Advancements in semiconductor technology, GPU development, and data center infrastructure that power AI computing capabilities.
Atlanta-based startup Atomic-6 has introduced ODC.space, a marketplace that allows organizations to purchase on-demand orbital data center capacity, addressing AI-era energy and cooling challenges by moving compute into orbit.
Cango Inc. has launched the official digital portal for its subsidiary EcoHash Technology LLC, marking the start of commercial operations in high-performance computing and AI inference.
Eaton announced plans to open a new 370,000-square-foot manufacturing facility near Omaha, Nebraska, to expand production of medium-voltage switchgear for data centers and utilities. The $30 million investment aims to address rising demand driven by AI data center growth and will create over 200 jobs.
Rebellions has partnered with SK Telecom and Arm to develop AI inference infrastructure for sovereign AI and telecom data centers. The collaboration integrates Rebellions’ RebelCard accelerator with Arm’s AGI CPU to create high-performance, energy-efficient servers.
CoreWeave has announced a $21 billion expansion of its AI infrastructure agreement with Meta Platforms, extending their partnership through 2032 to provide cloud capacity across multiple locations.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company's custom chip business has reached a $20 billion annual run rate and that its satellite network Amazon Leo has secured major contracts ahead of launch. He also confirmed $200 billion in planned capital spending for 2026 to expand AWS data centers.
Intel and Google announced a multiyear collaboration to advance AI and cloud infrastructure, focusing on the continued use of Intel Xeon processors and co-development of custom infrastructure processing units to boost efficiency and scalability.
SambaNova and Intel have announced a joint AI hardware solution combining GPUs, Intel Xeon 6 CPUs, and SambaNova RDUs for large-scale agentic AI inference, set for release in the second half of 2026.
Nscale has announced plans to build a data center in Harjavalta, Finland, with Fortum as its site development partner, focusing on grid connection and permitting support for the project.
Phantom Space Corporation has acquired Thermal Management Technologies to enhance its Phantom Cloud orbital data center program, bringing satellite thermal expertise in-house.
Hyperscale Data announced it received $26.6 million in cash following the resolution of litigation involving a former subsidiary, with funds distributed between its subsidiaries Ault Lending and RiskOn International.
EvoChip.ai announced benchmark results showing its AltiCoreAI technology achieving up to 41 times faster inference performance than optimized neural networks on standard CPUs, according to a press release. The benchmark, conducted with SidePath, compared AltiCoreAI to TensorFlow-based models across multiple datasets.
Microsoft, Google, and Meta are investing in large-scale natural gas power plants across the southern United States to supply electricity for their expanding AI data centers, amid rising equipment costs and potential fuel supply constraints.
IBM and Arm have announced a strategic collaboration to develop dual-architecture hardware designed to improve the flexibility, reliability, and security of enterprise systems running AI and data-intensive workloads.
French AI startup Mistral AI has obtained $830 million in debt financing to fund a new data center near Paris. The facility will use Nvidia GPUs to power AI model training and inference, and is expected to become operational in the second quarter of 2026.
Huawei’s 950PR AI chip has completed successful customer testing, with ByteDance and Alibaba planning to place orders as the company prepares for mass production later this year.
atNorth has joined the European Data Center Association to collaborate on sustainability goals and support the development of best practices for Europe's digital infrastructure.
F5 has elevated its membership to Gold within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, expanding collaboration on open source projects such as OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes Ingress, and Gateway API to enhance secure networking and AI observability across multicloud environments.
atNorth has activated a heat reuse partnership with Kesko Corporation, supplying recycled heat from its FIN02 data center in Espoo to a nearby retail store. The project reduces Kesko’s district heating emissions by about 200 tons of CO2 annually.
Sungrow has signed a 1 GWh energy storage agreement with Romanian energy company ENEVO, marking a major expansion of energy storage projects in the country. The agreement includes deployments using Sungrow's PowerTitan 2.0 liquid-cooled battery system.
Weekly coverage of AI hardware developments including chips, GPUs, cloud platforms, and data center technology.
