Chips & Data Centers

Advancements in semiconductor technology, GPU development, and data center infrastructure that power AI computing capabilities.

Sep 11, 2026

Bain's Model Puts AI at 0.7% of Global Energy, Against 11% From Executives and 19% From Consumers

Bain & Company estimates AI will consume 0.7% of global energy in three years, compared with estimates of 11% from executives and 19% from consumers.

Sep 11, 2026

Q.ANT Names Joerg Behrend Vice President of Hardware

Q.ANT appoints former IBM manager Joerg Behrend as vice president of hardware to oversee future photonic processors and prepare them for volume production.

Sep 11, 2026

Zettabyte and Raku Plan Renewable Energy AI Data Centers in Asia

Zettabyte and Raku Advanced Tech signed an agreement to develop AI data center capacity powered by renewable energy in Asia, initially focusing on Taiwan and Thailand.

Sep 11, 2026

IREX Unveils StreamVLM for Public Safety Video Analytics

StreamVLM lets public safety operators create video detectors by describing events or conditions in plain language. It works with existing camera networks and supports live alerts, investigations, and audit controls.

Sep 11, 2026

Fermi Founder Group Seeks Independent Review of Sale Options

Shareholders holding about 22% of Fermi are asking its board to appoint an independent investment bank to review a possible sale, recapitalization, and other transactions.

Sep 11, 2026

Munters Expands Virginia Data Center Cooling Plant

Munters completed an expansion of its data center cooling campus in Daleville, Virginia, adding manufacturing, training and testing capacity.

Sep 10, 2026

Oracle Q1 Revenue Rises 30% as AI Cloud Contracts Top $30 Billion

Oracle reported $19.35 billion in fiscal first quarter revenue as cloud infrastructure revenue more than doubled. The company signed over $30 billion in additional AI cloud contracts.

Sep 10, 2026

AWS Will Require AI Cost Observability and Evidence of Results From MSP Partners in 2027

DoiT PartnerOps now supports AWS MSP Program Validation Checklist 8.0, which adds requirements for AI observability, cost controls and customer outcomes.

Sep 10, 2026

CargoSense Acquires Adapt-IP for Wireless Asset Tracking

CargoSense acquired Adapt-IP, adding wireless asset tracking and environmental monitoring to its supply chain platform for data center operations.

Sep 10, 2026

Massachusetts Sets Clean Power Rules for Large Data Centers

Massachusetts will require data centers with more than 25 megawatts of peak demand to match their electricity use with clean energy and limit costs for other ratepayers.

Sep 10, 2026

CATL Leads DeepCtrls Series B+ Funding Round

DeepCtrls completed an undisclosed Series B+ round led by CATL, with strategic investment from Aramco Ventures.

Sep 9, 2026

Innventure removes DarkNX AI data centre cooling project from bookings

Innventure told the SEC that the site named in Accelsius' DarkNX purchase order is no longer available and the project has been removed from bookings. In March the company had described the agreement as deployment across a 300MW AI data centre campus in Ontario.

Sep 9, 2026

Besxar Tests Semiconductor Manufacturing Canisters on SpaceX Rocket

Besxar recovered two semiconductor manufacturing canisters after their first flight aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster. The startup plans 11 more missions under its launch agreement.

Sep 9, 2026

DIMAAG-AI and Toshiba Develop Battery Storage for AI Data Centers

DIMAAG-AI and Toshiba International Corporation will develop energy storage systems for AI infrastructure using Toshiba SCiB battery cells and the ZettaWatt Power Platform.

Sep 9, 2026

Knox Systems Launches IL5 Environment for Defense AI and Software

Knox Systems launched a Space Force sponsored Impact Level 5 environment for commercial software and AI applications handling sensitive defense workloads.

Sep 9, 2026

Island Roadhouse Plans 154 MW Atomic Powered AI Data Center in Missouri

Island Roadhouse Data Centers plans a low water AI data center campus in Missouri, with atomic reactors supplying up to 154 MW of IT capacity in its first phase.

Sep 9, 2026

NourNet Introduces Saudi Hosted AI Agent Platform

NourNet introduced a beta platform for building and operating AI agents, hosted in its Saudi data centers. The company also expanded its main data center to 10 MW and up to 750 racks.

Sep 9, 2026

DFI Introduces Mini-ITX Platform for Robotics AI

DFI introduced the ARH171 and ARH173 Mini-ITX platform for robotics and industrial automation. It supports 16 Intel Core Ultra processor options and provides up to 99 TOPS on Arrow Lake H models.

Sep 9, 2026

Aitech Introduces Rugged AI Boards for Defense Systems

Aitech introduced the C530 and U-C5300 rugged AI GPGPU boards for defense and aerospace systems, offering up to 35.8 TFLOPS of FP32 performance.

Sep 9, 2026

AWS Adds GPT-6 Astra to Amazon Bedrock

GPT-6 Astra is now generally available through Amazon Bedrock APIs and can also power ChatGPT Work and Codex.

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