Chips and compute: AI news.

OpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’

Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else?

TechCrunch AI·1 Nov→

National Grid to site biggest substation in UK near planned Teesside datacentre

New electricity generating capacity would enable north-east to attract investment for large-scale AI infrastructure National Grid has taken a step towards building Britain’s biggest electricity substation on Teesside, which could supply power to a vast neighbo

Guardian AI·1 Nov→

These firms you've never heard of are feeding fears the AI bubble could burst

The amount of debt held by data centres is measured in the tens of billions of pounds.

BBC Technology·1 Nov→

Google's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth

Experimental orbital datacenter prototype puts its TPU to work producing poetry

The Register AI + ML·31 Oct→

Sam Altman is upset at you for hoarding RAM in your own computer

Sam Altman, in an interview, said it's 'terrible' for people to have 'a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM' that they barely use.

Engadget AI·31 Oct→

Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia

When investors get nervous about AI spending, it helps to have the chipmaker that sells the chips offer to cosign the loan.

TechCrunch AI·31 Oct→

Intel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake

Intel is being hurt by PC sales as the AI industry gobbles memory and other components causing PC prices to rise.

TechCrunch AI·30 Oct→

Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom

Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow, and growing investor skepticism are raising questions about the sustainability of the AI spending boom.

TechCrunch AI·30 Oct→

Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk

Asked about supply chain shortages, like the ongoing RAM shortage, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that it's "terrible" to have RAM in personal PCs instead of data centers. During his appearance on the Cheeky Pint podcast, where he also commented on

The Verge AI·30 Oct→

Run AI Models for Edge Application Development with Just a Few Commands

AI is expanding beyond the data center as developers build a new generation of agents to act at the edge: monitoring driver attention and cabin conditions,...

NVIDIA Developer Blog·30 Oct→

Google’s satellite AI server transmits its first response to Earth

Google's AI chip-equipped satellite has generated its first response from space. In a blog post on Friday, Google says it successfully booted up the satellite's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), allowing the on-board Gemma 4 model to follow through on a prompt t

The Verge AI·30 Oct→

Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand

Low costs and offline security mean magnetic tape still has a job.

Ars Technica AI·30 Oct→

Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry

The first TPU in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.

TechCrunch AI·30 Oct→

We’ve received our first response from the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite.

This week, we reached our "Hello World" milestone: the first-ever AI response from a data center class TPU in orbit.

Google Research·30 Oct→

How to Check and Configure NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage for Your Platform

NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) accelerates GPU storage access in on-premises and cloud environments. It provides a robust, portable, and efficient data path...

NVIDIA Developer Blog·30 Oct→

US tech stocks see sharp falls as AI spending nears $1tn

Shares in Intel continue to fall while the tech-heavy Nasdaq opens at its lowest level in more than two months.

BBC Technology·30 Oct→

Sam Altman says your laptop RAM is a 'terrible’ allocation of scarce resources: Why I think the AI bubble is about to prove him wrong

Tom's Guide AI·30 Oct→

The AI data center race is now a race to power

TechRadar AI·30 Oct→

Electrocutions, disease and no pay: how workers risk exploitation in Europe’s datacentres

As thousands of datacentres are constructed across Europe, the Guardian and Investigate Europe have uncovered disturbing evidence that some workers building them are exposed to dangerous conditions and living in fear of speaking out Sandu* checked his watch. H

Guardian Technology·30 Oct→

Getac says its new rugged notebooks offer faster AI-powered processing than ever — and seem to be targeting military and defense customers

TechRadar AI·30 Oct→

AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says — but first, it will spend big

Amazon wants to be the king of AI cloud computing and become the first $1 trillion revenue business. But to do that it will have to continue on its capex spending spree, its CEO said Thursday.

TechCrunch AI·29 Oct→

Lend and borrow resources across teams with AWS Batch’s quota management for SageMaker Training jobs

AWS Batch quota management is a new scheduling capability you can use to divide GPU capacity into quota shares per team or project, automatically lend idle capacity across shares, and use preemption to run your highest-priority SageMaker Training jobs first, a

AWS Machine Learning Blog·29 Oct→

AI has come for Arizona’s water

A hulking gray giant rises from the desert. Inside, engineers create the force behind our phones and computers and appliances, our streaming services and search engines and chatbots and vibe-coded apps and websites. The complex is simultaneously massive and sq

The Verge AI·29 Oct→

FADU wants to take the CPU out of AI storage by putting the file system inside the SSD, but the proof won't arrive until 2027

TechRadar AI·29 Oct→