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Microsoft Maia 200 targets GPU-free, hyperscale AI inference

Microsoft Maia 200 targets GPU-free, hyperscale AI inference

Melissa Palmer
January 26, 2026

Microsoft announced Maia 200, a first‑party AI inference accelerator built on TSMC 3 nm, optimized for low‑precision LLM inference and...

OpenAI’s campuses now demand industrial-scale power, water, and political buy-in

OpenAI’s campuses now demand industrial-scale power, water, and political buy-in

Melissa Palmer
January 21, 2026

OpenAI’s Stargate bets big on “community-first” AI campuses across the U.S. OpenAI outlined its “Stargate Community” strategy for massive U.S....

PowerHouse Locks In Hyperscale Tenant For 120 MW AI‑Ready Campus In Data Center Alley

PowerHouse Locks In Hyperscale Tenant For 120 MW AI‑Ready Campus In Data Center Alley

Melissa Palmer
January 15, 2026

PowerHouse Locks In Hyperscale Tenant For 120 MW AI‑Ready Campus In Data Center Alley PowerHouse Data Centers signed a long‑term...

Microsoft Moves toward Community‑First AI Infrastructure Signals

Microsoft Moves toward Community‑First AI Infrastructure Signals

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January 13, 2026

Microsoft Tries To Defuse Local Backlash With “Community‑First” AI Data Center Playbook Microsoft announced a “Community‑First AI Infrastructure” initiative in...

Azure becomes default runway for NVIDIA Rubin‑scale AI deployments

Azure becomes default runway for NVIDIA Rubin‑scale AI deployments

Melissa Palmer
January 12, 2026

Microsoft positions Azure as the default runway for NVIDIA Rubin-scale AI Microsoft announced that Azure data centers are already engineered...

Massive xAI data center investment reshapes AI in Mississippi

Massive xAI data center investment reshapes AI in Mississippi

Melissa Palmer
January 9, 2026

xAI Drops $20B on Mississippi Data Center, Targets 2 GW of AI Compute xAI is investing over $20 billion to...

Liquid‑cooled Rubin racks speed path from GPU allocation to deployment with Supermicro

Liquid‑cooled Rubin racks speed path from GPU allocation to deployment with Supermicro

Melissa Palmer
January 8, 2026

Supermicro Arms Up For NVIDIA Rubin Era With Liquid Cooled Rack‑Scale Buildout Supermicro announced expanded US based rack scale manufacturing...

Vantage Taps Liberty Energy To Pre-Build 1 GW Of Private Power For AI Data Centers

Vantage Taps Liberty Energy To Pre-Build 1 GW Of Private Power For AI Data Centers

Melissa Palmer
January 7, 2026

Vantage Data Centers and Liberty Energy’s Liberty Power Innovations unit announced a strategic partnership to develop and operate up to...

Deep Dive: Meta Socrates South Data Center

Deep Dive: Meta Socrates South Data Center

Melissa Palmer
January 7, 2026

Socrates South is a 200 MW natural-gas power plant built for one purpose: to power a Meta-affiliated data center without touching...

Rubin-based DGX SuperPOD becomes blueprint for AI factories

Rubin-based DGX SuperPOD becomes blueprint for AI factories

Melissa Palmer
January 6, 2026

NVIDIA turns DGX SuperPOD into a “Rubin-era” AI factory blueprint NVIDIA announced the Rubin platform and new DGX SuperPOD designs...

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