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AI Infrastructure Month 2026

The Register’s AI Infrastructure Month highlights the cutting-edge technologies, architectural advancements, and industry trends shaping the future of AI workloads. With a focus on hardware, scalability, and performance optimization, the coverage offers expert insights and detailed analysis tailored for IT leaders and AI practitioners navigating this rapidly evolving landscape.

Siemens and Reinhausen turn up the voltage for hungry AI racks

Not a German cop show, but a pair of engineering firms aiming to feed 800 VDC to next-gen kit

Trump expands voluntary pledge to keep datacenter costs off household power bills

Pinkie promise gains 200-plus new participants and precisely zero enforcement

AMD vibe codes its way past the CUDA moat with ROCm.AI

Hey Claude, optimize this model for me

Google's Waltham Cross datacenter in Hertfordshire

Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter

The Reg was there as locals aired grievances over poor communication, noise, and light pollution at Waltham Cross facility

AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia’s Groq LPUs

The enemy of my enemy is my friend

AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's

Spec for spec, the House of Zen's first rack-scale AI compute platform is bigger and faster than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by nearly every metric, but that's only on paper

Britain isn't considering datacenters' thirst for water in its 'AI superpower' ambitions

Grand compute push could end up as dry as England's reservoirs unless ministers act fast

Nvidia shows off Vera Rubin platform for tokenmaxxing

If your AI Factory sells tokens, why not optimize token emission?

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Scalding hot AI accelerators have put datacenters in hot water. Two-phase cooling could chill them out

Startup Accelsius claims it can achieve up to 14° C cooler GPU temps by by converting a liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge to run on refrigerants

TSMC's $265B US fab pledge is the outline of a concept of a plan

Beware of fab makers bearing press releases

New York becomes first state to halt datacenter buildouts

50 MW-plus bit barn builds on hold while Empire State hashes out rules to protect the environment and ratepayers

Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider

Renting out spare compute is simply the natural progression for any sufficiently large infra company

Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of all

The RAMpocalypse may be the precursor to the AIpocalypse

AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful

OpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools

3D illustration of a modern data center with illuminated server racks and curved balcony walkways.

Orbital datacenter gold rush needs an environmental review, FCC told

Green groups want licenses frozen before a million satellites litter the exosphere

AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one year

Firm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone

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Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova breathes new life into aging Nvidia GPUs in latest benchmarks

Third-party testing shows heterogeneous compute platform combining H200s and SN50 RDUs churning out 763 tok/s in MiniMax M2.7

South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI invades European datacenters

RNGD accelerators land in Equinix's Lisbon DCs

MPs tell Brit government: Sort out your tech sovereignty or get left out in the cold

Committee says Anthropic's brief US export ban shows UK can't even trust its allies to keep the AI lights on

AI startup that’s never turned a profit says it'll totally be around in 2047 to close its $19B lease

Model dev and AGI fearmonger Anthropic signs 20-year lease with TeraWulf

A computer-generated image of a floating datacenter concept by Samsung, which looks more like a floating building than a ship.

Samsung floats 2028 launch for seaborne datacenter

Korean megacorp sets itself a target date to commercialize watery server farm concept

Despite sharing a similar form factor to Nvidia's DGX Spark, AMD has gone for a very different aesthetic.

AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but at $4K, easy doesn't come cheap

128 GB of memory! In this economy?

SoftBank enters the rent-a-GPU race as America looks for support for AI training

Japanese giant needs to find some use for that 10 GW US server farm it is building

Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI

Risk factors galore

Cristiano Amon speaks onstage at a Qualcomm AI keynote, holding a device.

Qualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM

With its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall

Qualcomm claims it's not too late for Dragonfly to land in datacenters

Oh, Snap(dragon): DC chief says the mobile-chip giant sees bit barns as its next growth market

Nvidia-backed optics vendor to boost wafer output by 4x to meet AI interconnect demand

Jensen can't risk semiconductor supply chains derailing the AI hype train

Intel-born networking tech resurfaces as InfiniBand alternative for DoE supers

Omni-Path lights up Lawrence Livermore system at 400 Gbps

Broadcom's custom ASIC biz adds South Korea's FuriosaAI to its empire

Third-gen chips to use Broadzilla's advanced packaging, networking tech

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