While training has been the focus, inference is where AI's value is realized. Training clusters need large amounts of power. Optimized inference workloads that run over and over again on new data, on the other hand, should ideally use as few IT resources and power as possible.

President Trump recently announced that several companies in the private sector are teaming up to invest up to $500 billion into infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI). The Stargate project,

Doug Adams. President and CEO of Global Data Centers for NTT DATA explains how NTT has responded to trends in AI and liquid cooling, plus he outlines the organization's plans

If artificial intelligence can truly run more efficiently, the power it needs might be less than experts assume.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects to spend as much as $65 billion on AI in 2025 as part of a “massive effort” to further the company’s AI ambitions. Part of the plan includes a Louisiana data center that Zuckerberg says “is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan,” he wrote on Threads today.

This week's announcement by President Donald Trump of a massive private-sector investment to build more AI data centers casts a spotlight on a relatively small and nimble class of cloud computing firms positioned to play a bigger role in the tech sector.

The highest-yielding utility stocks could benefit from the massive increase in electricity use, and all offer dependable passive income.

Stargate's first data center campus, located in Abilene, will be about 875 acres, but only says it will create at least 57 jobs.

Zuckerberg expects Meta’s AI assistant — available across its services, including Facebook and Instagram — to serve more than 1 billion people in 2025.

In addition to Oracle and OpenAI's Stargate initiative, Amazon, Meta, Google and other tech giants are building facilities across the country this year.

Oil company Chevron is partnering with Engine No. 1 and GE Vernova to create natural gas power plants in the United States that will be linked to data centers in order to support increased demand for electricity at these centers,

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance is planning to build what could become the world’s largest data center in Jamnagar, India, with a capacity of 3 gigawatts to capitalize on surging AI demand.