TerraPower’s nuclear reactor has a secret weapon for powering AI data centers
Bill Gates‑founded TerraPower plans to use its molten‑salt reactor to supply steady, low‑cost power for future AI data centers.
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Bill Gates‑founded TerraPower plans to use its molten‑salt reactor to supply steady, low‑cost power for future AI data centers.
Groq, once an AI‑chipmaker, secured $350 million to transition into a neocloud provider of GPU and AI infrastructure services.
Uber partners with Zipline to deploy drone deliveries, aiming for one million daily drops by 2029 and expanding into dozens of U.S. cities.
Data center developer Iren has completed its first 50 MW liquid‑cooled building, Horizon 1, for Microsoft’s Childress campus, marking a milestone in the company’s AI cloud expansion.
AWS experienced a partial outage affecting the Equinix FR5 location in Frankfurt, disrupting services that rely on its cloud platform.
Akamai announced Q2 2026 updates to its cloud platform, adding AI‑centric networking, identity, Kubernetes, and observability features to support production AI applications.
CNBC reports that Nvidia’s push for AI infrastructure financing is under scrutiny as hyperscalers raise debt and leverage to fund data‑center expansion.
French startup Kog claims its software can unlock up to 30× faster LLM inference on existing GPUs, targeting enterprise AI workloads.
Skan AI, a context‑graph platform for enterprise AI, announced $63 million in funding co‑led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital, launching its Blueprint and Agents products.
NVIDIA announces partnerships with major financial institutions to create financing platforms for AI infrastructure, positioning AI factories as a new asset class.
Hackers deployed an autonomous AI system to carry out cyberattacks on Taiwan, marking the first known fully autonomous attack on government agencies.
Battery startup Form Energy secured $750 million to expand its iron‑air battery production, aiming to support the growing demand for long‑duration energy storage driven by data‑center expansion.
The Nighthawk Energy Storage Project, featuring 300 MW/1,200 MWh of Tesla Megapack batteries, began operations to enhance grid reliability and reduce power costs.
IBM partners with Together AI to deploy a large‑scale inference cluster on IBM Cloud using NVIDIA HGX B300 systems, aiming to accelerate open‑source AI workloads for enterprises.
Amazon Web Services is tightening limits on internal EC2 instance usage to manage rising CPU demand from AI workloads.
IBM announces new cloud‑native services such as Db2 Serverless and updates to its Cloud Pak for Data, emphasizing AI‑ready APIs and hybrid‑cloud governance in its August 2026 technical touchpoint.
Microsoft opens its India South Central cloud region in Hyderabad, adding a fourth hyperscale presence in India to support AI workloads and local data residency.
Firebird opens a new AI factory in Armenia powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing, expanding AI infrastructure in frontier markets.
Cloudflare has released its Cloudflare OS platform, enabling non-developers to create apps using AI agents through natural language workflows, while emphasizing security and sandboxing.
Runware announced its Sonic Inference Pod, a modular, transportable data‑center unit aimed at delivering cost‑effective AI inference closer to end users.