Crusoe brings Abilene AIDC online with Oracle partnership
Crusoe noted that the Abilene campus is designed to support high energy-density AI workloads through an innovative mix of liquid and air cooling.| RCR Wireless News
AI investments are booming in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott says. And Houston is poised to benefit from this surge. At a recent Texas Economic Development Corp. gathering in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Abbott said AI projects on the horizon in the Lone Star State would be bigger than the $500 billion multistate Project Stargate, according to the Dallas Business Journal. So far, Stargate includes three AI data centers in Texas. Stargate, a new partnership among OpenAI, Oracle, Softbank, and the fede...| InnovationMap
Tech firms are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on advanced AI chips and data centers, not just to keep pace with a surge in the use of chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, but to make sure they’re ready to handle a more fundamental and disruptive shift of economic activity from humans to machines. The final bill may run into the trillions. The financing is coming from venture capital, debt and, lately, some more unconventional arrangements that have raised concerns among to...| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
As AI data centers gobble up more electricity, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) — whose grid supplies power to 90 percent of Texas — has launched an initiative to help meet challenges presented by an increasingly strained power grid. ERCOT, based in the Austin suburb of Taylor, said its new Grid Research, Innovation, and Transformation (GRIT) initiative will tackle research and prototyping of emerging technology and concepts to “deeply understand the implications of rap...| Energy Capital
Crusoe noted that the Abilene campus is designed to support high energy-density AI workloads through an innovative mix of liquid and air cooling.| RCR Wireless News
Big Tech plans to spend between $364 billion and $400 billion on AI data centers, purchasing specialized AI hardware like GPUs, and supporting cloud computing/storage capacity. The final 2Q 2025 GDP report, released last week, reveals a surge in data center infrastructure spending from $9.5 billion in early 2020 to $40.4 billion in the second quarter of 2025. It’s largely due to an unprecedented investment boom driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing. The increase highl...| IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog
To stimulate private sector investment and boost collaboration between government and industry, the U.K. will also AI growth zones| RCR Wireless News
