The Wall Street Journal reported that Oracle and Broadcom, alongside SpaceX, are seeking debt deals to pay for AI chips, while Zankore is seeking a US$6 billion loan for data-centre expansion. In the US, San Joaquin County ordered a temporary halt on new AI data-center projects and Mandan called a Dec. 15 vote on a ban, and Micron's union in Taiwan was cleared to strike.
The US defence department is backing Wolfspeed, a chipmaker that went bankrupt last year. Reuters and the department's Office of Strategic Capital reported a $1.5 billion conditional loan commitment, and Bloomberg reported the US agreed to the loan.
Google was ordered to halt work on data centres in Europe. CNBC reported the order covers two data centers in what it called the 'Texas of Europe', and The Tech Buzz reported Google halting Finland data centers amid an AI infrastructure crackdown.
Oracle and Broadcom are now named alongside SpaceX as borrowers for AI chips. The Wall Street Journal reported the three are seeking large debt deals to pay for AI chips; TradingView carried the report.
Fresh capital is being lined up for data-centre builds. ET Datacenters reported Zankore is seeking a US$6 billion loan for AI data-center expansion, and Finimize reported Airtrunk is putting $1 billion into Japan's AI data-center push.
US local governments moved against new AI data centres. Mandan called a Dec. 15 special election on a large-scale AI data center ban, San Joaquin County ordered a temporary halt on new projects, and Volusia's council moved to halt large-scale AI data centers.
Gas-fired power for data centres drew new deals. Hart Energy reported BKV's $800 million Texas power deal as a step toward a hyperscaler PPA, which Finimize said came with a hyperscaler backstop, while Yahoo put US AI data-center energy demand driving gas power at 60.4 GW.
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SpaceX's $40 billion for Nvidia chips. Five more outlets carried the $40 billion figure; no new figures.
Applied Materials–Intel chipmaking collaboration. Three more outlets repeated the collaboration; no new figures.
LG's US AI data-centre chillers. Reports said LG will build its first US factory for AI data-center chillers, with no new figures.
Navitas's Claros acquisition. Pulse 2.0 and TheStreet reported the Claros deal as completed.
Bell Canada's Regina AI data centre. CBC reported Bell plans to purchase 895 acres; no figures beyond earlier reports were flagged.
YANchor-4B, a 4B recurrent model, scored 82.9 on AIME 2024–2026, RECAST gained 15.0 points on held-out success rate, and W2A4KV2 quantisation reported a 14.3× WikiText-2 perplexity result. CoMoE claimed 1.5× MoE inference throughput on an RTX 5090 and BoT-GRPO +8.1% on AIME Pass@k. Only RollVerify released anything (code only); no audit or benchmark dispute was among the papers.
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