Envision Energy says it has deployed what it calls the first commercial 800-volt DC power system at its Galaxy AI data center in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, running since August under the Dubhe Controller and Dubhe Energy Foundation Model. The system converts electricity directly from 10kV medium-voltage AC to an 800V DC bus, cutting out conventional conversion stages, and pairs solid-state transformers with battery storage for millisecond-level load balancing. The Galaxy campus is planned to scale to 3GW and eventually support up to one million AI accelerators.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-11-03
Drax Group has signed an agreement with Brookfield and its neocloud platform Radiant to develop an AI data center on Drax's North Yorkshire power station site. The project aims to deliver up to 100 megawatts by early 2028, scaling to 600 MW by 2031 and eventually surpassing 1 gigawatt, with Brookfield projecting total investment including chips could exceed £20 billion ($26.8 billion), starting with a £2.5 billion first phase.
cnbc.com
· 2026-11-03
Tom's Hardware tested Nvidia's new Vera data center CPU in standalone form against AMD's EPYC Turin and Intel's Granite Rapids-AP chips. Vera posted leading results in Python performance and memory bandwidth, and also held its own in general-purpose server workloads, though x86 rivals retained an edge in core-density-driven frontend tasks.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-30
Nvidia introduced the DSX Pod AI Factory, a shipping-container-sized unit holding seven Vera Rubin AI racks that weighs about 28,000 kilograms and can be transported by truck. The pods arrive pre-assembled with cabling and liquid cooling, requiring only placement, connection and testing on-site, which Nvidia says cuts data center setup time from six months to 14 days. Manufacturing partners including Foxconn, Gigabyte, Lenovo, HPE, Quanta and Pegatron will build the units, with deliveries starting in early 2027.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-21
OpenAI's infrastructure lead Sachin Katti announced he is leaving the company after about a year, with his last day set for Nov. 15. He will remain as an advisor, while Uday Ruddarraju, currently OpenAI's CTO of compute, will take over leadership of the compute organization.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-14
A grove of about 200 blight-resistant American chestnut trees in West Virginia is at risk of being cleared for Nscale's planned 'Monarch Compute Campus,' a data center project developed with Nvidia and Caterpillar. The facility is slated to eventually cover more than 2,250 acres and deliver 8 gigawatts of computing capacity for AI firms including Anthropic, backed by over $20 billion in investment.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-10
According to leaked factory notices cited by hardware leakers @hongxing2020 and @Zed__Wang, Nvidia has stopped producing GB202 chips for consumer RTX 5090 graphics cards, including Chinese 'D' variants. The notice claims the RTX 5080 24GB will become the new top consumer GeForce model, with the RTX 5080 16GB being discontinued. Nvidia has not confirmed the claim and typically does not comment on rumors.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-10
Google is testing a prototype data center positioned in space to explore running AI workloads beyond Earth's surface. The initiative examines whether solar power and the vacuum of space can support computing infrastructure typically housed in terrestrial facilities.
science.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-03
Google plans to launch an experimental satellite called MVP on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base next week, part of its Project Suncatcher initiative. The satellite carries four Tensor Processing Units powered by solar panels generating one kilowatt, roughly matching a single Earth-based server, and is designed to process simple AI requests for up to a year while orbiting for as long as six years before burning up on re-entry.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-25
Storage prices are climbing fast as AI data centers consume the supply of NAND flash and hard drive components once reserved for consumer products. A 2TB SSD that cost $120-$200 last year can now run close to $400, while even small 256GB drives have jumped several times over their previous $25 price point. Portable drives used for everyday backups have also nearly doubled in cost within months.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-08
A June fire at the unfinished Lake Mariner data center in Somerset, New York, left local firefighters battling smoke from unidentified chemicals with no working alarms, no suppression system, and three dry hydrants. TeraWulf, which owns and operates the site under a complex arrangement involving Fluidstack, Google, and Anthropic, said the required safety documents were destroyed in the blaze. Months later, the fire chief said promised fixes like functioning hydrants still had not been completed.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-07
A Denver resident filmed a newly built AI data center running its lawn sprinklers heavily enough to create standing puddles, even as Denver Water's Stage 1 drought restrictions limit residential and commercial lawn watering to twice a week through September, with a full ban starting October 1. The footage went viral and fueled anger, though it remains unclear whether the facility violated the rules, since the timing of the video, use of recycled non-potable water, or a special variance could all justify the watering.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-04
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