Data Center Race Poses AI Divide And Environmental Risks, Critics Warn
Techstrong.IT, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
A flurry of mega investments in data centers from the likes of Meta Platforms Inc., Alphabet Inc.'s Google, CoreWeave, and Blackstone Inc. this week was the boldest evidence yet of an urgent need to train and roll out artificial intelligence (AI) models.
Tech giants and private-equity firms are pouring tens of billions of dollars of investments into data centers to build out artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in a dizzying series of announcements this week.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday said the company will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on building huge AI data centers in the U.S., including the first multi-gigawatt data center, called Prometheus, expected to come online in Ohio in 2026.