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    28 articles tagged AI Infrastructure, newest first.

    VMware
    Broadcom
    AI Infrastructure

    VMware Explore 2026: Broadcom Bets on Private AI

    VMware Explore 2026 centered on Private AI Cloud, AI Factory, agent governance, and private-cloud economics, clarifying Broadcom's VCF strategy.

    September 15, 2026
    8 min read read
    Nvidia
    AI Infrastructure
    Data Center

    Nvidia AI Factories: Why Revenue Sharing Hit Pause

    Nvidia's 2026 AI cloud financing model paired take-or-pay guarantees with revenue sharing, then some deals paused amid internal competition concerns.

    September 6, 2026
    8 min read read
    Data Center
    Germany
    AI Infrastructure

    Germany Data Centers: 120 Projects, 5 GW at Stake

    A new map tracks 120 German data center projects with at least 5 GW of planned grid capacity, exposing the power and planning challenge.

    September 3, 2026
    7 min read read
    Data Center
    Cooling
    AI Infrastructure

    Datacenter Cooling: Can Waste Heat Replace Power?

    A 2026 prototype used waste heat to drive solid-state cooling, but its 4.0 K device-level result is still far from datacenter deployment.

    September 1, 2026
    7 min read read
    data centers
    AI infrastructure
    IPO

    DayOne Confidentially Files for a $5 Billion US Data Center IPO

    Singapore-based DayOne Data Centers has confidentially filed for a US IPO that could raise about $5 billion, according to Bloomberg.

    August 12, 2026
    3 min read read
    data centers
    power markets
    AI infrastructure

    OpenAI Is Hiring a Power Trading Lead for Its Data Centers

    OpenAI is recruiting a Power Trading Lead to run commodity hedging across its expanding data center power portfolio.

    August 12, 2026
    3 min read read
    GPU
    Performance
    AI Infrastructure

    Why Is GPU Utilization Low? Compute, Network, Storage or Data Loading

    How to tell whether low GPU utilization comes from compute, network, storage, data loading or scheduling, using one shared timeline of metrics.

    August 8, 2026
    9 min read read
    GPU
    Multi-Tenant
    AI Infrastructure

    How Multiple Teams and Tenants Can Securely Share GPU Clusters

    How to share GPU clusters across teams and tenants: tenant and project boundaries, quotas, priorities, GPU slicing, metering, audit and vendor access.

    August 5, 2026
    10 min read read
    AI Infrastructure
    Data Center
    GPU

    What Is an AI Data Center? Key Differences Explained

    How an AI data center differs from a traditional one, and what it has to manage: power, cooling, networking, storage, metrics and Kubernetes.

    July 30, 2026
    8 min read read
    Kubernetes
    GPU
    Scheduling
    AI Infrastructure

    GPU Resource Pooling and Scheduling in Kubernetes

    How Kubernetes schedules GPUs with device plugins and DRA, and how Kueue quotas, resource classes, topology and health checks turn them into a shared pool.

    July 28, 2026
    10 min read read
    GPU
    NPU
    Kubernetes
    AI Infrastructure

    How to Manage Multi Vendor GPUs and NPUs in One Platform

    Managing GPUs and NPUs from several vendors: a common inventory, Kubernetes device plugins and DRA, resource pools, health aware scheduling and quotas.

    July 26, 2026
    9 min read read
    GPU
    Monitoring
    AI Infrastructure

    How to Monitor GPU Health: ECC, Temperature, Power and Degraded Cards

    Monitor GPU health per card: ECC errors, temperature, power and clocks, how to define a degraded accelerator, and how health should drive scheduling.

    July 20, 2026
    9 min read read
    GPU
    Scheduling
    AI Infrastructure

    When to Use GPU Quotas, Reservations, Priorities and Preemption

    GPU quotas, reservations, priorities, and preemption solve four different scheduling problems.

    July 11, 2026
    10 min read read
    Energy Management
    AI Infrastructure
    Scheduling

    Cut Infrastructure Costs With Peak and Off-Peak Pricing

    How to shift flexible AI and batch workloads into off-peak tariff windows, calculate the saving, and protect SLOs, deadlines and capacity along the way.

    July 6, 2026
    10 min read read
    Capacity Planning
    Data Center
    AI Infrastructure

    Detecting Stranded Data Center Capacity, Power to Storage

    How to find stranded data center capacity by comparing free space, power, cooling, network and storage headroom against a real deployment profile.

    June 25, 2026
    10 min read read
    GPU
    Scheduling
    AI Infrastructure

    How to Reduce GPU Fragmentation When Scheduling AI Workloads

    GPU fragmentation can be reduced by managing accelerators as structured resource pools instead of a flat card count.

    June 21, 2026
    10 min read read
    CMDB
    IT Operations
    AI Infrastructure

    How a CMDB Links Servers, GPUs, Containers, Services and Owners

    How to model servers, GPUs, containers, applications, business services and owners in a CMDB with typed relationships for impact, scheduling and cost.

    June 20, 2026
    9 min read read
    Operations Cockpit
    IT Operations
    AI Infrastructure

    Unified Operations Cockpit for Data Centers, Cloud, Networks and AI

    How to build one operations cockpit for data centers, cloud, networks and AI that reuses existing metrics and drills down to the records behind them.

    June 17, 2026
    10 min read read
    AI Infrastructure
    FinOps
    GPU
    Token Metering

    AI Infrastructure Cost by GPU Hour, Token, Project, Tenant, Model

    Companies can measure AI infrastructure cost by combining resource metering and service metering under the same ownership model.

    June 16, 2026
    10 min read read
    API Gateway
    MaaS
    AI Infrastructure

    API Keys, Rate Limits, Quotas, Routing and Fallback for AI Services

    Organizations can manage API keys, rate limits, quotas, routing, and fallback by placing those controls at a unified model-service gateway.

    June 12, 2026
    10 min read read
    SRE
    SLO
    AI Infrastructure
    Reliability

    MTTD, MTTR, SLOs and Error Budgets for AI Infrastructure

    How MTTD, MTTR, SLOs, error budgets and burn rate apply to AI inference, training and infrastructure, with formulas, example targets and dashboard metrics.

    June 12, 2026
    10 min read read
    MaaS
    AI Infrastructure
    Inference
    API Gateway

    What Is MaaS? Repositories, Inference, API Gateways and Token Metering

    MaaS, or Model as a Service, turns an AI model into an operable service that applications can call through a controlled interface.

    June 9, 2026
    9 min read read
    AI Infrastructure
    Training
    Fault Tolerance

    Automatic Training Job Recovery After a GPU or Server Failure

    How AI infrastructure recovers training jobs after a GPU or server failure: detection, checkpoints, isolating bad cards, replacement capacity, validation.

    June 7, 2026
    9 min read read
    AI Infrastructure
    TCO
    FinOps

    Total Cost of Ownership for GPU and AI Infrastructure

    What goes into GPU and AI infrastructure TCO: hardware, card hours, energy, network, storage, maintenance, idle capacity and cost per Token.

    May 31, 2026
    10 min read read
    PUE
    WUE
    Energy
    AI Infrastructure

    How to Calculate PUE, WUE and GPU Energy Cost per Token

    How to calculate PUE, WUE, GPU energy and energy cost per Token, with worked formulas, measurement boundaries and shared GPU cost allocation.

    May 30, 2026
    10 min read read
    RDMA
    RoCE
    InfiniBand
    AI Infrastructure

    RDMA, RoCE and InfiniBand for AI Training Storage

    Why distributed AI training slows down: how RDMA, InfiniBand, RoCE, packet loss, latency and storage leave GPUs waiting, and how to trace the cause.

    May 9, 2026
    10 min read read
    AI Infrastructure
    Microsoft
    Data Centers
    GPU Clusters

    MSFT's $7 Billion AI Gamble Feels Like Something You Can't Undo

    Microsoft's $7 billion Fairwater AI bet and what people say about its scale, jobs, energy use, and who ends up controlling AI infrastructure.

    April 16, 2026
    7 min read
    AI Infrastructure
    Data Centers
    Power Grid
    Energy

    AI's Power Problem: Grid Volatility as Much as Megawatts

    AI data centers need more than new gigawatts. Volatile GPU loads strain the grid, so power visibility and software control matter as much as capacity.

    April 15, 2026
    7 min read

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