Category Supercomputing

EON Raises $10.75M to Try Beaming Data Center Traffic Through Space Lasers

EON raised $10.75M to use space lasers for data center traffic, targeting high-bandwidth links between continents and AI infrastructure.

Nscale is buying Anyscale for $1.65 billion, deepening its AI compute stack with software that scales workloads across data centers.

LinkedIn is keeping AI spending flat this year, using efficiency gains to launch new features without expanding its data center footprint.

Microsoft is pitching enterprise AI control, lower costs and model-swapping tools as it competes more directly with OpenAI and Anthropic.

A PJM grid disturbance showed how AI data centers can amplify faults. Here’s why AI data centers are becoming a power-system challenge.

IBM says the IBM mainframe slump was caused by delayed customer purchases as AI-driven hardware costs reshaped IT budgets.

BloombergNEF says data center electricity demand could quadruple by 2035 as AI compute strains U.S. grids and pushes prices higher.

Nvidia is pitching Vera Rubin as a full-stack AI data center platform with CPUs, GPUs and cooling, ahead of AMD’s product event.

SpaceX IPO shares fell below $135 as investors reassess Musk’s vision ahead of a crucial Starship launch and future AI listings.

Altman’s jab at Musk spotlights why space data centers remain a long-shot: launch costs, reuse limits and scale still block the business.