ADCCI and Presight are piloting agentic AI for Abu Dhabi SMEs, with more than 102,000 registered firms in the Chamber network and a roadmap to scale beyond the first cohort.

#sovereign AI #agentic AI #SMEs

June 22, 2026Read More →

KDDI’s Osaka AI Data Center Turns Liquid Cooling Into A Power Test

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KDDI’s Osaka AI Data Center Turns Liquid Cooling Into A Power Test

KDDI is moving liquid cooling into an Osaka AI data center after a 2023 immersion test cut server cooling energy use by 94 percent and lowered PUE to 1.05.

#AI infrastructure #liquid cooling #energy for AI

June 22, 2026Read More →

Coherent Texas Expansion Puts AI Optics Into The Compute Bottleneck

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Coherent Texas Expansion Puts AI Optics Into The Compute Bottleneck

Coherent has broken ground on an expanded Sherman, Texas facility for indium phosphide optics, backed by a $50 million CHIPS Act grant and NVIDIA’s $2 billion strategic investment.

#semiconductors #AI infrastructure #silicon photonics

June 22, 2026Read More →

Santander Opens AI Access To 185,000 Staff As Banking Automation Faces Its Scale Test

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Santander Opens AI Access To 185,000 Staff As Banking Automation Faces Its Scale Test

Santander is giving all 185,000 employees access to AI tools after reporting €35 million in first-quarter value, but wider automation in fraud, KYC, payments and voice channels still has to prove governance at scale.

#fintech #banking AI #enterprise AI

June 22, 2026Read More →

Adani And Jabil Turn India’s AI Data-Center Push Into A Hardware Test

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Adani And Jabil Turn India’s AI Data-Center Push Into A Hardware Test

Adani Group and Jabil plan to manufacture high-density AI racks, cooling systems and power equipment in India, but their data-center hardware roadmap still lacks a definitive launch timeline.

#AI infrastructure #data centers #hardware manufacturing

June 22, 2026Read More →

France’s AI Buildout Moves From Pledges To Installed Compute

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France’s AI Buildout Moves From Pledges To Installed Compute

NVIDIA says France is moving AI infrastructure into operation, with Mistral building a 44-megawatt data center and an initial deployment using 18,000 NVIDIA GB200 systems.

#AI infrastructure #sovereign AI #data centers

June 21, 2026Read More →

Google Tests Retired Phones As A Low-Carbon Compute Layer

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Google Tests Retired Phones As A Low-Carbon Compute Layer

Google Research has built a low-carbon computing platform from retired smartphones, testing whether reused mobile hardware can handle suitable workloads without adding new server hardware.

#low carbon computing #circular economy #retired phones

June 21, 2026Read More →

Shionogi’s Last-Resort Antibiotic Tests A Broken Drug Market

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Shionogi’s Last-Resort Antibiotic Tests A Broken Drug Market

Shionogi has secured approvals for cefiderocol in 27 countries, but the antibiotic’s narrow use case shows why resistant-infection drugs remain a difficult business.

#healthtech #antibiotic resistance #Shionogi

June 21, 2026Read More →

Japan Tests Bendable Solar As AI Data Centers Strain The Grid

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Japan Tests Bendable Solar As AI Data Centers Strain The Grid

Sekisui Chemical and NTT Data are putting flexible perovskite solar film on Japanese data centers and offices, testing whether building surfaces can add power as AI load rises.

#data centers #perovskite solar #Sekisui Chemical

June 21, 2026Read More →

Jio IPO Filing Turns AI From Network Tool Into Investor Test

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Jio IPO Filing Turns AI From Network Tool Into Investor Test

Jio Platforms’ IPO filing shows AI running through network automation, cloud photos, Google AI distribution, smart glasses and enterprise services, while warning investors about regulatory and output risks.

#IPO #network automation #Jio Platforms

June 21, 2026Read More →

FERC Grid Rule Makes Power Flexibility An AI Infrastructure Test

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FERC Grid Rule Makes Power Flexibility An AI Infrastructure Test

FERC’s large-load interconnection action gives AI factories and advanced manufacturing sites a faster grid path when they bring generation, fund upgrades and can reduce demand during peaks.

#digital infrastructure #AI factories #grid interconnection

June 21, 2026Read More →

Amazon Engineers Turn AI Data Centers Into A Local Governance Test

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Amazon Engineers Turn AI Data Centers Into A Local Governance Test

Amazon engineers who criticized AI data-center expansion say the company is investigating them, turning Seattle’s data-center moratorium debate into a test of workplace speech, permitting risk and hyperscale AI spending.

#AI infrastructure #data centers #local regulation

June 21, 2026Read More →