Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer

Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer

For more than 35 years, Arm Holdings has licensed its instruction sets to the world’s biggest chipmakers and collected royalties on every processor made with its designs. Now the U.K.-based company is making physical silicon of its own for the first time. Arm CEO Rene Haas unveiled his company’s first …

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Who is really footing the AI energy bill? Inside the debate about data center electricity costs

Who is really footing the AI energy bill? Inside the debate about data center electricity costs

Advocacy groups and community members protest laws surrounding data centers while outside the Texas Capitol in Austin Monday, Feb. 23, 2026. Austin American-statesman/hearst Newspapers | Hearst Newspapers | Getty Images The companies racing to build the massive infrastructure needed for the artificial intelligence boom are facing growing backlash over electricity costs, …

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