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Equinix's Inference Exchange Arrives in Q1 2027, With No Price Attached
Inference Exchange pairs Nvidia reference architectures with Together AI across Equinix data centres. No price, no launc...
Texas Froze a 474-Gigawatt Data-Centre Queue on a 91-Gigawatt Grid
Abbott has halted new ERCOT interconnection agreements and ordered an audit of the queue. Three recent cases show what h...
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Google Bought 396 Megawatts of Geothermal That Arrives in 2028
Cape Station in Utah comes online in 2028, with an option on 600 more megawatts through June 2030. Geothermal runs at a...
Why AI Training Is Reviving Optical Circuit Switching
Nvidia has now put US$6bn into photonics components and US$125m into a switching startup. It does not sell optical switc...
Southeast Asia's First Data-Centre Protest Was About Dust, Not Water
Nikkei reports data-centre opposition spreading across Asia. The region's first protest was in Johor in February, and th...
Tape Shipments Fell 9 Per Cent, Then Rose 57 Per Cent the Next Quarter
LTO shipments fell to 160.3 exabytes in 2025 and Q1 2026 came in 57 per cent above the year before. Sony and Fujifilm ar...
Eight Data-Centre Turbines, 2.5 Million People and US$53m to US$99m a Year
Data centres are installing on-site gas turbines to bypass multi-year grid connection queues. That makes the emissions t...
VMware's Answer to DRAM Prices Replaces Memory With a Drive That Wears Out
Cold pages move from DRAM to NVMe rated at three drive writes per day. The saving is real, and it moves cost from a capi...
An AI Super PAC Is Advertising in Kansas, Ohio and Wisconsin. The Fight Is Zoning.
Federal AI law is written in Washington. Zoning, water withdrawal and ratepayer cost allocation are decided in county co...
China Supplies All the World's Erbium, and Erbium Is What Makes Long-Haul Fibre Work
Coverage of rare earths is written about magnets. The exposure that reaches a data centre runs through erbium, the dopan...
Nvidia Licenses NVLink So Rivals' Chips Run on Its Fabric
Licensing an interconnect to your competitors is not a revenue line. It means a rack of somebody else's accelerators sti...
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