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The latest Data Centers coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Apple's AI Server Setbacks Trigger Uncharacteristic Interest in Big-Ticket Chip Deals
Apple has been talking to bankers and semiconductor startups about potential acquisitions as it scrambles to build AI server chips powerful enough to handle next-generation workloads, including a...
Nvidia GPU Screening Hits Malaysia Data Centers: Compliance Is Now Part of Capacity Planning
Nvidia has slashed its list of authorized Asian AI chip buyers by more than half, introducing rigorous pre-sale screening for customers in Malaysia, Singapore, and Japan—and injecting new...
Nebius Pledges 4 GW of AI Power by 2026: Here’s What It Means for Cloud Users
Nebius Group is no longer content just renting out GPUs. The Amsterdam-based company announced this month that it will surpass 4 gigawatts of contracted data-center power by the end of 2026, a...
Texas Bear the Brunt of AI Data Center Boom as IEA Warns Power Use May Double by 2030
The International Energy Agency has a stark warning: electricity demand from data centers could more than double by 2030, driven overwhelmingly by the explosive growth of generative artificial...
One in Three Coloradans Now Use AI, Microsoft Report Finds—But Rural Users Are Left Behind
Microsoft’s latest AI adoption figures reveal that 32.3% of Colorado’s working-age population used generative AI tools in early 2026—a number that surpasses the national average of 31.3% and...
Microsoft Runs on 100% Clean Energy, Yet Emissions Jump 25%—What It Means for Windows Users
On July 9, 2026, Microsoft published its Environmental Sustainability Report covering fiscal year 2025, and for the first time, the company matched 100% of its global electricity consumption with...
DataBank Plans Massive 200-Megawatt Data Center in Cartersville, Filing Shows
DataBank has submitted plans for a 200-megawatt data center campus on a 69-acre industrial site in Cartersville, Georgia, according to documents filed with Bartow County. The project, dubbed Project...
OpenAI VP Noam Brown: Inference-Time Scaling Will Make Memory Semiconductors the Next AI Battleground
OpenAI research vice president Noam Brown delivered a stark message to a packed symposium in Seoul on July 3, 2026: the future of artificial intelligence will be defined not by raw compute, but by...
Academics Know AI's Environmental Cost but Shift Blame, University of Exeter Finds
Academics who are keenly aware of the environmental damage caused by artificial intelligence continue to lean heavily on the technology in their own research, a new study from the University of...
Rumble’s Northern Data Takeover: A 22,000 Nvidia GPU and 200MW AI Infrastructure Play
Rumble has thrust itself into the center of the AI infrastructure race, closing its acquisition of Northern Data AG on June 17, 2026. The deal hands the video-platform company control of roughly...
Europe’s AI Future Hinges on Electricity: Microsoft Calls for 'Fusion of Compute and Power' Overhaul
Europe’s push to become a global AI powerhouse is colliding with a fundamental bottleneck: electricity. On June 17, 2026, Microsoft’s EU Policy blog published a TechTalk with Ann Mettler,...
Microsoft’s Peer-Reviewed Study Finally Quantifies the Real Energy Cost of Every AI Query
Microsoft has taken a rare step in the veiled world of AI infrastructure: publishing peer-reviewed research that pins down exactly how much electricity and water a single AI inference consumes. The...