Microsoft Pledges to Cover Power, Water, and Workforce Impacts of AI Data Centers
Microsoft rolled out a five-point “Community-First AI Infrastructure” plan as it accelerates data center expansion across the United States, framing AI ...
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New PICAlign Architecture Aims to Scale Active Alignment for Co-Packaged Optics
SENKO Advanced Components, Aerotech, and Santec announced a joint active-alignment architecture aimed at scaling co-packaged optics (CPO) manufacturing for AI-driven data centers. The ...
NewPhotonics Unveils Serviceable 1.6T Near-Packaged Optics Chiplet
NewPhotonics announced a 1.6T near-packaged optics (NPO) chiplet designed to bring serviceability and interoperability into next-generation AI data center architectures. The ...
FCC Clears SpaceX to Expand Gen2 Starlink to 15,000 Satellites
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved a major expansion of SpaceX’s second-generation Starlink constellation, authorizing a large increase in low-Earth ...
CyrusOne Taps Existing Grid Assets to Fast-Track 200 MW Fort Worth Data Center
CyrusOne and Eolian have partnered to accelerate the development of a 200-megawatt data center campus in Fort Worth, Texas, by co-locating new digital ...
Lightbits Labs Sees Record Growth for its NVMe over TCP
Lightbits Labs reported record growth in 2025 as enterprises increasingly standardized on NVMe over TCP–based software-defined storage to support AI, analytics, ...
Xanadu Partners with Thorlabs to Scale Fiber Optics for Quantum Data Centers
Xanadu Quantum Technologies and Thorlabs announced a partnership to co-develop customized optical fiber components aimed at scaling photonic quantum computing systems. The collaboration ...
Opengear Targets Core and Edge Outages with Out-of-Band Systems
Opengear introduced two new platforms—the CM8000 Series and OM1300 Series—aimed at maintaining network access and control during outages, as enterprises contend ...
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