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Anthropic Leases SpaceXAI's 300MW Memphis Data Center for AI Compute
Anthropic has leased the full 300-megawatt capacity of SpaceXAI’s Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee, securing approximately 220,000 Nvidia GPUs in one of the largest single-tenant cloud compute transactions the AI sector has seen.
AMD beats on Q1 as data-center revenue jumps 57%, lifting AI chip rally
Advanced Micro Devices reported $10.25 billion in first-quarter revenue and $1.37 EPS on Tuesday, with data-center sales up 57 per cent to $5.78 billion. Shares rose 18 per cent on Wednesday and lit a wider chip-stock rally.
Arm beats on Q4 but stumbles on AGI CPU supply as $2bn data center orders pile up
Arm topped Q4 estimates with $1.49bn in revenue and 60-cent EPS, then watched its US shares give back gains after executives said only the first $1bn of $2bn-plus AGI CPU orders has secured chip supply.
Samsung crosses $1tn market value as AI memory boom rewrites Asia chip order
Samsung Electronics crossed a $1tn market value on Wednesday, only the second Asian company after TSMC to reach the threshold, after a 14 per cent share-price jump driven by record memory-chip earnings and tightening AI supply.
PayPal to cut 4,500 jobs in $1.5bn AI restructuring as it tries to 'become a technology company again'
PayPal will cut roughly 20 per cent of its workforce, more than 4,500 employees, over the next two to three years as part of a $1.5 billion cost-saving plan that the company is pitching as an artificial-intelligence-driven turnaround, chief executive Enrique Lores told investors on a first-quarter earnings call.
AI build-out costs are reaching consumer pockets, tech earnings show
The cost of the AI build-out has begun to flow through to consumer-electronics buyers, with the latest Big Tech earnings revealing rising prices on devices, subscriptions and cloud services as hyperscalers funnel profits into AI capacity.
