{
  "name": "AI Datacenter and Money Tracker",
  "description": "Every big number in the AI build-out: bonds, leases, megafabs, moratoriums. Compiled from ANOTHER News daily coverage, updated as new commitments are disclosed.",
  "url": "https://anothernews.io/trackers/ai-datacenter-money/",
  "publisher": "ANOTHER News",
  "publisherUrl": "https://anothernews.io/",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "licenseName": "CC BY 4.0",
  "terms": "https://anothernews.io/data/",
  "citation": "ANOTHER News, AI Datacenter and Money Tracker, https://anothernews.io/trackers/ai-datacenter-money/",
  "updated": "2026-09-09",
  "rowCount": 26,
  "rows": [
    {
      "date": "2026-07-09",
      "event": "Amazon borrows $25 billion in bonds to build AI infrastructure."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-09",
      "event": "Anthropic signs a $19 billion data center lease with TeraWulf, a former bitcoin miner."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-13",
      "event": "Samsung pulls its Yongin Fab 1 timeline forward to 2029."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-13",
      "event": "AI data centers push US power demand into record territory."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-15",
      "event": "New York freezes new AI data centers, the first US state moratorium."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-15",
      "event": "Regulators say xAI runs 59 gas turbines at its Colossus 2 data center without federal clean-air permits."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-17",
      "event": "TSMC commits another $100 billion to its Arizona expansion."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-30",
      "event": "Meta discloses $279 billion in future lease obligations, mostly AI data centers, up 53% in one quarter.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/meta-279b-leases/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-07",
      "event": "Tesla and SpaceX confirm Terafab, a $16.8 billion chip plant in Grimes County, Texas.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/terafab-chip-plant/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-10",
      "event": "Amazon's off-grid Texas data center site is permitted to emit 33 million tons of CO2 a year.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/amazon-33m-tons-permit/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-10",
      "event": "More than 530 US counties and municipalities now restrict or block new data centers.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/data-center-bans-530/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-14",
      "event": "SpaceX completes its $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor maker Anysphere.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/spacex-cursor-60b/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-15",
      "event": "Nvidia cuts its planned backstop for OpenAI's Ohio data center to under $120 billion.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/nvidia-openai-guarantee-cut/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-15",
      "event": "Jane Street lost roughly $15 billion in July after an AI hedge fund's forced selling.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/jane-street-15b/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-19",
      "event": "AI buyers absorb the DRAM supply and DDR5 rises up to 500 percent: a 128GB DDR5-6400 kit reaches $3,399.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/ram-prices-500-percent/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-21",
      "event": "Anthropic expects an IPO matching or topping SpaceX's record, at $75 billion raised at the debut and $86.2 billion with the overallotment.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/anthropic-record-ipo/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-24",
      "event": "Texas pauses approvals for data centers seeking grid connections while regulators audit them.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/texas-datacenter-freeze/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-25",
      "event": "Amazon raises its own hardware prices by up to 60 percent over memory costs: the Echo Dot goes from $49.99 to $79.99.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/amazon-device-prices-60/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-25",
      "event": "Apple's new Mac mini with the 2 nm M6 starts at $899, up from $599 two generations ago, with Apple pointing at memory costs; the agent-grade configuration costs $1,699.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/mac-mini-m6-agent-box/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-26",
      "event": "The Information reports Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion; Bloomberg and Business Insider describe talks above $13 billion with no signed deal yet.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/nvidia-huggingface-129b/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-31",
      "event": "OpenAI and other labs bought tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios to train computer-use agents, per The Information; Anthropic rents the same machines through AWS.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/openai-mac-minis/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-31",
      "event": "The US Marshals sold the Anthropic stakes seized from FTX executives ($50 million invested in 2022) to existing investors during 2025; estimates now put them at $2.6 to 5 billion.",
      "article": "https://anothernews.io/news/ftx-anthropic-stake/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-02",
      "event": "Independence, Missouri voters recall councilman John Perkins (nearly 70%) over $6 billion in tax breaks for Nebius's planned $150 billion AI data center; third yes-vote unseated in 2026."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-04",
      "event": "DeepSeek orders at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips for a 1-gigawatt data center in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia; at full load the site will draw as much power as 750,000 homes (Bloomberg)."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-05",
      "event": "Figure signs a $3.5 billion compute deal with Nscale for up to 100,000 Vera Rubin GPUs, deployment in Texas from H2 2027."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-08",
      "event": "Mistral raises 3 billion euros at a 21 billion euro valuation in a Samsung-led round, with proceeds going to frontier research and its own data centers."
    }
  ]
}