Today, we kick off the inaugural AI Infrastructure Daily from RCRTech, your go-to rundown of the biggest AI news. From billion-dollar data center bets to global power plays, AI infrastructure is the name of the game — and our team will be following every move and bringing it to your inbox. Where do we start? Anthropic wants major U.S. investments in compute and power to enable AI, while xAI and AWS are already pouring billions into chips and next-gen networks. The Trump White House just jolted the landscape with a massive push to speed up AI infrastructure deployment and scale back red tape. The road to an AI future is open, and it looks like for better or worse, the guardrails are gone. Buckle up!
Kelly Hill
Executive Editor
RCRTech
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Action plan for American AI: What’s in the White House’s sweeping AI Action Plan? Federal support for American AI tech and data centers. What’s out? Just about any limitations on AI development. Also, LLMs that use DEI in responses.
Stargate gets even bigger: OpenAI and Oracle expand Stargate AI infrastructure by 4.5 GW to support U.S. AI dominance and create over 100,000 jobs across construction and operations nationwide.
Telco edge AI advantage: The rush of infrastructure-building to serve varied AI use cases at the edge is making a new virtue of old venues — of the type telcos have anyway, going from big regional aggregation hubs and metro exchanges to dusty co/lo racks, and even leftover capacity in cell towers.
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Anthropic on American AI: Anthropic has its own take on what America needs for AI. It calls for “substantial investments in computing power and electricity” to make it possible to build artificial intelligence in the U.S.
India’s AI network boost: Tata Communications and AWS are deploying one of India’s largest AI-ready networks to enable low-latency generative AI, secure data analytics, and cloud innovation nationwide.
xAI raises $12B for chips: $10 billion here, $12 billion there — Elon Musk’s xAI is burning through incredible amounts of cash in a rush to build massive data centers housing Nvidia chips to fuel Grok.
OpenAI’s UK deal: OpenAI and the U.K. government have signed a new strategic partnership that includes an expansion of OpenAI’s London office, more information sharing and a potential boost to data centers.
Agentic AI in banking: Financial firms are rapidly adopting agentic AI to boost efficiency, service, security, and compliance. Nvidia outlines how banks are using these systems to accelerate decision-making and secure digital transactions.
Kibbles & bits & AI: Pet food manufacturers are transforming operations through automation, AI, and IoT to improve efficiency, lower labor costs, enhance quality and safety, and so on. It’s the same old story, just cuter.
Mitigating enterprise AI risk: Compliance isn’t enough. IEEE’s Usha Jagannathan maps an enterprise AI risk playbook: Tackle bias, model drift, data quality, privacy, and accountability to earn trust — and business value.
No-go AI infra zones: Trump’s AI data center plan puts critical infrastructure in drone-prone war zones. Building the digital future in the Gulf risks catastrophe, entanglement — and ignoring lessons from Taiwan. An opinion piece in the Washington Post explains.
