The AIR Control Concepts agreement moves beyond individual project bids. LG’s energy-saving claim rests on a specific simulated operating environment.

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11 hours agoInfrastructure

Security risk Infrastructure

Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers, shutting down a key AI-training site

The Sasovo facility houses two of Yandex’s three AI-training supercomputers. A second site is partly offline, and the company cannot yet say when equipment will return to service.

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15 hours agoInfrastructure

Research Infrastructure

Four-hour batteries cheaper than open-cycle gas turbines in 43 markets, study finds

The Wood Mackenzie comparison covers open-cycle turbines, a type favored by data-center developers. Rising equipment prices and long procurement queues are adding pressure to the gas option.

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Infrastructure

Ai2 Replaces GPU Priority Labels With Time Budgets to Curb Resource Hoarding

Ai2 says automated workload draining also cut repairs needing human intervention by 74%.

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22 hours agoInfrastructure

Infrastructure

GlobalFoundries completes construction phase in €1.1B Dresden chip-factory buildout

The expansion targets annual capacity above one million wafers by late 2028. A new chip platform planned for the site still needs German approval before development can begin.

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22 hours agoInfrastructure

Acquisition Infrastructure

XMax Agrees to Buy Hexa Creation to Enter AI Data-Center Power Semiconductors

The target is developing 1200V gallium nitride devices for high-voltage applications.

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Infrastructure

Thane residents demand Amazon relocate a 54-acre data center near their homes

Amazon promises water-free cooling and separate power supplies. Residents say the project proceeded without meaningful consultation and want it moved.

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YesterdayInfrastructure

Funding Infrastructure

Lumentum CEO Says AI Data-Center Optical Parts Are Sold Out Through Early 2029

The shortages vary by product. Nvidia’s earlier backing included both funding for manufacturing capacity and rights to access future supplies.

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YesterdayInfrastructure

Partnership Infrastructure

GlobalFoundries signs $2B deal to supply TSMC’s AI packaging, targeting production in 2028

The five-year agreement would establish a U.S. source for silicon interposers, not a complete chipmaking or packaging service.

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YesterdayInfrastructure

Partnership Infrastructure

Georgia Tech and Emory commit over $1 billion to AI computing, talent and research

The coordinated commitment includes spending already made on recruiting experts, alongside computing infrastructure and medical research—not just a new hardware buildout.

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YesterdayInfrastructure

Acquisition Infrastructure

Green AI Cloud signs merger deal to go public on Nasdaq

The agreement with SPAC Pioneer assigns Green AI Cloud a $300 million pre-money equity valuation. Closing is expected in the second quarter of 2027, subject to shareholder approval and other conditions.

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YesterdayInfrastructure

Partnership Infrastructure

White House forms Southeast university consortium for shared AI computing

The founding universities aim to support scientific discovery through joint infrastructure investment. Mississippi State brings an existing supercomputing base to the effort.

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YesterdayInfrastructure

Open release Infrastructure

UW Receives Nearly 7 Million GPU Hours to Develop Open AI for Protein Design

The Huang Foundation’s grant supplies NVIDIA computing through CoreWeave. UW expects initial model releases from late 2026 into early 2027, subject to research progress and experimental validation.

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YesterdayInfrastructure

Government action Infrastructure

DOE Advances UC Irvine’s AI Geothermal Project to a Three-Year Second Phase

MAESTRO will combine underground measurements with simulations to assess geothermal prospects and earthquake risk. Researchers also plan to share its resources through a free public browser tool.

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YesterdayInfrastructure

Infrastructure

Broadcom Sets AI Networking Showcase With More Than 15 Companies at OCP Summit

The October 12–15 program pairs a keynote on large AI clusters with partner demonstrations of networking, optics and rack designs.

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Oct 8, 2026Infrastructure

Infrastructure

Sesterce Proposes €10 Billion-Plus AI Campus at Former Finnish Paper Mill

Construction is planned to begin in 2026. The proposal pairs phased computing capacity with jobs, water safeguards and a renewable-generation pledge that allows ten years for delivery.

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Oct 7, 2026Infrastructure

Earnings Infrastructure

TSMC’s September Sales Rise 54.6% Year Over Year but Edge Below August

The company-wide sales figures offer an AI-supply-chain checkpoint ahead of quarterly earnings, not a separate measure of AI-chip revenue.

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Oct 7, 2026Infrastructure

Funding Infrastructure

Broadcom Seeks More Than $50 Billion for OpenAI Chips, WSJ Says

Apollo and Blackstone are reportedly among prospective lenders. The talks concern a chip collaboration with a multiyear deployment target, not a completed financing.

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