AI Infrastructure
GPUs, silicon, data centres and the data platforms underneath.
Google's 37% Power Spike: What the Numbers Actually Mean for AI Infrastructure Costs
Google's 2025 electricity consumption jumped 37% year-over-year—the most dramatic single-year increase in the company's history—fuelled by massive AI infrastructure investments including new data centers and GPU clusters.
The People vs. the Servers: How Small Towns Are Stopping Billion-Dollar AI Projects
A growing bipartisan movement of local activists is halting or delaying tens of billions in AI data center projects across the U.S. — from Arizona to Virginia to Michigan. Here's how grassroots opposition is reshaping the AI infrastructure landscape.
When Stone Age Brains Meet Silicon Screens: Why Cutting Screen Time Won't Fix What's Broken
Religious and atheist scholars converge on a shared diagnosis: modern technology creates an evolutionary mismatch with human psychology, eroding anxiety, loneliness, and spiritual meaning. Solutions demand more than screen-time limits—they require rebuilding community, sacredness, and embodied connection.
Optimizing GPU Idle Power States for Efficiency
Explore how modern GPUs manage power consumption when idle and techniques to optimize efficiency for different use cases.
Tesco’s 40,000-VM War: How Broadcom’s License Coup Forced a Retail Giant to Bet Its Infrastructure
Tesco’s unprecedented migration of 40,000 server workloads away from VMware — triggered by Broadcom’s refusal to honor perpetual licenses — is a case study in enterprise software coercion and the collapse of trust.
Kutcher's Strategic Departure: The New VC Bet on AI Infrastructure and Energy
Ashton Kutcher is departing Sound Ventures after 11 years to launch a new, early-stage venture firm with Morgan Beller, shifting focus from later-stage AI labs to the foundational infrastructure and energy systems powering deep tech.
Exposed ATG Cyberattacks Endanger US Fuel Infrastructure
Cyberattackers are targeting internet-exposed automatic tank gauge (ATG) systems across the United States. Federal agencies warn of immediate physical and operational risks.
When Communities Say No: The $130 Billion Data Center Backlash That's Reshaping AI Infrastructure
Analysis of growing community resistance to AI data center expansion, with $130B in projects blocked by local opposition citing environmental concerns, water usage, and infrastructure strain.
AI's Billions Couldn't Shield Nvidia and Broadcom from This Week's Selloff
An analysis of the market pullback for hardware leaders Nvidia and Broadcom despite robust demand, exploring profit-taking, valuation premiums, supply limits, and the impact of 11-figure private funding rounds.
Apple Waives AI Infrastructure Costs for Indie Developers at WWDC 2026
At WWDC 2026, Apple announced free access to its Foundation Models in Private Cloud Compute for developers with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store downloads, targeting indie creators and small teams.
The Memory Chip Squeeze: AI's Hidden Inflation Problem
The data center buildout fueled by AI workloads is creating a third wave of inflation, with memory chip prices rising sharply as demand for HBM and DRAM outstrips supply capacity.
The Eight-Year Grind That Got Netris a16z Backing for AI Infrastructure
Netris spent eight years building switch-level networking automation before the AI boom made it relevant. Now a $15M Series A from a16z funds the next phase of helping neocloud operators ship faster.