Infrastructure & Hardware

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.

Wednesday 4 November

Ohio already has 125 local data center moratoriums. Early results from its 21 ballot measures on AI infrastructure have determined there will be more

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AI-generated summary Ohio voters released early results showing the rejection of AI infrastructure across numerous ballot measures on Tuesday. At least 14 municipalities passed bans or other restrictions on data centers as communities opposed the AI buildout.

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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

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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

Monday 2 November

Chip stocks are suffering from a ‘crisis of confidence’ — but things aren’t as gloomy as they seem

AI-generated summary Intel released a recent earnings report that showed strong performance for its data-center and AI business despite an overall stock decline. Rasgon says earnings reports from major cloud-services providers support the idea that the artificial-intelligence trade has more room to run.

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Envision claims to be running the world's first 800VDC data center in Ulanqab, China

AI-generated summary Green technology firm Envision announced that its Galaxy AI data center in Ulanqab, China, opened in August and has an 800VDC power system running live compute workloads. Envision states that the 800VDC power system combines solid-state transformers, battery energy storage, and direct-current voltage adjustment equipment for computing hardware.

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