Amazon plans to build a new data center in Texas with an onsite natural-gas power plant featuring 35 turbines and up to 7.65 gigawatts of generating capacity. The project has regulatory approval to emit as much as 33 million tons of carbon dioxide per year, which would make it the largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. The plan contrasts with Amazon’s role in cofounding The Climate Pledge in 2019, which targets net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. The company’s emissions tied to purchased electricity rose 34% in 2025 year over year.

Samsung Foundry has secured new orders or entered advanced talks with Nvidia, Tesla, Qualcomm, AMD and Google for chips spanning 2nm to 4nm nodes. Tesla’s next-generation A16 is set to be manufactured exclusively at Samsung’s Texas facility. Nvidia has turned to Samsung as TSMC’s 2nm capacity is described as fully booked, while Google is discussing production of projects including its next-generation Axion AI accelerators, according to Nikkei Asia.

Intel and Nvidia are jointly developing x86 processors that integrate RTX-class GPUs, with a target release in Q1 2028. The chips are expected to use TSMC’s N3P process and pair Intel CPU cores with an Nvidia GPU based on its Rubin architecture. The collaboration, formally confirmed by both companies in September 2025, is aimed at taking on AMD’s high-end mobile APUs. While mass production remains distant and manufacturing yields could still pose risks, the timeline is now more concrete and underscores Nvidia’s push deeper into the traditional PC client ecosystem.