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.
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Trump rejects AI slowdown calls, launches "AI Force" instead
President Donald Trump has rejected calls for an AI slowdown, pledging to create an 'AI Force' and appoint an 'AI Tsar' to push industry growth.
5 Companies Using NVIDIA AI for Clean Energy
NVIDIA featured five clean energy startups utilizing its AI stack to streamline grid interconnections, nuclear operations, and off-grid battery systems.
Trump now says he wants to form an ‘AI Force’
U.S. leadership announces plans to create an 'AI Force' and appoint an 'AI czar' to foster industry growth without regulatory hindrance.
AI slowdown calls justified but collapse of bubble may be more immediate threat | Heather Stewart
Escalating data center debt and falling token prices threaten financial instability across hyperscalers and frontier AI labs.
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.
Trump announces "AI Force" and plans for an "AI czar" as he pushes unchecked AI growth
Donald Trump announced plans for an 'AI Force' and an 'AI czar' while rejecting new regulations in favor of unchecked U.S. AI economic growth.
Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers
Virginia's governor signed an executive order establishing an AI task force and imposing tighter restrictions on state data center developments.
The Leftist Split Over AI Doom
An ideological rift has opened on the American political left over whether to regulate existential AI threats or focus on immediate harms.
Andrew Hastie says AI advised him to reply ‘congratulations!’ to man who planned to end life with assisted dying
Australia considers bringing top AI labs onshore to ensure domestic control and protect national cyber defense operations.
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.
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.
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.
Europe must build own AI or risk getting cut off by US or China, says ECB’s Lagarde
ECB President Christine Lagarde warns Europe must build domestic AI infrastructure to avoid strategic leverage and economic disruption by the US or China.
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.
‘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.
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.
Anthropic reportedly signs $517 billion in compute deals after Dario Amodei warned rivals about reckless risk
Anthropic has committed to $517 billion in compute contracts over eleven months, expanding capacity despite executive warnings about industry overspending.
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.
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.
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.
The datacenter backlash is bringing the entire political spectrum together – against Big Tech billionaires
A nationwide political backlash against AI data center expansion is uniting local communities, activists, and lawmakers.
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.
AI helps design new materials that work in the real world
MIT researchers created CrysVCD, a plug-in framework that enforces chemistry rules in AI models to generate physically stable real-world materials.
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.