IBM’s CEO is throwing cold water on the AI infrastructure boom. Arvind Krishna argues the math simply doesn’t work for the massive data center investments being made by Google, Amazon, and others, calling it an unsustainable race for AGI.
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna is deeply skeptical that the industry’s rush to build massive AI data centers can be profitable. He estimates the global buildout could hit $8 trillion in capital expenditure, a sum he argues can’t generate enough return. This puts him directly at odds with the vision of compa
Amazon’s AWS has unveiled three new autonomous AI agents designed to handle the tedious work around code generation. They promise to operate for hours or days without human intervention. The move puts AWS in direct competition with a host of established DevOps and security partners.
Apple’s AI leadership is undergoing a major shift. John Giannandrea is stepping down as the head of AI, with former Microsoft VP Amar Subramanya taking over. The move comes just as Apple’s long-awaited AI features and a new Siri are expected to launch.
The surge in electricity demand from AI data centers is colliding with a slow, constrained grid. Experts warn of a “political volcano” as consumer power bills spike and the system scrambles to build generation and transmission fast enough.
Scientists from KAUST have proposed using airships to lift quantum computers into the stratosphere where natural cold temperatures could solve major cooling challenges. The system would use solar power and optical communication links, creating mobile quantum computing platforms. It’s a radical solut
Malaysian power producer YTL Power is reportedly exploring expansion into South Africa’s data center space. The company’s executive director mentioned potential entry within the next two years during the recent G20 summit in Johannesburg.
A joint venture between Digital Realty, Brookfield, and Reliance Industries is investing $11 billion to build a gigawatt-scale data center campus in Andhra Pradesh. The 400-acre project in Visakhapatnam represents one of India’s largest digital infrastructure investments to date. This comes as Googl
CrushBank is using IBM Cloud to create searchable data lakehouses that turn unstructured enterprise data into actionable insights. One MSP used it to analyze a 2,000-page schematic in minutes instead of the traditional three-day manual count. The platform normalizes unstructured, structured, and vec
Vantage Data Centers has completed a massive $1.6 billion investment into its Asia-Pacific platform. The funding comes from existing investors GIC and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and includes acquiring Yondr’s hyperscale campus in Johor, Malaysia.
