Texas regulators approved ERCOT’s new connection process for large-load projects of 75MW or more, forcing data centers into a grid study before capacity is allocated.

#ERCOT #Texas grid #data center power

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Los Alamos Picks NVIDIA Vera CPUs As Scientific AI Moves Into Supercomputers

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Los Alamos Picks NVIDIA Vera CPUs As Scientific AI Moves Into Supercomputers

Los Alamos National Laboratory plans Mission, Vision and Veritas systems with HPE and NVIDIA hardware, using Vera CPUs to support scientific AI agents and simulation workloads.

#supercomputing #scientific AI #Los Alamos

June 23, 2026Read More →

JUPITER Turns Europe’s Exascale Supercomputer Into A Scientific AI Test Bed

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JUPITER Turns Europe’s Exascale Supercomputer Into A Scientific AI Test Bed

JUPITER is running projects in brain mapping, climate simulation, wireless AI and quantum-computer simulation, showing how exascale systems are becoming shared infrastructure for scientific AI.

#exascale computing #scientific AI #JUPITER

June 23, 2026Read More →

Eco Wave Links Shoreline Power To The Energy Strain Behind AI Infrastructure

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Eco Wave Links Shoreline Power To The Energy Strain Behind AI Infrastructure

Eco Wave Power is using NVIDIA AI infrastructure and digital twins to model wave-energy equipment near ports and industrial zones, where future AI facilities may face grid and permitting limits.

#energy #AI infrastructure #wave energy

June 23, 2026Read More →

NVIDIA’s NAIRR Support Shows Public AI Research Needs Dedicated Compute

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NVIDIA’s NAIRR Support Shows Public AI Research Needs Dedicated Compute

NVIDIA says the NAIRR pilot has supported more than 700 projects, showing how public research access to DGX infrastructure is becoming part of the AI compute debate.

#AI infrastructure #public research #NAIRR

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Groq Raises $650 Million As Its AI Chip Story Turns Toward Neocloud Scale

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Groq Raises $650 Million As Its AI Chip Story Turns Toward Neocloud Scale

Groq announced a $650 million round after Nvidia licensed its technology and hired senior leaders, leaving the AI chip company to rebuild around a neocloud business spanning 13 data centers.

#semiconductors #AI chips #AI inference

June 23, 2026Read More →

xAI Turbine Fight Turns AI Data Centers Into A National Security Case

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xAI Turbine Fight Turns AI Data Centers Into A National Security Case

The US Justice Department urged a federal court to dismiss a Memphis lawsuit over xAI gas turbines, arguing that power for Grok is tied to national and military interests.

#xAI #Grok #AI infrastructure

June 23, 2026Read More →

Microsoft’s 2GW Texas Campus Puts AI Data Centers Into The Gas-Power Debate

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Microsoft’s 2GW Texas Campus Puts AI Data Centers Into The Gas-Power Debate

Microsoft is planning a 2GW data center campus in Pecos, Texas, with Chevron supplying up to 2.67GW of behind-the-meter power under a 20-year PPA.

#Microsoft #Chevron #Project Kirby

June 23, 2026Read More →

PLDT Puts Philippine Data Centers Into A REIT IPO Pipeline

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PLDT Puts Philippine Data Centers Into A REIT IPO Pipeline

PLDT’s Vitro unit has filed a REIT plan for eight Philippine data centers totaling 24MW, with the proposed IPO targeting ₱24.2 billion.

#PLDT #Vitro REIT #data center REIT

June 23, 2026Read More →

Samsung UFS 5.0 Turns Phone Storage Into An On-Device AI Constraint

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Samsung UFS 5.0 Turns Phone Storage Into An On-Device AI Constraint

Samsung says its UFS 5.0 storage reaches 10.8 GB/s read speed, improves power efficiency by more than 40% and will enter mass production in the fourth quarter of this year.

#semiconductors #mobile memory #on device AI

June 23, 2026Read More →

Meta Leads CRED’s $900 Mn Round As India Fintech Prepares For IPO Path

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Meta Leads CRED’s $900 Mn Round As India Fintech Prepares For IPO Path

CRED raised $900 Mn in a Series H round led by Meta, with founder Kunal Shah moving to lead WhatsApp and Miten Sampat becoming interim CEO.

#Indian fintech #IPO pipeline #CRED

June 22, 2026Read More →

Micron And Anthropic Put AI Memory Supply Inside Claude’s Compute Plan

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Micron And Anthropic Put AI Memory Supply Inside Claude’s Compute Plan

Micron and Anthropic signed a strategic agreement covering AI memory and storage architecture, supply, Claude adoption inside Micron and a Series H investment.

#AI memory #AI infrastructure #Micron

June 22, 2026Read More →