NVIDIA Launches DSX Ready to Qualify Power and Cooling Products for AI Factories
NVIDIA introduces its DSX Ready program to standardize and qualify power and cooling hardware for AI data centers.
Hardware & Infrastructure
It’s Donald Trump Versus MAGA on Data Centers
Donald Trump faces growing pushback from MAGA conservatives and voters over his aggressive support for AI data center expansion.
Scotland votes for moratorium on new large-scale datacentres for up to a year
Scotland voted to halt new AI data center approvals for up to a year to establish national environmental impact guidelines.
NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.1 Debut
NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 benchmark debuts in MLPerf Inference v6.1, yielding up to 3.7x higher throughput than its predecessor.
Robots are waiting for a ChatGPT moment: Nvidia’s Les Karpas explains why at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Nvidia's Head of Physical AI highlights the severe lack of real-world internet-scale data as the main obstacle to robotics achieving a ChatGPT moment.
AI and data centers are incredibly unpopular in every poll
A new survey shows 61% of likely US voters oppose AI data center construction, driven by environmental and local community concerns.
Agility’s new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkers
Agility Robotics unveils Digit 5 with hardware-level safety features, targeting human-adjacent warehouse deployments in 2027.
AI Infra Summit: NVIDIA Vera Rubin and DSX Platform Advancements Showcase Energy Efficiencies of Optimizing Tokens Per Watt for AI Factories
NVIDIA and infrastructure partners demonstrated new power-management tools designed to optimize energy efficiency in large-scale AI factories.
What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off
Hyperscalers face immense profit pressure as AI infrastructure capital expenditure targets $1.1 trillion by 2027 against modest current revenues.
AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia’s dominance
Cornelis raises $205M to challenge Nvidia's networking dominance with its open-architecture Active Compute Fabric.
AI Agents Are Thirsty for Power
The shift from simple LLM chatbot queries to multi-step autonomous AI agents is accelerating data center compute demand and energy use.
Trump is giving data centers a pass to pollute
Former EPA officials warn the Trump administration's environmental deregulation for AI data centers poses widespread public health risks.
I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China
Chinese manufacturer Unitree is dramatically lowering hardware costs for quadruped and humanoid robots, fueling market adoption and a Shanghai IPO.
‘We Did Not Invite You.’ Citizens Rage at Town Hall Over Proposed Nuclear AI Data Center
Ypsilanti Township residents voiced intense opposition at a town hall regarding a proposed $1.2B AI data center tied to Los Alamos National Lab.
Physical AI Takes the Wheel: How the World’s Robotaxi Leaders Are Building With NVIDIA Technologies
NVIDIA detailed its full compute stack spanning training, simulation, and edge hardware powering commercial scale robotaxi operations.
d-Matrix Adopts NVIDIA NVLink Fusion for Rack-Scale XPU Deployment
Inference chipmaker d-Matrix has adopted NVIDIA NVLink Fusion to connect its Raptor XPUs directly into NVIDIA's rack-scale AI infrastructure.
Powering AI is an architecture problem
Grid instability caused by rapid AI workload swings requires a fundamental shift to medium-voltage data center electrical architectures.
AWS is using Qualcomm for AI inference while Qualcomm uses AWS Bedrock to design the chips
AWS teamed up with Qualcomm to deploy specialized AI inference chips while Qualcomm adopts AWS Bedrock for automated semiconductor design.
Patagonia has what AI data centers want, including no resistance so far
Data center developers target Argentina's Patagonia region for massive AI facilities, leveraging cold climate, low-cost power, and available land.
Nuclear startup Bluecore Energy raises $50M seed round, just two months after launch
Bluecore Energy raised a $50M seed round to build floating nuclear reactors for AI data centers and coastal infrastructure.
The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center
A fire at a $3.2B AI data center site highlights the complex layer of corporate structures and safety liabilities behind massive compute builds.
Perplexity Details Its GPU Embedding Stack: How Ivy, Tulip and ROSE Serve pplx-embed
Perplexity published technical details on its custom GPU infrastructure stack that optimizes batch and real-time embedding serving.
Architecting memory and storage in the AI era
The shift to real-time AI inference requires rearchitecting data center storage, memory bandwidth, and networking infrastructure.
Deepseek plans the largest known Huawei chip cluster with 160,000 processors in Inner Mongolia
Deepseek plans a 160,000-chip Huawei Ascend-950DT inference cluster in Inner Mongolia while remaining dependent on Nvidia for core training.
Utilities are racing to link up with fusion startups, with Realta Fusion the latest to benefit
Utility Madison Gas and Electric partnered with Realta Fusion for a 200MW plant to secure clean baseload power for surging AI data center demands.
Nvidia RTX Spark ‘Superchip’: The First AI PCs Are Here
Nvidia's RTX Spark superchip is powering a new wave of high-end AI laptops designed to run agentic workloads locally.
Nvidia’s controversial DLSS 5 arrives September 3rd and requires serious GPU horsepower
Nvidia is officially rolling out DLSS 5, using generative AI filters to upscale graphics but requiring heavy hardware and multi-frame generation.
From Bill Gates to Bernie Sanders, most agree the AI arms race is disastrous. Only Europe can make it stop | Alexander Hurst
An opinion piece argues the EU could force a global AI slowdown by using Dutch firm ASML's lithography dominance as a trade choke-point.
China's CXMT makes its first HBM3E chips, closing the AI memory gap
China's CXMT has started small-scale production of HBM3E memory chips to help domestic AI chipmakers bypass US export controls.
OpenAI and rival AI labs are buying tens of thousands of Mac minis to train computer-use agents
AI labs are buying tens of thousands of Apple Mac Minis to train computer-use agents due to unified memory advantages.
Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers
Meta is quietly testing physical robots from multiple vendors to handle server maintenance and cabling in its data centers.
The tussle over Australian datacentres is just beginning – and it’s been far from easy so far | Tom McIlroy
Australia forecasts a tenfold increase in data center power demand by 2035, sparking political debate over energy grid rules.
OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition
OpenAI claims its custom Jalapeño ASIC outperforms NVIDIA's flagship chips on key AI inference efficiency benchmarks.
Apple's new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development
Apple released new Mac mini and Mac Studio desktops featuring M6 and M5 Ultra chips optimized for local AI workflows.
With Groq 3 LPX in Full Production, NVIDIA Extends Vera Rubin Inference for Agents
NVIDIA has put its Groq 3 LPX rack-scale inference system into full production to accelerate long-context agentic AI workloads.
Up to 30x More Work Per Watt: NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Sets a New Efficiency Standard for AI Agents
NVIDIA claims its Vera Rubin NVL72 platform delivers up to 30x higher throughput per megawatt for demanding agentic AI workloads.
Claude Opus 4.5 Is Here
Databricks continues to play a pivotal role in the enterprise data landscape, enabling customers to process exabytes of data daily and effectively harness the power of generative AI. The company’s platform serves as a …
Microsoft’s Fara-7B is a computer-use AI agent that rivals GPT-4o and works directly on your PC
Microsoft has introduced Fara-7B, a groundbreaking 7-billion parameter AI model designed to function as an efficient computer-use agent. This new model is notable for its ability to rival the performance of larger, more …
Now GA: Share Materialized Views and Streaming Tables with Delta Sharing
Databricks, a prominent player in the big data and cloud analytics space, announced the general availability of Materialized View & Streaming Table (MV/ST) Delta Sharing. This enhancement to their Delta Sharing …
A Unified Approach to Data Exfiltration Protection on Databricks
This news item focuses on a unified approach to protecting against data exfiltration on the Databricks platform, a popular cloud-based data analytics service. Data exfiltration, the unauthorized copying of sensitive …
Delivering Agentic BI: How to Unify Infrastructure, Data and Semantics
This article focuses on delivering ‘Agentic BI’, a concept emphasizing the unification of infrastructure, data, and semantics in business intelligence. It suggests a shift toward more integrated and intelligent BI …