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AI Infrastructure

Power, chips, data centers and the physical build-out behind AI compute

Why hyperscalers are quietly buying nuclear plants

Data Centers

Why hyperscalers are quietly buying nuclear plants

Power, not chips, is becoming the binding constraint on building new data centers

5 min read

The GPU was never built for this

Semiconductors

The GPU was never built for this

By designing narrow chips that run a trained model's math and nothing else, companies are peeling inference away from the general-purpose GPU, betting that the economics of serving reward specialization over flexibility

7 min read

The memory squeeze nobody priced in

Memory

The memory squeeze nobody priced in

As AI accelerators devour high-bandwidth memory faster than fabs can stack it, the production lines feeding the boom are the same ones that supply the world's ordinary electronics, turning a niche component shortage into a squeeze that reaches every device with a chip in it

6 min read