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AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The grid connection is no longer enough

The data center industry has traditionally treated access to the electricity grid as something to ...
AI In Depth, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

AI is forcing data centre power and cooling into the same conversation

The race to build infrastructure capable of supporting artificial intelligence is beginning to redraw the ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The infrastructure behind intelligence is becoming the bottleneck

AI may be advancing at extraordinary speed, but the infrastructure required to support it is ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

Why AI is coming back to the city

For more than a decade, the economics of digital infrastructure have pushed compute further away ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

The AI boom is running into the physical economy

The extraordinary sums committed to AI infrastructure suggest an industry unconstrained by capital, but money ...
AI Factories, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The best AI infrastructure decision is the one you can change

The infrastructure that looks optimal for an AI workload today may be the wrong place ...
AI Hardware/Infrastructure, AI Factories

Why the biggest challenge is not cooling AI but predicting tomorrow’s heat

The AI era has pushed data centre cooling into the spotlight, but the real challenge ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

AI factories will succeed or fail on infrastructure not algorithms

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence has shifted attention away from software alone towards the ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

The AI infrastructure race is measuring the wrong thing

The AI industry has become fixated on counting GPUs, announcing ever larger clusters and measuring ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories
Hydrogen installation at Equinix Data Center

Powering AI means rethinking the grid not replacing the generator

The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure has exposed an uncomfortable truth. Building larger data centres ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

AI is redefining what sustainable infrastructure looks like

Artificial intelligence is changing more than the scale of data centres. It is also reshaping ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Healthcare is discovering that AI depends on infrastructure

The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence across healthcare is drawing attention to a less glamorous ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The future of AI may depend on the electricity grid

The conversation around artificial intelligence infrastructure has largely focused on semiconductors, data centres and computing ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The AI race is shifting from training models to running them

The next phase of artificial intelligence may be defined less by building larger models and ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

AI is forcing a rethink of the humble server rack

The artificial intelligence boom is reshaping almost every layer of digital infrastructure, from power generation ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The race to build AI is becoming a race to coordinate infrastructure

The artificial intelligence boom is creating a new class of infrastructure company as investors, technology ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Schneider Electric launches cooling system for the AI era

The race to build AI infrastructure is forcing a rethink of one of the least ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

LiquidStack expansion highlights the growing challenge of scaling AI infrastructure

The race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure is increasingly becoming a race to build the ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

ZutaCore funding reflects a growing reality that AI’s future depends on cooling

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is creating a new infrastructure challenge that extends well ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The AI boom is creating a new battle for power and infrastructure

The race to develop more capable artificial intelligence systems has captured most of the headlines, ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The race to build AI is becoming a race to secure power

The artificial intelligence boom is often framed as a battle between technology companies developing ever ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

The inference age will punish narrow networks

Artificial intelligence is shifting from experimentation to continuous operation, and the infrastructure beneath it is ...
AI In Depth, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Europe is redesigning the data centre for the age of AI

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence is forcing a rethink of one of the technology ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Meta turns to custom silicon as agentic AI shifts the balance of compute

Meta has agreed to bring tens of millions of custom processor cores from Amazon Web ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure
data sovereignty

Britain races to deploy AI while governance struggles to keep pace

New research commissioned by Red Hat suggests that the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence across ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Europe pushes quantum and AI closer as cloud platforms expand experimental compute

OVHcloud has made a further move to expand access to quantum computing through the cloud, ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The expansion of AI is forcing computing into spaces not designed to support it

Vertiv has introduced a new wall-mounted cooling system for small IT environments across Europe, the ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

New approach to power use suggests AI growth may not overwhelm the grid

Stellium Datacenters has reported a 75 per cent reduction in carbon emissions at its Newcastle-based ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Austrian data centre reveals how AI is redrawing Europe’s industrial map

Google has begun construction of a new data centre in Kronstorf, Austria, marking a further ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The systems that no longer wait for humans

The infrastructure that once existed to support human workflows is being rewritten to support machine ...
AI In Depth, AI Hardware/Infrastructure
data sovereignty

Sovereign cloud becomes the new battleground for enterprise AI control

A partnership between PixerLens and Tata Consultancy Services reflects a growing shift in how enterprises ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure
tools

Britain risks losing the AI race not through ideas but through infrastructure

The United Kingdom’s ambitions in artificial intelligence are increasingly being shaped not by breakthroughs in ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The battle for AI is shifting from models to the silicon beneath them

The next phase of artificial intelligence competition is increasingly being defined not by software alone, ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

AI infrastructure is forcing a rethink of how electricity grids maintain stability

ABB and VoltaGrid have extended their collaboration on data centre power systems, underlining how the ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Telecom networks are being rebuilt around AI at the edge

The architecture of telecommunications networks is undergoing a structural shift as artificial intelligence and real-time ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The hidden limits behind modern compute scale

AI infrastructure is being constrained not by software or silicon, but by the physical systems ...
AI In Depth, AI Hardware/Infrastructure
centre

The network is becoming the intelligence layer of enterprise AI

The rapid expansion of enterprise artificial intelligence is exposing a structural weakness that has long ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure
edge

Intelligence moves to the edge as AI demand reshapes computing architecture

The expansion of artificial intelligence is no longer confined to centralised data centres. As organisations ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

AI is becoming the control layer for quantum computing

The path to practical quantum computing has long been defined by a series of unresolved ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Open architectures emerge as the foundation for AI scale infrastructure

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is forcing a reassessment of how data centres are ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The future of AI will be decided by how systems are balanced

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is forcing a reassessment of what constitutes performance in ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

France turns to infrastructure partnerships to secure AI economy

The race to define leadership in artificial intelligence is increasingly being shaped not by algorithms ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Intelligence is now constrained by physics and power

Artificial intelligence is no longer constrained primarily by algorithms or models but by the physical ...
AI In Depth, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Cooling dictates the limits of AI infrastructure

Cooling is no longer a supporting system within the data centre, it is becoming the ...
AI In Depth, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

How AI could transform networks from cost centres into economic engines

For decades enterprise and telecom networks have been treated as infrastructure overhead, a necessary expense ...
AI In Depth, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The processor everyone forgot is now running the AI economy

The AI boom has been framed as a triumph of acceleration, yet the system is ...
AI In Depth, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The network is no longer infrastructure it is the constraint on AI

AI is not failing at the model layer, it is failing in motion, in the ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

The data centre was not designed for AI

Artificial intelligence is being scaled inside buildings conceived for a different era of computing. What ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

The real limit of AI infrastructure is not compute, it is heat

AI infrastructure is being designed around performance metrics that assume unlimited scaling. The reality is ...
AI In Depth, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

When infrastructure becomes the failure point of intelligence

AI is moving out of controlled environments and into systems that cannot fail safely. The ...
AI In Depth, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The ecosystem engine behind the AI factory

An AI factory does not fail at full load. It fails much earlier, in the ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

The cloud continuum is real, but nobody knows how to operate it yet

Enterprises have accepted that AI will not live in a single data centre or hyperscale ...
AI In Depth, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Beyond silicon limits the race to redefine computing itself

The architecture of computing is no longer just evolving, it is fragmenting into competing paradigms ...
AI In Depth, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The inference explosion is rewriting the economics of artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence has crossed a threshold where usage, not training, defines its trajectory. The shift ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

Artificial intelligence moves into space as computing leaves Earth

The expansion of artificial intelligence is no longer confined to data centres on the ground, ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The factory is replacing the computer as AI infrastructure enters a new phase

NVIDIA used its GTC conference to signal a decisive shift in how artificial intelligence is ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

Artificial intelligence is now constrained by how fast data can move

Artificial intelligence is entering a phase where performance is no longer determined solely by compute ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The future of artificial intelligence is being redesigned at the level of the processor

Artificial intelligence is forcing a fundamental rethinking of the most basic building blocks of computing ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The token is the product and most companies have not realised it yet

Artificial intelligence is no longer being built as software, it is being industrialised as output. ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

Optics moves to the centre of AI infrastructure as system limits tighten

The race to scale AI has been framed as a compute problem, but that framing ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories
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The grid connection is no longer enough

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