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Lead image from the Axios story about Anthropic's $15B SpaceX compute deal
AI·

SpaceX's S-1 revealed who's paying for Colossus. Anthropic just locked in $45B through 2029.

Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion a month for Colossus 1 and 2 capacity. The contract runs through May 2029 and books about 83% of SpaceX's revenue.

Transmission lines stretched across mountain terrain at dusk
Policy·

NV Energy is cutting off 49,000 Lake Tahoe homes by May 2027. The power is going to AI data centers.

Liberty Utilities serves 49,000 Tahoe customers. NV Energy supplies 75% of that power and is reclaiming it for Northern Nevada data center expansion.

Aerial view of a large data center facility with cooling systems
Policy·

Residents can't sleep. 29 million gallons vanished. Oregon sent the bill. Data centers are losing the neighborhood.

Three data center stories trended in one week: infrasound, 29M gallons of missing water, and Oregon forcing grid cost pass-through.

Aerial view of farmland where a data center project is planned
Policy·

A Michigan town voted against a $16B data center. The lawsuit was filed two days later.

Saline Township rejected rezoning for a 1.4 GW OpenAI-Oracle data center. Related Digital sued in 48 hours, and construction is underway.

AMD CEO Lisa Su on stage at CES 2026, presenting AI accelerator products
Hardware·

AMD's data center revenue jumped 57% to $5.8 billion in Q1. Its stock closed up 18%.

AMD reported Q1 revenue of $10.25B, up 38% YoY. Data center hit $5.8B (+57%) and Q2 guidance midpoint of $11.2B beat consensus by roughly $700M.

Aerial view of a Meta data center site used by Fortune for AI infrastructure spending coverage
AI·

Hyperscalers are on track to spend $700B on AI infrastructure in 2026

Big-tech AI capex is projected at $700B in 2026, up from $410B in 2025. Microsoft alone guided $190B. Wall Street is split: Meta got punished for the spend, Alphabet rallied.

Rows of server racks inside a data center, illustrative
Policy·

Virginia turned on data centers. Here's the chart the AI industry should be watching

Virginia voter support for new data centers crashed from 69% to 35% in three years. The Post/Schar School poll and the Digital Gateway cancellation show why it matters.

Aerial view of data center infrastructure and power systems
Policy·

The US government is about to make data centers show their power bills for the first time

The EIA confirmed it will develop a mandatory energy disclosure survey for data centers, two years behind Europe. Here's what it covers and why it matters.