Tag: Data Centers
SoftBank taps junk bond buyers for its next OpenAI payment
The Japanese investor plans more than $11B in high-yield debt to fund a stake payment due in October.
Nvidia starts certifying the power gear behind its AI factories
A new qualification program puts batteries and cooling units through Nvidia's DSX reference requirements.
Trump promises an AI Force and a czar chosen for high IQ
The president used Truth Social to announce a new AI Force and promise a czar picked for brains.
AI super PACs pour $1M into a quiet South Dakota race
Groups tied to AI labs and their investors are spending heavily to keep a friendly senator in place.
Virginia ties data center growth to a new AI task force
Executive Order 22 bans secrecy clauses, ends by-right approval for large projects and orders a rapid AI response…
Lightmatter halves fiber counts with a bidirectional optical module
Lightmatter has joined the Open CPX MSA and shipped a module that puts both directions of an optical…
House votes 417-3 to shift grid upgrade costs onto data centers
The House has passed the Ratepayer Protection Act, which tells state regulators to make large data center customers…
Nvidia’s Vera Rubin racks triple throughput in first MLPerf run
Nvidia's first MLPerf Inference submission for its Vera Rubin NVL72 rack reports up to 3.7x the throughput of…
Rune raises $40M to put GPUs at solar farms
Rune has raised $40M for a data center design that installs behind the meter at renewable plants, capturing…
Crusoe lands Perplexity for training and serving on GB300 racks
The multi-year deal puts Perplexity's full model lifecycle on Crusoe Cloud and hands enterprise AI tools to Crusoe's…
Nvidia pitches power efficiency as the new AI data center metric
At a Santa Clara event that doubled in size, Nvidia pitched a power optimization layer it says delivers…
Crusoe doubles down on Tulsa with a second components plant
Crusoe has opened a second Tulsa factory making the switchgear and busbar that sit underneath its AI campuses.