Blackstone-owned QTS abandons planned world’s largest data center campus after years of lawsuits — 2,100-acre Virginia Digital Gateway project dies over a newspaper-notice technicality

Blackstone-owned QTS has withdrawn its final appeal for Virginia’s 22-million-square-foot Digital Gateway campus, ending the massive data center project.

Blackstone-owned QTS abandons planned world’s largest data center campus after years of lawsuits — 2,100-acre Virginia Digital Gateway project dies over a newspaper-notice technicality

Blackstone-owned QTS has withdrawn its final appeal for Virginia’s 22-million-square-foot Digital Gateway campus, ending the massive data center project.

The AI memory squeeze is about to hit Europe’s shopping baskets
The AI memory squeeze is about to hit Europe’s shopping baskets

The AI memory squeeze has been an industry story for months. Now it is heading for the till. Currys, Britain’s biggest consumer electricals retailer, has warned that phones, laptops and TVs will cost more later this year. Chief executive Alex Baldock d…

The emails that broke Anthropic and the Pentagon apart
The emails that broke Anthropic and the Pentagon apart

For months, the fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon looked like a row over access to Claude. Court documents released this week suggest it was about something bigger: who decides how the US military uses frontier AI. The emails came out on Tuesday…

Zoom buys Common Room to push past the video call into AI sales
Zoom buys Common Room to push past the video call into AI sales

Zoom made its name on the video call. Now it wants to own everything that happens before the call too. The company is buying Common Room, a Seattle startup whose AI reads the buying signals of potential customers, pushing Zoom deeper into enterprise sa…

AI’s Volatile Power Use Quietly Tests Grid Limits
AI’s Volatile Power Use Quietly Tests Grid Limits

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure is typically framed as an energy problem. Data centers are projected to consume a growing share of global electricity demand: The International Energy Agency estimates they could account fo…

Argentina’s AI-run companies plan still can’t do without humans
Argentina’s AI-run companies plan still can’t do without humans

Argentina’s government wants to let a company trade with no person in charge of it, and it has sent Congress a bill to make that legal. The proposal creates a new category called the non-human corporation, an entity run by AI agents or robots that can …

Researchers say an AI agent just ran a ransomware attack from start to finish, with no human at the keyboard
Researchers say an AI agent just ran a ransomware attack from start to finish, with no human at the keyboard

Ransomware has always needed a skilled human somewhere in the loop. Security firm Sysdig says that just changed. It has documented what it calls the first ransomware attack run from start to finish by an AI agent, with no human at the keyboard. The res…

Crusoe reportedly in talks to raise $3 billion, tripling its valuation
Crusoe reportedly in talks to raise $3 billion, tripling its valuation

Crusoe is reportedly in talks to raise about $3 billion in a new funding round that could triple its valuation to roughly $30 billion, according to Bloomberg News, which cited people familiar with the matter.  Crusoe did not respond to a request for co…

Blackstone’s QTS terminates its Digital Gateway data centre project in Virginia
Blackstone’s QTS terminates its Digital Gateway data centre project in Virginia

QTS, the data centre operator owned by Blackstone, has terminated its Digital Gateway project in Prince William County, Virginia, and withdrawn the legal filings that were keeping it alive. The move, confirmed on Thursday, ends a fight that had already…