AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, power and cooling — the announcements that matter, with the analysis and the unanswered questions the press releases leave out.

Utah’s governor has tightened the rules governing Kevin O’Leary’s giant AI data center project, Business Insider reports. The move signals that states are attaching water and power guardrails…

Water and wastewater capacity now rival megawatts as deciding factors in where AI data centers get built, Data Center Knowledge reports. Cooling demand and discharge limits are pushing…

NVIDIA DOCA in-silicon security moves protection for agentic AI infrastructure onto BlueField DPUs, isolating defenses from the hosts they guard. We examine what the approach does and does…

NERC, the gatekeeper of North American grid reliability, is pressing AI data center developers to follow interconnection rules as they race to secure power. We examine what the…

Uinta County planners in Wyoming unanimously approved the 1.25-gigawatt Prometheus data center, a hyperscale siting milestone that signals the state’s growing role in the AI power buildout. The…

Two-phase vs single-phase direct-to-chip liquid cooling is the engineering fork in the road for AI data centers in 2026. We examine how each approach works, the trade-offs in…

Utah’s governor has rejected a plan to power the world’s largest proposed data center entirely with natural gas, saying it will ‘never’ run 100% on gas. The standoff…

Google’s TPU v8 challenge to Nvidia shows how the shift from AI training to inference is reshaping who wins the AI compute market, analysts argue. We weigh what…