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Meta and BlackRock form a $14bn venture to build an El Paso AI data centre — 2026-07-28
## Short Segments Meta and BlackRock are teaming up for a $14 billion AI data center in El Paso, Texas, marking a significant shift in how tech giants finance large-scale infrastructure. Coming up, we'll explore the implications of this venture. But first, Nvidia is revealed as the mystery tenant behind Hut 8's massive Texas data center lease, Ofcom blocks an Openreach offer for the first time, Core Scientific partners with AMD for a major AI data center deal, Mate Security secures over $50 million in funding, Hugging Face faces scrutiny over AI models generating deepfakes, and Lyft and Baidu…
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