AI-generated summary Applied Digital is building its Polaris Forge 2 data center campus in Harwood, North Dakota, which was the only US town to reject anti-data center legislation. Founded as Applied Blockchain, the company has pivoted to AI infrastructure and is planning a gigawatt-scale development in Finland.
AI-generated summary SoftBank, Petroleum Sarawak Berhad, and Grab signed a Joint Development Agreement for a Malaysian data center venture starting with an initial investment of 1 billion dollars. The three companies stated a long-term target of five gigawatts of compute in the Sarawak region and plan to seek additional investors and hyperscaler customers.
AI-generated summary Artificial intelligence cloud firm Fluidstack has started construction on a 99-acre data center campus named Solis Arx in Wythe County, Virginia. The project is expected to see more than $1 billion in investment and is slated for completion primarily by the end of 2027.
AI-generated summary Boosteroid, Gaw Capital, and Firebird AI signed preliminary agreements to establish 480MW of data center capacity in Kazakhstan as part of the Data Center Valley project. The project is part of a broader national initiative targeting up to 1GW of data center capacity in the Pavlodar region by 2029.
AI-generated summary TensorBay has launched 1MW containerized nodes called AIPods that can support up to 64 Nvidia HGX B300 systems and be deployed in 12 weeks. The company states that the offering combines hardware with a distributed private inference platform and includes Nvidia Dynamo-based inference optimization.
AI-generated summary Germany's Deutsche Telekom announced it is expanding its artificial intelligence data center in Munich by 20MW. The company will deploy additional Blackwell Ultra Generation (B300) GPUs at the facility alongside Nvidia's RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition and B200s GPUs.
AI-generated summary Sparxity, a Dresden artificial intelligence chipmaker, has closed its Series A funding round to bring its total raised funding to $90M. The company states its chips are designed to skip unnecessary network parts to save time and energy during artificial intelligence inference.
AI-generated summary Technical issues have affected the European Union AI gigafactories program, requiring applicants to resubmit their funding bids. The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking stated that all current draft and submitted tenders will not be considered.
AI-generated summary Vertiv has entered into a three-year partnership with Infineon Technologies to develop and scale power semiconductors for critical digital infrastructure and AI data centers. Vertiv states that the agreement will support supply continuity and reliable delivery as the company scales production for its 800VDC power systems.
AI-generated summary The rapid growth of high-density artificial intelligence campuses is changing how data centers interact with the power grid during disturbances. Vertiv executives Chris Thompson and Arturo Di Filippi explain why fault ride through is becoming a foundational operational strategy.
AI-generated summary Akamai reports that its revenue could surpass $7 billion in 2028, supported by growth in cloud infrastructure services. CEO Tom Leighton says the company secured an $11.6 billion contract with Anthropic and other multiyear agreements.
AI-generated summary McKinsey and Company expects inference models to overtake training by 2030, representing more than half of all artificial intelligence compute. Ciena reports that 81 percent of surveyed decision-makers expect artificial intelligence training to run across distributed facilities.
AI-generated summary Riot Platforms has signed a 15-year lease agreement with an artificial intelligence lab for capacity at its data center in Corsicana, Texas. Riot Platforms states that the 910MW contract is valued at $28 billion and could expand to $54 billion if extension options are exercised.
AI-generated summary Digital Realty launched a liquid cooling lab in São Paulo, Brazil, to help customers test and validate multi-vendor artificial intelligence infrastructure. The facility is designed for high-density artificial intelligence workloads and features liquid-cooled racks supporting cabinet densities of 150kW and above.
AI-generated summary Photonic chip company Q.ANT has partnered with Ionos to launch a pilot program that lets participants test AI models on Q.ANT hardware. Approved applicants can access the second-generation Native Processing Unit via the Ionos website to run their own workloads.
AI-generated summary CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement with Wayve to power its artificial intelligence driver training using CoreWeave Cloud with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. Wayve says the cloud infrastructure helps accelerate the commercial deployment of its artificial intelligence driver by providing reliability and observability.
AI-generated summary Alphabet Inc.'s Google is releasing new versions of its custom tensor processing units to compete with Nvidia Corp. in the artificial intelligence market. The latest chips are designed to support confidential computing and help models access a wider range of information for handling user queries.
AI-generated summary Microsoft is reportedly exiting a 2023 compute capacity agreement with Oracle that utilized older Nvidia hardware to power an AI-assisted version of the Bing search engine. According to Bloomberg, Microsoft declined to renew the contract because the older hardware did not meet its current specifications.
AI-generated summary SpaceX plans to build a twenty-four billion dollar data center and natural gas power plant in Starbase, Texas. The proposed facility will reportedly operate with thirty-five turbines to produce seven hundred forty-eight megawatts of power.
AI-generated summary China reportedly recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to gather intelligence on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang regarding American artificial intelligence chips. Three House committees requested that Jensen Huang appear for a joint briefing concerning his interactions with Alice Huang.
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