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AI's Hidden Storage Bill: What Inference Leaves Behind

Enterprises need economically scalable capacity to keep pace with the data created by AI inference.

People Moves: Annica Hagen, Chief AI Officer, Saint-Gobain

Stepping into Saint-Gobain’s new Chief AI Officer role, Annica Hagen aims to scale local tech initiatives into group-wide sustainable value

Facing pushback on data centers, tech giants are promising hosts more money and fewer secrets

With host communities across the U.S. turning against their gargantuan data centers, America’s technology giants are promising to take fewer taxpayer handouts, keep fewer secrets or shower more money onto the communities willing to allow the server warehouses.

Ukraine's strikes on Russian data centers disrupt key services and derail AI research

Russia prides itself on its digital advances — from an extensive e-commerce services sector to ambitious plans for developing artificial intelligence.

Mark Zuckerberg considered leaving California over the billionaire tax

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered leaving California. He's staying on after Meta offered him a new class of shares.

Blackstone's Jas Khaira says fears over AI-buildout debt are overblown

Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn't panicked by market jitters.

Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains

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This Week in the Big AI Data Center Buildout

AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects:

Airbnb limits chores for guests, sparking backlash from hosts

Hosts are threatening to leave the platform after Airbnb says that they can no longer require guests to strip beds or do other time-consuming cleaning chores.

Meta Q3 revenue tops estimates and Zuckerberg says Muse accounts have topped 10 million

Meta Platforms said Wednesday that its third-quarter profit jumped more than threefold, as the social media giant’s revenue climbed sharply.

10 million people have already set up Muse agents.

All the latest news on Meta’s cute, creepy Muse AI agent

Meta has a plan to turn 2 highly unprofitable divisions into massive cash cows

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says its AI assistant Muse has "very high compute costs" while its hardware division remains highly unprofitable.