Patagonia is attracting multibillion-dollar AI data center plans, but power infrastructure and connectivity gaps could determine which projects get built.

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Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 3 delivers hourly AI weather forecasts at 5-kilometer resolution, targeting precipitation, wind and solar forecasting.

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OpenAI holds SB Energy warrants valued at $5.5 billion as the SoftBank-backed developer pursues an IPO and expands its data center ties to Nvidia.

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Anthropic eyed up to 5GW of AI data center capacity in NSW. Here’s what the potential buildout could mean for Australia’s power grid and IT leaders.

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Somewhere between a wind farm substation and the utility's central control room sits a patchwork of equipment nobody quite planned for. Programmable logic controllers running firmware from a decade ago. Remote terminal units wired into protection relays older than the company's IT department. A SCADA system that, until fairly recently, nobody outside the operations team had ever logged into. That patchwork is now part of the energy sector's information technology and operational technology landscape whether anyone designed it that way or not - and it's exactly the kind of environment where IT/OT convergence gets tested for real, not on a slide.