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Enquanto governos apostam em infraestrutura digital, a demanda de datacentros por energia e água compete diretamente com a construção de habitações. Um conflito que expõe as prioridades reais das economias contemporâneas.

No, Amazon, I do not want to buy another version of the thing I just bought, or any other random object I don’t recognise or understandWe live, as I’m sure someone’s chief growth officer has recently boasted on an earnings call, in a golden age for data capture. Jeff Bezos knows what I buy, read and watch; Mark Zuckerberg will be aware that I recently sold a car transport box for a medium-sized dog. I’ve been ruthlessly conditioned into clicking Accept All Cookies every time I want to

The AI company apparently found destructively scanning ‘all the books in the world’ easier than dealing with copyright in its quest for training dataShould we destroy all the books in the world?An answer to this question can be found in the court documents of Bartz v Anthropic PBC. The northern California district court case, decided in late July this year, highlighted the improbably named “Project Panama”, one of the AI company Anthropic’s efforts to improve its large language model C

Trump’s FCC is developing a measure to bar US imports of new models of Chinese datacenter devices, sources sayThe Trump administration is reportedly drafting a ban on US imports of new models of Chinese datacenter components, in the latest sign US authorities are scrambling to respond to the rapid development of AI technology in China.Four people familiar with the matter told Reuters that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which oversees the US ⁠telecommunications industry, i

Ativistas criticam apoio de Angela Rayner ao projeto de Brick Lane que oferece apenas 11 moradias acessíveis. Um redesenvolvimento de £500 milhões do complexo da Truman Brewery foi aprovado apesar da oposição do conselho local.

O regulador energético britânico Ofgem propõe tarifas obrigatórias para data centers garantirem conexão à rede. Fila já soma 315 projetos e demanda equivale a quase o dobro do consumo nacional.

Nova petição dos EUA exige revisão dos planos de empresas de tecnologia em meio a temores de destruição ambiental. Datacenters espaciais propostos pela SpaceX, Blue Origin de Jeff Bezos e outras empresas liberariam níveis alarmantes de poluição que provavelmente alterariam a atmosfera da Terra.

Indústria diz que falha do governo em lidar com demandas de resfriamento torna planos de crescimento de IA 'fatalmente falhos'. O Reino Unido não terá água suficiente para datacenters futuros, conforme crítica contundente da indústria de água aos planos de crescimento de IA do governo.

Recent strikes have sent oil prices climbing again, with average gas price per gallon up by 70 cents on last yearInflation cooled to an annual rate of 3.5% in June as the brief US-Iran ceasefire, which has since ended, brought energy prices down, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.The consumer price index (CPI), which measures a basket of goods and services, has been elevated since the start of the war, largely because of higher energy prices. After mostly stayin

All three companies say they still aim to achieve net zero carbon output despite construction boomMicrosoft, Amazon and Google’s collective carbon emissions have increased by nearly a fifth in the past year, driven largely by datacentre construction.In the financial year ending March 2026, the three tech companies emitted 119m mTCO₂e (metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent), or about a third of those of France. Continue reading...

SK hynix, a supplier of advanced memory chips, has seen profits skyrocket thanks to the global race to build AI datacentresSouth Korean chip maker SK hynix set pricing for its mega US listing on Friday, aiming to raise $26.5bn as it takes advantage of the AI boom in what will be one of the world’s biggest ever stock sales.The Asian semiconductor giant plans to issue the equivalent of about 18m shares on Wall Street’s tech-heavy Nasdaq index later in the day. Continue reading...

Ministers consider bringing e-cigarette laws in line with tobacco as data shows 20% of teenagers have tried vapingVapes could be sold in plain packaging as part of a range of proposals to stop them being marketed to children.The UK-wide plans also include limiting device colours to white, black or grey, and keeping vapes out of sight in shops, according to the Department of Health and Social Care. Continue reading...