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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 TomásCoreWeave added 120 MW of new data center capacity in Q3, bringing its total to 590 MW, and grew its contracted power portfolio to 2.9 GW In sum – what to know: Revenue backlog doubled to $55.6B – CoreWeave added $25 billion in new contracted revenue, citing rapid demand growth across AI cloud workloads. Capex cut to $12–14B due to …
James BlackmanAs enterprises scale AI workloads, the underlying fiber network becomes a critical enabler – not just to move data, but doing so smartly and reliably. The second part of our 20-point guide explores the subtler dimensions of AI readiness: programmable and intelligent infrastructure, sustainable edge integration, governance and openness, and service assurance. In sum – what to know: Intelligence – …
Ooredoo Kuwait, in collaboration with Nvidia, has started equipping its local data center with Nvidia H200 GPU units In sum – what to know: Kuwait’s first AI data center launched – Ooredoo Kuwait unveiled the nation’s first sovereign AI-enabled facility powered by Nvidia’s H200 GPUs, supporting Kuwait’s Vision 2035 digital strategy. Infrastructure to enable AI sovereignty – The data center …
The pair will enhance Airtel Cloud by combining Airtel’s telecom-grade platform with IBM’s AI-ready infrastructure and software In sum – what to know: IBM–Airtel alliance targets regulated sectors – The partnership will expand AI and hybrid cloud adoption across India’s banking, healthcare, and government industries with secure, compliant, and sovereign cloud infrastructure. Power11 systems bring AI-ready performance – IBM’s new …
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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