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The power plants, data centers, and compute buildout AI actually runs on — including West Texas's own build-out.
4 published XAi stories on Infrastructure; the most recent is dated September 3, 2026.
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- ChatGPT, Claude and Grok Went Down at Once. No Shared Explanation Yet.A simultaneous outage hit the three biggest AI chatbots Thursday. As of this story's last edit, the cause was still unconfirmed. What it exposes is not.
- OpenAI built its own AI chip to cut its dependence on NvidiaOpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI's first custom AI chip — built for inference (running already-trained models, not training them) and, by OpenAI's own benchmarks, beating Nvidia's Blackwell chips on performance per watt in most tests.
- Data centers are learning to run without waterMicrosoft has announced designs that use essentially zero water for cooling, and Oracle's upcoming Texas AI sites plan closed-loop systems.
- The power race is heading to orbitGoogle has orbital AI tests planned for around 2027, and Musk has floated the same idea — putting AI in space to chase uninterrupted solar power, because Earth-side electricity can't keep up.
Key entities
Companies named directly in XNewsAi's own reporting on Infrastructure.
- OpenAIThe company behind ChatGPT — one of the AI industry's largest model developers, and the lead builder behind the Stargate data-center campus already running in Abilene, Texas.
- AnthropicThe company behind Claude. Anthropic pairs its general-purpose assistant with AI-safety research, and is building AI data-center capacity in Texas, including near Abilene.
- GoogleThe company behind Gemini and NotebookLM — a major AI model developer and one of the largest announced investors in Texas AI infrastructure, with reported orbital-compute tests planned around 2027.
- MicrosoftThe company behind Copilot, and a major investor in and distributor of OpenAI's models. Microsoft has struck long-term power deals — including the restart of Three Mile Island — and water-free data-center designs to support its AI buildout.