AI Infrastructure
Compute supply, GPUs, data centers and energy — the physical layer that decides how cheaply AI runs.
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Why it matters
Compute supply, energy and data-center capacity decide how cheaply AI can run. Infrastructure shifts show up in inference costs weeks later.
"We pissed off a lot of people": Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests
Developer felt "beaten up," with "no choice" but to shrink data center.
NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3 Ultra: An Open 550B Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer for Long-Running Agents
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B total (55B active) open Mixture-of-Experts hybrid Mamba-Transformer for long-running agents. It pairs a 1M-token context with up to ~6x higher inference throughput than compa…
Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
Meta may have found one way to slash its massive data center bill: tents.
Kevin O’Leary agrees to downsize massive Utah data center
Kevin O'Leary agreed to halve the size of his planned 40,000-acre data center in Utah amid mounting pressure from residents and activists, as reported earlier by local affiliate ABC4. The Shark Tank star sent a letter t…
Is Silicon Valley ready to put robots in people’s homes? Hello Robot is.
The California startup released the fourth-generation of its home assistance robot, Stretch.
How some data center operators are tackling their water use problems
Hyperscalers have come under scrutiny for their impact on water quality and availability.
Regional GPU capacity loosens as new clusters come online
Fresh data-center capacity in several regions eased GPU availability, helping push regional inference cost indices lower this week.
Energy-linked compute pricing rolls out in two more regions
More providers are tying compute prices to local energy conditions, adding a time-of-day dimension to where and when AI workloads run cheapest.
NVIDIA AI Cloud Ecosystem Expands Worldwide to Meet Global AI Compute Demand
The NVIDIA AI Cloud ecosystem is accelerating the global buildout of AI factory infrastructure. Partners are expanding capacity to meet growing demand from enterprises, startups, nations, AI labs and developers scaling…
Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required
Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire featu…
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