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

Aquifer thermal batteries could cut AI data center cooling demand and save water, new research suggests. We examine how underground thermal energy storage works, why cooling is a…

Brookfield and Bloom Energy expand their AI infrastructure partnership fivefold to $25 billion, financing rapid fuel-cell power for AI data centers. We break down what the June 2026…

Wärtsilä has won a new U.S. order for engine-based power generation aimed at AI data center growth, its latest in a fast-expanding market segment. We examine why fast-deploy…

China’s hollow-core fiber trial reached 51.3 Tb/s across 128 miles without signal regeneration, a milestone aimed at AI-era bandwidth bottlenecks. We examine what hollow-core fiber is, why AI…

GE Vernova’s heavy-duty gas turbines have become critical hardware for the AI data center boom, as CNBC’s factory-floor look shows. We examine why gas turbines are back in…

DeepSeek has open-sourced DSpark, a new framework the company says can speed up large language model inference by up to 85%, per a VentureBeat report. We examine what…

Stanley Druckenmiller has disclosed new positions in bitcoin miners Hut 8, Riot Platforms and Bitdeer, three names increasingly repositioning their power-rich sites as AI infrastructure hosts. The move…

Microsoft claims water-positive data center operations, saying it now replenishes more water than its facilities consume. We examine how water-positive accounting works, why basin-level impact matters more than…

Chevron is pursuing additional deals to supply power to US data centers, Reuters reports, signaling that oil majors now treat AI-driven electricity demand as a core growth market.…