Reuters finds banks now weighing local opposition alongside permits and power costs, with 75 projects worth about $130bn contested in the first quarter -- after three candidates who ran against data centres won their primaries.
The first independent benchmark landed today -- Artificial Analysis scores Glimmer 35 on its intelligence index against a median of 9 for comparable models -- while Meta's own CTO told staff the productivity gains do not mean more time off.
Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR signed memorandums to underwrite compute as an asset class -- Larry Fink calls it the next mortgage-backed security, and Nvidia lost $130bn of market value on the news.
OpenAI publicly urged companies to trial a four-day week and never trialled one itself, former staff tell the BBC, describing sprints topping 90 hours at OpenAI and Anthropic and Meta workers 'drafted' onto AI teams without a choice.
