Planned data center construction shows no signs of fading, with new additions to require 2.7x — nearly triple — the sector’s current demand for electricity over the next decade, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. By 2035, data centers will draw 106 gigawatts, up sharply from the 40 gigawatts they use today. Much of […]
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Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, per our count at TechCrunch; three companies raised more than one “mega-round,” and seven companies raised rounds that were $1 billion in size or larger. How will 2025 compare? As we enter
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Nuclear startup X-energy raised $700 million in a Series D found, the company told TechCrunch. The new fundraise comes less than a year after it expanded its Series C from $500 million to $700 million, bringing the total raised in the last year or so to $1.4 billion, a sizable amount even in the heady
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Sierra, a 21-month-old, San Francisco-based startup that builds customer service AI agents for enterprises, announced on Friday that it reached $100 million in annual revenue run rate (ARR). The company’s rapid growth suggests that businesses across industries are embracing AI agents. The startup’s growth rate surprised even its seasoned co-founders, former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor
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The explosive growth of data centers could threaten the stability of the electrical grid this winter, according to an industry overseer. Across North America, demand for electricity this winter is expected to be 2.5% higher than last year for a total of 20 gigawatts, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) said in a report
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Swedish vibe coding unicorn Lovable has doubled its annual recurring revenue (ARR) to $200 million in just four months, co-founder and CEO Anton Osika said on stage at the 2025 Slush technology conference in Helsinki, Finland. The milestone comes just four months after the year-old company surpassed $100 million in ARR in July. Osika credited
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On Tuesday morning, a big chunk of the internet went down or was not working properly, including ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, X, and more due to an outage at internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare. Cloudflare said in its status page at around 8 am ET it had identified the issues and was implementing a fix. Less than
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Ah, the inevitabilities of life: death, taxes, and eating crow on the internet. The infrastructure service Cloudflare faced massive outages on Tuesday morning, cutting off access to a number of popular platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, and others. The outage also impacted Elon Musk’s X, just one month after the CEO gloated at a widespread
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Intuit has signed a multi-year contract worth more than $100 million with OpenAI, enabling its tax and financial apps to operate within ChatGPT and expanding the company’s use of OpenAI’s models across its products. Intuit said its tools, such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks and Mailchimp, will be accessible through ChatGPT, allowing users to ask
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Data intelligence company Databricks is reportedly already in talks to raise fresh capital, just a few months after its last fundraise. Databricks is holding conversations to raise a funding round that values the company at a minimum of $130 billion, according to reporting from The Information. The company hasn’t signed a term sheet yet, the
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