Applied Digital signs $7.5B lease for Delta Forge 1, pushing total contracted revenue past $23B

Korea Post's strategic shift to AI data centers and real estate highlights a growing institutional focus on tech infrastructure, impacting global investment trends. The post Korea Post pivots to AI data centers and real estate to offset mounting postal losses appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Applied Digital has signed a 15-year, take-or-pay lease at its fourth artificial intelligence (AI) Factory campus, Polaris Forge 3, with the same U.S.-based investment-grade hyperscaler that signed at Delta Forge 1 in April 2026. Applied Digital Pushes Total Contracted Revenue to $31B With Fourth AI Campus Deal Applied Digital Corp. (Nasdaq: APLD), the Dallas-based artificial […]

Closed-loop cooling systems in AI data centers may reduce water withdrawal, but rapid AI growth could still outpace sustainability efforts. The post OpenAI clarifies water use in AI data centers, highlights closed-loop cooling appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

SpaceX's investment in gas turbines highlights the urgent power needs of AI data centers, potentially reshaping global energy markets and regulations. The post SpaceX commits $2.8B to gas turbines for AI data centers appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The investment comes as Elon Musk’s AI unit faces complaints about the carbon-emitting units and looks to become a big player in cloud computing.

The post Bitcoin vs. AI Computing: Who Leave the Bigger Carbon Footprint? appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. BTC mining became crypto’s environmental problem long before AI; now AI data centers spark the same debate. AI data center power demand is driving rapid growth, with 33-80 Mt CO₂e in 2025 and far higher scaling ahead. Experts warn that AI may soon surpass Bitcoin’s footprint by 2030 as inference demand rapidly grows. Bitcoin (BTC) mining and artificial intelligence (AI) computing both consume massive amounts of electricity, sparking an intense debate over their environmental impact in 2026. Bitcoin, the pioneering cryptocurrency, secures its decentralized network through energy-intensive proof-of-work mining that consumes 150-170 TWh yearly and emits 65-75 million tonnes (Mt) of CO₂e.  Meanwhile, AI computing powers everything from large language models like GPT, image generators, and recommendation systems in massive GPU data centers, already producing 33-80 million tonnes of

The centers are diverting much-needed resources from regular people. Local resistance has the industry playing defense Back in 2016, Marco Gutiérrez, the Mexican-born founder of Latinos for Trump, issued an ominous warning to the US. “My culture is a very dominant culture,” he said on MSNBC. “It is imposing and it’s causing problems. If you don’t do something about it, you’re going to have taco trucks on every corner.” A decade later, I regret to inform you there is not a taco truck on every corner. But I am here to issue my own ominous warning about the takeover of America: not by immigrant culture but by AI culture. To echo Gutiérrez: it is imposing and it’s causing problems. And if we don’t do something about it, we’re going to have datacenters on every corner. Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Over 70 percent of Americans oppose AI data center construction in their area, according to a new Gallup survey. Just seven percent said they were "strongly" in favor of new data centers. According to Gallup, data centers are so strongly disliked that Americans would prefer to live near a nuclear power plant than a data center - even at its peak, opposition to nuclear power plant construction topped out at 63 percent. Gallup's data is based on a March 2026 survey of 1,000 randomly-selected American adults in all 50 US states and the District of Columbia, along with an April 2026 survey of 2,054 adults "who are members of the Gallup Panel." … Read the full story at The Verge.