Alphabet Raises $20 Billion in Bond Sale to Fund AI Expansion
Alphabet raises $20 billion in bonds to finance large-scale investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure.
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Alphabet raises $20 billion in bonds to finance large-scale investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure.
SanDisk shares jump more than 1,300% in a year as AI-driven demand for memory and storage fuels one of the market’s biggest rallies.
Nvidia says its Vera Rubin AI infrastructure is now in full production and delivers five times the performance of Blackwell.
OpenAI’s Sora platform is driving $15 million in daily costs and intensifying shortages in PC hardware as AI demand accelerates.
Nvidia has agreed to acquire AI chip startup Groq for about $20 billion, marking the largest acquisition in its history as it accelerates its push to dominate next-generation AI hardware.
Finnish cities are channeling excess heat from AI-driven data centers into district heating networks, transforming server waste heat into a low-carbon energy source.
Alphabet has agreed to acquire data center infrastructure firm Intersect for $4.75 billion, strengthening its physical backbone for artificial intelligence and cloud computing growth.
Artificial intelligence is emerging as a major environmental burden, with new research estimating massive electricity consumption, water use, and carbon emissions tied to global data centers in 2025.
Oracle’s $10 billion Michigan data center project faces temporary uncertainty after financing talks stalled, though the company says development remains on track.
Transcend has suspended SSD manufacturing after losing access to NAND chips from Samsung and SanDisk, leaving the company without supply for months and signaling deeper strain in the consumer storage market.
Micron exits the consumer memory market to focus solely on AI data-center products, tightening an already constrained retail supply.
OpenAI drafts a five-year path to fund $1T+ of data centers, chips, and energy to deliver its promised AI compute.
AMD secures over $45 billion in custom chip design contracts beginning in 2026, expanding into AI and high-performance sectors.
CleanSpark plans to raise $1.15 billion to scale Bitcoin mining and AI data infrastructure amid industry diversification after the 2024 halving.
Nvidia has officially become the first company in history to reach a $5 trillion market capitalization, cementing its dominance in the AI era and setting a new benchmark for global technology valuation.