Donald Trump has backed expanding AI across the US, pledging to cooperate with states eager to draw in funding for what he calls Super Intelligence. In a Friday Truth Social post, he said turning that money away would be a blunder.
Days earlier, voters in several states backed local limits on data centres, with nearly two dozen of 41 ballot measures across 10 states looking set to pass on early returns. In Texas, a Democrat who campaigned on a moratorium on new data centres beat Governor Greg Abbott.
Sachin Tendulkar has taken a non-controlling stake in Recykal, the Indian waste management technology firm.
His investment extends the $23 million round Recykal closed in June. The company will use the money to strengthen its tech platform, expand its Deposit Return System for packaging waste, and grow internationally.
Recykal's goal is to change the habits of a billion people, and Tendulkar said he was drawn in by how technology tackled a daily problem.
SpaceX plans to invest more than $74 billion across two AI supercomputing campuses, one in Texas and one in Arizona.
The Texas facility at Starbase, estimated at over $24 billion, will sit on about 444 acres near Brownsville and generate its own power off the public grid. The project has already created over 3,000 construction jobs.
The roughly $50 billion Arizona campus in Cochise County could scale up to 6 gigawatts, though it still needs county approvals. The Starbase city commission will weigh a property tax break for the Texas project on December 9.
