Nov 11, 2026
Meta infrastructure chief Santosh Janardhan to step down
Santosh Janardhan will step down as Meta's infrastructure chief and joint head of engineering. Dave Brown, a former Amazon executive, will replace him.
Chips & Data Centers
Advancements in semiconductor technology, GPU development, and data center infrastructure that power AI computing capabilities.
Nov 13
Vertiv launches power panel for 100 kW-plus AI racks
Nov 13
DOE's AI-FORTS program builds AI cyber defences for the energy grid
Nov 13
Huang called Nvidia's interim CEO "a deer in the headlights", WSJ reports
Nov 13
SEMIFIVE's custom AI chip orders jump 437% to a record quarter
Nov 11, 2026
CoreWeave Raises 2026 Revenue Outlook After 168% Q3 Growth
CoreWeave reported $3.66 billion in third quarter revenue and raised its full year 2026 forecast to between $13 billion and $13.3 billion.
Nov 11, 2026
AWS Opens Chile Cloud Region to Select Customers
AWS has opened its first cloud region in Chile to select customers and plans general availability by the end of 2026. Amazon will invest more than $4 billion in the region.
Nov 11, 2026
Pew finds 60% of Americans uncomfortable with local data centers
A Pew Research Center analysis finds growing US opposition to data centers as the number of facilities and their electricity use increase.
Nov 11, 2026
CoreWeave Launches Managed PostgreSQL Database in Kubernetes Clusters
CoreWeave Database is a managed PostgreSQL service that runs alongside AI training and inference workloads in CoreWeave Kubernetes Service clusters.
Nov 11, 2026
MasTec to Deploy Gritt Robots on US Solar Projects
MasTec will deploy Gritt robotic attachments on utility scale solar projects across several US states after testing the systems at active sites.
Nov 11, 2026
Virginia Democrats Propose AI Rules and Data Center Limits
Virginia Democrats proposed civil penalties involving AI generated child sexual abuse material, restrictions on AI wage setting and tighter oversight of large data centers as part of their 2027 legislative agenda.
Nov 11, 2026
Torus Raises $500 Million for Modular AI Data Centers
Torus raised $500 million to manufacture Foundry, a modular system that combines battery storage with AI inference computing.
Nov 11, 2026
OpenAI adds GPT-6 Luna API processing in Japan
OpenAI now lets approved API customers process GPT-6 Luna requests and inference in Japan, subject to Zero Data Retention requirements.
Nov 11, 2026
Kraft Group Considers $16 Billion Massachusetts Data Center Campus
Kraft Group and Unified Global Packaging Group are considering a 900 MW data center campus in Sutton, Massachusetts, with ten buildings planned by 2033.
Nov 11, 2026
HUMAIN Secures $667 Million for AI Computing and Energy Infrastructure
Saudi Arabia's National Infrastructure Fund and HUMAIN signed two financing agreements worth up to $667 million for GPUs and energy infrastructure supporting AI data centers.
Nov 11, 2026
Ottawa Voters Approve Ten Year Data Center Moratorium
Voters in Ottawa, Kansas, approved a ten year moratorium on data centers requiring more than 25MW of capacity. The measure received 71.85 percent support.
Nov 11, 2026
Vodacom Seeks Partners for African AI Data Centres
Vodacom Group will seek partners to build AI data centres in markets such as South Africa and Kenya, CEO Shameel Joosub told Bloomberg.
Nov 11, 2026
Mavria raises $130 million for factory built AI data center infrastructure
Mavria raised $130 million across preseed and seed rounds to manufacture standardized infrastructure for AI data centers in the United States.
Nov 11, 2026
Riverside blocks data center proposals during AI policy review
Riverside will not accept data center proposals while a city working group studies AI and drafts policy recommendations.
Nov 11, 2026
Anthropic Adds Up to $4.3 Billion to Microsoft Compute Deal
Anthropic increased its Microsoft compute commitment to between $47.2 billion and $49.2 billion. A separate $34.9 billion agreement with Lambda can now be terminated after Lambda missed a facility lease deadline.
Nov 11, 2026
Atomarine Raises $19 Million for Floating Nuclear Data Centers
Atomarine raised $19 million to develop floating data centers powered by nuclear reactors mounted on ships. It plans an initial deployment in 2031 or 2032.
Nov 11, 2026
Anthropic Says Claude Mythos Got Claude Running on AMD GPUs in Three Days
Anthropic says Claude Mythos got Claude processing prompts on AMD MI355X GPUs in about three days, work that used to take dozens of engineers six to 12 months.
Nov 11, 2026
Armada and Johnson Controls Start Leviathan Production in Dublin
Armada and Johnson Controls have started continuous production of Leviathan modular data centers at a 90,000 square foot Johnson Controls facility in Dublin.
Nov 11, 2026
AMD Makes 6th Gen EPYC Zen 6 Server CPUs Generally Available, Targets Agentic AI
AMD made its 6th Gen EPYC Zen 6 server processors generally available, with systems shipping from server vendors and Azure and Oracle cloud instances coming soon.
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