Ireland’s data centers consumed nearly as much electricity as every home in the country combined in 2025 – server farms gulped 23% of national power despite years of grid restrictions
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Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites for Copper and Expensive Equipment
Millions of people became jobless due to AI, now some of these jobless people are becoming copper thieves at AI data centers. submitted by /u/chunmunsingh [link] [comments]
‘You can’t call it progress’: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns against concentration of AI power
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has voiced concerns over the growing concentration of power in artificial intelligence, arguing that the technology’s future should not be shaped by a small group of companies. He also called for cheaper AI…
Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows | TechCrunch
Who will foot the AI bills? Despite the fact that AI increasingly dominates our economy (it’s a hot IPO summer and we’re all just along for the ride), most Americans are not particularly optimistic about the technology’s long-term impact on the c…
Anthropic CEO Floats Tax on AI Firms to Fund Universal Income
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on governments to tax AI companies to fund a universal basic income and introduce employee retention incentives to account for the potential impact the technology could have on the labor market. In a blog coverin…
Anthropic Tops OpenAI to Become the World’s Most Valuable A.I. Start-Up
Anthropic raised $65 billion in new fund-raising that put its value at $900 billion, ahead of OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion, as the companies duel for A.I. dominance. Anthropic, once the lesser-known artificial intelligence competitor t…
Exclusive: Departing Meta staffer posts biting anti-AI video internally amid mass layoffs
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Microsoft Cancels Internal Anthropic Licenses As Shift To Token-Based AI Billing Blows Up Annual Budgets In Months
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‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers
Nvidia’s vice president of applied deep learning, Bryan Catanzaro, recently stated that for his team, “the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees,” highlighting that AI is currently more expensive than human workers. This challe…
‘Hyperscale’ data center project in Utah — expected to generate and consume more power than entire state
A massive hyperscale data center project in rural Box Elder County, Utah, led by Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary through his company O’Leary Digital (also known as the Stratos Project or Wonder Valley), is nearing final approval. The developmen…