Artificial Intelligence

Models, uses and infrastructure: what artificial intelligence makes possible, at what cost and within which limits.

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Google's next AI infrastructure bottleneck is electricity, and AEP is spending $4 billion to address it

The race to build AI data centers increasingly depends on securing power before installing processors. American Electric Power has announced plans to spend approximately $4 billion on a 702-megawatt fuel-cell facility near Cheyenne, Wyoming, with Google committed to buying its output for twenty years. The project marks another step toward treating electricity generation as a fundamental part of large-scale computing infrastructure.

By Adri
AI News

Europe says its AI Act can handle rogue agents. The real test will be enforcement

Europe does not believe it needs to start writing AI safety rules from scratch every time an autonomous model behaves unexpectedly. On October 9, 2026, European Commission executive vice-president Henna Virkkunen argued that the AI Act already provides the foundations for overseeing increasingly capable systems. What remains uncertain is how effectively those powers will work when developers and regulators confront incidents involving agents operating beyond their intended boundaries.

By Tsuky