Gigawatt campuses, power grids, cooling and the trillions being poured into AI compute buildouts.
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Nvidia is reportedly in talks to provide $250 billion in financing guarantees to help OpenAI lease a massive 10-gigawatt data center campus in Ohio. This move aims to secure the necessary infrastructure for OpenAI's future compute-intensive AI models.
The Next Web (TNW) · 53d ago
Japan is investing 387.3 billion yen to establish Noetra Corp, a new entity tasked with building large-scale data centers for robotics AI. The project involves a massive procurement of 27,500 next-generation Nvidia Rubin chips to power domestic AI foundation models.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 64d ago
Japan is constructing a massive 140MW AI infrastructure facility specifically for physical AI and robotics. The project is fully equipped with Nvidia's Vera CPUs and Rubin GPUs.
The Next Web (TNW) · 64d ago
Huawei is set to demonstrate its Atlas 950 SuperPoD AI computing hardware at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference. The system utilizes 8,192 NPU cards and the proprietary Lingqu protocol to deliver 8 ExaFLOPS of FP8 compute power.
Pandaily · 65d ago
Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang addressed rumors regarding manufacturing delays for the next-generation Vera Rubin AI accelerator. He confirmed that production is proceeding as planned to meet customer delivery timelines.
Bloomberg Technology · 66d ago
New York has become the first state to temporarily pause the approval of large data centers. Governor Kathy Hochul cited concerns over rising electricity costs, water consumption, and the need for greater local control amidst the AI-driven infrastructure boom.
TechCrunch AI · 66d ago
New York has implemented a one-year moratorium on the construction of new data centers. This regulatory move is being viewed as a potential turning point for the anti-AI movement and infrastructure development.
Ars Technica AI · 66d ago
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed an executive order imposing a one-year moratorium on the construction of new data centers. The move aims to address the significant environmental and energy challenges posed by these large-scale facilities.
Wired · 66d ago
Intel is investing an additional 5 billion euros in its Leixlip facility in Ireland to boost AI and high-performance computing chip production. The investment focuses on upgrading facilities for Intel 3 process nodes and expanding Xeon 6 server processor capacity.
36氪 · 67d ago
AMD is expected to unveil its EPYC Venice CPU based on the Zen 6 architecture at the upcoming Advancing AI event. The new processor promises a performance and energy efficiency improvement of over 70% compared to its Zen 5 predecessor.
36氪 · 70d ago
A lawsuit seeks to shut down the gas turbines powering SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center due to permit violations. This could jeopardize a $45 billion contract with Anthropic.
36氪 · 73d ago
Three private-sector micro-nuclear reactors have achieved criticality, marking a milestone for next-generation energy technology. Data centers are closely monitoring these developments as a potential solution for sustainable, high-density power requirements.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 76d ago
Samsung and SK Hynix have announced a massive $870 billion investment over the next decade to expand semiconductor manufacturing and AI data center capacity in South Korea. This strategic move aims to strengthen their global competitiveness against rivals like TSMC and Intel.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 79d ago
Google says it will invest €13 billion in a data center project in Finland, its largest single investment in Europe. The company says the project will create tens of thousands of jobs.
BBC Technology · 9d ago
Qualcomm and Amazon announced a multi-generation partnership to jointly develop scalable custom AI inference chips for large data centers. The agreement also covers optical interconnects up to 1.6Tbps, software collaboration, and warrants that could link Amazon to up to $60 billion in related purchases.
虎嗅 · 9d ago
DeepSeek reportedly plans to deploy at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT accelerators at a data center under construction in Inner Mongolia. The proposed cluster would rank among the largest known deployments of Huawei AI chips, although its timing depends on production capacity.
TechNode · 12d ago
DeepSeek plans to power a new data center in Inner Mongolia with at least 160,000 Huawei AI accelerators. The project signals a potentially large-scale deployment of domestic AI computing infrastructure.
Bloomberg Technology · 14d ago
OpenAI has published early Jalapeño inference benchmarks focused on token throughput, latency, and performance per watt. The results suggest a possible efficiency comparison with NVIDIA Rubin, while highlighting a broader industry shift toward specialized and balanced inference architectures.
雷峰网 · 22d ago
At Hot Chips 2026, Nvidia presented DSX MaxLPS as a site power management approach for extracting more compute from fixed data-center power budgets. The company highlighted Vera Rubin NVL72 performance within an example 100MW facility limit.
Tom's Hardware · 23d ago
At Hot Chips 2026, Intel provided additional details about its Crescent Island AI accelerator based on the Xe3P architecture. The data-center inference accelerator combines liquid cooling, HBM4 memory, larger caches, and deeper XMX engines to improve AI performance per watt.
Tom's Hardware · 24d ago
Indian AI infrastructure company AM Intelligence has ordered 9,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin systems. The purchase could make it one of Asia’s earliest adopters of Nvidia’s advanced computing platform.
Bloomberg Technology · 24d ago
Nvidia says its Groq 3 LPX racks are now in full production following its $20 billion acquisition of Groq. The racks will run on Nebius alongside Vera CPUs and Rubin GPUs, with deployment planned for later this year.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 25d ago
Meta introduced MetaRoCE, a clean-sheet RDMA transport protocol designed for AI workloads running on commodity Ethernet. The company is releasing its specification, reference software implementation, and compliance test suite.
Meta Engineering Blog · 25d ago
Alibaba Cloud has launched its third data center in South Korea, adding enterprise cloud capacity and six Agentic AI services. The expansion will contribute to a global network reaching 104 availability zones.
TechNode · 31d ago
AI chip startup Etched raised $700 million in a round led by Jane Street, bringing its valuation to $21 billion. The company also delivered its first customer rack to Jane Street.
The Next Web (TNW) · 31d ago
OpenAI has signed a 10-gigawatt data center lease with SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy in Ohio, with support from Nvidia. The project could become one of the largest AI data center campuses to date, while Nvidia helps SB Energy secure debt financing without taking on excessive direct exposure.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 32d ago
Nvidia has agreed to invest up to $105 billion in a massive Ohio data center campus that OpenAI will lease. The agreement highlights the deepening infrastructure partnership between two major drivers of the AI boom.
Bloomberg Technology · 32d ago
Moore Threads reported first-half revenue of RMB 1.74 billion, up 150% year over year, while its adjusted profit reached RMB 83.53 million. However, core operations remained loss-making, revenue was highly concentrated among domestic cloud-computing customers, and the company announced plans for a Hong Kong listing.
虎嗅 · 39d ago
Envision’s Wulanchabu Xinghe Base has begun operations as a major AI computing hub. The facility is described as the world’s largest AI compute supercenter, marking a significant expansion of large-scale AI infrastructure.
量子位 · 44d ago
AMD reported record second-quarter revenue of $11.5 billion, up 50% year over year, driven primarily by surging AI hardware demand. Data-center revenue reached $6.7 billion, more than doubling from a year earlier and representing 58% of total revenue, reinforcing AMD’s strategy of challenging Nvidia through a more open ecosystem.
The Next Web (TNW) · 45d ago