Why AI’s Limit Is Power, Not Chips: Gopi Sirineni at AI Infra Summit 2026

Power, not chips, has become the limiting factor in the AI buildout, according to Axiado founder, President and CEO Gopi Sirineni, who said at the AI Infra Summit 2026 that the fix lives in the platform management layer rather than better facilities or silicon. Sirineni said Axiado's AI agents running on its Trusted Control Unit (TCU) silicon perform dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) and dynamic thermal management in milliseconds with no human in the loop, delivering efficiency gains ranging from 10% out of the box to 30% with tuning. Sirineni argued that managing and securing modern AI infrastructure requires moving away from decades-old legacy management paradigms toward autonomous infrastructure management.

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