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Meta putting up tents across the US to house AI servers, like ‘a scene out of the movie Mad Max’ — structures take three months to build and use jet engines for power

… Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck The data center cooling state of play Massive AI data center buildouts are squeezing energy supplies Ultra Ethernet: The data center interconnection of tomorrow One site, located in N… …

Jun 5, 2026 · Jowi Morales
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Microsoft CEO says new AI data centers use as little water annually as a restaurant — closed-loop cooling system aims to slash consumption from millions of gallons as AI infrastructure faces mounting environmental scrutiny

… Speaking at Microsoft Build 2026 on June 2, Nadella made the claim while outlining Microsoft's "Community-First AI Infrastructure" strategy aimed to address growing concerns about the impact of data centers on local communities . …

Jun 4, 2026 · Etiido Uko
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Microsoft unveils Project Solara AI, a chip-to-cloud platform built to power a new generation of 'agent-first' enterprise devices — hardware designed to run AI agents instead of traditional apps

… For us, that is the first proof point: a path to specialized devices without requiring developers to rebuild the experience from scratch each time,” said Bathiche. Another notable aspect of Solara is Microsoft's decision to build MDEP on Android rather than Windows. …

Jun 3, 2026 · Etiido Uko
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Musk's Colossus 1 AI supercomputer's inefficient mixed-architecture design couldn't be used to train Grok, so Anthropic's using it for inference instead — Musk readies unified Blackwell-only Colossus 2 for frontier training and potential IPO

… However, modern hyperscale AI data centers can cost tens of billions of dollars and take years to build. Utilities are increasingly struggling to supply sufficient electricity for AI projects, while land, transformers, cooling infrastructure, and high-end GPUs themselves remain constrained. …

May 15, 2026 · Etiido Uko
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