Texas is becoming a proving ground for the most fundamental AI infrastructure questions. Soon to overtake Virginia as the data center capital of the world, Texas has approximately 474 GWs …
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Anthropic has for the first time surpassed OpenAI in quarterly revenue, bringing in $11.6 billion in Q2 2026 compared to OpenAI’s $6.7 billion. The company is on track to generate …
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In this NY county, nuclear is an essential part of community, and soon, the budding AI industry
Today, I’m visiting the southeast shore of Lake Ontario to see New York’s Oswego nuclear facility. Here, Constellation Energy wants to add a newer small modular reactor in the same …
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With average deployed rack density now hitting 27kW, and AI clusters as dense as 100 kW, advanced fiber optics and passive optical connectivity are enabling facility designers and engineers to …
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Record-high copper prices of $6.60 per pound (as of publishing) will further accelerate the architectural transition from copper to fiber, as well as higher-voltage power delivery. Increasingly, data center architects …
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Nvidia has signed MoUs for $500 billion of private credit and private equity from six major Wall Street firms: Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR.
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Helios high-fidelity quantum computer to be installed in Oracle OCI AI data center
Quantinuum and Oracle today announced they will partner to physically place a high-fidelity quantum computer directly inside Oracle’s AI data center (as opposed to routing workloads through external network brokerage).
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Can data center developers ‘do better’ amid growing community opposition?
Opposition to data centers is now a major constraint for developers, with $130 billion to $170 billion in data center projects paused or stopped by community backlash.
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If Reuters reporting last week is correct, the Trump administration and FCC are considering a ban on Chinese-manufactured fiber-optic cables used in U.S. data centers. If that happens, what would …
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Financial analyst consensus for 2026 Capex across Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta comes in at around $750 billion – $890 billion. Consequently, the AI infrastructure bottlenecks go far beyond GPUs, …