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Sep, 2026 : Trump AI Force Plan Leaves Tech Industry Seeking Clarity
📅 - President Donald Trump said he will create an AI Force and appoint a new artificial intelligence czar, signaling closer White House involvement in the technology while rejecting broader efforts to slow development. The plan remains undefined, leaving cloud operators, data center developers, model companies and enterprise buyers without clarity on authority, enforcement, funding or practical oversight powers.
For the technology industry, that uncertainty is more significant than the name of the new organization. Trump has described continued AI development as economically and strategically important, while indicating that harmful conduct could largely be handled through existing criminal [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Cohesity Adds Backup and Recovery for AI Agent Infrastructure - Cohesity is extending cyber recovery into AI agent infrastructure, adding protection for agent memory, configuration and the systems agents can alter as enterprises automate more operational work. The service initially supports Amazon Bedrock and is available to selected customers, forcing infrastructure teams to consider whether AI agents now require the same recovery discipline as databases and applications.
For hosting providers, cloud operators and enterprise infrastructure teams, that changes the recovery boundary. An AI agent is not simply another application process if it can modify databases, files, policies or connected services on its own. Backing up the underlying workload may [...]
📅 - Crusoe Adds Factory Capacity in Tulsa as AI Electrical Demand Grows - Crusoe has opened a second manufacturing plant in Tulsa, adding 400,000 square feet for electrical equipment used in large AI data centers as demand strains supply chains for power infrastructure. The expansion lifts Crusoe's US manufacturing footprint to roughly one million square feet and deepens its reliance on internal production for critical components during rapid capacity expansion.
The move gives Crusoe more control over a part of AI infrastructure that receives far less attention than processors but can still determine whether a data center is energized on schedule. The Tulsa sites produce medium voltage switchgear, low voltage switchboards, electrical enclosures, industrial [...]
📅 - Yugabyte Adds Serverless PostgreSQL for Multi-Agent AI - Yugabyte is widening its database portfolio around agentic AI, adding a serverless PostgreSQL tier and a context engine while reporting faster customer growth and broader international expansion. The company says new paying customer logos rose more than 125 percent year over year, as enterprises test whether distributed SQL can support production AI workloads without multiplying operational complexity.
The shift puts database architecture closer to the center of the agentic AI stack. YugabyteDB AMP is designed as a serverless, scale-to-zero PostgreSQL-compatible tier able to spin up hundreds of databases in seconds, while Meko is positioned as a shared context layer for multi-agent [...]
📅 - Europe and APAC AI Spending Heads Toward $1 Trillion by 2030 - European and Asia-Pacific spending on artificial intelligence is projected to approach $1.03 trillion by 2030, according to IDC, as enterprises move from pilots into production and increase spending on software, cloud capacity and data center infrastructure. The forecasts suggest annual growth near 35%, although regulation, compute availability and deployment maturity remain sharply different across regions and industries.
For hosting providers, cloud operators and infrastructure suppliers, IDC's numbers matter less as a headline spending total than as evidence of where enterprise budgets are moving. Europe is projected to spend nearly $470 billion annually on AI by 2030, while [...]
📅 - ABB Launches 800V DC Power Portfolio for High-Density AI Data Centers - ABB has launched an 800V direct current power portfolio for dense AI data centers, targeting facilities where alternating current distribution is becoming harder to scale. The system spans medium voltage power conversion, distribution, protection and cooling infrastructure, as operators prepare for server racks approaching one megawatt and campuses consuming power on utility scale terms per computing rack.
For data center developers, the immediate question is less whether direct current works than whether the economics now justify changing electrical architecture. Artificial intelligence facilities are forcing that calculation earlier than many operators expected. Power density has [...]
📅 - Virginia Tightens Permitting for Major Data Centers - Virginia, one of the United States' largest data center markets, is preparing tighter controls on new facilities, with Governor Abigail Spanberger backing rules that would require local approval above 25 megawatts and shift more grid costs onto operators. The changes could raise development costs, complicate permitting and make speculative power reservations harder to justify commercially for investors.
For developers outside the United States, the significance is fairly direct. Virginia has long been a critical data center market because of its concentration of cloud infrastructure, network connectivity and large scale campuses. The new framework would make approval less automatic for [...]
