AI’s Power Grab Moves From Kentucky to Korea
Tuesday, July 7, 2026 · 12 min
Anthropic’s $19 billion TeraWulf lease, reported by Georgia Butler at DCD, anchors a compute-heavy episode; South Korea adds GS Group and telco-scale AI data-center plans, while new Nature papers benchmark where AI methods still break.
Listen
Show notes
Anthropic’s $19 billion TeraWulf lease, reported by Georgia Butler at DCD, anchors a compute-heavy episode; South Korea adds GS Group and telco-scale AI data-center plans, while new Nature papers benchmark where AI methods still break.
In this episode
- Anthropic signs $19bn, 20-year lease for Kentucky data center with TeraWulf - DCD — Datacenter Dynamics
# Anthropic Signs $19B Data Center Lease: WULF Surges as AI Power Crunch Deepens Author: Joshua Mitchell Published: Jul 06 2026, 10:39 AM EDT Published: 2026-07-06T10:39:54-04:00 Source: techtimes.com (techtimes.com) Language: en ## Story Anthropic Signs $19B Data Center Lease: WULF Surges as AI Power Crunch Deepens [https://www.techtimes.com/](https://www.techtimes.com/) -…
- GS Group Builds Asia's Largest AI Data Center with 120 Trillion Won Investment — Chosun Ilbo
# GS Group Builds Asia's Largest AI Data Center with 120 Trillion Won Investment Published: 2026-07-06T12:00:34.602000+00:00 Source: chosun.com (chosun.com) Language: en ## Story GS Group Builds Asia's Largest AI Data Center with 120 Trillion Won Investment [조선일보 로고](https://www.chosun.com/english) |…
- Korean operators ramp up AI investments to make country an AI ... — Fierce Network
Korean operators ramp up AI investments in AI superpower pushKorean telcos are racing to turn AI ambition into infrastructure re Cloud # Korean operators ramp up AI investments to make country an AI superpower KT and LG Uplus are making their own big AI infrastructure plays, pouring billions into AI data centers, network upgrades and more The operator investment spree aligns with South…
- A comprehensive benchmark of sequence-based subcellular localization predictors for human proteins | Nature Methods — Nature Methods
A comprehensive benchmark of sequence-based subcellular localization predictors for human proteins | Nature Methods ### Subjects ## Abstract Computational sequence-based predictors of protein localization have the potential to accelerate the discovery of protein functions and interactions, thereby advancing our understanding of human biology and disease. While many methods have been proposed,…
- Bio-inspired backpropagation-free training for optical neural networks | Light: Science & Applications — Light: Science & Applications
Bio-inspired backpropagation-free training for optical neural networks | Light: Science & Applications ### Subjects - Fibre optics and optical communications - Lithography ## Abstract Optical Neural Networks (ONNs) can perform matrix operations at the speed of light and are expected to bring revolutionary advances in energy-efficient computing. However, traditional ONNs (T-ONNs) rely heavily…