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Google breaks ground on $15 billion AI hub in Visakhapatnam, backed by Adani and Airtel

Google has launched construction of its largest digital infrastructure project in India—a gigawatt-scale AI hub in Visakhapatnam. The $15 billion initiative, developed with AdaniConneX and Airtel Nxtra, positions the coastal city as an emerging AI gateway. With Adani Group committing $100 billion to green energy and data centers, the project addresses AI's massive electricity demands while creating thousands of jobs and advancing community development across Andhra Pradesh.

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Google breaks ground on $15 billion AI hub in Visakhapatnam, backed by Adani and Airtel

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Meta cuts 8,000 jobs to fund AI infrastructure as capital expenditure soars to $145 billion

Meta is eliminating roughly 8,000 positions—10% of its workforce—starting May 20, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg directly attributing the cuts to ballooning AI infrastructure spending. The company raised its 2026 capex forecast to $145 billion, nearly double last year's $72 billion spend. Despite posting record revenue of $56.31 billion and $26.8 billion in net income for Q1 2026, Meta is redirecting capital from headcount to compute costs, sparking debate about whether AI justifies these workforce reductions.

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Meta cuts 8,000 jobs to fund AI infrastructure as capital expenditure soars to $145 billion

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Oracle data center secures $16 billion financing after months of Wall Street negotiations

Related Digital has closed a $16 billion financing package for Oracle's massive data center campus in Michigan, designed to power applications for OpenAI. The deal wrapped after months of stop-and-start negotiations, with Pimco purchasing $10 billion of the bonds. The financing highlights how Big Tech's debt-fueled AI expansion is facing increased scrutiny from Wall Street investors.

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Oracle data center secures $16 billion financing after months of Wall Street negotiations

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Maine Governor Janet Mills Vetoes Historic Data Center Moratorium Over Local Economic Concerns

Maine came close to becoming the first US state to halt data center construction, but Governor Janet Mills vetoed the bill to protect an economic development project in Jay. The proposed moratorium would have frozen approvals until 2027 while officials studied environmental and energy impacts. Mills cited the need to preserve 800 construction jobs and 100 permanent positions at a former mill site.

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Maine Governor Janet Mills Vetoes Historic Data Center Moratorium Over Local Economic Concerns

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Nvidia gives 10,000 employees early access to GPT-5.5 through OpenAI Codex on Blackwell systems

Nvidia has deployed OpenAI Codex powered by GPT-5.5 to over 10,000 employees across engineering, legal, marketing, finance, and HR departments. Running on Nvidia's GB200 NVL72 Blackwell systems, the agentic coding application delivers a 35x cost reduction and 50x efficiency boost compared to previous models. Employees report debugging cycles that once took days now close in hours, with some calling the results "mind-blowing" and "life-changing."

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Nvidia gives 10,000 employees early access to GPT-5.5 through OpenAI Codex on Blackwell systems

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UK government admits AI data centres could emit 100 times more carbon than previously forecast

The UK quietly revised its climate projections for AI infrastructure, revealing that AI data centres could generate up to 123 million tonnes of CO₂ over the next decade—more than 100 times the original estimate. The dramatic correction exposes a stark misalignment between the government's AI ambitions and its legally binding net-zero commitments, as two key departments appear to be working with wildly different energy consumption forecasts.

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UK government admits AI data centres could emit 100 times more carbon than previously forecast

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Big Tech's AI ambitions fuel $300 billion borrowing boom as Wall Street shows investor fatigue

Major technology companies have borrowed over $300 billion to fund AI infrastructure, marking a dramatic shift from traditional financing. Oracle's record $16.3 billion data center deal required bond fund PIMCO to anchor $10 billion after US banks retreated, while Meta's latest bond offering drew less demand than previous sales. The surge reveals growing investor fatigue and concerns about whether massive AI spending will translate into profits.

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Big Tech's AI ambitions fuel $300 billion borrowing boom as Wall Street shows investor fatigue

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Intel and SoftBank's ZAM Memory Project Secures Japanese Government Subsidies for AI Development

Japan's NEDO has selected the ZAM memory development project for government subsidies, backing Intel and SoftBank subsidiary SAIMEMORY's effort to create a power-efficient alternative to HBM. The next-generation memory technology promises 40% lower power consumption and aims for mass production by 2029, marking Japan's strategic push to re-enter the semiconductor market.

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Intel and SoftBank's ZAM Memory Project Secures Japanese Government Subsidies for AI Development

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Tencent launches Hy3 AI Model with 40% efficiency gain and real-world product integration

Tencent unveiled Hy3 preview, a 295-billion-parameter Chinese LLM that improves inference efficiency by 40% while excelling at coding and agent workflows. Unlike typical model launches focused on benchmarks, Tencent is proving Hy3's capabilities through live integration across Yuanbao, CodeBuddy, and other products, where it reduced latency by 54% and handles complex tasks up to 495 steps.

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Tencent launches Hy3 AI Model with 40% efficiency gain and real-world product integration

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11 Gas-Powered AI Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Morocco

An investigation reveals that 11 gas-powered AI data centers in the US could generate 129 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year—more than Morocco's entire 2024 output. OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI are all linked to these facilities, which bypass traditional power grids by building dedicated gas power stations to meet AI's growing energy demands.

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11 Gas-Powered AI Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Morocco

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Meta signs multi-billion dollar deal with Amazon for millions of AWS Graviton chips for AI

Meta has inked a major multi-billion dollar agreement with Amazon to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton CPU cores across 32 data centers over three years. The deal highlights a critical shift in AI infrastructure as agentic AI workloads drive unprecedented demand for CPUs, not just GPUs, exposing supply constraints across the industry.

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Meta signs multi-billion dollar deal with Amazon for millions of AWS Graviton chips for AI

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Cohere and Aleph Alpha merge to create $20 billion transatlantic AI powerhouse

Canadian AI company Cohere is acquiring German AI startup Aleph Alpha in a deal valuing the combined entity at $20 billion. Backed by both governments, the merger aims to offer businesses and nations a sovereign AI alternative to Silicon Valley dominance, with Schwarz Group committing $600 million in fresh investment.

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Cohere and Aleph Alpha merge to create $20 billion transatlantic AI powerhouse

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SoftBank plans to manufacture batteries for AI data centers at converted Osaka factory

SoftBank is transforming part of its former Sharp LCD factory in Osaka into one of Japan's largest battery production facilities to power its own AI data centers. The mobile unit aims to bring production online within five years, initially supporting its infrastructure before offering batteries to other Japanese companies. The move completes a vertical integration strategy spanning chips, data centers, and energy storage.

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SoftBank plans to manufacture batteries for AI data centers at converted Osaka factory

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Cyera acquires Ryft to deliver traceable data access for AI agents at enterprise scale

Data security company Cyera has acquired Israeli startup Ryft in a deal valued between $100 million and $130 million. The acquisition brings automated data lake platforms designed specifically for AI agents to Cyera's security platform, enabling enterprises to deploy autonomous AI systems with traceable, secure data access at scale.

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Cyera acquires Ryft to deliver traceable data access for AI agents at enterprise scale

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Intel bets on AI inference to restore CPUs to center of compute as Q1 revenue beats expectations

Intel reported Q1 revenue of $13.6 billion, beating Wall Street expectations by over $1 billion as demand for CPUs in AI inference workloads surges. CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the shift from training to inference is changing the CPU-to-GPU ratio, with agentic AI potentially flipping it entirely. The company's share price jumped over 20% in after-hours trading, approaching record highs not seen since the dotcom era.

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Intel bets on AI inference to restore CPUs to center of compute as Q1 revenue beats expectations

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