Chips & Data Centers

Advancements in semiconductor technology, GPU development, and data center infrastructure that power AI computing capabilities.

Nov 10, 2026

Fluidstack starts building its $1 billion-plus Solis Arx AI data centre campus in Virginia

The AI cloud firm's 99-acre campus in Wythe County will be built in phases, mostly by the end of 2027, with Fluidstack covering power infrastructure upgrade costs.

Nov 10, 2026

Boosteroid, Gaw Capital and Firebird AI plan 480 MW of data centres in Kazakhstan's Data Center Valley

The preliminary agreements form phase two of Kazakhstan's government-backed project for up to 1 GW of data centre capacity in the Pavlodar region by 2029.

Nov 10, 2026

TSMC board approves up to $500 million each in Anthropic's IPO and OpenAI

TSMC will buy Anthropic shares at the IPO price and OpenAI preferred stock, and approved $40.9 billion in capital appropriations and a $500 million strategic investment company.

Nov 10, 2026

Deutsche Telekom expands its Munich AI factory by 20 MW with Nvidia B300 GPUs after the first phase sold out

Deutsche Telekom says the Industrial AI Cloud at Munich's Tucherpark, live since February, was fully booked within seven months; the expansion adds Blackwell Ultra GPUs.

Nov 10, 2026

Study links new AI-era data centres to delayed coal plant retirement and 1.96 gigatons of extra CO2

A Nature Climate Change paper finds coal plants exposed to data centres built after 2020 face lower retirement risk, with each standard deviation of exposure tied to about 1.7% longer life.

Nov 10, 2026

Q.ANT and IONOS open a pilot for running AI models on photonic processors in a German cloud

Selected developers get free access to Q.ANT's second-generation photonic NPU through IONOS bare metal servers in Germany from November 2026.

Nov 10, 2026

House Democrats ask Commerce to halt advanced AI chip exports to China over reported intelligence ties to Nvidia's CEO

Reps. Meeks, Amo and Kamlager-Dove asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick what the department knew about reported links between Jensen Huang and potential Chinese intelligence operatives.

Nov 10, 2026

SoftBank posts ¥768 billion half-year loss, including ¥597 billion charge on US AI data center power equipment

SoftBank's six-month loss includes a $3.73 billion hit from revising power equipment purchases for US AI data centers; its OpenAI stake was valued at $99.6 billion.

Nov 10, 2026

Dresden's Sparxity, formerly SpiNNcloud, reaches $90 million total funding with Lockheed Martin and GlobalFoundries backing

Sparxity closed a Series A led by ICM HPQC Fund for chips built for sparse AI workloads, and has a letter of intent with Deutsche Telekom.

Nov 10, 2026

Marble launches with $11 million seed led by Polychain to finance GPU operators and neoclouds

Founded by former BitGo and Galaxy executives, Marble is building private credit for independent AI cloud and GPU operators and a trading platform that includes compute forwards.

Nov 10, 2026

Goldwater Institute sues Missoula over data centre zoning, citing Montana's Right to Compute Act

The suit on behalf of small AI and cloud provider CubCloud AI says Missoula's October ordinance confines server facilities to a zoning class that does not exist in the city.

Nov 10, 2026

Netcompany and EIFO invest DKK 500 million in Denmark's Gefion AI supercomputer operator

Netcompany puts in DKK 325 million and EIFO DKK 150 million, leaving the Novo Nordisk Foundation with 52.6% of the Danish Centre for AI Innovation as Gefion nears full capacity.

Nov 10, 2026

Staera Semiconductor raises $4.6 million to build LED optical links into AI chips

Staera Semiconductor, formerly New Silicon Corporation, emerged from stealth with a $4.6 million pre-seed round led by Openspace Capital for its Lightwire on-chip optical interconnect.

Nov 10, 2026

WhiteFiber signs over $700 million in AI cloud contracts as its 40 MW North Carolina site goes fully live

WhiteFiber's third-quarter revenue rose 19% to $24 million and its net loss widened to $101.4 million, as all 40 MW of contracted capacity at NC-1 came online.

Nov 10, 2026

EU voids all AI gigafactory bids for technical reasons and asks applicants to resubmit

EuroHPC JU says no draft or submitted AI gigafactory tender in its system will be considered; medium bids are due 6 December 2026 and large bids by early February 2027.

Nov 10, 2026

TSMC October revenue jumps 59.7% to NT$586.9 billion on AI chip demand

TSMC reported October revenue of NT$586.89 billion ($17.88 billion), up 59.7% from a year earlier and 14.7% from September, CNBC reports.

Nov 10, 2026

Texas Instruments adds agentic AI to CCStudio, with a skill to migrate code from rival chips

TI's CCStudio now feeds device data to AI agents through MCP servers so they can write, build, flash and debug embedded code, and a migration skill TI says cuts ports from months to days.

Nov 9, 2026

Jensen Huang pulls out of ElevenLabs Summit and Anthropic CEO Forum after admitting an affair

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang withdrew from the ElevenLabs Summit and Anthropic CEO Forum amid an investigation into his relationship with a person suspected of spying for China.

Nov 9, 2026

Israel plans a sovereign AI stack with 300,000 GPUs and its own foundation model

Israel plans to build domestic AI infrastructure with about 300,000 GPUs, two gigawatts of power capacity and a national foundation model.

Nov 9, 2026

S&P cuts Akamai to junk-grade BB+ over debt-funded $11.6 billion Anthropic compute deal

S&P Global Ratings downgraded Akamai Technologies from BBB- to BB+ after the company chose debt financing to support its $11.6 billion Anthropic cloud contract.

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