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Data-center operators poured billions into AI-focused data centers worldwide, boosting European capacity but widening the gap with the U.S. and China, while communities and analysts warned of environmental risks.

Wired
If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go

A new analysis attempts to estimate AI's upcoming environmental footprint in the United States and finds that the ideal data center sites aren’t where they’re being built.

If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go
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The Guardian
Data centers meet resistance over environmental concerns as AI boom spreads in Latin America

An expert explains how communities in some of the world’s driest regions are demanding transparency as secretive governments court billions in foreign investment. This Q&A originally appeared as part of The Guardian’s TechScape newsletter. Sign up for this weekly newsletter here. The data centers powering the artificial intelligence boom are enormous in every sense: their finances, their physical scale, and the amount of information they hold are so vast that halting their construction can seem like stopping an avalanche in progress.

Data centers meet resistance over environmental concerns as AI boom spreads in Latin America
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Data center race: 'The pace is great for German conditions'

AI capacity in this country is set to quadruple, with billions flowing into data centers. Still, the enormous gap to the United States and China is likely to widen.

Data center race: 'The pace is great for German conditions'
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Data center race: 'The pace is great by German standards'

The capacity for artificial intelligence is set to quadruple here, according to a new report. Billions are flowing into data centers. Yet the enormous gap to the United States and China is likely to widen.

Data center race: 'The pace is great by German standards'
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Handelsblatt
IT infrastructure: billions for new data centers – thanks to artificial intelligence

Buildings, cooling, and chips: Data center operators are investing as much as ever, including in Germany. Still, the gap to the United States and China is widening.

IT infrastructure: billions for new data centers – thanks to artificial intelligence
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La Repubblica
Europe raises its voice on open-source software: "Autonomy from the US"

Brussels opens the digital technologies project with Italy, France, the Netherlands and Germany: a 5.3 million euro fund to get started

Europe raises its voice on open-source software: "Autonomy from the US"
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Data Center Race: 'The pace is fantastic by German standards'

The capacity for artificial intelligence is expected to quadruple here in Germany, according to a new report. Billions are being invested in data centers. Still, the enormous gap to the United States and China is likely to widen.

Data Center Race: 'The pace is fantastic by German standards'
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