Google is spending $1.5 billion to expand its Jackson County, Alabama data center from 2026 to 2027 while fully funding energy infrastructure to protect local rates. The site will eventually draw nuclear power under a 2025 agreement, accompanied by millions in community grants for efficiency, education, and workforce programs.

Google states that its funding model ensures local electricity costs will not increase due to heightened data center activity.
Operations at the expanded facility will eventually run on nuclear power.
Tap a lens to see what this story means for you.
Reader-supported · The Brief
Liked this? The Brief brings you the whole day in tech, verified, every morning. Two minutes, free forever.
See what’s happening right now
The Feed runs all day — short, verified briefs the moment they break.
Open the FeedFollow @thecircuitry_
Every story we publish, as it happens. No noise between.
Reader-supported
The Circuitry is a passion project I've always wanted to build, and I love the work behind it.
Running it costs real money. APIs, hosting, time. To keep improving the site and growing this into something useful for everyone, those costs have to be covered.
Any contribution is appreciated. If not, no pressure. Thanks for reading.
Anthropic has confirmed a worldwide outage affecting Claude and its API, with users receiving 529 Overloaded errors. The incident highlights the fragility of AI services that millions rely on for daily work.
CISA added CVE-2026-20316, a hard-coded password vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2026-07-29. Federal agencies must remediate by 2026-08-01 per BOD 26-04 guidelines.
The Meta Box AIO WordPress plugin is vulnerable to missing authorization (CVE-2026-14488, CVSS 9.1) in versions up to 3.8.0, allowing unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary posts and pages via a bypassable nonce check. The flaw impacts any site with a frontend submission form regardless of delete settings.