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IREN acquires Mirantis for $625 million to integrate its cloud-native Kubernetes and AI infrastructure software into IREN's data centers, aiming to offer a full AI cloud platform.
This paper presents a framework using a multi-head transformer model to predict SLA violations in data centers 30 minutes in advance, encoding rules as JSON for training without manual annotation.
AWS experienced a data center outage in its US-East-1 region in northern Virginia due to overheating, affecting trading platforms FanDuel and Coinbase, with recovery expected to take several hours.
Anthropic struck a deal to use all capacity of xAI's Colossus data center, raising environmental concerns and leading to deprecation of multiple Grok models with short notice.
AMD introduces the Instinct MI350P accelerator featuring CDNA 4 architecture in a PCIe form factor, though pricing and availability details are not yet announced.
NVIDIA's Spectrum-X Ethernet fabric with Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) sets a new standard for gigascale AI networking, improving throughput, load balancing, and resilience for large-scale AI training, as demonstrated by OpenAI, Microsoft, and Oracle.
Google announces its first data center in Kronstorf, Austria, aimed at supporting digital services and AI capabilities while prioritizing sustainability through solar power and heat recovery.
Monterey Park residents organized through SGV Progressive Action to successfully block a 250,000-sq-ft data center planned 500 feet from homes by leveraging public-records requests, mass turnout at council meetings, and exposing procedural flaws.
OpenAI and SoftBank Group are each investing $500 million into SB Energy to support AI data center infrastructure development as part of the Stargate initiative, with OpenAI signing a 1.2 GW data center lease in Milam County, Texas. SB Energy will also become an OpenAI customer and secured an additional $800 million from Ares.
OpenAI and Foxconn announce a collaboration to co-design and manufacture next-generation AI infrastructure hardware in the U.S., focusing on data center racks, supply chain strengthening, and critical components like cooling and power systems.
OpenAI announces a new Stargate data center campus in Michigan with over 1 gigawatt capacity as part of its $500 billion, 10-gigawatt infrastructure commitment, expected to create 2,500 union construction jobs and begin construction in early 2026.
OpenAI and Sur Energy have signed a Letter of Intent to develop the Stargate project in Argentina, a large-scale AI data center powered by clean energy that could position the country as a regional AI leader. The initiative follows discussions between Argentina's President Milei and OpenAI leadership, and includes plans to drive AI adoption across Argentine government institutions.
OpenAI is launching Stargate UK, an AI infrastructure partnership with NVIDIA and Nscale to build sovereign compute capabilities in the United Kingdom, with plans for up to 31,000 GPUs over time. The initiative supports the UK's national AI strategy and will enable OpenAI models to run on local UK compute for critical public services, regulated industries, and national security use cases.
OpenAI announces Stargate Norway, its first European AI data center initiative in Narvik, planned to deliver 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs by end of 2026 with 230MW capacity powered entirely by renewable hydropower. The facility is a joint venture between Nscale and Aker, reflecting OpenAI's broader expansion of AI infrastructure partnerships across Europe and globally.
In the podcast, OpenAI discussed why AI training requires a new type of supercomputer network and introduced the Multipath Reliable Connection (MP-RC) protocol to address tail latency in synchronous workloads.