Data Center Hardware Highlights: August 2026
The latest in data center infrastructure – from power and minerals to networking, CPUs, and rack-scale AI systems – shows the stack…
Month: August 2026
Do you use a personal agent?
Dario Amodei@DarioAmodei. 1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don’t usually spend much time on social media but I wanted…
For High-Density AI, Available Data Center Space May Not Be Usable
A 5 MW data center buyer recently approached more than 10 North American operators seeking capacity for 140-160 kilowatts per compute rack.…
Home-Based GPU Networks: Viable Supplements to AI Data Centers?
A very physical problem is blowing up the AI boom. Communities overwhelmingly do not want the massive data centers required to support…
Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens
Innovation is a concept that has become mythologized in the modern era: what it is, how to manage it, how to teach…
Amazon Explores Grid Connection for 8,000-Acre AI Campus
The project combines a planned private energy generation complex with an AI data center and has drawn national scrutiny over its potential…
Waymo vs Tesla: Two Ways to Build Self-Driving Cars
Designed and assembled in America, Matic is the world’s first robot built to understand you. Its new feature, Matic Cues, lets you…
Sunrun, Voltus Bring Home Batteries Into AI Capacity Push
Sunrun’s Voltus deal adds residential batteries to the capacity options available to AI hyperscalers, but distributed resources cannot solve every physical grid…
APAC Data Center Pipeline Surges as AI Pre-Leasing Tightens Supply
Asia-Pacific’s data center development pipeline reached a record 26.5 GW in the first half of 2026 as investment in AI and cloud…
PJM’s New Deal for Data Centers: Bring Power or Face Cuts
PJM Interconnection (PJM) has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to create a conditional reliability framework for major new electricity users,…