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Amazon stops in NEPA to talk about data center development

NANTICOKE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A major tech company paid a visit to a local community college on Wednesday morning.

Amazon digs deep for AI gold as copper mine partnership fuels massive data center expansion

Amazon Web Services signed a two-year copper deal with Rio Tinto to supply AI data centers from an Arizona mine, expecting to ...

Amazon is buying copper harvested by bacteria for its data centers

Amazon’s data centers will reportedly utilize copper from a mine in Arizona that’s leaching metal from ores using ...

Big tech is increasingly promising to pay for spiking power costs. But there’s not much to enforce it

As an electricity crunch drives bills higher around the country, big tech companies building power-hungry data centers are increasingly offering to pay for more of the energy they consume, so everyday ...

Rio Tinto to supply copper to Amazon for AI data centers

Jan 15 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto said on Thursday it would supply copper that it leaches from an Arizona mine to Amazon.com for ...
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Amazon, Rio Tinto team up on cleaner data center copper

Amazon is the inaugural buyer of copper cathode that mining giant Rio Tinto is producing with a special process it calls way ...

Data center boom is pitting Indiana residents against big tech

Data center developers seeking cheap land, energy and tax incentives struck gold in Indiana. But some Hoosiers are fighting ...
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Amazon Spends $700M on Empty Land in NoVA Primed for Data Centers

A sprawling land parcel in Northern Virginia eyed for data center development has traded hands for $700 million, pushing the region’s digital gold rush to ludicrous speed. The deal is a big payday for ...