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Virginia Approves First-Ever Data Center Power Tax
Virginia’s new electricity tax on data centers, including self-generated power, is projected to generate $600M annually.
The Breaking Points 2035: A Data Center Space Odyssey
Orbital data centers promise relief from terrestrial power challenges, but their future may hinge on a harder question: repair infrastructure or replace fleets.
Chevron Lands 20-Year Microsoft Deal to Power West Texas AI Campus
Microsoft's West Texas power agreement with Chevron shows how AI developers are securing generation capacity alongside compute.
Data Centers Take Training into Their Own Hands Amid Talent Shortages
Data center operators are launching training programs, apprenticeships, and college partnerships to address growing AI-era talent shortages.
Nvidia says its AI data center design runs hotter to use a lot less water
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 wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem
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.
SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open source AI lab
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.
Some Electricians Think Building Data Centers Is for Sellouts
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.
Building Data Centers Faster: Plays That De-Risk Delays
Data center build timelines are driven less by the shell and more by permitting, utility interconnection, and supply-chain bottlenecks.
MoonMath AI Open-Sources a HIP Attention Kernel for AMD MI300X That Beats AITER v3 on Every Shape and Rounding Mode
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
QumulusAI’s $124M Deal Spotlights AI Infrastructure’s Utilization Challenge
Hyperbolic and QumulusAI say customers now care as much about utilization, efficiency, and production operations as raw GPU capacity.
Data Centers’ Next Hurdle: Winning Public Trust and Social License
The industry faces a “public legitimacy challenge,” where earning social license and trust has become as critical to success as obtaining megawatts and permits.
Discover 2026: HPE Bets on Hybrid Quantum-Supercomputing Architectures
HPE expands quantum partnerships as it works to connect supercomputers, AI systems, and quantum processors in future hybrid environments.
Federal Colocation Readiness: What Data Center Operators Must Prove
Discover how commercial data centers can meet US federal needs for uptime, security, and compliance, with guidance on readiness, ATO, and procurement.
Google Cloud Disruptions Continue After India Data Center Fire
Google has rerouted traffic after a Delhi data center fire, but customers across Indian metros may still experience latency and packet loss.
HPE Targets GPU Utilization With New AI Networking Portfolio
New Juniper-based switches, automation capabilities, and security integrations extend HPE’s networking strategy across AI training, inference, and enterprise environments.
HPE Interview: Why Data Center Efficiency Is Now Core to IT Decisions
As AI infrastructure scales, HPE’s Andrew DesRochers explains how power availability, cooling, utility timelines, and water use are becoming core IT planning priorities.
The Overlooked Reason AI Data Centers Use So Much Power
AI workload volatility forces data centers to run secondary tasks, inflating energy use, infrastructure demands, costs, and grid pressure.
Data Center Automation: What’s New and What Works
Modern data center automation replaces siloed tools with policy-led orchestration across power, cooling, security, and AIOps.
HPE, Vultr Go All In on AI Inference Data Center Growth
Vultr selects HPE and Nvidia AI infrastructure as enterprise demand shifts from model training to production inference and large-scale deployments.
AI’s Next Data Center Challenge: Scaling Memory for the Inference Era
AI inference needs scalable memory, not just compute. CXL decouples the two, letting data centers scale memory independently and avoid overbuying expensive processors.
HPE Puts Networking at the Center of AI at Discover 2026
CEO Antonio Neri outlined the company’s “agentic enterprise” vision as HPE deepens Juniper integration and expands AI infrastructure portfolio.
From Grid Constraints to On-Site Solutions: The Future of Data Center Power
On-site power solutions are increasingly helping data centers overcome grid delays and meet growing energy demands.
Evaporative Cooling in Data Centers: Why the Industry Hesitates to Move On
Evaporative cooling still dominates data centers, but with rising liquid cooling adoption, is the industry ready to embrace more sustainable solutions?
Battery Storage Moves Closer to Data Centers, but Challenges Persist
Operators are deploying battery systems to support reliability and grid flexibility, but cost, performance, and complexity still hinder adoption.
Data Centers in Space: Hype, Reality, and the Long Timeline Ahead
SpaceX and others are exploring orbital data centers that promise limitless solar power, but these facilities face significant hurdles in cost, technology, and scalability.
Missouri Emerges as the Next Hyperscale Frontier Amid Growing Power Demands
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.
The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn’t
There's a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm a Chinese customer.
RealSense unveils AI-native D585 Pro depth camera for robots
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
Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips
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.