The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
A sustainable future for data centers
News - IT Hardware & Semiconductors, Ben Wodecki, SDxCentral
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Banned Nvidia GPUs spotted powering telecom, cloud workloads in China: report
B300s and RTX gaming cards uncovered via exposed endpoints
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Nvidia GTC Berlin keynote disrupted by Greenpeace activists
‘Nvidia, clean up your dirty business,’ - protesters heckle Jensen Huang
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Celestica debuts liquid-cooled CPO switch for AI fabrics
DS6005 targets AI network efficiency through Broadcom switch silicon
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Credo pushes past copper limits with 1.6T optical cable
ZeroFlap ALC looks to bring copper-class reliability to AI scale-out networks
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Meta details next-gen AI infra: Custom multiterabit switches & unified fabrics
OCP provides a glimpse at the stack set to power Muse agent workloads
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Nvidia opens up Vera Rubin rack and tray designs to OCP
MGX 1.2 spec doubles down on liquid cooling
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Nvidia gears up to smash CPU hegemony as Vera starts shipping
Dedicated ‘discrete’ processor platform segregates agentic workloads from NVL72 to boost performance
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Meta builds custom 'IceCube' AI network switch using Nvidia's Spectrum-6 ASICs
Switch pairs FBOSS OS with 102T chip for 100K+ GPU clusters
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Nvidia’s Groq deal facing DOJ probe amid regulator scrutiny into acqui-hires: report
Justice Department investigation joins FTC inquiry into potential de facto big tech mergers
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Huawei bets big on near-packaged optics with 7.2T module to fuel AI scaling
Vendor champions open NPO play over CPO for AI networks
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Optics startup Quintessent secures $40m to revolutionize interconnects for AI
Ciena among backers of DWDM link player using gallium arsenide over supply-chain-constrained indium phosphide
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Nvidia’s ultra-low-latency AI inference LPX racks hit full production
Neocloud Nebius among early adopters of platform promising 4x faster responsiveness for AI agents
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Could a tiny ‘rainbow’ chip be the key to faster 6G communications?
Scientists develop rice-sized chip for next-gen millimeter-wave connectivity
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Arista smashes revenue records with $3bn+; CEO bullish on supply chain overhaul
Multi-year purchase commitments triple as Arista tightens supply to push further into non-Nvidia accelerator networking
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Meta rebuilds its AI storage stack from the ground up to stop GPUs sitting idle
An inside look at how the wannabe cloud provider cuts data wait times by up to 97 percent
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Marvell boosts custom silicon push with AMD engineering lead hire
Engineering lead behind AMD EPYC efforts joins custom XPU team
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Stop shrinking, start speeding: Huawei says it has found a way past Moore's Law
Huawei’s τ Scaling Law argues the future of chips lies in time, not transistor size
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Cisco plans to bring SONiC foundation to customers beyond just hyperscalers
Blog post inadvertently reveals SONiC support for data center switches will extend to enterprises, neoclouds
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AMD debuts MI350 PCIe card to accelerate enterprise AI workloads
Chip giant extends accelerator peripheral lineup as it looks to meet bandwidth-booming workload demands
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Everpure, formerly Pure Storage, now 70% more expensive amid memory crunch
CEO defends delicate pricing moment for Everpure and promises it's not profiteering
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IBM, Arm team up to build ‘dual-architecture’ hardware for AI and data-intensive workloads
Pair have come a long way since their salad days of co-creating IoT starter kits
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Google's 105-qubit Willow quantum processor opens for early access
Researchers invited to use not-yet-public chip that’s five times more reliable than its predecessor
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Corning unveils suite of next-gen optical tech to connect AI data centers
Multicore fiber and CPO offerings on display at OFC 2026
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Nvidia pumps $2bn into optical developer Lumentum
Agreement bolsters R&D and manufacturing efforts while securing Nvidia's future access rights to critical laser components
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Taara launches photonics chip to break bottlenecks with light-based connectivity
CEO details how the innovation, which shrinks free space optics into a fingernail-sized piece of hardware, could extend to data centers and space
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Next-gen switches & servers: Everything unveiled at Cisco Live EMEA 2026
Showcase in Amsterdam debuts 100Tbps network silicon, ultra-high bandwidth pluggable optics, and a unified control plane
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Nvidia's BlueField Astra brings unified network control to AI clusters
Next-gen Rubin platform will see DPUs help control all network I/O to and from the compute node
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AI's appetite for copper poses a 'systemic risk' to data center buildout
First memory chips. Then lasers. Now, copper looks to be the next commodity to pose ‘systemic risk’ to the digital infrastructure space