The growing field of data center developers are catering to the tech industry’s ravenous demand for computing power to build better and more widely adopted AI systems. New faces are behind the mega-campuses being developed globally to power the artificial intelligence boom.

Google will buy data center company Intersect for $4.75 billion to boost Google’s AI infrastructure, innovation and computing capacity, CEO Sundar Pichai says.

Having data centers “visible in the night sky at dawn or dusk” presents a problem because some observers “rely on twilight to hunt for near-Earth asteroids,” said Scientific American. Also, it could worsen the space junk problem, as “more hardware is launched and more debris and fragments fall back through the atmosphere.”

As a country, we are spending more to get data centers up and running than we spent to build the entire interstate highway system. (Yes, that’s inflation-adjusted.) With tech companies spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI,

AI has become big business and Independence officials are charged up about a proposed multi-faceted, multi-phase project that involves a new power plant and a Dutch technology company, Nebius.

The company building an AI data center in West Feliciana Parish said early Wednesday that Anthropic, whose Claude chatbot is a rival to Chat GPT, has signed a long-term deal to use the facility, marking the second mega tech company to set up an AI data center in Louisiana in the past year.

Longhorn Reels, a Texas-based manufacturer with over 46 years of experience in wire and cable handling solutions, has expanded its custom metal fabrication capabilities to serve the growing infrastructure needs of AI data centers and chip manufacturers.

Regulators approved the first-ever GLP-1 pill for treating obesity from Novo Nordisk. Alphabet will acquire data center company Intersect for $4.75 billion in cash and assume its debt. Instacart is ending its contentious AI-driven pricing tests.