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Construction, capacity pipelines and per-megawatt costs of new data centre supply.
Alibaba says the Zhenwu V900 trebles the performance of its previous accelerator and can run in clusters of up to 500,000 units. The supply question behind those clusters went unanswered at the launch.
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The AI data centre company wants $35 billion from public markets on a first half where direct costs exceeded revenue, a $1 billion net loss and a contracted-demand total of $103.4 billion. Underwriters have yet to set a range.
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Jim Chalmers released the 2026 Intergenerational Report on September 20 crediting AI with A$95bn to A$116bn of GDP by 2036 and 36,000 to 44,000 jobs, against A$460m of committed government spending.
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The London startup's pre-seed, led by Episode 1, sells speed into a market where the IEA counts more than $400bn of data centre capex and 2,500 gigawatts sit waiting in grid queues that no software clears.
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There are 162 sites operating and 90 more planned, and the BBC found households living 350m and 100m from the fence line. What the next approval round has to buy is not land or power but quiet.
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The ONS widened what counts as digital infrastructure to include data centres, hardware and spectrum. The bigger total went backwards in its first year.
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The region runs 306 facilities and has 173 more coming, most of the announced load in Johor. The forecaster counting them expects Malaysia to deliver about a ninth of it by 2031.
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