Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue: data centers. If you’ve got…
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AI Agents Are Thirsty for Power
Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue: data centers. If you’ve got…
Why China Is the Bogeyman Data Center Enthusiasts Just Can't Quit
Welcome to the first edition of Power Play! From now until the midterms, senior writer Molly Taft will be sharing their thoughts every Sunday on…
Candidates Are Signing a Pact Promising Action on Data Centers and AI Safety
Dan Osborn was finishing up his fourth town hall last Sunday, he says, when a “hardcore MAGA” guy approached him. Osborn, who is running for…
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
Joe Allen wants to know what the robot’s name is. At first, I think the double whiskey we downed at the hotel bar must be…
DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit
The Department of Justice intervened in a lawsuit over xAI’s gas turbines on Monday. In a filing, the agency sided with Elon Musk’s company, saying…
China Didn't Make People Hate Data Centers
Right-wing officials and data center investors are increasingly claiming that data center protests are being funded and influenced by the Chinese government. OpenAI added to…
What It Will Take to Make AI Sustainable
Building AI sustainably seems like a pipe dream as tech giants that previously made promises to cut emissions have been racing to build out massive…
xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit
xAI has added 19 natural gas turbines to its second data center campus in Southhaven, Mississippi, over the past two months, according to internal emails…
A New Google-Funded Data Center Will Be Powered by a Massive Gas Plant
“Grid growth can’t match AI demand, so a pragmatic ‘all-of-the-above’ strategy is essential—with gas as a critical bridge,” Cully Cavness, the cofounder and president of…