Chips & Data Centers

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

Vuzix Ships Causeway Waveguide Samples for AI Data Centers

Vuzix Corporation has begun shipping Causeway waveguide bridge samples and is making an optical interconnect evaluation kit available for AI data center testing.

August 19, 2026

Aily Labs Brings Decision Intelligence Platform to Google Cloud Marketplace

Aily Labs has partnered with Google Cloud to offer its Decision Intelligence platform through Google Cloud Marketplace. The platform connects enterprise data systems and coordinates AI agents for pharma and biotech operations.

August 19, 2026

Flexential Secures $800 Million for Data Center Projects

Flexential has established an $800 million credit facility to support more than 130 MW of new data center capacity across four markets.

August 18, 2026

SHINE Joins GE Vernova AI Nuclear Fuel Tracking Project

SHINE has joined a GE Vernova Advanced Research Center project to use AI for tracking spent nuclear fuel during recycling. The ARPA-E funded project will develop sensor and material tracking systems for nuclear fuel recycling facilities.

August 18, 2026

VNET and CATL Partner on Compute Energy Infrastructure

VNET Group has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with CATL to combine data center infrastructure with zero carbon energy technology. The companies plan to work on compute energy facilities, distributed networks, and a zero carbon token ecosystem.

August 18, 2026

Castrol Cooling Fluids Validated for NVIDIA AI Infrastructure

Castrol says its ON PG25 and PG25T cooling fluids have been validated for NVIDIA AI factory and data centre infrastructure.

August 18, 2026

Prodigy Technovations Launches UFS 5.0 Protocol Exerciser and Analyzer

Prodigy Technovations launched PGY-UFS5-EX-PA, a UFS 5.0 protocol exerciser and analyzer that supports MIPI M-PHY v6.0, MIPI UniPro v3.0, and data rates of 46.64 Gbps per lane.

August 18, 2026

Deployable Energy and Hornbeck Offshore Plan Maritime Nuclear Battery Projects

Deployable Energy signed an MOU with Hornbeck Offshore to explore Unity Nuclear Battery deployments for maritime, defense, offshore power, and floating data center uses.

August 17, 2026

Lightera to Expand Fiber Manufacturing for AI Infrastructure

Lightera plans to expand global manufacturing capacity for optical fiber and optical fiber cable, with new capacity expected to begin coming online in the second half of FY2028.

August 17, 2026

Molex Invests in CAEPlus for AI Data Center Cooling

Molex has made a strategic investment in CAEPlus to support active liquid cooling technology for AI and high performance computing data centers.

August 17, 2026

Hanbat Researchers Use AI to Optimize Thermal Energy Storage

Hanbat National University researchers developed a physics informed neural network framework to speed design optimization for latent heat thermal energy storage systems.

August 17, 2026

WhiteFiber Plans Two More North Carolina Data Center Campuses

WhiteFiber agreed to acquire two industrial properties in Yadkin County, North Carolina, for $60 million through Enovum Data Centers. The company plans to retrofit the sites into NC-2 and NC-3 data center campuses with at least 60 MW of initial gross utility capacity.

August 17, 2026

Tencent Details AI Data Center Energy Plan for Carbon Neutrality

Tencent published a carbon neutrality progress report covering data center efficiency, renewable electricity use, and AI tools for emissions reductions. The company said renewable electricity consumption rose to 48.5% in 2025.

August 17, 2026

Mistral AI Adds Third Party Models to Cloud Platform

Mistral AI will host third party open models on its infrastructure, starting with GLM 5.2 from Z.ai. The company also made Regional Endpoints generally available and introduced a Priority Tier in public preview.

August 16, 2026

Z Squared Details Power Strategy for AI Infrastructure Sites

Z Squared outlined its plan to acquire power connected sites and convert them into AI infrastructure, starting with the planned acquisition of Paradox Data and its Union County campus in Arkansas.

August 15, 2026

Compute Exchange Plans Token Forward Contracts for AI Model Costs

Compute Exchange is preparing token forward contracts for AI inference pricing after launching a marketplace for used and refurbished NVIDIA GPUs in July.

August 15, 2026

TIER IV Joins JST Program to Open Source Autonomous Driving AI Chip Designs

TIER IV has joined a Japan Science and Technology Agency semiconductor research program to develop open AI chip designs for Level 4 autonomous driving.

August 14, 2026

CVC DIF to Acquire Majority Stake in firstcolo

CVC DIF has agreed to acquire a significant majority stake in firstcolo from CUBE Infrastructure. The deal includes plans to continue developing firstcolo's FRA7 data center in Rosbach, Germany, with up to 24 MW of total capacity.

August 14, 2026

Heron Power Picks Morgan Hill for Grid Hardware Factory

Heron Power selected Morgan Hill, California, for its first factory. The company plans to invest more than $100 million, create more than 600 jobs, and produce up to 10,000 Heron Link systems a year starting in late 2027.

August 13, 2026

AGent Energy Raises $11M for AI Power Plant Platform

AGent Energy raised an $11 million Series Seed round to expand its AI based platform for aggregating backup generation at commercial, industrial, and institutional sites.

August 13, 2026

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