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Vultr launches USD $50m AMD AI supercluster in Ohio for growth

Vultr has launched a USD $50m AI supercluster with 24,000 AMD GPUs at its new Ohio data centre, boosting cloud capacity for global AI development.

By Sean Mitchell • 2 min read • Sat, 6th Dec 2025

Hyperscale

Explained: Trump signs order for national AI platform

President Donald Trump signed an order launching the Genesis Mission, a national AI platform uniting US supercomputers and data to boost innovation and leadership.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Mon, 1st Dec 2025

Network Infrastructure

Spectra Logic wins contract for TACC supercomputer data archive

Spectra Logic will provide its tape library technology for TACC's Horizon supercomputer, creating a one-exabyte data archive for open scientific research.

By Sean Mitchell • 2 min read • Thu, 20th Nov 2025

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Hyperscale

QDX opens EXESS quantum chemistry engine to academics

QDX opens EXESS quantum chemistry engine for free academic use, bundling access with complimentary GPU compute credits via approval.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Sat, 7th Feb 2026

Data Protection

TELUS study finds Canadians and Americans demand safer AI

TELUS survey finds most Canadians and Americans use AI but overwhelmingly want stricter regulation, safety checks and clearer explanations.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Fri, 30th Jan 2026

Data Protection

Taiwan NCHC joins iRODS data management consortium

Taiwan's National Centre for High-Performance Computing joins the iRODS Consortium to bolster secure, scalable research data management.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Thu, 29th Jan 2026

Hyperscale

Riverlane opens Delft AI quantum error correction hub

Riverlane launches an AI-driven quantum error correction hub in Delft, led by Barbara Terhal, bolstering its European R&D footprint.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Sat, 10th Jan 2026

Robotics

AMD unveils yotta-scale AI roadmap & USD $150m pledge

AMD maps 'yotta-scale' AI future with Helios platform, new chips across data centre to edge, and a USD $150m education pledge.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Wed, 7th Jan 2026

Hyperscale

AI expansion triggers global race for power and real estate

AI growth is straining power grids and land as data centre deals soar past USD $10 billion, with the UK emerging as an AI infrastructure hub.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 5 min read • Tue, 6th Jan 2026

Robotics

HPE dominates TOP500 with trio of exascale leaders

HPE cements supercomputing lead as its exascale systems take the top three TOP500 spots and half of the Green500's 20 most efficient.

By Sean Mitchell • 7 min read • Mon, 22nd Dec 2025

Hyperscale

AMD & HPE team up on open rack-scale AI data centre platform

AMD and HPE will launch the Helios AI platform in 2026, combining CPUs, GPUs and advanced networking to power large-scale data centres worldwide.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Wed, 3rd Dec 2025

Smart Cities

Milestone partners with DCAI to boost compliant AI for smart cities

Milestone partners with DCAI to deploy compliant AI models on Europe-based Gefion supercomputer, enhancing smart city and traffic management solutions under EU regulations.

By Melvin Hipolito • 3 min read • Thu, 27th Nov 2025

DataCentre infrastructure

El Capitan remains world's fastest as HPE leads supercomputer race

El Capitan remains the world's fastest supercomputer, marking HPE's eighth consecutive top spot on the TOP500 list in high-performance computing.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Tue, 18th Nov 2025

DataCentre infrastructure

In the AI gold rush, data centre infrastructure vendors are selling shovels

Schneider Electric leads in liquid cooling tech for AI data centres, tackling heat challenges amid booming demand for high-performance computing infrastructure.

By Donovan Jackson • 4 min read • Thu, 22nd May 2025

Smart Cities

NVIDIA & Foxconn to build AI supercomputer for Taiwan

NVIDIA and Foxconn partner with Taiwan to build an AI supercomputer using 10,000 Blackwell GPUs, boosting research and innovation across industries.

By Melvin Hipolito • 3 min read • Mon, 19th May 2025

Platform-as-a-Service

Fujitsu & RIKEN unveil 256-qubit quantum computer upgrade

Fujitsu and RIKEN have launched a 256-qubit superconducting quantum computer, quadrupling previous capacity and boosting complex modelling and data analysis capabilities.

By Catherine Knowles • 4 min read • Wed, 23rd Apr 2025

DataCentre infrastructure

Google unveils Ironwood TPU for AI inference tasks

Google has launched Ironwood, its most advanced Tensor Processing Unit yet, tailored for AI inference tasks, boosting computational efficiency and performance.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Thu, 10th Apr 2025