Google plans a $17 billion data center that makes its own power
The Wyoming site would run on a 702-megawatt fuel cell system with carbon capture, built on the property.
Kiln covers the physical side of AI: the chips, the data centers, the electricity they need and the money that pays for them.
What Kiln watches
- Nvidia, AMD, Intel and TSMC results and launches
- Cloud and data center spending by the largest tech companies
- Power deals, grid connections and local fights over new sites
- Supply of memory and storage chips
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SpaceX's AI unit out-earned Starlink
The October 2026 figures showed $7.56 billion in quarterly AI revenue, nearly triple the quarter before.
Google opened its AI chips to PyTorch developers
An October 2026 release let code written for Nvidia hardware run on Google's processors with a one-line change.
Anthropic signed a $35 billion computing deal with Lambda
The September 2026 agreement was the AI company's third large infrastructure contract of the year, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Nvidia struck a $6 billion licensing deal with Poolside
The August 2026 agreement paid an AI coding startup for its technology without buying the company.
Apple raised prices across the Mac and iPad lines
Many June 2026 increases were 10% to 20%, and some were far larger, as memory chips stayed scarce.
Google announced an $80 billion equity raise to pay for AI
One of the most profitable companies in the world went to shareholders for money in June 2026.
Nvidia launched a processor designed for AI agents
The Vera CPU, shown in June 2026, extended the chipmaker from graphics processors into the other half of the server.
Nvidia agreed to sell Meta millions of chips
The multiyear deal was announced in February 2026, the same day Meta broke ground on a $10 billion data center in Indiana.
Marvell agreed to buy Celestial AI for up to $5.5 billion
The December 2025 deal was a bet that moving data with light will matter as much as the chips that process it.
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