The Ultimate Guide to AI Infrastructure
A curated American edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for AI Infrastructure.
What to know about AI Infrastructure
AI Infrastructure explores the hardware, software, and systems that make modern artificial intelligence possible. This tag covers everything from compute and storage architectures to networking, data pipelines, and observability stacks that keep AI workloads reliable and efficient.
Stories here dig into practical questions: how to design scalable training and inference clusters, choose between GPUs and emerging accelerators, manage feature stores, and orchestrate distributed workloads. You’ll find discussions of MLOps practices, cost optimization, performance tuning, and the trade-offs behind different infrastructure patterns.
Whether you’re building a new AI platform or evolving an existing stack, this tag helps you understand the components, constraints, and design decisions that sit underneath AI products. Reading these pieces will give you concrete examples, architectural patterns, and lessons learned that you can apply to your own systems.
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Edged tops out second Aurora data centre in Chicago
Demand for AI computing is driving a fully pre-leased 72 MW build in Aurora, which is due to start operating in the second quarter of 2027.
Hivemind & Berkeley launch darkmatter lab for AI research
Selected AI and blockchain projects at Berkeley will each receive at least USD $1 million in support before they form companies.
Portal26 launches free Claude governance for firms
Firms using Anthropic's Claude can now track usage and costs more closely as Portal26 rolls out a free governance tier.
Opaque hires Microsoft veteran as Chief Platform Officer
The appointment signals a push to help regulated firms deploy AI agents without risking data leaks or unauthorised actions in sensitive systems.
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AI board priority rises as legacy systems slow scale
Legacy systems are slowing AI roll-outs at large firms, with most executives saying modernisation and governance are now the main bottlenecks.
NTT Data & Google Cloud expand Gemini Enterprise push
The tie-up seeks to help firms turn AI pilots into live systems, with 5,000 experts trained and hundreds of agents planned.
Supabase raises USD $500 million in Series F round
The fresh cash lifts Supabase's valuation to USD $10.5 billion as AI-driven demand for its database platform continues to surge.
Vista launches Vector Core Compute for AI inference
The new inference cloud is aimed at cutting latency and costs for enterprise AI, with a Los Angeles site live and Together.ai first to use it.
Computex spotlights AI robots as startup turnout grows
A new robotics zone and a 11% rise in startups showed AI hardware and commercial deployment are now driving the Taipei trade fair.
Agentic AI Foundation adds agentgateway as hosted project
The addition gives companies a shared layer for securing and routing AI traffic as agentic systems move into production.
PEAK:AIO & Los Alamos launch Lattice for AI storage
The open-source system is designed to ease storage bottlenecks that can leave costly GPUs underused in AI and high-performance computing clusters.
NetApp and Cisco expand FlexPod with enterprise AI systems
Enterprises could cut integration work and security risk as pre-tested FlexPod systems are aimed at production AI deployments and edge use cases.
CIQ expands Fuzzball to span five clouds & on-prem
The update lets AI and HPC teams move workloads across five clouds and on-premises, cutting duplication and simplifying GPU access.
Microsoft unveils AI agents, models & security tools
Developers and enterprise customers will get more AI controls as Microsoft adds agents, in-house models and security tools across its software stack.
OpenSpace tops 1,000 data centre projects worldwide
Rising demand for AI infrastructure is driving faster uptake of digital site monitoring, with OpenSpace now used on more than 1,000 projects.
Microsoft AI launches seven new models across tasks
The models are aimed at developers and enterprises, with Microsoft saying internal training could cut costs and improve control in regulated industries.
Wallarm launches AI control platform on AWS Marketplace
Firms racing to deploy generative AI are exposing themselves to data incidents and compliance gaps, Wallarm says, as oversight lags.
Linux Foundation launches Tokenomics Foundation for AI costs
Rising AI bills are pushing enterprises to seek neutral benchmarks, as token costs are now a CEO-level concern and newer model prices climb.
Delta launches modular AI data centre to speed build
AI operators could bring new capacity online faster, as Delta says its prefabricated system may cut data centre deployment time by 60%.
Lightmatter joins NVIDIA NVLink Fusion AI ecosystem
The move could help hyperscalers cut cabling in dense AI clusters by half as optical links become central to NVIDIA's custom-chip strategy.
CrowdStrike lifts guidance & announces four-for-one split
Investors got stronger sales, record free cash flow and higher full-year forecasts as the cybersecurity group also unveiled a four-for-one stock split.
Microsoft unveils Surface RTX Spark Dev Box for developers
The compact desktop aims to cut cloud costs for AI developers by letting them fine-tune and run large models locally on Windows.