The city of Lancaster in southwest California has announced plans to use AI to streamline building permits in an effort to reduce planning bottlenecks while fast-tracking approvals, becoming one of…

ABB Robotics is working with San Francisco’s Cosmic Buildings to build modular structures on site in Pacific Palisades as the Los Angeles neighbourhood recovers from January’s devastating wildfires. The AI-enabled…

ChatGPT inventor OpenAI, Norwegian industrial group Aker and London-based AI infrastructure provider Nscale have announced plans to build “Stargate Norway”, OpenAI’s first European gigafactory. When finished in 2026, it will…

A joint venture of Turner Construction and Wohlsen Construction has won a contract to build a 100MW data centre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for AI company CoreWeave, which says it will…

Construction has topped out on Skanska’s Artificial Intelligence and Quantitative Biology building at New York’s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). The three-storey building is made from cross-laminated timber and will…

As tech companies invest heavily in big data centres to meet demand for cloud computing and AI, people in Tokyo’s greater metropolitan area are mounting opposition over concerns about about…

Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, this month signed deals securing sources of nuclear and geothermal power as it races to secure enough energy to develop AI. On…

New York-based investor Brookfield Asset Management plans to invest $10bn in AI infrastructure in Sweden. The centrepiece will be an AI data centre in Strängnäs, about 20km west of Stockholm.…

Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, this week launched an AI powered collision detection system powered by Presien. The Leica Xsight360 system detects people or objects nearby and alerts the operator,…

Scaffolding and formwork specialist Doka is to use AI to automate the counting and identification of materials. The system uses Microsoft technology to analyse photographs of returned materials, rather than…

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (SCMC) is to build its first European research, development and design centre near Munich, the Taipei Times reports. The company said the facility would improve…

UK construction tech company Automated Architecture (Auar) has secured £5.1m in new funding to commercialise its robotic “pop-up micro-factory” system, in which a robotic arm equipped with machine vision and…

As builders and homeowners in Los Angeles worry about President Trump’s tariffs raising the costs of rebuilding after the wildfires, they can take some comfort in California’s new high-tech approach…

Generative AI is the tech buzzword of the decade; American Big Tech firms alone announced an investment of $300bn in AI infrastructure. A year earlier, global venture capital investment into…

Spanish entrepreneur Javier Romero has signed an agreement with a Chinese tech company to develop Europe’s biggest computing centre in Malaga, southern Spain, news agency Xinhua reports.  The deal was…

Israeli tech firm RodRadar and Sitech Deutschland have joined forces to market a product that uses radar and AI technology embedded in excavation equipment to prevent cable and pipeline strikes…

London-based architect Studio Tim Fu has won a contract to design the 22,000-sq-m Lake Bled Estate in Slovenia, which it describes as the world’s “first fully AI-driven architectural project”. The…

Apple has announced plans to spend $500bn across 50 US states over the next four years building data centres, corporate facilities, manufacturing spaces and television production studios. It will build…