MIT Technology Review points to a cost of AI that executives tend to overlook: data storage. Billions of daily prompts, images and videos leave behind back-end data that has to be kept somewhere after a model responds.
Google is offering European researchers free compute credits through RAISE, which makes AI easier to access. JDN warns that this creates a dependency that becomes costly when leaving, and that portability should be checked up front.
Dell is adding to its Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA lineup: three PowerEdge servers, a modular data center and workstations for building AI agents.
Google illegally cleared some 250,000 trees across 330 hectares of forest near Muhos in northern Finland to build a datacentre, and has been ordered to halt work at two sites in the country. Residents say muddy runoff from the stripped land is flowing into a nearby stream.
Amsterdam-based AI cloud company Nebius has signed a $3.5 billion secured loan facility with Citi to build more data centres and buy GPUs. The 364-day facility carries interest at the Term SOFR rate plus a margin of 2.75% that can rise to 3.50%.
Datacentres, AI and dislike of the billionaires behind it have turned many Americans against big tech, and campaigns are using it. One Tennessee ad shows datacentres crushing rivers, parks and farmland to attack a candidate over a law that allowed them.