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California is drawing a harder line on artificial intelligence infrastructure. Governor Gavin Newsom has signed seven bills requiring data centers to foot the bill for grid and water system upgrades, rather than passing those costs onto ordinary utility customers. It's a significant shift in who bears the burden of the AI buildout.
Meanwhile, Amazon is making a bet that would have seemed surreal just a few years ago. AWS has committed to purchasing more than three million additional Nvidia chips before two thousand twenty nine, meaning the company will soon hold nearly twice as many GPUs as it has employees. The scale of that investment signals just how central raw computing power has become to the cloud business.
And OpenAI is formalizing its relationship with the mathematics community, forming an advisory group after its AI systems reportedly resolved more than one hundred open mathematical problems. The catch is telling though — the group has no authority to slow or redirect ongoing research, raising real questions about whether outside advisors are there for guidance or for optics.
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