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- Aakruti Thakkar
Net Zero Data Centers Need More Than Renewable Energy Contracts
Sustainability Metrics Must Move Beyond Energy Procurement The conversation around sustainable data centers has entered a more complex phase as
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- Kiara Mandavia
India’s Data Center Tax Reforms Are Rewriting the Rules of AI Deployment Speed
Somewhere between the announcement of a new data center and the moment its servers actually start processing workloads, months disappear
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- Mahek Mandavia
America’s Grid Expansion No Longer Serves Everyone Equally
Industry discussions around artificial intelligence increasingly recognize electricity as a strategic infrastructure requirement rather than solely a supporting utility. That
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- Aakruti Thakkar
The AI Data Center Cooling Race: Why Thermal Innovation Could Shape AI Infrastructure Growth
AI infrastructure expansion is creating new cooling challenges The AI data center cooling race is becoming an important consideration as
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- Kiara Mandavia
The Middle East’s Greatest Energy Asset Stays Unused
Digital infrastructure has expanded the way policymakers and infrastructure planners evaluate energy security by placing greater emphasis on resilience, reliability,
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- Mahek Mandavia
Energy Bulls May Be Ignoring Their Biggest Threat
A utility executive can report strong quarterly revenue or earnings and still see a muted market reaction because investors now
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- Aakruti Thakkar
Neocloud AI Infrastructure Market: How Specialized Providers Could Reshape AI Computing
The Neocloud AI infrastructure market is entering a new phase as organizations look for specialized computing resources to support advanced
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- Mahek Mandavia
We’ve Simplified Data Centers Into Environmental Villains Too Quickly
A single dashboard cannot tell an operator whether a data center is actually greener than it was last year, yet
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- Kiara Mandavia
Without Skilled Talent, India’s Data Center Boom Will Stall
India has become one of the world’s fastest-growing destinations for digital infrastructure. Capital continues flowing into hyperscale campuses, AI-ready facilities,
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- Aakruti Thakkar
Why AI Growth Should Prioritize Energy Efficiency Over Raw Compute Expansion
AI energy efficiency is becoming as important as computing capacity as larger models, denser clusters, and increasingly sophisticated accelerators reshape
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- Mahek Mandavia
India’s Floating Solar Ambition Needs More Than Water
India’s floating solar ambitions deserve to be viewed as an infrastructure story instead of only a renewable energy milestone. The
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- Kiara Mandavia
Georgia’s Pop-Up Plant Sets A Risky Infrastructure Precedent
The conversation surrounding AI infrastructure rarely stays confined to servers, accelerators, or networking equipment for long. It eventually reaches the
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- Kiara Mandavia
Every AI Megawatt Now Comes With A Surcharge, Remember Meta?
The AI infrastructure conversation has spent the past two years chasing physical constraints. Power became scarce. GPUs became strategic assets.
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- Kiara Mandavia
Loudoun Just Challenged Data Centers’ Unlimited Growth Assumption
Markets rarely wait for policy to become reality. They react to expectations, probabilities, and perceived shortages long before official decisions
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- Kiara Mandavia
AI’s Space Expansion Could Become Humanity’s Costliest Infrastructure Gamble
The commercial space industry has shifted the conversation around orbital infrastructure from science fiction toward commercial feasibility. Launch costs continue
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- Kiara Mandavia
Powering AI Should Never Empower Foreign Adversaries
Every major AI announcement tends to emphasize graphics processors, cloud capacity, or multi-billion-dollar data center investments. Much less attention goes
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- Kiara Mandavia
Grid Stability Ends Where Accountability Quietly Begins
The conversation surrounding every major power disruption follows a familiar pattern. Engineers examine protective relays, analysts reconstruct event timelines, utilities
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- Kiara Mandavia
Singapore’s Decarbonization Strategy Needs Underground Thinking First
Singapore rarely enters energy conversations as a country defined by what exists beneath its surface. The discussion almost always begins
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- Kiara Mandavia
Ireland’s Grid Is Separating Builders From Speculators
Electricity has become the currency of the AI economy, yet availability tells only part of the story. A growing challenge
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- Kiara Mandavia
The AI Boom Needs Stronger Indigenous Land Safeguards
The discussion surrounding AI infrastructure often begins with power capacity, network connectivity, and capital investment. Those variables determine where new
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- Kiara Mandavia
Britain’s Grid Is Holding Renewable Energy Hostage Today
Electricity no longer fits the assumptions that shaped the modern power system. Growing volumes of distributed solar generation now challenge
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- Kiara Mandavia
New York Data Centers Ban Won’t Make AI Infrastructure More Affordable
The debate surrounding data center development increasingly extends beyond electricity demand, environmental permitting, or community planning. It is becoming a
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- Kiara Mandavia
Empty Grid Promises Can No Longer Survive India
Electricity has entered a different economic category. It no longer functions solely as a utility delivered after infrastructure is built.
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- Kiara Mandavia
July 18 Might Change the Data Center Growth Conversation Forever
The debate surrounding AI infrastructure has entered unfamiliar territory. Until recently, conversations about hyperscale development centered on electricity demand, transmission
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- Kiara Mandavia
The Data Center Boom Is Testing Corporate Credibility
Artificial intelligence has quietly changed what defines a company’s reputation. Customers may never visit a server hall, inspect a power
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- Akash Sharma
Behind-the-Meter Rush Exposes AI’s Fragile Power Foundations
The artificial intelligence race has quietly become a contest over turbines, transformers and transmission corridors. Software leadership no longer guarantees
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- Kiara Mandavia
Who Bears Data Centers’ Rising Environmental Costs in India?
India’s digital infrastructure ambitions have entered a phase where scale matters more than symbolism. The public conversation still revolves around
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- Akash Sharma
Why AI Infrastructure Is Triggering a New Industrial Supply Crisis
The Shortcut That Created a Different Problem Developers can construct data centers within 12 to 18 months. Connecting them to
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- Kiara Mandavia
Investment Alone Will Not Win Data Center Expansion
The economics of data center development have quietly gained a new variable. Capital still buys land, substations, cooling systems, and
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- Akash Sharma
Why Speculative ‘Neocloud’ Capacity Is Distorting Data Center Valuations
The Numbers That Look Too Good The neocloud sector generated more than $25 billion in revenue in 2025. Fourth-quarter revenues
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- Kiara Mandavia
AI Doesn’t Arrive Before The Transmission Lines Do
Artificial intelligence rarely appears where electricity cannot reach at industrial scale. That reality deserves far more attention than another announcement
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- Akash Sharma
How “Duplicate Demand” Is Distorting the Global Energy Transition
The Queue That Looks Full But Isn’t Something structurally strange is happening inside America’s electricity grid. The interconnection queue has
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- Kiara Mandavia
Wisconsin Wins When Data Centers Keep Growing
Economic development has entered unfamiliar territory. The competition no longer revolves around manufacturing campuses, logistics corridors, or corporate headquarters. Instead,
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- Akash Sharma
Why New Rules of AI Infrastructure Demand a New Kind of Transparency
Artificial intelligence has transformed data centers into strategic infrastructure. That shift has changed more than technology investment. It has also
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- Kiara Mandavia
AI’s Data Center Expansion Is Testing Climate Patience
The artificial intelligence industry has become remarkably effective at measuring almost everything inside a data center. Operators track processor utilization,
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- Kiara Mandavia
Public Trust Is Ames’ Real Data Center Battleground
The AI infrastructure industry likes to measure progress in megawatts, GPU clusters, capital commitments, and construction timelines. Those metrics still
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- Akash Sharma
The Modern Surcharge: Who Pays for America’s AI Power Boom?
AI’s Electricity Appetite Is Reshaping The Grid Artificial intelligence has transformed from a software breakthrough into one of the largest
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- Kiara Mandavia
Thinking Satellites Matter More Than Space Data Centers
The current debate around orbital infrastructure reflects a familiar trend across the technology sector, where emerging computing demands often encourage
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- Akash Sharma
Oracle’s Data Center Warning Is a Worst-Case Scenario for the Whole AI Boom
A Filing That Should Make Everyone Nervous Oracle’s fiscal 2026 annual report, filed with the SEC in late June, is
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- Kiara Mandavia
The Dirt Already Knows How To Build AI
Every new artificial intelligence campus begins with a familiar promise. Developers describe faster computing, cleaner energy, better efficiency, and stronger
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- Akash Sharma
Why the AI Space Race Is Stalling on Legacy Transformers
For three years, the AI industry treated chip allocation as the only scoreboard worth watching. Executives bragged about their place
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- Kiara Mandavia
Heat Doesn’t Respect Billion-Dollar AI Investments
Many recent AI infrastructure announcements have emphasized similar themes.. The headlines celebrate larger GPU clusters, multi-gigawatt campuses, faster deployment schedules
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- Kiara Mandavia
Nashville Refuses to Let Data Centers Write Policy
The conversation surrounding AI infrastructure is increasingly expanding beyond technical performance and investment into questions of governance and community oversight.
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- Akash Sharma
The BIS Just Called AI Infrastructure a Bubble; Should You Believe the Central Bankers?
An Institution That Speaks Carefully, On Purpose The Bank for International Settlements does not issue casual warnings. It is, in
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- Akash Sharma
Your Chatbot Just Drained Someone’s Drinking Water Supply
The UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health published a sweeping report projecting that AI data centers will consume
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- Kiara Mandavia
Data Center Expansion Is Inflation’s Next Unexpected Driver
Inflation discussions usually begin with consumer demand, labor shortages, interest rates, or geopolitical disruption. Artificial intelligence rarely enters that conversation
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- Akash Sharma
Why Carbonate Fuel Cells Are Big Tech’s Ultimate Off-Grid Escape Hatch
The Queue Broke the Model The artificial intelligence boom did something quietly radical. It broke the utility grid’s old playbook.
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- Kiara Mandavia
Ratepayer Protection? More Like Big Tech Welfare
As AI deployment expands, electricity availability has emerged as one of the most significant constraints alongside computing capacity. Every major
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- Kiara Mandavia
SpaceX ESG Dispute Highlights Sustainability Ratings Dilemma
Few debates expose the tensions inside modern sustainability investing as clearly as the controversy surrounding SpaceX’s ESG ratings. The discussion
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- Akash Sharma
Regulators Built AI Guardrails. Nobody Built Heat Guardrails.
Governments across three continents have spent the past two years debating what artificial intelligence can say, what data it can
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- Kiara Mandavia
Chip Sovereignty Runs On Trust Until It Doesn’t
The Semiconductor Industry’s New Vulnerability Is Verification Export controls are often presented as policy tools designed to provide clear restrictions
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- Akash Sharma
Big Tech Swaps Green Dreams For Natural Gas
The Reality of the AI Power Bottleneck The global technology sector is undergoing a profound structural shift that threatens to
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- Akash Sharma
Nvidia’s 45°C Coolant and the End of the Air-Conditioned Data Center
A Temperature That Breaks Intuition Hot tubs run around 38 to 40 degrees Celsius. Nvidia’s newest AI servers run their
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- Kiara Mandavia
Federal Regulators Might have Cleared AI’s Biggest Barrier: Grid
The debate around artificial intelligence infrastructure often begins with a familiar concern: where will all the electricity come from? That
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- Akash Sharma
One Firm, $150 Billion, and the Quiet Monopolization of AI Infrastructure
Stephen Schwarzman said it plainly on an earnings call, and nobody blinked. Blackstone is the largest data center provider in
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- Kiara Mandavia
Can AI Demand Really Justify Data Centers Orbiting?
The debate around orbital data centers often begins with scale. Supporters ask whether artificial intelligence workloads will grow large enough
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- Akash Sharma
Europe’s €20 Billion AI Bet Is Already Losing Bidders
In June 2026, Bloomberg reported that the EU’s €20 billion plan to build five AI gigafactory data centers each with
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- Kiara Mandavia
September Could Trigger A Data Center Governance Vacuum
Digital infrastructure rarely attracts attention when systems function as expected. Policymakers focus on artificial intelligence, semiconductor supply chains, and strategic
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- Kiara Mandavia
The West May Be Missing the Gulf Energy Network Shift
Power lines rarely attract the same attention as sanctions packages, diplomatic summits or security agreements. Yet the quiet expansion of
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- Akash Sharma
Grid Interconnection Queues Are the New AI Benchmark That Matters
Every few weeks, the technology press runs the same story with a different name in the headline. A new model
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- Kiara Mandavia
Public Trust Is Becoming AI Infrastructure’s Hardest Constraint
The Industry May Be Solving the Wrong Problem The artificial intelligence infrastructure sector has become exceptionally skilled at solving technical
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- Kiara Mandavia
Robotics Is Finally Abandoning Its Legacy Thinking
Industrial automation has long operated under an assumption that now appears increasingly fragile: every problem deserves its own machine. As
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- Akash Sharma
TSMC Embedded Silicon Cooling Just Rewrote Data Center Physics
For decades, the semiconductor industry treated cooling as the problem that happened after the chip was designed. Engineers optimized transistor
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- Akash Sharma
The Electric Grid Is Winning the AI Race
The AI Industry Has Found Its Next Constraint For most of the past three years, the artificial intelligence industry focused
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- Kiara Mandavia
Taiwan Chases Physical AI Before Margins Disappear
Taiwan rarely enters a technology transition from a position of weakness. Its industrial ecosystem remains one of the most sophisticated
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- Kiara Mandavia
UEI Isn’t a Choice Anymore for India’s Data Centers
India’s data center industry continues to frame electricity as a capacity challenge. Consequently, more generation, more renewable procurement, more substations,
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- Akash Sharma
India Has the Data and Talent. Now It Needs to Fix the Grid
There is a version of India’s AI story that reads like an unambiguous triumph, and it is the version that
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- Akash Sharma
Europe Wants AI Sovereignty and Net Zero. It Cannot Have Both
On June 3, 2026, the European Commission formally proposed the Cloud and AI Development Act its most ambitious infrastructure legislation
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- Kiara Mandavia
264 Billion Gallons Later, America’s AI Water Reckoning Arrives
The Resource Missing From AI’s Growth Narrative Artificial intelligence has become synonymous with compute capacity, advanced semiconductors and unprecedented capital
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- Akash Sharma
Big Tech Wrote EU’s Secrecy Clause. Brussels Signed It.
In 2023, the EU updated its Energy Efficiency Directive, requiring large data center operators to report energy and water consumption
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- Akash Sharma
The AI Cooling Race Has a Dangerous Hidden Bottleneck
The Forecast Looks Confident. The Supply Chain Does Not. Goldman Sachs projects that 76 percent of AI servers deployed by
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- Kiara Mandavia
Meta’s Tent Experiment Proves AI Waits For Nobody
A row of temporary structures housing advanced computing equipment would once have appeared out of place in the world’s most
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- Akash Sharma
Air Cooling Isn’t Dead. AI Is Just Different
Summary: The liquid cooling wave is real, necessary, and irreversible for AI-grade compute. But a measurable overcorrection is underway operators
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- Kiara Mandavia
The Loudest Data Center Debate Lacks Essential Facts
The conversation around artificial intelligence infrastructure increasingly centers on power availability, grid capacity, land acquisition and water consumption. Alongside concerns
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- Kiara Mandavia
Growth Story or Bubble? Israel Must Decide
Israel’s data center sector has entered a phase that few would have predicted several years ago. What was once a
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- Akash Sharma
AI’s Biggest Risk May Be AI Itself
ZeroDrift’s $10 million seed round may appear to be another routine funding announcement in a crowded artificial intelligence market. However,
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- Kiara Mandavia
Europe’s Semiconductor Plan Is Due for Reboot
Europe’s semiconductor ambitions have reached a pivotal moment. Policymakers spent recent years pursuing a clear objective: attract chip manufacturing investment,
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- Kiara Mandavia
Arkansas Is Looking At AI Through The Wrong Lens
Citizens can see data centers under construction. They can calculate energy requirements. They can also attend zoning meetings and challenge
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- Kiara Mandavia
The SpaceX IPO Hype Train Looks Financially Dangerous
Markets Are Testing the Limits of Belief Few events capture the mood of modern capital markets more effectively than the
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- Akash Sharma
Renewable Energy Certificates Are Not a Sustainability Strategy. They Are an Accounting Strategy.
The renewable energy certificates sustainability debate has been happening at the margins of the AI infrastructure industry for years. A
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- Akash Sharma
The Hyperscaler That Wins the Next Decade Will Win It on Energy, Not Chips
The AI infrastructure coverage of the past three years has been a story about chips. Who has the most H100s.
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- Kiara Mandavia
The Quantum Industry Is Sleepwalking Into the Data Center Crisis
Quantum computing has become one of the technology sector’s most aggressively marketed ambitions. Governments are funding national quantum programs. Cloud
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- Akash Sharma
Data Center Operators Are the New Utilities and Nobody Passed a Law About That
There is a useful test for whether something has become critical national infrastructure. Ask what happens if it stops working.
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- Kiara Mandavia
AI Growth Sounds Exciting Until The Grid Fails
The language surrounding artificial intelligence still sounds familiar to the internet economy that preceded it. Executives describe innovation cycles, software
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- Kiara Mandavia
Europe Can’t Pretend Renewables Alone Will Scale
Europe’s AI Narrative Is Colliding With Infrastructure Reality Europe’s digital economy has entered a phase its power systems were never
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- Akash Sharma
Why the AI Infrastructure Boom Will Outlast the AI Hype Cycle
Every major technology investment cycle in history has produced two things. First, a hype cycle in which the technology’s near-term
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- Akash Sharma
The Ratepayer Protection Pledge Looks Very Different Six Months Later
On March 4, 2026, the White House gathered the technology industry’s most powerful AI infrastructure operators and extracted a public
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- Kiara Mandavia
Foreign Investors Are Closing The China Data Center Chapter
The Retreat No Longer Looks Temporary A quiet but defining shift has started to reshape the global AI infrastructure economy.
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- Akash Sharma
The AI Buildout’s Hidden Carbon Debt Is About to Become a Public Problem
The AI infrastructure industry has constructed a sustainability narrative around operational emissions. Data centers powered by renewable energy. PPAs with
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- Kiara Mandavia
Logan County’s Data Center Freeze Signals Bigger Revolt
The most important development in the artificial intelligence infrastructure race may not be happening inside Silicon Valley boardrooms or GPU
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- Akash Sharma
Data Centers Create Fewer Local Jobs Than the Industry Claims and Communities Are Starting to Notice
The pitch that brings a data center to a community almost always includes a jobs number. The number is usually
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- Kiara Mandavia
India’s Silent AI Infrastructure Giants Are Finally Emerging
The market still treats artificial intelligence like a software spectacle. Investors chase chatbot launches, GPU shortages, model benchmarks and trillion-dollar
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- Kiara Mandavia
California’s AI Race Is Starting To Fracture Communities
Electricity rarely shaped California’s technology narrative in public view. Semiconductor cycles, venture capital, software dominance and cloud expansion historically unfolded
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- Akash Sharma
The Google-Blackstone TPU Venture Is the Most Direct Challenge to Nvidia’s Infrastructure Dominance Yet
Every few months, the AI infrastructure market produces a new announcement that is described as a challenge to Nvidia. A
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- Akash Sharma
The PJM Crisis Is the Industry’s Fault and the Industry Should Pay for It
Monitoring Analytics did not hedge. The independent market monitor for the PJM Interconnection published its Q1 2026 state of the
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- Kiara Mandavia
Gulf AI Ambitions Are Literally Melting Into Türkiye
The AI Infrastructure Race Is Running Into Physics Air conditioning has quietly become one of the most strategic technologies in
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- Akash Sharma
Florida Just Showed the Industry What Happens When States Stop Subsidising Data Centers
The data center industry has operated for a decade on a financial model that most of its host communities never
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- Kiara Mandavia
Michigan’s Manufacturing Reset Is Starting To Look Calculated
Michigan Is Quietly Repositioning Itself Inside America’s AI Economy The language surrounding artificial intelligence still revolves around software. Investors chase
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- Akash Sharma
The Colocation Industry Is Not Ready for What AI Is About to Ask of It
The colocation industry has had a good run. For two decades, it sold a proposition that worked. Take enterprise IT
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- Kiara Mandavia
Anthropic Is Winning Where AI Actually Makes Money
The AI Market Is Splitting Into Two Economies The artificial intelligence industry increasingly operates as two separate markets. One market
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