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Local measures to restrict AI data centers passed almost everywhere they appeared, and Democrats who promised pauses won Texas and Georgia. Elon Musk, who gave $474 million to Republicans, now faces a harder road for his AI build-out.
About 100 people got onto the construction site of a new Microsoft data center on Friday. It was the first of many planned protests across Europe.
Fujifilm is spending about 10 billion yen, roughly $63 million, to expand tape production at its Odawara site. The reason is AI data that has to be stored cheaply and safely.
Google will be the anchor customer for upgrades at six existing nuclear plants in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, adding power to the grid by 2032. Constellation will also use Google's Gemini Enterprise to run the work.
AWS's new Built Together program promises free community college, home energy upgrades and local grants over five years, as more than 100 data center moratoriums are being weighed across the US.
Fervo Energy's first 33-megawatt block at Cape Station in Utah reached commercial operation a day ahead of schedule, after 23 months of construction. Two more blocks follow by January 2027.
