Permit hurdles push up costs for AI data centers; Oracle pivoted from gas turbines to costlier fuel cells for its Project Jupiter in NM, costing billions more (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)

<a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/exclusive-oracle-data-centers-face-multibillion-dollar-cost-surprises"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260718/i14.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260718/p14#a260718p14" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Ann Davis Vaughan / <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/">The Information</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/exclusive-oracle-data-centers-face-multibillion-dollar-cost-surprises">Permit hurdles push up costs for AI data centers; Oracle pivoted from gas turbines to costlier fuel cells for its Project Jupiter in NM, costing billions more</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Building an AI supercampus increasingly means paying more than you bargained for.&nbsp; Oracle's attempt to salvage a proposed $165 billion project &hellip; </p>