A massive $14.5 billion data center development called “Project Marvel” could be coming to Bessemer, Alabama. The city council is set to vote on November 18 despite fierce opposition from residents concerned about environmental impact and the anonymous end user.
Residential electricity bills jumped 6% nationwide in August compared to last year, but states with heavy data center concentration saw much higher increases. Virginia, Illinois, and Ohio experienced price surges between 12-16% as AI data centers consume massive power equivalent to entire cities.
DataVita has filed plans to develop a new three-story data center facility on 1.8 hectares in Chapelhall, North Lanarkshire. This comes as Scotland sees multiple gigawatt-scale data center proposals after historically minimal market development despite abundant renewable power.
Data centers have surpassed oil exploration as the world’s biggest infrastructure investment. The International Energy Agency projects $580 billion will flow into data centers this year, while AI’s electricity consumption is set to quintuple by 2030. This shift highlights how digital infrastructure
Czech startup Flowpay has launched in the Netherlands backed by a €30 million credit facility from Fasanara Capital. The FinTech aims to close Europe’s massive SME financing gap through AI-driven embedded lending solutions. This marks their first Western European expansion after establishing presenc
Wikipedia is telling AI companies to stop scraping its content and use its paid Enterprise API instead. The nonprofit saw an 8% drop in human traffic while AI bots overwhelmed its servers. Now they want attribution and financial support from AI developers.
Mexico City has become the most video-surveilled metropolis in the Americas. Officials want residents to buy compatible cameras and share footage with authorities, but privacy experts warn this could violate fundamental rights.
The space race has shifted from political competition to corporate data processing ambitions. Following Starcloud’s satellite launch with an Nvidia H100 GPU, both Google and SpaceX are pursuing orbital computing capabilities. This marks a significant step toward processing data directly in space rat
Microsoft is making another huge move in the UAE with a 200-megawatt data center project through partner G42. This expansion supports the country’s goal to double its digital economy contribution to GDP. The infrastructure will start coming online before the end of 2026.
Snowflake is making a strategic move to attract PostgreSQL developers by open-sourcing its pg_lake extensions. The company acquired Crunchy Data for $250 million in June to bolster this effort. This allows developers to connect PostgreSQL directly to Apache Iceberg tables without data movement.
