Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year
Just after Seattle enacted a one-year data center moratorium that some of Amazon's own employees pushed for, Amazon shared how much water its data centers use, reportedly for the first time. With concerns about water consumption and energy use a focus of new AI data center…

Anthropic signed 12+ initial agreements for direct data center leases
Anthropic is moving forward with a plan to control its own servers for developing AI, giving it the ability to cut its computing costs in the long run.

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two…