- New serverless fine-tuning and inference services target the full AI model lifecycle – from model customization through production deployment.
- Supercomputing is splitting into two tracks: publicly funded exascale systems ranked by TOP500/HPL FLOPS and hyperscaler-built AI campuses measured by megawatt–gigawatt capacity.
- Meta’s 1 GW Alberta campus reveals how hyperscalers now secure power and transmission years before announcing AI campuses.
- New executive moves at Colt, Stream, and Vantage are among the latest leadership changes shaping the data center and cloud industries.
- Local opposition groups surged to 430 from 76 since 2025, while recent Virginia project failures suggest community acceptance is emerging as a new site-selection variable for AI infrastructure.
- Omdia research shows AI models are collapsing traditional cloud architectures by integrating multiple layers into single API calls and shifting billing from “pay-per-layer” to “pay-per-token.”
- Days after QTS abandoned its $30 billion Digital Gateway project, county supervisors unanimously rejected the first planning step for a proposed 43 million-square-foot data center campus.
- Data center brokers bridge the gap between buyers and sellers, navigating a complex market to facilitate deals and drive industry expansion.
- New rack-mount and single-frame systems give enterprises more flexibility as data center space, cooling, and AI demands intensify.
- At Cisco Live 2026, experts warned: AI’s growth demands a networking supercycle, making networks as vital as GPUs and power.


