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  • Nvidia and Amazon channel billions into AI power infrastructure

    Nvidia and Amazon are putting serious money into the power generation needed to keep AI data centers running, with two separate deals announced this week that underscore how energy has become a bottleneck for the industry. Nvidia is investing up to $3 billion in Lancium, the power infrastructure developer behind the OpenAI and Oracle data center in Texas, according to The Information. A roughly $2 billion stake would give Nvidia about 20 percent of the company, which is valued at around $10 bil

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  • Amazon Data Center Could Be Powered by One of the Nation's Most Polluting Power Plants

    Amazon is investing in a new natural-gas power plant in Pecos County, Texas, to supply a West Texas data center, and the project holds a permit that would allow it to emit more carbon dioxide than any coal plant in the country, according to The Verge and the New York Times. The plant, tracked as GW Ranch by Cleanview, a service that monitors data center power projects, would deploy 35 natural-gas turbines generating about 7.65 gigawatts. At least initially, the plant would not connect to

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  • Google Offloads $35 Billion in Anthropic Chip Risk via SPV Structure

    Google has assembled one of the largest infrastructure financing programs in history to supply Anthropic with its proprietary AI chips while keeping the hardware off everyone's balance sheets, according to Financial Times reporting. The arrangement involves Google, Broadcom, Morgan Stanley, Apollo, Blackstone, and several cryptocurrency mining companies in a chain of deals designed to sidestep the balance-sheet constraints that would otherwise make the transaction impossible. How the st

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  • NSF Commits $100 Million to Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs

    The U.S. National Science Foundation launched a $100 million program on August 4 to build state and regional AI infrastructure hubs, with NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Dell Technologies among the private-sector partners. The NSF State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs program will fund up to 10 regional consortia that pool compute, data, and expertise for researchers, students, and educators who currently lack access to AI-scale computing resources. Public-private cost

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  • Google Brings AI Model Routing to API Gateway

    Google Cloud has added managed AI model routing to API Gateway, giving developers one OpenAI-compatible endpoint for models hosted through Vertex AI Model Garden. The feature is now in public preview and can direct requests to Gemini, Anthropic Claude, and OpenAI GPT-family models without requiring teams to operate a separate proxy service, according to Google's announcement. Routing moves into the gateway Developers define virtual model names and backend targets inside an OpenAPI 3.x s

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  • Anthropic Signs $10B Compute Deal With Cloud Startup That Didn't Exist Six Months Ago

    Anthropic has locked in $10 billion worth of computing capacity from Volta Infra Holdings, a cloud infrastructure startup founded in early 2026, in a six-year deal that underscores the AI industry's increasingly aggressive scramble for compute. The deal, reported by Bloomberg, will draw on a data center in Tydal, Norway, where Bitcoin miner Bitdeer Technologies operates hydropower-fed infrastructure packed with Nvidia's latest Vera Rubin chips. Volta describes the capacity at 133 megawatt

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  • Claude suffers global outage as network failures hit all models

    Anthropic's Claude platform experienced a widespread service disruption on July 29, 2026, with elevated error rates and latency affecting every model across its entire product suite. The incident knocked out claude.ai, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork for nearly three hours. The outage began at 19:49 UTC when Anthropic's status page first flagged elevated errors across multiple models. Users immediately reported 529 "Overloaded" errors, a non-standard HTTP response indicating the

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