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Airsys Unveils LiquidRack To Simplify AI Cooling - 📅 - Airsys is rolling out a revised take on liquid cooling that tries to sidestep the infrastructure overhaul many data center operators still dread. The company's new LiquidRack platform shifts cooling functions down to the rack level, aiming to make higher-density AI deployments possible without tearing apart existing facilities or committing to complex centralized systems.
Airsys is pitching this as a practical step forward rather than a radical redesign. The message is clear - most operators are not building hyperscale AI clusters from scratch. They are trying to squeeze more compute into environments originally designed for air cooling. That gap, between what infrastructure can handle [...]
Airsys is pitching this as a practical step forward rather than a radical redesign. The message is clear - most operators are not building hyperscale AI clusters from scratch. They are trying to squeeze more compute into environments originally designed for air cooling. That gap, between what infrastructure can handle [...]
SUSE Unveils AI Factory Platform In Collaboration With NVIDIA - 📅 - SUSE is stepping further into the enterprise AI stack, unveiling a new "AI Factory" platform built with NVIDIA that aims to standardize how companies build and run AI systems. The offering arrives as enterprises struggle to move from pilot projects to production deployments, with concerns around governance, security, and infrastructure complexity slowing progress across regulated industries globally.
SUSE is framing the move as a way to close the gap between experimentation and real-world deployment. The pitch is familiar - simplify the stack, reduce friction, accelerate time to value - but the context has shifted. AI is no longer a side project inside organizations. It is becoming [...]
SUSE is framing the move as a way to close the gap between experimentation and real-world deployment. The pitch is familiar - simplify the stack, reduce friction, accelerate time to value - but the context has shifted. AI is no longer a side project inside organizations. It is becoming [...]
Intel Q1 Results Highlight CPU Role In Expanding AI Stack - 📅 - Intel reported first-quarter 2026 results with revenue again beating expectations, marking a sixth consecutive quarter of outperformance as demand for AI infrastructure continues to reshape the semiconductor landscape. The company generated $1.1 billion in operating cash, while executives pointed to a shift toward inference and agent-based systems as a driver for renewed demand in CPUs and packaging.Intel is leaning heavily into a narrative that CPUs are not being sidelined by GPUs but repositioned. The argument is that as AI workloads move beyond training into inference and distributed "agentic" systems, compute is spreading outward - closer to users, devices, and edge environments. [...]
Cloud Firm DigitalOcean Expands into Agent Runtime with Katanemo - 📅 - DigitalOcean's recent acquisition of Katanemo Labs is starting to look less like an AI add-on and more like a shift in where value sits in the stack, as developers move from training models to operating them. The deal, disclosed a few weeks ago, targets the runtime layer for agentic systems rather than the increasingly commoditized race for GPU capacity.DigitalOcean has spent years positioning itself as a simpler alternative to hyperscalers, largely competing on developer experience and predictable pricing. GPUs changed that dynamic. Suddenly, everyone wanted raw compute, and supply constraints dominated the conversation.
But GPUs are not where most applications fail.
That is where [...]
Cloud Firm DigitalOcean Expands into Agent Runtime with Katanemo - 📅 - DigitalOcean's recent acquisition of Katanemo Labs is starting to look less like an AI add-on and more like a shift in where value sits in the stack, as developers move from training models to operating them. The deal, disclosed a few weeks ago, targets the runtime layer for agentic systems rather than the increasingly commoditized race for GPU capacity.DigitalOcean has spent years positioning itself as a simpler alternative to hyperscalers, largely competing on developer experience and predictable pricing. GPUs changed that dynamic. Suddenly, everyone wanted raw compute, and supply constraints dominated the conversation.
But GPUs are not where most applications fail.
That is where [...]
Neterra Adds Fourth Sofia-Frankfurt Route, Boosting Capacity - 📅 - Neterra has added a fourth independent fiber route between Sofia and Frankfurt, responding to a run of network disruptions that exposed how fragile "redundant" connectivity can be. The upgrade also comes with a capacity jump, as the operator prepares to move its backbone links from 100 Gbps to 400 Gbps to handle growing traffic loads.Neterra is framing this as a resilience play, but the subtext is capacity under stress. Since late 2025, multiple international outages have taken down supposedly separate routes at the same time, hitting major content platforms and exposing shared dependencies that were not always obvious.
The company's answer is straightforward - add another path, make it [...]
Keppel, Shell Launch Immersion Cooling Data Center Pilot - 📅 - Keppel and Shell Singapore are preparing to submerge servers in liquid as part of a year-long pilot aimed at rethinking how data centers handle heat. The testbed, scheduled for May 2026, will trial immersion cooling inside a live facility, targeting energy efficiency gains as AI workloads intensify pressure on conventional infrastructure across tropical markets.
Keppel is not abandoning air cooling overnight. Most of its facilities still rely on it. But the direction of travel is becoming harder to ignore. AI workloads are denser, hotter, less predictable. Traditional airflow systems are starting to look like a constraint rather than a default.
So this pilot - built with Shell Singapore [...]
Keppel is not abandoning air cooling overnight. Most of its facilities still rely on it. But the direction of travel is becoming harder to ignore. AI workloads are denser, hotter, less predictable. Traditional airflow systems are starting to look like a constraint rather than a default.
So this pilot - built with Shell Singapore [...]
SUSE And Switch Advance AI Data Center Digital Twins - 📅 - SUSE and Switch are deepening their partnership around digital twin technology, aiming to turn large-scale data centers into continuously simulated environments as AI workloads grow more complex. The milestone centers on combining open source infrastructure with NVIDIA's simulation stack to operationalize what both companies describe as AI Factories - though the practical implications are still taking shape.SUSE and Switch are effectively trying to collapse multiple layers of infrastructure into one coordinated system. The pitch is straightforward: instead of running AI models, simulations, and rendering workloads separately, run them together - on the same hardware, in near real time, [...]
SUSE And Switch Advance AI Data Center Digital Twins - 📅 - SUSE and Switch are deepening their partnership around digital twin technology, aiming to turn large-scale data centers into continuously simulated environments as AI workloads grow more complex. The milestone centers on combining open source infrastructure with NVIDIA's simulation stack to operationalize what both companies describe as AI Factories - though the practical implications are still taking shape.SUSE and Switch are effectively trying to collapse multiple layers of infrastructure into one coordinated system. The pitch is straightforward: instead of running AI models, simulations, and rendering workloads separately, run them together - on the same hardware, in near real time, [...]
QumulusAI Raises $45M To Accelerate GPU Rollout Pace - 📅 - QumulusAI has lined up fresh capital to chase a narrowing window in AI infrastructure, securing a $45 million convertible note facility from ATW Partners, with $15 million already deployed. The funding is being funneled straight into GPUs and data center buildouts, as enterprise demand for dedicated AI compute continues to outpace supply across U.S. markets.
QumulusAI is not trying to finesse margins here. It is trying to move faster than procurement cycles typically allow. The company is using the facility to lock in hardware, secure colocation space, and stand up clusters before customers lose patience or shift elsewhere.
Timing matters more than elegance. Enterprises increasingly want [...]
QumulusAI is not trying to finesse margins here. It is trying to move faster than procurement cycles typically allow. The company is using the facility to lock in hardware, secure colocation space, and stand up clusters before customers lose patience or shift elsewhere.
Timing matters more than elegance. Enterprises increasingly want [...]