HPC News Bytes 20260202: Microsoft’s Inference Chip, H200 (Not H20) GPUs for China, Mega AI Data Center Deals

A happy month of February to you! The big players have dominated the HPC-AI news front of late, here’s a fast (8:44) recap of recent developments, including: Microsoft Maia 200 ….

@HPCpodcast: DDN’s Paul Bloch on High Performance Storage Strategies for AI Data Centers

Our special guest today is Paul Bloch, President and Co-founder of DDN, the high performance storage and intelligent data platform company.
AI runs on massive amounts of fast and reliable data, which makes topics related to ….

Report: Data Center Liquid Cooling Market to Grow at 52% CAGR

The Data Center Liquid Cooling Market was valued at USD 870 Million in 2024, and is projected to reach USD 10.70 billion by 2030, rising at a CAGR of 51.93%. Liquid cooling solutions are ….

Argonne, MIT Using Open-Source Code for Nuclear and Fusion Energy Research

The award winning OpenMC software package is helping researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology develop next-g nuclear and fusion ….

Cerebras Scores $10B Deal with OpenAI

Since Cerebras came on the scene in 2019 with its unusual dinner plate-size wafer scale GPU, there was always the potential for a break-out moment when someone or something would elevate the lightning-fast processer ….

NVIDIA Releases Details on Next-Gen Vera Rubin AI Platform — 5X the Performance of Blackwell

Those who anticipated NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang would delay delivering an update on its next big AI chip — the Vera Rubin processor first discussed last March at the company’s GTC conference in San Jose — until the upcoming GTC conference in two months were surprised last night when Huang released details about the chip […]

HPC News Bytes 20251222: Sub-Nanosecond High Frequency Trading, Federated AI Learning at 3 National Labs, AI ‘Doomers’ Speak Out

Happy Holiday weeks to you! For this, our penultimate weekly episode of the year, Shahin ….

AlphaTON Capital in Agreement with atNorth for Data Center in Sweden

ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — AlphaTON Capital Corp (NASDAQ: ATON) announced it has entered into an enterprise colocation service agreement with atNorth AB, a European data center operator. This agreement represents AlphaTON’s first major data center colocation contract. Under the terms of the 60-month agreement commencing February 1, 2026, AlphaTON will secure: 2,230 kW […]

Element Critical Launches AI Data Center Platform with Mercuria, 26North, Arctos and Safanad

New York — December 18, 2025 — Element Critical today announced the launch of a new U.S. data center platform backed by 26North Partners, Arctos, Mercuria and Safanad, anchored by the acquisition of two enterprise data center facilities in Houston and Austin. The platform is designed to meet growing demand driven by AI inference, digital […]

@HPCpodcast Industry View: A Portrait of LRZ’s Upcoming HPE Cray Supercomputer Powered by NVIDIA Vera Rubin – the Combined Forces of HPC and AI for Science

In this episode, we dig into the design and deployment of an upcoming leadership-class supercomputer at the ….