… "AI is driving the largest infrastructure buildout of our time — and a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reinvigorate American manufacturing and supply chains," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia. …
… As AI expansion drives explosive growth in electricity consumption worldwide, countries and hyperscalers are increasingly exploring unconventional infrastructure approaches to address both energy availability and thermal management constraints. …
… EDF chairman Bernard Fontana said in the announcement that the Bouchain project showed France's ability to host large-scale digital infrastructure on "competitive, sovereign and low-carbon electricity." The French investment adds to a global spending run that includes the Ohio project and more than… …
A $1 billion data center that Microsoft and Abu Dhabi-based AI firm G42 planned to build in Kenya has stalled after the Kenyan government failed to meet Microsoft's demand for guaranteed annual capacity payments, Bloomberg reported Sunday. …
… Utilities are increasingly struggling to supply sufficient electricity for AI projects, while land, transformers, cooling infrastructure, and high-end GPUs themselves remain constrained. There is also growing sentiment against AI infrastructure from local communities. …
… " The Venice family spans a broad set of CPUs optimized for throughput, performance per watt, and performance per dollar, including Verona, our first EPYC CPU purpose-built for AI infrastructure," Su said. …
… Hours later, Aikido said several Mistral npm SDK packages had also been compromised as part of the same ongoing “Mini Shai-Hulud” campaign, including @mistralai/mistralai, @mistralai/mistralai-azure, and @mistralai/mistralai-gcp. …
… Battery manufacturing will be co-located on the same campus alongside solar panel manufacturing and an AI hardware plant, creating what SoftBank calls its "GX Factory" for energy infrastructure and "AX Factory" for AI compute. …
… The massive amount stemmed from the windfall that the memory and storage chip manufacturer is making from the AI infrastructure build-out, with AI data centers and hyperscalers willing to pay a premium just to secure the chips they need. …
… Sber's existing infrastructure relies on a combination of stockpiled Western GPUs, Chinese alternatives, and domestic Russian production that hasn’t yet reached competitive capability for frontier AI workloads. …