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 […]
Element Critical Launches AI Data Center Platform with Mercuria, 26North, Arctos and Safanad
ZincFive Raises $30M for AI Data Center Batteries
PORTLAND, Oregon — Dec. 4, 2025 — ZincFive, the a nickel-zinc (NiZn) battery-based company, today announced it has closed an oversubscribed $30 million Series F funding round. With this funding, the company has raised $254 million since its founding in 2016 and now intends to scale its commercial footprint and manufacturing capacity to meet accelerating […]
Air Force Issues Call for Proposals for AI Data Centers
Oct. 17, 2025 — The U.S. Department of the Air Force announced it is accepting proposals for the development of artificial intelligence data centers . The Air Force said projects must include greater than 100 megawatts of new load and at least $500 million in capital expenditures, adding that it is seeking monetary consideration for […]
Air Force Issues Call for Proposals for AI Data Centers
Oct. 17, 2025 — The U.S. Department of the Air Force announced it is accepting proposals for the development of artificial intelligence data centers . The Air Force said projects must include greater than 100 megawatts of new load and at least $500 million in capital expenditures, adding that it is seeking monetary consideration for […]
OpenAI and Broadcom to Deploy 10 GW of OpenAI-Designed AI Accelerators
When it comes to AI compute, the big cloud platform providers are chip-agnostic, adopting processors from the big chip companies (mostly NVIDIA) along with their own custom-designed GPUs ….
Flex Announces Platform for AI Infrastructure Deployment
SAN JOSE — Oct. 13, 2025 — Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX) today announced what is said is the first integrated platform designed for gigawatt data centers supporting AI and HPC. By uniting power, cooling, compute, and Flex’s global services into pre-engineered, modular reference designs for data centers, the new infrastructure platform enables operators to deploy infrastructure […]
@HPCpodcast: Silicon Photonics – An Update from Prof. Keren Bergman on a Potentially Transformational Technology for Data Center Chips
In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by CoolIT, we catch up with optical I/O expert and repeat guest ….
Infineon to Support for 800 Volt AI Data Center Power Architecture Announced by NVIDIA
Munich and Santa Clara, CA – 13 Oct. 2025 – Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) supports the 800 Volt direct current (VDC) power architecture announced by NVIDIA at Computex 2025 for AI infrastructure. The exponential growth of artificial intelligence is rapidly outstripping the capacity of the current 54 V data center power […]
Renesas GaN Power Semiconductors Support NVIDIA’s 800 Volt Direct Current AI Data Center Architecture
TOKYO, Oct. 13, 2025 ― Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a supplier of semiconductor solutions, announced that it is supporting efficient power conversion and distribution for the 800 Volt Direct Current power architecture announced by NVIDIA. As GPU-driven AI workloads intensify and data center power consumption scales into multi-hundred megawatt territory, modern data centers must adopt power architectures that […]
What the OpenAI Deal Means for AMD in AI Factory Compute
Of all the days since the last “AMD winter” (i.e., sometime before Lisa Su took over as CEO in 2014), yesterday is among the most memorable and, the company believes, significant ….













