Nvidia Posts Record $96.2B Quarter, Sees 70% Growth Ahead
Nvidia's quarterly revenue more than doubled to $96.2 billion, and the company issued its first-ever full-year forecast: 70% revenue growth for fiscal 2028.
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Every AI News story tagged with both AI Data Centers and AI Hardware — the two topics side by side, updated as new articles publish.
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What Is a Small Modular Reactor — and Why Does AI Need One?
A small modular reactor is a compact, factory-built nuclear plant under 300 megawatts. AI companies are betting billions on them to keep power-hungry data centers running around the clock.
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AMD Launches Instinct MI400 AI Chips to Challenge Nvidia
AMD unveiled its Instinct MI400 AI chips and Helios rack systems on July 23, claiming 34x faster inference, with OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic on hand.
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How Much Energy and Water Does AI Really Use?
A single AI chat reply uses a fraction of a watt-hour, but billions of daily queries and the data centers behind them add up to a fast-growing power and water bill.
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What Is an AI Factory — and How Is It Different From a Data Center?
An AI factory is infrastructure purpose-built to turn raw data into AI output at scale. Here's what makes it different from a regular data center, and why governments are now building their own.
Read more →Blackstone, Apollo, KKR Invest $5.34B in Williams' AI Power Plants
A Blackstone-led investor group is funding 49% of five natural-gas power plants that pipeline giant Williams is building largely to supply electricity to AI data centers.
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What Is AI Model Quantization — and How Does It Work?
AI models are usually trained with high-precision math, but quantization compresses their weights into smaller numbers so they can run on a phone or laptop instead of a data center.
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What Is a Data Center Moratorium — and Why Is It Spreading?
A data center moratorium is a temporary government freeze on new data center permits. Here's how the tool works, why so many places are using it, and what it doesn't actually solve.
Read more →Intel Commits €5 Billion to Expand Chip Plant in Ireland
Intel will invest €5 billion to expand its Leixlip campus in Ireland, adding capacity for Xeon server processors as AI data center demand strains chip supply.
Read more →Meta Expands Louisiana AI Data Center to $50 Billion, 5 Gigawatts
Meta is expanding its Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, to 5 gigawatts of capacity, pushing total investment past $50 billion and funding local schools and infrastructure.
Read more →What Is an AI Data Center — and Why Do They Need So Much Power?
AI data centers pack thousands of GPUs into liquid-cooled buildings that draw as much power as a small city — here's what sets them apart, and why tech firms now build power plants to run them.
Read more →Meta Breaks Ground on $13B AI Data Center in Alberta, Canada
Meta has begun construction on a 1-gigawatt, AI-optimized data center in Alberta — its first in Canada and 33rd globally, backed by a CAD $13 billion investment.
Read more →Meta to Start Producing In-House AI Chip 'Iris' in September
Meta plans to begin manufacturing its in-house "Iris" AI chip in September, aiming to double its data center computing capacity to 14 gigawatts by 2027, an internal memo reviewed by Reuters shows.
Read more →What Is a Neocloud? The GPU Clouds Powering the AI Boom
A neocloud is a cloud company built to rent out GPUs for AI work — and it's why bitcoin miners are turning old mining sites into AI data centers.
Read more →Anthropic Signs $19 Billion Data Center Lease With TeraWulf
Anthropic will lease a 401-megawatt AI computing campus in Hawesville, Kentucky, from TeraWulf under a 20-year, $19 billion deal, with capacity coming online starting in 2027.
Read more →South Korea Bets $880 Billion on AI and Semiconductor Dominance
President Lee Jae Myung unveiled a sweeping national strategy on June 29, committing at least $880 billion from Samsung, SK Hynix, and major Korean conglomerates to semiconductors, AI infrastructure, and data centers through 2035.
Read more →Samsung Commits $648 Billion to AI Chips Over the Next Decade
Samsung Group pledged 1,000 trillion won ($648 billion) at a South Korean government briefing on June 28, with over 350 trillion won targeting AI data centers and semiconductor factories across the country over ten years.
Read more →Qualcomm Unveils Dragonfly Data Center Chip Family, Wins Meta as First Customer
Qualcomm on June 24 unveiled the Dragonfly data center chip family — a 250-core Arm-based CPU and a new inference accelerator — with Meta signed on to deploy the hardware in its server fleet from 2028.
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