The Ultimate Guide to AI Infrastructure
A curated Irish edition of IndustrialDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for AI Infrastructure.
What to know about AI Infrastructure
AI Infrastructure explores the hardware, software, and systems that make modern artificial intelligence possible. This tag covers everything from compute and storage architectures to networking, data pipelines, and observability stacks that keep AI workloads reliable and efficient.
Stories here dig into practical questions: how to design scalable training and inference clusters, choose between GPUs and emerging accelerators, manage feature stores, and orchestrate distributed workloads. You’ll find discussions of MLOps practices, cost optimization, performance tuning, and the trade-offs behind different infrastructure patterns.
Whether you’re building a new AI platform or evolving an existing stack, this tag helps you understand the components, constraints, and design decisions that sit underneath AI products. Reading these pieces will give you concrete examples, architectural patterns, and lessons learned that you can apply to your own systems.
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F5 expands AI Gateway to curb costs & secure agents
Hitachi Vantara posts 12% revenue growth on AI demand
Tencent rolls out Hy3 internationally for enterprise AI
Ethyca launches Astralis to govern enterprise AI data
Fortinet launches FortiGate 1200G with FortiSASE Outpost
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John Margerison on the new class of employee: AI managers
Businesses should treat AI like a new hire, as weak oversight could expose sensitive data and leave staff needing fresh skills to stay relevant.
Exclusive: Virtuozzo sees GPU clouds reshape AI infrastructure
AI demand is pushing cloud providers towards GPU-as-a-service models, with efficiency and utilisation emerging as key differentiators.
Marvell targets AI connectivity bottleneck with NVIDIA boost
AI data centres are hitting copper limits, pushing Marvell and Nvidia towards optics as clusters grow larger and more distributed.
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Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent AI Infrastructure News
AI buildout drives USD $120 billion data centre surge
Delivery bottlenecks, rather than demand, are now the main risk as AI-fuelled data centre expansion pushes revenue to USD $120 billion by 2030.
Dell'Oro lifts data centre capex forecast on AI demand
AI infrastructure spending is now expected to push worldwide data centre capital expenditure above USD $3 trillion by 2030.
Semtech sets 200G LPO targets for data centre links
Energy savings in dense AI clusters are driving stricter limits on 200G linear pluggable optics, as Semtech targets 10W modules and a 500-metre reach.
Wand AI adds StorONE to cut sovereign AI storage costs
Governments building sovereign AI systems could cut flash spending sharply as StorONE's tiering software is added to Wand AI's ecosystem.
Castrol cooling fluids win NVIDIA validation for AI
The validation could help data centre operators choose cooler fluids that cut maintenance risk as AI hardware packs more heat into racks.
AMD says AI energy efficiency rises fourfold by 2026
Data centre operators may gain relief as AMD says its AI systems could use four times less energy per unit of work by mid-2026.
Nutanix, ChronoScale partner on enterprise AI infrastructure
Global 2000 buyers should gain easier access to GPU capacity and local AI controls as the firms link their platforms.
Snowflake adds AI routing to curb enterprise spend
Enterprises could cut AI bills as Snowflake's gateway now routes requests to cheaper models when possible, while keeping data governed.
Castrol fluids get NVIDIA validation for AI cooling
Data centre operators gain more assurance as Castrol's PG25 and PG25T pass NVIDIA checks for direct-to-chip AI cooling.
Molex backs CAEPlus cooling tech for AI data centres
Pressure is mounting on data centre operators as AI workloads push chip temperatures higher and make liquid cooling more urgent.
Advania launches sovereign AI platform across seven markets
Organisations seeking tighter data control can now route AI workloads through a governed layer that spans seven Northern European markets.
Starling open-sources AI memory standard for organisations
The free standard aims to give firms control of AI memory as Starling positions repository governance as central to sovereignty debates.
Echelon partners Trinovium on AI data centre cooling
Rising AI heat loads are pushing data centres towards liquid cooling, as Echelon and Trinovium begin work on fluids and monitoring.
RT-One becomes first AMPHIX AI infrastructure customer
The deal gives RT-One a way to validate AI infrastructure and start serving customers before its campuses are finished, cutting launch delays.
Trane & Eaton unveil AI data centre reference design
The combined design could cut installation costs and copper use sharply as operators race to build more efficient AI data centres.
MongoDB adds AI retrieval tools for live Atlas data
Developers will be able to build AI agents on live production data without separate vector stores or synchronisation overhead.
OpenAI launches Ultrafast GPT-5.6 Sol for businesses
Businesses in the preview can use the model for real-time coding, support and trading tasks, with responses up to 14 times faster.
MongoDB adds AI retrieval tools to Atlas platform
Developers can now query live Atlas data from ChatGPT, Claude and coding agents, cutting setup work and reducing stale AI responses.
Databricks tops USD $7 billion run-rate after funding
Investor demand for private AI software remains strong as Databricks hits a USD $7 billion revenue run-rate and a USD $190 billion valuation.
Dynatrace buys Arize in USD $915m AI observability deal
The tie-up could give enterprises a single way to track AI model quality and system performance as production deployments accelerate.