Advancements in semiconductor technology, GPU development, and data center infrastructure that power AI computing capabilities.
NEXTDC requested an immediate trading halt while it assesses delayed power supply at its M3 data center in Melbourne and the possible effect on its fiscal 2027 guidance.
Electronic system design industry revenue reached $5.71 billion in the second quarter of 2026, up 12.2% from a year earlier.
ANSI roundtable participants called for better coordination of data center standards as AI increases demand for new power, cooling and computing systems.
Meta has completed the first phase of its Prometheus AI supercluster in Ohio and plans to expand the system from hundreds of thousands of GPUs to about 1 million.
American Electric Power, Amazon and X-energy will study a proposed 960 MW nuclear project at a former coal plant site in Sullivan County, Indiana.
National Taxpayers Union says state depreciation schedules can value data center servers far above their market price, increasing property tax bills for operators.
Tenstorrent closed a $1.5 billion Series E at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation, led by Trace Capital and Innovation X, to scale Galaxy server deployments and its chip IP licensing.
SC Capital Partners and NeoAI Cloud have invested in a 40 MW AI data centre in Pohang, South Korea, due for completion by the end of 2027, with a 260 MW second phase planned.
Microsoft will receive about 1,100 MW for its northwest Indiana data center campus under a 20 year agreement with NiSource beginning in 2028.
Goodix Technology introduced fingerprint authentication options that combine biometric matching with secure credential storage for AI and IoT devices.
Aolani signed nonbinding letters of intent for up to 500 MW of AI data center capacity across multiple sites in Malaysia, with operations targeted to begin in the second half of 2027.
PUFsecurity's PUFrt silicon security technology received OCP S.A.F.E. Scope 3 approval after an independent assessment of its resistance to physical attacks.
Sequora is a licensable processor core for running language models and other generative AI workloads directly on battery powered devices.
Wisconsin's economic development agency signed at least five nondisclosure agreements with AI data center developers, some months or years before projects became public.
Axelera AI is shipping Europa inference accelerators as chips and PCIe cards, with validated systems available from Dell Technologies and Supermicro.
Positron AI raised $875 million to fund its Asimov inference chip, Titan systems and manufacturing expansion. The financing values the company at $5 billion.
Linker Vision has introduced an ESG AI agent that simulates urban heat, shade coverage and tree planting options. A pilot projects that shade coverage could rise from 15.7% to more than 50% over 15 years.
GreenSquareDC has opened the first stage of its SYD1 data center in Western Sydney after converting a facility built in 1995. Sharon AI will deploy about 8,200 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs at the site.
Nscale investors are proposing a valuation of $16 billion to $19 billion, below the AI cloud company's target of about $30 billion.
Microsoft has withdrawn from a deal to anchor Nscale's planned data centre in Essex, where power supply delays could extend into the 2030s.
Weekly coverage of AI hardware developments including chips, GPUs, cloud platforms, and data center technology.