The AI buildout is running out of places to put its buildings, with more than 300 cities, towns and counties having banned or paused hyperscale data centers and $130 billion of projects blocked or delayed in the first quarter alone. The buildout's four biggest spenders, Amazon (NASDAQ: $AMZN), Microsoft (NASDAQ: $MSFT), Alphabet (NASDAQ: $GOOGL) and Meta (NASDAQ: $META), still plan to spend roughly $725 billion on that infrastructure this year, up 77% from a record 2025, and

The AI infrastructure buildout has officially become a power problem, and KULR Technology Group (NYSE American: $KULR ) just secured a Platinum seat in the Open Compute Project. OCP is the hyperscaler-led consortium where companies like Meta, Google, and Microsoft draft the hardware blueprints that define data center architecture. KULR now has direct input into the rack-level power standards that many major buildouts will follow, moving from component supplier to a company