OpenAI unveils its first custom AI inference chip, 'Jalapeño,' claiming industry-leading throughput per kilowatt and lower token latency than competing systems across major model families, while simultaneously expanding its data center infrastructure and driving down AI costs through compounding efficiency gains in hardware, software, and model optimization.
Mistral AI and HUMAIN are launching a multi-hundred-million-euro partnership to build sovereign AI infrastructure across Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, developing localized Arabic language, cybersecurity, and voice AI models for regulated industries including finance, telecom, and the public sector.
OpenAI loses a key infrastructure executive as head of data centers Chris Malone departs the AI giant, with no reason given for his exit amid the company's massive data center expansion efforts.
Opposition to data centers is surging across America, with 61% of Americans now against new construction in their area, prompting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to declare the industry 'dug their own grave' by failing to win community support, as governors in Texas, Pennsylvania, and New York impose new restrictions that …
Elon Musk is pushing to launch AI data centers into orbit, claiming unlimited solar power could make space-based computing cheaper than Earth-based systems within three years, though experts warn massive technical and cost hurdles make his aggressive timeline highly unlikely.
SpaceX and Nvidia are partnering to launch orbital AI data centers by Q4 2027, Thomson Reuters debuts a proprietary legal AI model outperforming top competitors, and Chinese state-linked hackers have more than doubled their cyberattacks after weaponizing DeepSeek's low-cost, low-guardrail capabilities.
Micron Technology is investing $10 billion over the next decade in a new Boise, Idaho AI memory research lab, positioning itself to directly challenge Samsung and SK Hynix in next-generation memory technologies, including HBM4, as surging AI-driven demand fuels record data center revenue.
AI's explosive growth is crashing into real-world limits on power, land, and water, forcing chipmakers and data center operators to urgently rethink infrastructure as a decade-long enterprise adoption wave threatens to overwhelm global compute capacity.
Nvidia deploys a $500 billion war chest to dominate AI beyond chip sales, backing OpenAI's Ohio data center and partnering with Wall Street to finance AI infrastructure as CEO Jensen Huang positions the company as the financial backbone of the global AI buildout.
AI agent costs are set to surge fivefold by 2028 as enterprises rush to adopt the technology despite hidden expenses and unpredictable returns, with Gartner warning of an 'inference paradox' where efficiency gains actually drive higher spending, while Nvidia's $105 billion financing of OpenAI's Ohio data center highlights just how …