Apple’s failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips
Apple’s Project Titan never became a driverless product, but it pushed the company hard toward on-device AI processing. That effort helped shape the Neural Engine, which debuted in the iPhone X era and went on to power Apple’s computer-vision features while the company’s silicon evolved into today’s AI-focused chips.
The fight against AI data centers is just beginning
Long before the current AI data-center boom, communities began clashing with tech infrastructure plans – starting with Apple’s early data center push in Ireland. The new wave is bigger and faster, and the backlash is shifting from isolated local fights to a broader fight over power, heat, and environmental impact as AI demands more electricity than many regions can easily support.