Ukrainian drone attacks hammer Russia's finance ministry data center, damaged facility reportedly holds tax databases
Reports say that this is one of three data centers that the Russian finance ministry operated.
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RSSNvidia eyes converting old nuclear plants into massive AI data centers
Nvidia and PreussenElektra are studying whether decommissioned sites of German nuclear power plants can be repurposed as AI data centers, potentially cutting development time by reusing existing grid connections, land, and industrial infrastructure.
Texas has suspended 17 data center construction permits and shut down automated portal that rubber-stamped projects
Texas has suspended 17 data center construction permits and shut down the automated portal used to approve them
Embodied Emissions of 2.5D and 3D Scaling in Chipletized GPUs for Low-Carbon AI
GPU compute resources are scaling to support growing AI workloads, leading to further rises in the climate change impact of hyperscale data centers that rely on high-performance GPUs. To model how packaging decisions impact the carbon footprint we have estimated the embodied emissions (EE) of a chiplet-based GPU that…
Amazon bows to local backlash over AI data centers, scraps plans to build four new facilities in Northern Virginia
Amazon has ditched its plans to build four new data centers in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, following an outcry from local residents and officials. The land will now be repurposed for mixed and residential use.
Wolves roam into Finnish villages after Google destroys 1,300 acres of forest for AI data centers
Wolves, who used to live in the forests recently cleared for Google data center development, are now roaming into Finnish villages nearby.
Chip Industry Week In Review
CHIPS Act $389M to power chips, vertical GaN, materials; Micron's memory roadmap; Nvidia expands supply chain capacity; Tenstorrent raises $1.5B; China NAND fabs; 800V power for AI data centers; Intel advances Arizona fab; China orders +$35B in Nvidia GPUs. The post Chip Industry Week In Review appeared first on…
Three Physical Walls Are Hitting AI Datacenter Infrastructure at the Same Time - And the Compound Effects Are Worse
From Cloud AI to Edge AI: How BIWIN Enables the Next Generation of Storage and Memory Solutions
See how BIWIN’s SSD, embedded storage, and memory portfolio supports faster, efficient AI from cloud data centers to edge wearables. The post From Cloud AI to Edge AI: How BIWIN Enables the Next Generation of Storage and Memory Solutions appeared first on EE Times.
Deepx Building Open Software Ecosystem to Scale Physical AI Beyond the Data Center
Deepx is combining low-power AI accelerators and portable software with industry partnerships to bring physical AI into production. The post Deepx Building Open Software Ecosystem to Scale Physical AI Beyond the Data Center appeared first on EE Times.
Google’s TPUs for AI workloads now run in Meta's data centers
Google’s TPUs now serve AI in production at Meta, through new open-source engines that run PyTorch models natively on the chips.
Everspin Expands MRAM Push into AI Servers, Data Centers, Satellite Systems
In an exclusive interview, Everspin CEO Sanjeev Aggarwal discusses MRAM opportunities amid NOR flash supply constraints. The post Everspin Expands MRAM Push into AI Servers, Data Centers, Satellite Systems appeared first on EE Times.
Trump announces mandate forcing AI data centers to pay energy dividends to the local community
Trump's latest post on Truth Social announces his plans to make data centers more popular among local communities.
Qualcomm to cut jobs globally in "performance-based" layoffs, as company pivots to AI data center and edge computing markets
Qualcomm will begin performance-based layoffs worldwide in November as the chipmaker reallocates resources toward AI infrastructure, data centers, automotive, PCs, and edge computing, amid weaker consumer electronics demand.
Why Chip Design AI Benchmarks Must Go Beyond Functional Correctness
Demand for custom silicon is rising as physical AI, data centers, automotive systems, and edge devices require architectures optimized for specific workloads, memory bandwidth, latency, and energy efficiency. Delivering these designs requires teams to coordinate heterogeneous compute blocks, complex interconnects, and…
NVIDIA, Nokia and Leading Telecom Operators Turn Networks Into Distributed Intelligence Platforms
NVIDIA today announced that leading global telecom operators are turning their networks into distributed intelligence platforms, adding NVIDIA accelerated computing to centralized data centers, metro sites and cell sites so they can serve models and applications closer to the people, businesses and machines that use…
CoolIT and Stäubli bring liquid cooling to pluggable optics
CoolIT Systems and Stäubli are extending direct-to-plug liquid cooling to high-power optical transceivers used in AI data centres. The approach combines CoolIT’s CP-OSFP cold plate with Stäubli’s Mini Quick Disconnect (Mini QD) technology, developed in collaboration with Ciena, to address the thermal demands of…
Dell CEO Says the Memory Shortage Will Get Worse in 2027
Michael Dell doesn't think the memory shortage is anywhere near over. Speaking with The Wall Street Journal, Dell's chairman and CEO said things will get worse next year, as the AI data center buildout keeps soaking up DRAM and HBM supply. According to him, the bottleneck for Dell isn't demand, since the company is…
US restarts three shut-down nuclear reactors to feed AI data centers
The U.S. government is helping fund projects to bring nuclear reactors back online in an attempt to provide more energy capacity to AI data centers.
Datacenters 2027: The Year of Acceleration, +50GW in a Single Year
60GW Under Construction, SemiAnalysis Leading Indicators, 1.3T of Lease Contracts Signed YTD, The Shortage Could Move to Chips
300-plus local data center bans have only delayed just three US projects
SemiAnalysis mapped more than 300 local data center moratoriums against the US pipeline and found only three projects actually delayed.
Just How Rosy Is That Datacenter Buildout Forecast?
AMD debuts Helion reference design for agentic AI servers with up to 32,768 Zen 6 ‘Venice’ cores
At the OCP Global Summit, AMD revealed Helion, a rack-scale reference design for agentic AI that can house up to 32,768 Zen 6 CPU cores.
Nvidia reportedly halts GeForce RTX 5090 production in favor of AI data center and professional GPUs
Nvidia reportedly discontinues GeForce RTX 5090-series products leaving GB202 for data center and professional graphics boards. GeForce RTX 5080 24 GB rumored to become de-facto flagship from the green camp for a while.
Kioxia unveils E1.L SSDs for hyperscalers with up to 122.88TB capacity
Kioxia's LD4-series SSDs can store up to 122.88TB of data in a compact form-factor, but its performance remains a mystery.
Growing Pains: How Distributed AI Training Changes The Network Between Datacenters
SPONSORED FEATURE: While linking the GPUs in a datacenter is a challenge, coordinating thousands of them to work efficiently over hundreds of kilometers presents a new set of difficulties.
When One Datacenter Is No Longer Enough
SPONSORED POST: Why training AI across multiple sites is creating a new networking challenge
Why Everyone's Building AI Chips in Korea // The AI Hardware Podcast S2E12
South Korea's AI chip scene is booming - DEEPX, HyperAccel, Mobilint, FuriosaAI, and Rebellions are all racing to carve out a niche between the edge and the data center. Ian Cutress and Sally Ward-Foxton give their honest takes on which companies have the traction, funding, and roadmap to actually make it - including…
OpenAI’s Jalapeño ASICs are deployed alongside AMD EPYC ‘Turin’ CPUs as hosts, not Nvidia's Vera
OpenAI chose to pair rack-scale deployments of its Jalapeño ASIC with AMD EPYC Turin CPUs, not the wave of high-performance agentic chips like Arm’s AGI or Nvidia’s Vera.
The Microwatt Chip Race // The AI Hardware Podcast S2E11
Forget the data center - the real AI action might be happening in microwatts. Sally Ward-Foxton and Ian Cutress dig into the tiniest AI chips on the market, from analog compute upstarts to ARM's revived Ethos NPU line, and debate why an "AI ASIC" isn't really an ASIC at all. Plus: a mysterious defense-linked startup…
The Chinese AI Infrastructure Boom: Introducing the SemiAnalysis China Datacenter Model
1,000+ facilities across 60+ operators mapped, built retail-first and flipped by AI, largest hyperscaler leases 1/5 national capacity, 100MW in 12 months, Eastern Data Western Compute
How Low Can AI Power Go? // The AI Hardware Show S2E11
Forget the data center - the real AI action might be happening in a coin-cell battery near you. Ian Cutress and Sally Ward-Foxton dig into six ultra-low-power chip architectures built to run always-on AI for years on almost nothing, from analog processors that skip the ADC entirely to sparse compute engines that only…
Six Chips Fighting for the Edge // The AI Hardware Podcast S2E10
Edge AI doesn't need a data center - it's already running in retail stores, laptops, and microcontrollers all around you. In part two of this edge AI deep-dive, Ian Cutress and Sally Ward-Foxton go off-script to talk through seven chip companies - Axelera AI, Kalray, Kinara, EdgeCortix, MemryX, SiMa.ai, and…
This is why I love my job
Day one of the AI Infrastructure Summit drew 9,000 people and a show floor twice the size of last year. I interviewed David Patterson on stage for the day one keynote, and he points to memory as the next limit for AI systems. On my floor walk I cover new liquid cooling tech, Quake on RISC-V, more chips, and why…
Everyone Says Datacenter Moratoriums Are Killing the US Buildout. We disagree
20GW sits inside a restricted local boundary, 1,525MW actually slips, 2.3GW nationwide including New York
A Brain Too Big to Carry — On-Device vs Datacenter Inference
Robot Models, Silicon Efficiency, Jetson Thor vs. B300 TCO, Deployments, The Network Wall
Deploying The Newest AI Hardware in Datacenters
Beyond NVIDIA and AMD
What is So Hard About Behind-The-Meter Power For Datacenters? Part 1
Dumb Science Experiments vs. Money Printing Machines
The ABF substrate data center roadmap — solving the supply crunch and material wall beneath every AI accelerator
ABF substrates underpin today’s most advanced AI chips, but soaring demand and expanding accelerator packages are creating new supply and technical bottlenecks that the industry is currently racing to resolve
HPE Sees No Customer Pushback On Rising Datacenter Equipment Costs
Dell Says AI Will Drive 75 Percent Of Datacenter Demand By 2030
AI data center investment projected to hit $32 trillion by 2050
These investments aren't massive one-time expenses — data center operators are expected to upgrade their expensive GPUs and related infrastructure every four to six years, as new semiconductor technologies arrive on the market.
The E.U.’s AI Drive Undermines Its Own Chip Strategy
This story was originally published by Tech Policy Press. The European Union’s push for technological sovereignty faces an uncomfortable contradiction. As the E.U. rolls out AI factories, gigafactories, and new data centers, it is creating a surge in demand for the advanced semiconductors that underpin artificial…
Hot Chips 2026: Nvidia breaks down 88-core Vera CPU
Nvidia has provided more color on its Vera CPU for agentic data centers at Hot Chips 2026, showcasing the benefits of spatial multithreading and the power benefits of the LPDDR5X memory system.
Virginia county with 250 data centers begins to rein in building
Loudoun County recently changed its zoning policy which treated data centers as office parks. These projects now have to go through an approval process from the people and the local government, a significant change after more than 25 years of easy approvals.
Identifying the Root Cause of Electronics Failures With Simulation Apps
This article is brought to you by COMSOL. In pursuit of improved range, greater reliability, and faster charging, electric vehicles are driving the demand for high-voltage electronics. Other applications driving this demand include wind farms, data centers, and server farms, to name a few. As the interest for…
AI Hosts And Sandboxes Save Intel’s Datacenter CPU Cookies
The Aspirations Of HPE And Dell In The Quantum-Classical HPC Datacenter
Stacking Chips Sideways Gives AI More Memory
GPUs and other big AI chips just can’t get enough memory. Today’s data center computers stack DRAM 12 dies high. But as memory makers try to build higher stacks to pack in more bits and bandwidth, experts worry this high bandwidth-memory (HBM) will trap enough heat to cook itself into oblivion. That will be especially…