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RCRTech engages industry communities through research-driven content, conversations, and connections. Building on 40+ years of RCR Wireless News excellence, RCRTech delivers trusted insights informing and connecting technology buyers with innovators shaping connectivity and compute.
Juan Pedro TomásPhil Wong, partner at KPMG, told RCR Wireless News that companies investing in AI infrastructure must balance speed, cost, and coordination In sum – what to know: Policy accelerates AI buildout – Federal programs and Department of Energy actions are expediting land access and permitting to keep the U.S. at the forefront of global AI infra growth. States compete for …
In sum – what to know: OpenAI explores Canada expansion – The company is in talks with government and industry partners about securing local data center capacity to strengthen the country’s AI ecosystem. Part of global AI buildout – Similar to projects in Norway, Germany, and the U.K., OpenAI aims to align infrastructure growth with its “OpenAI for Countries” program. …
Susana SchwartzThe staggering size and circular nature of recent deals raises both hopes and concerns, so keeping track will inform industry and investment decisions about where to go from here. In sum – what to know: Highly concentrated market – The last 30 days has seen a small number of major tech firms making enormous AI infrastructure deals, unprecedented in size …
Evroc’s founder and CEO, Mattias Åström, told RCR Wireless News that the data center initiative aligns with the firm’s mission to drive European digital sovereignty In sum – what to know: Nuclear-powered pilot – Blykalla, evroc, and Studsvik will explore co-locating SMRs and AI infrastructure at Studsvik’s licensed nuclear site in Nyköping. Clean baseload energy – The plan leverages SMR technology to supply …
Sean Kinney One stop at a time Author’s note: I’m one of those AuDHD people you encounter in tech, media and tech media. CES and Las Vegas are exhausting, but I wanted to get this written while still having some fun. So, I landed on a format where I write a section, have a drink, take the monorail one stop, then repeat. …
Christian de LooperYou don’t have to own the hardware for AI. But should you? Every organization building with AI eventually has to decide whether to own the hardware or rent it. This isn’t necessarily always a financial calculation. It touches data security, talent pipelines, hardware obsolescence, and the fundamentally unpredictable nature of AI workloads. A startup spinning up its first large language …
Will open-source chips democratize the industry? In the early 1990s, a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds released a free operating system kernel called Linux. This new operating system, together with projects like Apache, proved that collaborative, open-source development could produce software that competes with and surpasses propriety alternatives. These days, Linux runs on everything from smartphones to supercomputers, and open-source …
Non-exclusive agreement transfers key talent and technology while Groq remains independent In sum – what we know: Nvidia and chip startup Groq have announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement reportedly worth around $20 billion. The announcement turned heads immediately — not just because of the price tag, which clocks in at nearly three times Groq’s $6.9 billion valuation from just months earlier, but …
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