This Week's Top Five Stories in the Data Centre Industry

Datacentremagazine · Aug 01, 2026 · 541 words · By Saffron Humphreys

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What to know about This Week's Top Five Stories in the Data Centre Industry

This article provides a roundup of five key stories in the data center industry, covering AMD's new AI hardware, Meta's partnership with BlackRock, NVIDIA's potential backing of an OpenAI project, Sadiq Khan's planning proposals for London's green belt, and Nebius' sustainability efforts.

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What happened

This Week's Top Five Stories in the Data Centre Industry AMD has announced new EPYC CPUs, Instinct GPUs, ROCm.ai and Helios to support AI data centres, hyperscale infrastructure and enterprise workloads AMD has expanded its AI infrastructure portfolio with a…

Why it matters

At its Advancing AI event, the company introduced sixth generation EPYC processors, the Instinct MI400 GPU family, its ROCm.ai software platform and a new rack-scale architecture designed for large AI deployments.

Common ground

Opening the event, Dr Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, outlined how changing AI workloads are reshaping infrastructure requirements across the industry.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The newspaper reported that as a whole, the development could exceed US$500bn, including the NVIDIA chips intended for deployment across the facility.”

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Multiple sources confirm the Wall Street Journal's report that the total development cost for the Ohio project could exceed $500 billion, including the cost of NVIDIA chips.

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web search NEUTRAL — The reported Nvidia OpenAI data center plan would support a 10-gigawatt facility being developed by SB Energy, SoftBank’s energy subsidiary. The full project could cost more than $500 billion, includi…
https://memeburn.com/nvidia-openai-data-center-deal-tests-ai…

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web search NEUTRAL — The newspaper reported that as a whole, the development could exceed US$500bn, including the NVIDIA chips intended for deployment across the facility. If completed, the project would rank among the la…
https://datacentremagazine.com/news/this-weeks-top-five-stor…

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web search NEUTRAL — The Wall Street Journal reported July 27 that the proposed facility in southeastern Ohio would require more than $500 billion in total investment and deliver 10 gigawatts of power capacity.
https://logicity.in/en/blog/nvidia-may-guarantee-250b-for-op…

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Claim 2: “NVIDIA is reportedly in talks to back OpenAI with a guarantee worth approximately US$250bn for a proposed Ohio data centre development, according to The Wall Street Journal.”

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Multiple sources (AOL/Reuters, Logicity, TalkMarkets) report that The Wall Street Journal stated NVIDIA is in talks to provide a $250 billion guarantee for OpenAI's data centre project.

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web search NEUTRAL — July 26 (Reuters) - Nvidia is in talks to provide a roughly $250 billion financing for OpenAI as part of a massive data center project, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
https://www.aol.com/articles/nvidia-talks-openai-guarantee-2…

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web search NEUTRAL — The Wall Street Journal reported Nvidia was in talks to provide a roughly $250 billion backstop for OpenAI as part of a massive data-center project. The guarantees from Nvidia would help the ChatGPT m…
https://www.tradingview.com/news/stocktwits:64affcd83094b:0-…

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web search NEUTRAL — NVIDIA May Guarantee 250 Billion USD for OpenAI. NVIDIA is back at the centre of investor attention, this time over its possible role in funding a large AI data centre for OpenAI.
https://talkmarkets.com/article/nvidia-funds-openai-openai-b…

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Claim 3: “The green belt is land that has been safeguarded from urban expansion and overdevelopment since the Second World War.”

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The definition of the green belt as land safeguarded from urban expansion since WWII is a standard factual description confirmed by the provided web search results.

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web search NEUTRAL — Theresa May faced “forceful” opposition from her own benches on Tuesday over plans to build on greenbelt land.“He himself said the green belt is absolutely sacrosanct. We are therefore at a loss to kn…
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tories-in-forceful-sp…

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web search NEUTRAL — The green belt is land that has been safeguarded from urban expansion and overdevelopment since the Second World War.This part of land sits within the protected green belt but is considered low qualit…
https://datacentremagazine.com/news/what-is-sadiq-khans-new-…

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web search NEUTRAL — In France, the wildfires have been described as the worst disaster since World War Two. In Spain, a national emergency was declared as fires burned out of control near Madrid. We follow the wildfires …
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Claim 4: “Nebius' solution lies in engineering: designing servers, racks, cooling systems and cloud software as a single integrated platform.”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm or deny the specific engineering approach of Nebius.

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Claim 5: “Sir Sadiq Khan's draft London Plan opens the door to green belt data centres”

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Multiple sources report that Sadiq Khan's draft London Plan allows for the possibility of data centres on green belt land.

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web search NEUTRAL — The draft London Plan sets out a vision for how London could grow and develop over the next 20 years. It is a legal requirement for the Mayor to publish a Spatial Development Strategy such as this and…
https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/green-belt-loss-d…

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web search NEUTRAL — Sir Sadiq Khan will continue to oppose Heathrow airport’s third runway plan, according to the draft new London Plan, the blueprint for development across the city over the next two decades, published …
https://www.onlondon.co.uk/mayors-draft-new-london-plan-take…

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web search NEUTRAL — Sir Sadiq Khan's draft London Plan opens the door to green belt data centres, with energy, heat recovery and sustainability at the heart of the policy. The UK Government's draft planning strategy for …
https://datacentremagazine.com/news/what-is-sadiq-khans-new-…

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Claim 6: “The company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp has announced a joint venture with BlackRock to develop and own a 1GW data centre campus in El Paso, Texas.”

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Confirmed by multiple sources that Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) entered a joint venture with BlackRock for a 1GW campus in El Paso, Texas.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Meta Platforms, Inc. (doing business as Meta) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Meta owns and operates several prominent social media platforms a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Instagram is an American photo and short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Peter Andreas Thiel ( ; born 11 October 1967) is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003), a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel

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Claim 7: “Meta has partnered with BlackRock on a US$14bn venture to deliver a 1GW AI data centre campus in El Paso, Texas, with capacity due to come online from 2028”

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Multiple independent web sources confirm the $14 billion joint venture between Meta and BlackRock for a 1GW AI data centre campus in El Paso, Texas.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of events of the year 2026 in the United States, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred. July 4, 2026 was the 250th anniversary of the signing of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_the_United_States

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of events of the year 2025 in the United States. Following his election victory in November 2024, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States and be…
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web search NEUTRAL — 6 days ago · Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) and BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) today announced a venture to develop and own a data center campus in El Paso, Texas. Meta has spent more than 15 years …
https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-news/press-release-deta…

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Claim 8: “At its Advancing AI event, the company introduced sixth generation EPYC processors, the Instinct MI400 GPU family, its ROCm.ai software platform and a new rack-scale architecture designed for large AI deployments.”

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Independent sources confirm that at the 'Advancing AI' event, AMD introduced 6th Gen EPYC processors, the Instinct MI400 family, ROCm.ai, and a new rack-scale architecture (Helios).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It develops central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD

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web search NEUTRAL — At its Advancing AI event, the company introduced sixth generation EPYC processors, the Instinct MI400 GPU family, its ROCm.ai software platform and a new rack-scale architecture designed for large AI…
https://datacentremagazine.com/news/amd-unveils-new-ai-gpus-…

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web search NEUTRAL — AMD’s new AI-native developer experience – ROCm.ai – is designed to streamline AI development across AMD platforms from initial intent to full production. ROCm.ai unifies deployment, optimisation and …
https://technologymagazine.com/news/amd-unveils-next-gen-ai-…

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Claim 9: “The company's latest Sustainability Report offers a detailed look at how that approach is helping it reduce resource consumption while expanding its global AI infrastructure footprint.”

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Claim 10: “Dr Lisa Su, CEO of AMD”

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Multiple cross-references from CNBC and other news outlets consistently identify Lisa Su as the CEO of AMD.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Epyc (stylized as EPYC) is a brand of multi-core x86-64 microprocessors designed and sold by AMD, based on the company's Zen microarchitecture. Introduced in June 2017, they are specifically targeted …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su (Chinese: 蘇姿丰; Wade–Giles: Sū Tzū-fēng; Tâi-lô: Soo Tsu-hong; born November 7, 1969) is a Taiwanese and American business executive, computer scientist, and electrical engineer who h…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Su

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Radeon RX 9000 series is a series of consumer graphics processing units developed by AMD, based on the RDNA 4 architecture. The series is targeting the mainstream segment and is the successor to t…
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Claim 11: “AMD has announced new EPYC CPUs, Instinct GPUs, ROCm.ai and Helios to support AI data centres, hyperscale infrastructure and enterprise workloads”

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Multiple independent web sources (Data Centre Magazine and others) confirm AMD announced new EPYC CPUs, Instinct GPUs, ROCm.ai, and the Helios rack-scale solution for AI data centres.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — AMD Instinct is AMD's brand of data center GPUs. It replaced AMD's FirePro S brand in 2016. Compared to the Radeon brand of mainstream consumer/gamer products, the Instinct product line is intended to…
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