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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.

Irish AI Infrastructure News

Regional stories with direct local relevance

Analyst Insights

Research and market analysis connected to AI Infrastructure

Expert Columns

Interviews

Interviews and video coverage from the network

Recent AI Infrastructure News

AI buildout drives USD $120 billion data centre surge
Sustainability

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.

Today

Dell'Oro lifts data centre capex forecast on AI demand
Semiconductors

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.

Today

Semtech sets 200G LPO targets for data centre links
Energy efficient

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.

Today

Wand AI adds StorONE to cut sovereign AI storage costs
Energy efficient

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.

Today

Castrol cooling fluids win NVIDIA validation for AI
Energy efficient

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.

Yesterday

AMD says AI energy efficiency rises fourfold by 2026
Sustainability

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.

Yesterday

Nutanix, ChronoScale partner on enterprise AI infrastructure
IT Department

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.

Yesterday

Snowflake adds AI routing to curb enterprise spend
Regulatory technology

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.

Yesterday

Castrol fluids get NVIDIA validation for AI cooling
Energy efficient

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.

Yesterday

Molex backs CAEPlus cooling tech for AI data centres
DataCentre infrastructure

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.

Yesterday

Advania launches sovereign AI platform across seven markets
Chief Technology Officers

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.

2 days ago

Starling open-sources AI memory standard for organisations
Data sovereignty

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.

2 days ago

Echelon partners Trinovium on AI data centre cooling
Energy efficient

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.

2 days ago

RT-One becomes first AMPHIX AI infrastructure customer
Energy efficient

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.

3 days ago

Trane & Eaton unveil AI data centre reference design
Sustainability

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.

3 days ago

MongoDB adds AI retrieval tools for live Atlas data
Legal technology

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.

Last week

OpenAI launches Ultrafast GPT-5.6 Sol for businesses
Productivity

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.

Last week

MongoDB adds AI retrieval tools to Atlas platform
App development

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.

Last week

Databricks tops USD $7 billion run-rate after funding
IT Industry

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.

Last week

Dynatrace buys Arize in USD $915m AI observability deal
Digital Transformation

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.

Last week