#AI infrastructure
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Microsoft plugs AMD's newest chips into Azure to handle the AI compute crunch
Three new virtual machine types land in Microsoft's cloud, each built around AMD's latest processors and aimed at a different piece of the AI workload puzzle.
Fireworks AI hits $17.5 billion valuation as companies hunt for cheaper alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic
The cloud startup, backed by Nvidia, now handles more AI traffic per day than Google's own developer tools. Its pitch: specialist models at a fraction of the cost of the big labs.
Apple passes Nvidia to become the world's most valuable company again
A 3.5% drop in Nvidia's share price on Friday was enough to hand Apple back the top spot, and it signals that Wall Street is starting to question whether the AI spending boom can keep going at its current pace.
A $400 Million Bet That Cheaper AI Chips Will Win
A startup called General Compute just borrowed $400 million to build a cloud service around a less-expensive type of AI chip. The deal may signal a turning point away from the pricey hardware that dominates AI today.
The Electricity Problem at the Heart of Modern AI
Every AI data centre runs on a fixed power budget. The company that squeezes the most useful work out of each watt wins. Here is what that means in plain English.
Energy IPOs Are Breaking Records Because AI Needs So Much Power
Investors poured $12.6 billion into energy company stock offerings in the first half of 2025 alone, more than any six-month period since the dot-com peak in 1999. The reason: AI data centres are hungry for electricity, and someone has to supply it.
Trump Demands New York Scrap Its Datacenter Freeze 'Immediately'
New York became the first US state to pause construction of large datacenters. The president wants the order reversed before the ink is dry.
AI Routing Sounded Like Easy Savings. The Reality Cost Twice as Much.
A team building smart AI systems thought sending simple tasks to cheaper AI models would cut costs. Then the numbers came in.
This AI Router Cuts Costs by 2.6x by Learning From Its Own Mistakes
A new open-source system called ACRouter watches which AI model succeeds or fails on each task, remembers what it learned, and routes the next job smarter. In tests, it matched the performance of premium-only setups at less than half the price.
The AI race is no longer just about who has the biggest model
Companies are quietly moving away from the most powerful AI and toward cheaper, smarter systems that pick the right tool for each job. Here is what that means for you.
AI chip executives say demand is 'almost unlimited' even as companies get pickier about costs
Senior figures from chip startups, data centre builders and venture capital say AI infrastructure demand is outrunning supply. But enterprises are starting to ask hard questions about what they actually get for their money.
Space data centers are a long way off, and most experts already knew it
A weekend spat between Sam Altman and Elon Musk put a spotlight on a quiet consensus among engineers: orbital computing is not a near-term business, no matter what SpaceX's valuation implies.
Towns Are Fighting Back Against AI Data Centers, and They Are Winning Some
From a two-person protest in Ireland to 833 active opposition groups across America, the pushback against AI's power-hungry building boom has gone mainstream.
A Scottish AI megasite promised green energy. The reality looks very different.
An £8.2 billion AI data centre complex in rural Scotland overstated its plans to run entirely on renewable power. Reporters had to leave their desks to find that out.
Sunrun wants to turn your living room into a tiny AI data centre
The solar company is paying homeowners to host small computing units that sell AI processing power to big tech firms. Here is what that actually means for you.