Infrastructure & Hardware · Tue 3 Nov

Infrastructure and hardware comprise the physical compute systems, specialized chips, and data center components that power artificial intelligence workloads. Truncated covers chip architectures, supply chains, energy requirements, and the hardware deployments that enable large scale computing.

Tuesday 3 November

Fireworks contracts 5MW of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra capacity at Era4 data center in UK

AI-generated summary Open-model AI company Fireworks announced that it will lease five megawatts of direct-liquid-cooled capacity powered by Nvidia Blackwell Ultra HGX B300 GPUs at Era4's data center in Chesterfield. Lin Qiao says this agreement with Era4 expands the company's capacity in the UK to develop new services for regulated businesses including financial services, insurance, and life sciences sectors.

Brookfield Bets £20B on AI Data Center at UK Power Station

A vast concrete cooling tower looms against a bruised amber sky at dusk, its weathered industrial surface streaked with moisture, as rows of humming black server racks visible through a

AI-generated summary Drax Group, Brookfield Asset Management, and Radiant announced an agreement to jointly develop a gigawatt-scale AI data center on the Drax Power Station estate in North Yorkshire, England. Brookfield projects that total investment could exceed twenty billion pounds, with Phase 1 committing two and a half billion pounds for up to one hundred megawatts of capacity.

Also covered by the Guardian