08:50 AM EDT, 04/02/2026 (MT Newswires) -- Technology stocks were falling premarket Thursday, with the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK) down 2.4% and the State Street SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (XSD) declining by 3.4%.

Alphabet's Google ( GOOG ) and other cloud providers have held talks with AI start-up Poolside to resurrect a scheme to build a large Texas data center project, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Shares of Alphabet were down more than 2% pre-bell.