Opposition to AI data centres is now a campaign issue in the US midterms. Democrats are targeting Republicans who backed the industry's growth, tying it to higher power bills.
In Texas, James Talarico used that frustration against Republican Ken Paxton, and Democrats are pressing the same case in competitive races in Ohio, Michigan and South Carolina. Residents also raise water use, noise and tax incentives they say bring few permanent jobs.
Meanwhile, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta are spending billions on new facilities for their AI plans.
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.
