
Virginia’s new electricity tax on data centers, including self-generated power, is projected to generate $600M annually.

Orbital data centers promise relief from terrestrial power challenges, but their future may hinge on a harder question: repair infrastructure or replace fleets.

Microsoft's West Texas power agreement with Chevron shows how AI developers are securing generation capacity alongside compute.

Data center operators are launching training programs, apprenticeships, and college partnerships to address growing AI-era talent shortages.

Public pushback against data centers has emphasized their water and energy consumption, and now Nvidia is highlighting its claim that the Rubin generation reference design for a fully liquid-cooled data center has "eliminated massive amounts of power usage and pretty much all water usage." Still, it doesn't address all of the concerns around AI data centers, including during their construction, and for the power generation requirements of the massive facilities. Also, as Gizmod

Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI's biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.

Reflection AI will pay $150 million a month beginning July 1, 2026 through 2029 for immediate access to Nvidia's latest GB300 AI chips and supporting hardware across SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, Tennessee.

Big Tech is throwing big money into data center buildouts. As national opposition to the facilities grows, some workers are beginning to question whether it’s worth it.

Data center build timelines are driven less by the shell and more by permitting, utility interconnection, and supply-chain bottlenecks.

MoonMath AI team has released a bf16 forward attention kernel for AMD’s MI300X GPU. It is written in HIP, not hand-written assembly. The code is open-source under the MIT license. The MoonMath.ai team reports it beats AITER v3, AMD’s own optimized kernel, on every tested shape. Bare-metal access came from HotAisle, an AMD cloud provider. Attention is the fused softmax(QKᵀ/√d)·V operation inside every transformer. The MI300X is AMD’s CDNA3 data-center GPU, with the ISA targe

Hyperbolic and QumulusAI say customers now care as much about utilization, efficiency, and production operations as raw GPU capacity.

The industry faces a “public legitimacy challenge,” where earning social license and trust has become as critical to success as obtaining megawatts and permits.

HPE expands quantum partnerships as it works to connect supercomputers, AI systems, and quantum processors in future hybrid environments.

Discover how commercial data centers can meet US federal needs for uptime, security, and compliance, with guidance on readiness, ATO, and procurement.

Google has rerouted traffic after a Delhi data center fire, but customers across Indian metros may still experience latency and packet loss.

New Juniper-based switches, automation capabilities, and security integrations extend HPE’s networking strategy across AI training, inference, and enterprise environments.

As AI infrastructure scales, HPE’s Andrew DesRochers explains how power availability, cooling, utility timelines, and water use are becoming core IT planning priorities.

AI workload volatility forces data centers to run secondary tasks, inflating energy use, infrastructure demands, costs, and grid pressure.

Modern data center automation replaces siloed tools with policy-led orchestration across power, cooling, security, and AIOps.

Vultr selects HPE and Nvidia AI infrastructure as enterprise demand shifts from model training to production inference and large-scale deployments.

AI inference needs scalable memory, not just compute. CXL decouples the two, letting data centers scale memory independently and avoid overbuying expensive processors.

CEO Antonio Neri outlined the company’s “agentic enterprise” vision as HPE deepens Juniper integration and expands AI infrastructure portfolio.

On-site power solutions are increasingly helping data centers overcome grid delays and meet growing energy demands.

Evaporative cooling still dominates data centers, but with rising liquid cooling adoption, is the industry ready to embrace more sustainable solutions?

Operators are deploying battery systems to support reliability and grid flexibility, but cost, performance, and complexity still hinder adoption.

SpaceX and others are exploring orbital data centers that promise limitless solar power, but these facilities face significant hurdles in cost, technology, and scalability.

Amazon and Google’s multibillion-dollar data center investments in Montgomery County are positioning Missouri as a key destination for hyperscalers seeking power and scalability.

There's a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm a Chinese customer.

RealSense is unveiling the new D585 Pro AI-native depth camera at Automate 2026 in booth 12036. The RealSense D585 Pro combines depth sensing, edge AI acceleration and a software-defined platform that the company said is designed to improve over time through SDK-delivered capabilities. The RealSense D585 Pro is expected to begin shipping in Q1 2027. Designed for humanoids, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), collaborative robot arms, industrial robotics and inspection systems, the D585 combines a

AWS is in talks to sell its chips to other data centers. CEO Andy Jassy has said this represents a $50 billion opportunity for the company.
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