Artificial Inteligence

By Simon Jessop, Valerie Volcovici and Supantha Mukherjee Water, power usage, pollution, land driving protests Trillium Asset Management seeks detail on Alphabet’s climate strategy Investors flag water risk as emerging threat LONDON, April 6 (Reuters) – Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google ​have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers over community opposition and now …

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  (Reuters) – Massive investments in artificial intelligence that underpinned record runs in equities face a major hurdle as the Middle East ​crisis clouds prospects for growth and energy costs, said Melissa ‌Otto, head of research at S&P Global Visible Alpha. Before the Iran war broke out, tech giants Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Meta planned to spend about $635 billion on data ​centres, …

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(Reuters) – Gaining the approval of local communities has become paramount to building data centers in the U.S., Microsoft President Brad Smith said on Tuesday, as towns across the country increasingly protest the developments. The rapid proliferation of Big Tech data centers is driving up the country’s electricity demand and power bills, and drawing scrutiny …

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Ron Bousso (Reuters) – Big Tech’s race to dominate artificial intelligence may soon hit a nasty road bump as U.S. electricity grids struggle to keep pace with the big-spending hyperscalers. America’s technology giants, including Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Meta, have in recent months announced plans to spend over $600 billion on AI in 2026 alone. The investment wave has already fuelled …

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Feb 24 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google doubled down on efforts to secure power supply for its data centers across the country by entering into separate agreements with U.S. utilities, AES Corp (AES.N) and Xcel Energy (XEL.O), on Tuesday. Big Tech firms have been scouring for new, reliable and cleaner energy sources to power their …

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