Major data center company pauses investment decisions in Middle East amid Iran war, CEO tells CNBC
A major data center company has paused investment in AI infrastructure projects and data centers in the Middle East amid the Iran war, its CEO has told CNBC. As oil prices have skyrocketed and supply chains have been heavily disrupted by conflict in the region, the future of huge digital infrastructure plans in the Middle East has […]
Chinese GPU maker Lisuan Tech becomes only the fourth GPU maker ever to earn Microsoft WHQL certification — LX 7G100 GPU joins Nvidia, AMD, and Intel as it crosses the WHQL driver finish line, first Chinese firm to earn certification
Nvidia, AMD, and Intel make some of the best graphics cards. However, a fourth contender has entered the game. Lisuan Tech (via DigiTimes) has officially earned Microsoft‘s Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certification for its 6nm graphics cards. Notably, Lisuan Tech is only the fourth chipmaker to earn the WHQL certification, and the first Chinese graphics card manufacturer to […]
Zuckerberg’s Meta will beam sunlight from space to power AI data centers, solar-collecting satellites will orbit 22,000 miles above Earth — firm reserves 1 Gigawatt of orbital solar energy and 100 Gigawatt-hours of long-duration storage
Meta announced in a press release on Monday that it had begun plans to power its AI data centers with sunlight beamed from space. The company plans to place solar-collecting satellites in geosynchronous orbit roughly 22,000 miles above Earth to beam the sunlight to collectors on the Earth’s surface. The plan is part of two […]
Anthropic in talks with investors to raise funds at $900 billion valuation, higher than OpenAI
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, during the company’s Builder Summit in Bengaluru, India, Feb. 16, 2026. Samyukta Lakshmi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic has been chasing OpenAI since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022. It appears to have finally caught up. The artificial intelligence startup, founded five years ago by former OpenAI execs, […]
New data center will be partially powered by human brain cells for the first time
A startup is experimenting with data centers powered by lab-grown human neurons, testing whether living cells can offer a more efficient alternative to traditional computing. An Australian startup is building what could become one of the world’s first “biological data centers” — augmenting silicon computing chips with those seeded with living human neurons. Cortical Labs, […]
Data Centre Boom Reshapes Malaysia’s Power Demand
Malaysia’s electricity demand is entering a new structural growth phase, driven by the rapid expansion of data centres that are replacing traditional industrial users as the main source of baseload demand, according to Kenanga Research. The research house said Peninsular Malaysia’s power consumption, once closely tied to industrial growth, is now being reshaped by large-scale […]
Malaysia’s data centre capacity to double to 2,055MW by 2026 — JLL
(From left) JLL Malaysia head of research and consultancy Yulia Nikulicheva, JLL Malaysia capital markets senior director Keith Eng, JLL Malaysia managing director Jamie Tan, JLL CEO Singapore & Southeast Asia Michael Glancy, JLL Malaysia head of leasing advisory Quiny Lee, JLL Malaysia chief growth officer Christophe Vicic and JLL Malaysia logistics and industrial senior […]
A faster way to estimate AI power consumption
Caption: MIT and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers have developed a tool that predicts the energy use of AI workloads, helping data centers allocate resources efficiently and reduce wasted power. Credits: Credit: iStock Due to the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, it is estimated that data centers will consume up to 12 percent of total U.S. […]
Trial of the century to determine who controls AI’s future
Beyond the legal arguments, it is a battle of egos: Musk is irritable; Altman is cunning. The real fight is about control – and a fully commercial ChatGPT moving into social media and sales is a threat to Grok, says the author. Image: AdobeStock It is the battle of the billionaires as two of the […]
Data centre contract wins to lift Gamuda and SunCon earnings
PETALING JAYA: The expected profit before tax (PBT) margins for the recent back-to-back contract wins for data centre (DC) projects by Gamuda Bhd and Sunway Construction Group Bhd (SunCon) could be about 8% for both contractors. Assuming a 8% profit before tax PBT margin, TA Research estimates this contract to contribute about RM137.6mil PBT over the contract period for […]