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Data centres hide energy and water data as Dutch grid pressure grows, study finds

Fewer than a quarter of the Netherlands' large data centres publish figures for their electricity and drinking water use, according to a study by Lighthouse Report published on 30 September with Trouw and other European media.

FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI and Metr as Palantir NHS objections pass 44,000

The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating Anthropic, OpenAI and the safety research group Metr over the risks their agentic AI poses to consumers, in what The Guardian called the first official US enforcement action on rogue AI agents.

Data Centre Power and Cooling: Regulators Circle the Industry as Secrecy Hardens

Texas administrative law judges recommended on Wednesday that El Paso Electric's 366-megawatt gas plant for Meta's $10 billion data centre be approved only if ratepayers are shielded from the bill. It is the sharpest signal yet that data centre power and cooling deals have moved from a technical problem to a regulatory one.

EU AI Act transparency fight: Brussels sued over data centre silence

Open Weights Roundup: Nvidia Kumo Tabular Leads a Week of Small, Open Releases

Data centres hide their power use as grid squeeze tightens

EU accused of hiding data center energy and water use as AI demand surges

FTC Probes OpenAI and Anthropic Over Rogue Agents as Open Weights Escape Control

Data Center Secrecy and Surveillance Debates Intensify

El Paso judges question gas-only plan to power Meta's $10bn data centre

Raskin Demands Data-Center Nondisclosure Details from Amazon, Google, Meta and Oracle

EU accused of hiding data centre energy and water data as AI build-out accelerates

DIVD Ties Its Own Breach to Two Zammad Zero-Days and an AI Agent

Disinformation isn't the whole story: the dossier's newest sources are mostly not about it

Waymo leads robotaxi confidence index; ASI and SoftBank sign JV as consumer study lands

Inference Engine Quail Tops 1B Tokens a Minute as Vendor Prices Climb

Toyota drops 1,675 lb caravan on Hilux BEV as FTC opens AI agent probe

Humanoid robot factories race ahead while the data that trains them lags

Zeekr deploys dozens of Walker S1 humanoids in Ningbo as factory robot stock hits 5.08 million

OpenAI delays IPO as regulators and rivals build their own AI safety checks