FERC Lets Data Centers Plug Directly Into Power Plants
Federal regulators clear the way for AI facilities to bypass the grid and connect straight to nuclear and gas plants. Here's what changes.
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Gemini 3 Flash: Google's Speed Champion Matches GPT-5.2 at 6x Lower Cost
Google's Gemini 3 Flash delivers 90.4% GPQA Diamond and 78% SWE-bench at $0.50/M tokens. What the fastest frontier model means for AI infrastructure.
BloombergNEF Raises Data Center Power Forecast 36% to 106 GW
BloombergNEF's December 2025 forecast projects U.S. data centers will draw 106 GW by 2035—a 36% jump from just 7 months ago. What changed.
Data Center Deals Hit Record $61B as Debt Doubles to $182B
Global data center M&A reached $61 billion in 2025 while debt issuance doubled to $182 billion. Here's what the financing frenzy means—and the bubble concerns.
Open Source AI Models Close the Gap: DeepSeek, Qwen3, and Llama 4 Now Match GPT-5
The performance gap between open and closed AI models has collapsed to 0.3%. Here's what that means for enterprise AI infrastructure.
Texas Data Center Bubble: 220 GW in Queue, 7.5 GW Connected
ERCOT large load queue hit 230 GW in 2025—4x 2024 levels. Only 7.5 GW connected. Experts warn of bubble as 70% are data centers.
Utah's Nuclear Data Center Play: 10 GW Gigasite Meets Operation Gigawatt
Utah positions as nuclear-powered AI hub: Creekstone's 20M sq ft Delta Gigasite plans 2 GW nuclear; Governor Cox's Operation Gigawatt adds SMRs in Brigham City.
Disney's $1B OpenAI Bet: First IP License for AI Video
Disney invests $1B in OpenAI, licenses 200+ characters to Sora. First major content licensing for AI video. WGA criticizes. Early 2026 launch.
NVIDIA Physical AI at NeurIPS: Alpamayo-R1 and the Cosmos Ecosystem
NVIDIA releases Alpamayo-R1, first open reasoning VLA for autonomous driving. Cosmos platform expands with LidarGen, ProtoMotions3. Figure AI, 1X adopting.
CXL 4.0 and the Interconnect Wars: How AI Memory Is Reshaping Data Center Architecture
CXL 4.0 specification released Nov 18 with PCIe 7.0, 128 GT/s, bundled ports. Panmnesia ships first CXL 3.2 fabric switch. UALink, Ultra Ethernet, Huawei UB-Mesh compete.
Inference-Time Scaling: The New Training Frontier for AI Reasoning
Test-time compute emerges as the next AI scaling frontier. ThreadWeaver achieves 1.5x speedup. P1 wins physics olympiad gold. DeepSeek-R1 matches o1 at 70% lower cost. Infrastructure implications.
NextEra-Exxon 1.2GW Gas+CCS Data Center: First of Its Kind
NextEra and Exxon partner on 1.2GW gas plant with 90% carbon capture for data centers. 2,500 acres secured. Marketing to hyperscalers Q1 2026.