway across the country citing Colossus and Memphis as a cautionary tale.

A Rural S.C. County Quietly Approved a $2B Data Center During the Winter Storm

Data centers are the nation's fastest-growing energy demand driver, but developers are using nondisclosure agreements to keep projects hidden.

People Hate Datacenters, Survey Finds

The data drops as Sen. Bernie Sanders calls for a moratorium on datacenter construction. 'We need to take a deep breath. We need to make sure that AI and robotics work for all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.'