The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection fined DataOne, an AI data center operator in Vineland, New Jersey, $1.07 million after the facility installed and operated 62 natural gas generato…
Centralized AI hosts workloads in a single data center or cloud region, distributed AI spreads them across multiple sites for resilience and data residency, and edge AI places compute near users or de…
IDCA research indicates that as much as 13% of US cloud usage comes from zombie workloads — abandoned jobs, instances, and storage volumes that keep consuming power, rack space, and budget — according…
OpenAI's GPT-6 "Astra" became the company's first model to reach a "Critical" cybersecurity capability rating under its Preparedness Framework, achieving a 100% success rate on the ExploitBench benchm…
Nearly one in five data center interconnection requests never become real load, according to the Capgemini Research Institute's 2026 report "AI Meets the Grid: Shaping the Data Center Power Play," bas…
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory identified more than 40 approaches to accelerating large-load connections for AI data centers, as power delivery speed replaces raw capacity as the primary constr…
Gartner forecasts worldwide AI spending will reach $2.59 trillion in 2026, with infrastructure accounting for nearly half of that investment, according to an industry analysis arguing that network per…
Data centers and telecommunications providers serve distinct but interdependent roles in digital infrastructure, with data centers supplying controlled environments for compute, storage, and networkin…
Data center water resilience requires site-specific assessment beyond efficiency metrics like Water Use Effectiveness (WUE), according to industry analysis. The Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing'…
Global spending on data centers could reach $7 trillion by 2030, according to McKinsey estimates, and Brookings found that new data center developments increase local construction employment by 11%, i…
Data center GPUs physically last 5+ years, but economic replacement cycles are 2-4 years due to rapid performance gains, according to Data Center Knowledge. Resale or GPU-as-a-Service models help maxi…
Recursive self-improvement (RSI) in AI could accelerate innovation but strain data center infrastructure, according to analysts and companies cited in a report. Anthropic reported that as of May 2026,…
A new analysis warns that corrosion, often overlooked during construction, threatens the reliability of AI data centers and their massive capital investments. The article, citing industry studies, not…
Amazon Web Services is building a 420 Tbps subsea cable between Japan and Washington state, with service expected in 2029, to support AI workloads such as distributed large language model training. Th…
Artificial intelligence is driving rapid growth in data center power density, with some AI installations exceeding 100 kW per rack, according to an analysis by industry thought leaders. The article hi…
At the Ai4 2026 conference held August 4-6 in Las Vegas, construction leaders from TRC Companies, Clayco, and Coastal Construction discussed how AI is being applied across design, logistics, safety, a…
Deloitte's 2025 AI Infrastructure Survey projects that U.S. AI data center power demand could grow more than thirtyfold by 2035, reaching up to 123 GW, with grid stress as the leading obstacle. Develo…
Nvidia is opening its rack-scale AI infrastructure to custom accelerators from hyperscalers and other AI developers, expanding its NVLink technology beyond its own processors. The expanded partnership…
Solid-state transformers (SSTs) are emerging as a key technology for next-generation AI data centers, converting medium-voltage AC directly to 800 V DC to improve efficiency and reduce equipment footp…
President Donald Trump declared a national emergency over the US bulk-power system, directing the Energy Department to restrict foreign-produced grid equipment and impose conditions on equipment alrea…