Reflection AI agreed to pay SpaceX $150 million a month for access to Nvidia GB300 chips at the Colossus 2 data center, making compute supply the immediate test for its open-weight model strategy.

#Reflection AI #SpaceX #Colossus 2

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Nvidia Cooling Claim Leaves AI Data Center Water Burden Outside The Rack

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Nvidia Cooling Claim Leaves AI Data Center Water Burden Outside The Rack

Nvidia says its warm-water cooling design can cut on-site data center water use, but the larger water burden still depends on electricity generation and chip manufacturing beyond the facility wall.

#Nvidia #AI infrastructure #data center cooling

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Philippines Google Cloud Deal Links Agentic AI To Public Services And Data Routes

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Philippines Google Cloud Deal Links Agentic AI To Public Services And Data Routes

The Philippine government has expanded its Google Cloud collaboration to bring enterprise AI into public services while tying the work to cyberdefense cooperation and links between subsea cable systems and domestic networks.

#Google Cloud #Philippines #public services

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NVIDIA AI Science Tools Move Research Data Into GPU Pipelines

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NVIDIA AI Science Tools Move Research Data Into GPU Pipelines

NVIDIA introduced DAQIRI, ALCHEMI NIM microservices and cuPhoton reference code for scientific AI workloads, targeting chemistry, materials discovery, dark matter research and large observational datasets.

#Nvidia #scientific computing #CUDA X

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Centuria Raises AU$300 Million As ResetData Builds Australian AI Factories

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Centuria Raises AU$300 Million As ResetData Builds Australian AI Factories

Centuria Capital Group launched an AU$300 million equity raise to support ResetData AI cloud growth, including AI factories, GPU deployment plans and a 200MW+ power pathway.

#Centuria Capital Group #ResetData #AI factories

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Texas Grid Rules Put 75MW Data Center Loads Into A New ERCOT Queue

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Texas Grid Rules Put 75MW Data Center Loads Into A New ERCOT Queue

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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