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Google Agrees to Buy 396 MW of Geothermal Power for a Planned Utah Data Center

The agreement gives Fervo a defined customer for Cape Station while tying Google’s future data-center supply to a geothermal project still under construction.

12 hours agoInfrastructure

Equinix Sets Q1 2027 Start for Distributed Enterprise AI Inference Service

The planned service combines NVIDIA infrastructure designs, Together AI model serving and Equinix connectivity. Its test is whether one package can simplify placing AI workloads across providers and locations.

13 hours agoInfrastructure

SpaceX’s External Compute Deals Add a Potential Rival for CoreWeave

A confirmed Anthropic arrangement and reported outside-customer contracts put more large-scale AI capacity into the market. The unanswered question is whether it can become a repeatable cloud service.

Yesterday

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HUMAIN Picks Compal for Cloud-to-Edge AI Build, With Nvidia and AMD Server Options

The agreement gives HUMAIN a designated manufacturing partner across servers, edge systems and AI PCs, but its product roadmap remains a set of planned platforms rather than disclosed deployments.

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t54 Puts a Hard Trust Gate on Bedrock Agent Payments, Citing 20 Million Micropayments

The integration separates an agent’s ability to buy data or tools from the rules that approve those purchases. Its reported scale is notable, but its safeguards depend on a scoring system that must correctly judge unfamiliar endpoints in real time.

Aug 31, 2026Infrastructure

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Anthropic’s Reported $35B Lambda Deal Has Nvidia Holding the Texas Site Lease

The reported arrangement separates the cloud provider, the site leaseholder and the facility developer, while leaving the amount of capacity and delivery timing unstated.

Aug 31, 2026Infrastructure

Humain, DataVolt Plan 100 MW AI Data Center at NEOM’s Oxagon

The expected-2028 facility gives Saudi-backed Humain a defined role in DataVolt’s planned Oxagon campus, but all of the capacity remains prospective.

Aug 30, 2026Infrastructure

Last week

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Clearlake Adds Google Cloud’s AI Stack to Its Portfolio Push After OpenAI Deal

The private-equity firm is assembling multiple model and cloud options around its operating framework, shifting the question from AI access to whether its companies can turn that access into repeatable operational change.

Aug 27, 2026Infrastructure

AWS Plans 2 Million More Nvidia GPUs for 2027–28 Despite Its Own Chip Effort

The planned purchase gives Nvidia a major multiyear customer commitment, but the economics behind sustained AI infrastructure spending remain under scrutiny.

Aug 26, 2026Infrastructure

AWS Plans 2 Million Nvidia GPUs for 2027–28 and Federal AI Factories

The partnership reaches beyond GPU supply into CPUs, networking and AWS’s own Trainium chips. The largest capacity commitment remains a future deployment, making execution on the shared infrastructure the central test.

Aug 25, 2026Infrastructure

Aug 25, 2026Infrastructure

Cisco and Nvidia Move Secure AI Factory to Rack Scale, Targeting September Orders

The package shifts the sales pitch from individual GPUs to a pre-validated system. Cisco still must show that its promised deployment acceleration holds up in customer data centers.

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Cisco Adds Supermicro Rack-Scale Systems to Its NVIDIA AI Factory for October Rollout

The partnership turns Cisco’s AI infrastructure offer into a more complete rack-to-fabric package, combining dense GPU servers, networking and liquid cooling for customers building larger AI clusters.

Aug 23, 2026Infrastructure

August 2026

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Nvidia Takes a Minority Stake in Cloverleaf to Push AI Data-Center Development

The partnership brings Nvidia into the early work of securing power and preparing sites for AI campuses, alongside a separate 4.25-gigawatt Ohio commitment. The scale of Cloverleaf’s role will depend on projects yet to be identified.

Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

Nvidia Enlists Asset Managers to Mobilize More Than $500 Billion for AI Infrastructure

The partnerships seek to widen access to expensive computing infrastructure. The harder question is whether the projects can generate enough cash to support the financing behind them.

Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

Ormat Bets AI Data Centers Will Make Geothermal Worth Drilling Deeper

The established geothermal operator sees a route to much larger projects for hyperscalers. First, it must show enhanced geothermal plants can compete economically with other power sources.

Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

Microsoft and Qcells Want AI Data Centers to Bring Their Own Power

The proposed model would pair Microsoft’s expanding data-center footprint with newly built generation, flexible batteries and utility-facing capacity. The key test is whether exploration turns into projects that can genuinely match the load they add.

Aug 17, 2026Infrastructure