Google and Amazon both reported rising carbon emissions for 2025 as electricity demand from AI data centres outstripped the growth of clean power, straining their net-zero pledges.
South Korea has unveiled a near-$1.2 trillion, decade-long push into semiconductors, AI and data centres led by Samsung and SK Hynix, in a state-orchestrated bet that towers over the EU's Chips Act.
France's domestic intelligence service will replace Palantir's software with French firm ChapsVision, an early test of European strategic autonomy in critical software that reaches data-heavy Luxembourg.