MVP, the first test satellite of Google's space compute project, launches on a Falcon 9 on 1 October. The mission measures whether the chips survive radiation, vibration and heat in orbit.
Nscale, the UK data centre startup founded two years ago, has added Fidji Simo to its board. It is seeking up to 3.5 billion dollars in pre-IPO financing.
Competition shifted from the chip to traffic control. Getting data to the GPU at the right moment now matters more than more processor cycles.
Robots that plug in cables and reset servers are under test. The company declined to comment, though an executive described the long-term goal last year.
Demand in the connection queue rose from 41 to 125 gigawatts in eight months. The government believes most of it is a mirage.
The chipmaker has taken a stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, which brokers between utilities and data centers.
Nearly a hundred data centers have gone up in this Inner Mongolian city. Power is cheap and winters are cold, but rainfall matches Denver's.
Three in four Americans now oppose a data center being built near them, a Heatmap News survey finds. A year earlier, opinion was almost evenly split.
Starcloud is now valued at $2.3 billion. Its CEO says the hardest constraint ahead is not chips but booking launch capacity.
Silicon Data aims to become the reference price for GPU rental and to build the index a futures contract would settle against. It raised $30 million, with trading planned to start on the CME on 5 October.
OpenAI has leased a campus in Ohio from SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy for 20 years. Nvidia is backing the project with up to $105 billion and becomes the exclusive chip supplier; Jensen Huang says the bottleneck is now land, power and shell.
After losing its founder and top team to Nvidia, Groq abandoned its own chip effort and became a cloud company operating Nvidia systems. The new round values it at $3.5 billion.
Form Energy, which builds iron-air batteries, closed a $750 million Series G led by T. Rowe Price. The valuation passed $2 billion, and its customers include Google.
The Information reports that Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $3 billion in SB Energy, the SoftBank-backed data centre developer behind OpenAI's vast Ohio campus, which is aiming for an IPO.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Nvidia has reworked the deal financing OpenAI's Ohio data centre campus and will initially guarantee only half of the planned $250 billion backstop.
Energy research firm Noreva forecasts that natural gas prices could triple in parts of the US. Four large companies are planning gigawatt-scale gas plants.
Nvidia has a plan to keep its GPUs from losing value. The goal is to convince a new class of financiers to keep lending against AI buildouts.
NVIDIA argues the constraint is not how many watts are consumed but how power gets from the grid to the chip. An 800-volt DC architecture removes conversion stages.
Point2 Technology, which develops RF-based data center connectivity technology, raised $136 million in a Series B round led by LB Investment, Arm, and Maverick Silicon.