Google has updated Meet to allow presenters to share audio directly from their computer. This fixes a long-standing limitation in the platform’s screen-sharing capabilities. It’s a small but crucial update for collaborative meetings.
As AI hits physical limits on Earth, a radical solution is gaining traction: putting data centers in space. Google and SpaceX are leading the charge, with a prototype planned for 2027. The potential upsides are huge, but so are the challenges.
A Senate probe led by Elizabeth Warren is demanding answers from seven major tech companies about their data center energy use. The senators allege secretive deals and lobbying are forcing Americans to subsidize the AI boom’s massive power demands.
Oracle has reportedly pushed back the completion of some data centers for OpenAI from 2027 to 2028. The delay, attributed to labor and material shortages, comes amid a massive $300 billion cloud contract between the two companies.
Colocation giant Equinix is reportedly planning a massive new data center campus in the Netherlands. The 150MW, €1.5 billion project in Lelystad will be built in phases through 2028/2029.
Oracle’s aggressive push into AI infrastructure is hitting a wall of investor skepticism. The company is ramping spending to $50B this year, but revenue forecasts remain flat, sparking concerns over its heavy debt load.
CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator says the company’s March IPO was a success despite launching near Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. The stock, priced at $40, now trades above $90, but the real story is a $55.6 billion revenue backlog from clients like Meta and OpenAI, fueled by heavy debt.
Rogers Communications has sold nine of its business data centers to InfraRed Capital Partners, which has launched them as a new operator called Qu Data Centres. The platform spans nine Canadian markets and serves over 750 existing customers.
Omdia predicts datacenter capital expenditure will grow 17% annually, reaching a staggering $1.6 trillion by 2030. This relentless spending is fueled by AI, but analysts and execs are debating if this growth is sustainable or a bubble waiting to pop.
According to GeekWire, Amazon is testing a new ultrafast delivery service called Amazon Now and gave rides in its Zoox robotaxi on the Vegas Strip. AWS SVP Colleen Aubrey also detailed the company’s push into applied AI and “agentic” coding.
