Tnw - Sustainability # pt-br <![CDATA[OpenAI is recruiting a power-trading lead for its data centres. The role will own commodity hedging strategy across the company’s power portfolio. It will have no direct reports at first.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-power-trading-lead-data-centre-hedging]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/07/openai-dublin-250-jobs-european-headquarters-expansion.avif <![CDATA[August 10, 2026 - 7:05 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:42:08]]> <![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg announced a $1 billion Future Is For Everyone Fund on Monday. It will invest directly in the American communities where Meta builds data centres. The commitment sits inside a 6,500-word letter, The Future is for Everyone: The Path to a Positive AI Future. Meta published both the same day.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-1bn-future-is-for-everyone-fund-data-centre-communities]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/07/meta-stock-best-week-ai-cloud-compute.avif <![CDATA[August 10, 2026 - 4:23 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:42:08]]> <![CDATA[Anthropic, Macquarie Asset Management and Singapore’s GIC announced a partnership on Monday to develop data centres dedicated to Anthropic alone. The platform has a name, Theseus Infrastructure. It will develop, operate and lease the facilities to Anthropic under long-term contracts, and the partners will tailor each site to Anthropic’s compute needs.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-macquarie-gic-theseus-infrastructure-data-centre-partnership]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/07/anthropic-dario-amodei-open-weights-position-not-ban.avif <![CDATA[August 10, 2026 - 3:16 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:42:08]]> <![CDATA[HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, the shipbuilding arm of HD Hyundai, announced the contract on 9 August. The buyer is Corban Energy Group, a New Jersey developer that supplies gas, LNG and power gear to data centres and defence projects. The kit will feed data centres run by an unnamed “major U.S. technology company.”]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/hd-hyundai-corban-1000mw-engines-ai-data-centres]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/hd-hyundai-heavy-industries-to-supply-large-scale-power-generation-systems-to-us-data-centers.avif <![CDATA[August 10, 2026 - 12:13 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:42:08]]> <![CDATA[The tally crossed a symbolic line this week. The Information counts more than 500 US jurisdictions now banning or restricting new data centres, with over 150 local bans passed in July alone. A separate review by Heatmap News puts the number of restrictive local laws above 530 across 42 states, nearly 190 of them since 1 June.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/data-centre-bans-500-us-towns-new-york-texas-statewide]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/07/Data-center.avif <![CDATA[August 10, 2026 - 11:41 am]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:42:08]]> <![CDATA[Amazon has confirmed it is investing in a large natural gas plant to power a data centre in Pecos County, Texas, a facility the New York Times reports could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States. Permits allow the plant to release 33 million tons of carbon dioxide a year.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/amazons-new-texas-data-centre-could-become-americas-biggest-single-polluter-it-will-not-touch-the-grid]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/bezos-4-billion-amazon-share-sale.avif <![CDATA[August 9, 2026 - 2:03 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:42:08]]> <![CDATA[The floating data centre has moved from concept to contract. Samsung Heavy Industries and the Dallas firm Mousterian have signed an engineering deal to design one, The Register reported. The first project is bound for Texas.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/samsung-mousterian-floating-data-centre-texas]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/07/Samsung-Floating-Data-Center.avif <![CDATA[August 6, 2026 - 1:13 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:42:08]]> <![CDATA[WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million to sell something it has already proven it can build: weather forecasts that beat the government’s. The Series B, reported by TechCrunch, was co-led by Khosla Ventures and Galvanize and values the company at $250 million. It takes WindBorne’s total funding past $62 million.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/windborne-37m-series-b-weather-ai-balloons]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/windbornesystems-team.avif <![CDATA[August 6, 2026 - 12:16 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:42:08]]> <![CDATA[Texas spent years selling itself as the easiest place in America to build a data centre. This week it started making that harder. Governor Greg Abbott, who last year called the state the “epicenter of AI development,” has ordered a pause on new data-centre connections to the power grid. Regulators must audit every project in the queue first.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/texas-data-centre-audit-grid-connections-abbott]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2016/03/Google-Data-Center.avif <![CDATA[August 5, 2026 - 12:40 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:42:08]]>