U.S. data center backlash

Together AI, which serves open models, announces a deal to use compute from Humain in Saudi Arabia, where it can bypass US backlash over data centers (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)

Together AI, an open-model infrastructure provider, announced a partnership with Humain, a Saudi Arabian compute provider, to access cloud resources in Saudi Arabia as a way to avoid U.S. regulatory and political pushback against AI data center expansion.