The US Justice Department urged a federal court to dismiss a Memphis lawsuit over xAI gas turbines, arguing that power for Grok is tied to national and military interests.

#xAI #Grok #AI infrastructure

June 23, 2026Read More →

Microsoft’s 2GW Texas Campus Puts AI Data Centers Into The Gas-Power Debate

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Microsoft’s 2GW Texas Campus Puts AI Data Centers Into The Gas-Power Debate

Microsoft is planning a 2GW data center campus in Pecos, Texas, with Chevron supplying up to 2.67GW of behind-the-meter power under a 20-year PPA.

#Microsoft #Chevron #Project Kirby

June 23, 2026Read More →

PLDT Puts Philippine Data Centers Into A REIT IPO Pipeline

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PLDT Puts Philippine Data Centers Into A REIT IPO Pipeline

PLDT’s Vitro unit has filed a REIT plan for eight Philippine data centers totaling 24MW, with the proposed IPO targeting ₱24.2 billion.

#PLDT #Vitro REIT #data center REIT

June 23, 2026Read More →

Samsung UFS 5.0 Turns Phone Storage Into An On-Device AI Constraint

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Samsung UFS 5.0 Turns Phone Storage Into An On-Device AI Constraint

Samsung says its UFS 5.0 storage reaches 10.8 GB/s read speed, improves power efficiency by more than 40% and will enter mass production in the fourth quarter of this year.

#semiconductors #mobile memory #on device AI

June 23, 2026Read More →

Meta Leads CRED’s $900 Mn Round As India Fintech Prepares For IPO Path

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Meta Leads CRED’s $900 Mn Round As India Fintech Prepares For IPO Path

CRED raised $900 Mn in a Series H round led by Meta, with founder Kunal Shah moving to lead WhatsApp and Miten Sampat becoming interim CEO.

#Indian fintech #IPO pipeline #CRED

June 22, 2026Read More →

Micron And Anthropic Put AI Memory Supply Inside Claude’s Compute Plan

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Micron And Anthropic Put AI Memory Supply Inside Claude’s Compute Plan

Micron and Anthropic signed a strategic agreement covering AI memory and storage architecture, supply, Claude adoption inside Micron and a Series H investment.

#AI memory #AI infrastructure #Micron

June 22, 2026Read More →

Core42 And Solutions+ Put Sovereign AI Into UAE Enterprise Infrastructure

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Core42 And Solutions+ Put Sovereign AI Into UAE Enterprise Infrastructure

Core42 and Solutions+ have formed a partnership to deliver sovereign cloud, data and AI infrastructure services across UAE and Abu Dhabi government entities, Mubadala Group and enterprise accounts.

#Core42 #Solutions+#sovereign AI

June 22, 2026Read More →

ADNOC Puts Heavy-Duty Robots Into Live Energy-Site Inspections

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ADNOC Puts Heavy-Duty Robots Into Live Energy-Site Inspections

ADNOC has deployed Taurob’s heavy-duty inspector robot at its Taweelah Gas Compression Plant and is co-developing an operator robot due by the end of 2026.

#ADNOC #industrial robotics #Taurob

June 22, 2026Read More →

Turtlemint IPO Demand Reaches 50% As India Insurtech Tests Public Markets

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Turtlemint IPO Demand Reaches 50% As India Insurtech Tests Public Markets

Turtlemint’s IPO was subscribed 50% on its second bidding day, with qualified institutional buyers leading demand as the Indian insurtech seeks capital for technology infrastructure, product development and growth.

#fintech #Turtlemint #India IPO

June 22, 2026Read More →

Google Cloud Pushes Openness As Europe Rewrites Cloud Sovereignty Rules

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Google Cloud Pushes Openness As Europe Rewrites Cloud Sovereignty Rules

Google Cloud is urging Europe to keep digital-sovereignty rules open to trusted global partners as the European Commission works on the Tech Sovereignty Package and Cloud and AI Development Act.

#cloud sovereignty #Google Cloud #European Commission

June 22, 2026Read More →

Jefferson Lab Data Center Puts DOE AI Science Into A Physical Hub

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Jefferson Lab Data Center Puts DOE AI Science Into A Physical Hub

Jefferson Lab has broken ground on a 30,000-square-foot data center in Newport News that will house the DOE High Performance Data Facility and support AI-enabled scientific data work under the Genesis Mission.

#Jefferson Lab #DOE #AI science

June 22, 2026Read More →

Z.ai GLM-5.2 Pushes Open Coding Models Into Longer Workflows

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Z.ai GLM-5.2 Pushes Open Coding Models Into Longer Workflows

Z.ai released GLM-5.2 under an MIT license with a one million-token context window, coding-agent benchmarks and self-hosting options, putting long-context software engineering back into the open-model race.

#Z.ai #GLM 5.2 #coding agents

June 22, 2026Read More →