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Meta uses closed-loop liquid cooling in most of its new AI-optimized data centers to handle rising heat while reducing water and space consumption. The company says a reinforcement-learning trial reduced cooling-fan energy consumption by 20% and water consumption by 4% at one of its data centers.
Starcloud added $250 million in funding to its Series A round, bringing the round’s total to $420 million, and plans to use the capital to expand manufacturing and develop its Starcloud-3 orbital vehicle. At the same time, the company is seeking to reserve substantial launch capacity before competition for rockets intensifies.
NVIDIA announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to create independent financing platforms aimed at mobilizing more than $500 billion in external capital to build AI infrastructure. The company says AI factories have become financeable productive assets, while investment decisions and risk assessments remain independently in the hands of financial institutions.