@Techmeme@techhub.socialXpheno: Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, and their affiliates grew their combined India headcount by 16% over the past year, adding 28K jobs (Himanshi Lohchab/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.in…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle plans to invest an additional $9B in Virginia through 2026 to boost its cloud and AI infrastructure, including a new data center in Chesterfield County (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@lilmikesf@c.imThe #BigTech boom in #ArtificialIntelligence usage has also boomed the prices of #ElectricBills for millions, whether they had anything to do with it or not ..
@tante@tldr.nettime.org'Sovereign AI' is just political branding, signaling to nationalist impulses while continuing to pour money into big tech firms. It's a mask for a sucker's game.
"This reveals a new kind of digital colonialism. Not one where countries are denied access, but one where they are structurally bound into dependencies across every layer of the AI stack. A European lab may host its own weights on a data center in France, but that center runs on American hardware, software…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“Move fast and break things.”
The things:
- Human rights
- Our habitat
- Democracy
#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital
@patrick_townsend@infosec.exchangeUS Health and Human Services centralized medical database – Uh oh
This week the Health and Human Services (HHS) agency and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are announcing an initiative to create a centralized database of individual’s health information. The stated rationale for this effort is to improve access to innovative health solutions and improve user access and security. A part of this initiative will include updates to the HIPAA regulations. The effort…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Chinese firm Hailanyun's $223M undersea data center, about six miles offshore from Shanghai, which uses tech pioneered by Microsoft's Project Natick (You Xiaoying/Scientific American)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chi…
@jake4480@c.imIf there's one thing I'm thankful to big tech for, it's that their data centers are driving up our electricity bills
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioHere’s a thoughtful piece from @…, well worth reading. It says things I hadn’t heard yet articulated so well.
One thing I appreciate immensely: the way Fred’s analytical approach centers humans instead of tech, and takes the subjective experiences of human developers •seriously•.
Fred’s summary in the quoted post gives the core idea, but the larger piece has many sharp thoughts and rewards close reading. I’ll quote a few in the thread below.
1/ https://hachyderm.io/@mononcqc/114653605519944320
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA deep dive on Big Tech's AI energy boom as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google become major players, leading to fears that individuals' and SMBs' rates may rise (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/business/energy-en…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Chinese AI companies bypass US chip restrictions by transporting hard drives with AI training data to Malaysian data centers housing advanced Nvidia chips (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/china-ai-chip-cur
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWith Trump set to speak at an energy and AI summit at Carnegie Mellon, a look at plans to turn some shuttered mill sites in Pittsburgh into AI data centers (Kris Maher/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/can-pittsburgh…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQualcomm agrees to acquire UK-listed Alphawave, which makes high-speed chip and connectivity tech for data centers, for $2.4B in cash, set to close in Q1 2026 (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
