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Why Big Tech Is Pouring Billions Into AI Data Centers and Reinventing Tech Infrastructure

Discover how Big Tech is investing billions in AI data centers to power next-generation tech infrastructure, driving innovation, sustainability, and the future of artificial intelligence.

International Business Times

Chat Control: EU Parliament said no to Big Tech mass surveillance of your chats — but the battle for privacy isn't done

The EU Parliament's stance on untargeted scanning and encryption is clear. With the trialogue negotiations for the permanent law ongoing, will the Council and Commission be ready to follow suit?

TechRadar

What are the four new companies being added to the S&P 500 index in March?

S&P Global announced that four companies will join the S&P 500 index as part of its quarterly rebalance. The additions highlight the rising importance of AI infrastructure within the leading US equity benchmark.

Euronews

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This startup is helping tech giants and real estate developers find land for data centers, and using its own GPU cluster to do it

Acres has become one of a number of niche data companies quietly assembling GPU clusters outside the walls of Big Tech.

Fortune

How Instagram addictiveness lawsuit could reshape social media – platform design meets product liability

A Los Angeles courtroom is hosting what may become the most consequential legal challenge Big Tech has ever faced.

The Conversation

The electrician shortage is a threat to Big Tech’s ‘life or death’ race to build data centers—and an opportunity for Gen Z

By going all in on AI, tech companies like Meta and Microsoft are shaking up white-collar career paths—and creating a huge demand for new electricians.

Fortune

Children exposed to guns, self-harm and misogyny ‘within minutes of creating social media profiles’

Tech firms accused of designing systems that can expose young people to ‘deeply harmful’ as campaigners call for under-16s social media ban

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Trump orders Big Tech to generate its own power for AI data centers — reveals new 'ratepayer protection pledge' to curb rising electricity prices in the US

Building upon his Social Truth post from last month, President Trump has formally asked the big tech players to build their own power plants. Data centers have been eating at the national grid, causing electricity prices to rise across the board — for the average household. The "ratepayer protection pledge"…

Tom’s Hardware

Teen wellbeing talks between tech rivals Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook spark new questions: Landmark trial puts Meta in hot seat over kids safety, social media addiction

Mark Zuckerberg testified in a high-stakes trial where Meta faces allegations of designing platforms like Instagram to be addictive for children, contributing to mental health issues. The lawsuit, which could reshape Big Tech accountability, centers on claims that engagement-driven features harm young users. Zuckerberg defended Meta's policies while acknowledging challenges…

The Times of India

Analysis: Will Big Tech's colossal AI spending crush Europe's data sovereignty?

Big Tech companies are going all in on AI development, raising their projected capital expenditure to over $700bn (€590bn) this year, an increase of roughly 75% compared to 2025.

Euronews

Our K-12 school system is sending us a message: AI tools are for the rich kids

I worked in Chicago, and saw a world of difference between the North and South Side.

Fortune

Next-gen nuclear sees a tipping point as Meta and hyperscalers start dealmaking with Bill Gates’ TerraPower, Sam Altman-backed Oklo and more

Meta, Google, Amazon, and more all hope to lean on a nuclear construction boom to power AI.

Fortune

Big Tech’s $630 billion AI spree now rivals Sweden’s economy, unsettling investors: ‘We’ve never invested this much on anything before’

Big Tech’s $630 billion AI spending spree now rivals Sweden’s economy, unsettling investors: “We’ve never invested this much on anything before.”

Fortune

What is Upscrolled? The social media platform surging in US as TikTok restructures

Upscrolled wants to create a space where users can ‘freely express thoughts, share moments and connect with others’ outside of conventional Big Tech platforms.

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Web Summit Qatar: Social app UpScrolled takes on Big Tech with anti-algorithm ethics-first approach

At Web Summit Qatar 2026, where discussions centre on AI and digital regulation frameworks, one of the loudest conversations is coming from an emerging social media platform.

Fortune

Bitcoin’s freefall approaches $80,000 as precious metals also tank

The world’s largest cryptocurrency is down 2% over the past day while gold and silver have dropped 11% and 30%, respectively.

PC Gamer

Mozilla says it's building a 'rebel alliance' to challenge Big Tech and what it's doing with AI, which is wild but I'm kind of here for it

The company has its own, apparently more open ideas for the future of AI.

The Texas Tribune

On the issues: Q&A with the Republicans running for Texas attorney general

Texas’ next top lawyer will inherit an office that has become the tip of the spear of the conservative legal movement. To help primary voters differentiate, we asked the four GOP candidates where they stand on the agency’s major issues.

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Big Tech needs less than a month to pay off over $7 billion in 2025 fines, Proton warns

Big Tech was slapped with $7.8 billion in fines in 2025, but Proton found this massive sum represents less than a month of free cash flow. Is it time for regulators to find new teeth?

Fortune

ICE alleged to use Palantir-developed tool that uses Medicaid data to track arrest targets

Big Tech is wrapped up in a growing list of contracts to aid ICE’s immigration enforcement operations.

Axios

Big Tech's AI tools crowd the classroom

Anthropic, Google and Microsoft want to win the hearts of teachers and students.

Axios

Exclusive: Most Americans are skeptical of Trump's Big Tech ties

Voters say that tech companies wield too much influence in Washington.

TechRadar

EU goes soft on Big Tech in digital rules overhaul

EU Digital Networks Act will require telecoms firms to modernize their networks, but Big Tech is mostly immune.

The Independent UK

Big Tech's fast-expanding plans for data centers are running into stiff community opposition

Tech companies looking to plunge billions of dollars into ever-bigger data centers to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing are increasingly being voted down

Reason

Lawmakers To Consider 19 Bills for Childproofing the Internet

KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.

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