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NVIDIA at Climate Week: Next-Gen AI Chips Run Cooler on Recirculated Warm Water, Not Chilled
NVIDIA used its platform at London Climate Week on June 22, 2026, to unveil a cooling breakthrough that could reshape the sustainability debate around AI data centers: a recirculated warm liquid...
Microsoft’s Fairwater AI Datacenter Goes Live in Wisconsin, Marking Major Phase One Milestone
Microsoft’s Fairwater datacenter in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, is now officially online, delivering AI compute power to Azure customers, the company announced on June 23, 2026. The first facility...
CHIPS Act Incentives Propel Coherent’s InP Photonics Manufacturing Expansion in Texas for AI Optics
The U.S. Department of Commerce has finalized a package of CHIPS Act incentives for Coherent Corp., earmarking substantial funding to expand the company’s indium phosphide (InP) photonics...
KAIST's Chip-Embedded Liquid Cooling Tames 2,000-Watt Heat in AI Data Centers
A wafer-thin sliver of silicon can now shed more than two kilowatts of heat without breaking a sweat, thanks to a cooling design that tucks water channels directly into the chip substrate....
Nvidia Targets China's Data Centers with Vera Arm CPU, Skirting US Export Curbs
Nvidia has begun pitching its next-generation Arm-based server processor, codenamed Vera, to Chinese cloud providers and server makers, according to a report from The Information, signaling a...
Nvidia’s 2026 Masterstroke: Vera Rubin GPUs and RTX Spark CPUs Set to Redefine AI Computing from Data Centers to Windows PCs
Nvidia is preparing to execute a strategic blitz that could redefine the landscape of computing from hyperscale data centers all the way to everyday Windows laptops. By the second half of 2026, the...
Nvidia and LG Join Forces to Build Humanoid Robots and AI Factories of the Future
Nvidia and LG Group have inked an expanded partnership that will see the two technology giants co-develop humanoid robots, next-generation data center architectures, and AI-powered factories. The...
Microsoft Layoffs May 2025: AI Data Centers Reshape Windows and Workforce
Microsoft began cutting several thousand jobs in May 2025, a move the company framed as a strategic realignment rather than a reaction to financial pressure. The layoffs—affecting less than 3...
Azure Job Cuts in China: Windows Admins Must Audit Cloud Sovereignty Now
Microsoft is eliminating hundreds of Azure-related positions in Beijing and Shanghai, a move that should put every Windows administrator on alert. Employees were informed last week that their roles...
Nadella Claims New AI Data Centers Use Same Water as One Restaurant
Satya Nadella dropped a surprising statistic on attendees at Build 2026 in early June: Microsoft’s newest AI data centers can use, over an entire year, roughly the same amount of water as a single...
Microsoft Seeks Ratepayer Protection Tariff in Nevada as AI Data Centers Strain Grid
Microsoft filed a Ratepayer Protection Tariff proposal with Nevada utility regulators in May 2026, aiming to shield residential and small business customers from shouldering the multibillion-dollar...
Gallup: 68% of Americans Now Oppose AI Data Centers in Their Local Communities
Roughly seven in ten Americans oppose construction of AI data centers in their local communities, according to a May 2026 Gallup survey, exposing a widening fault line between Microsoft’s breakneck...