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China says 'world's first' offshore wind-powered underwater data center has entered full operation, houses 2,000 servers — 24 megawatt subsea AI facility uses ocean water for passive cooling and offshore wind for power

… Saltwater corrosion, long-term pressure sealing, subsea cable reliability, and maintenance accessibility remain major concerns. Replacing failed hardware is considerably more complex than in conventional facilities, where technicians can physically access racks within minutes. …

May 18, 2026 · Etiido Uko

AI costs begin to bite as agents may increase token demand by 24 times, says Goldman Sachs report — Uber and Microsoft among companies feeling the bite of tokenized billing

… In late 2025, Google, Oracle, and Microsoft all adjusted their plans for hardware in the other direction entirely, suggesting they would make it run for six years before replacing it . That seems impossible to square away with ambitious AI plans and hardware leaps every year. …

May 27, 2026 · Jon Martindale

Former Epic director is building a European rival to the Unreal and Unity game engines — 'The Immense Engine' dev sees opportunity for AI agents to 'do the work of ten or fifteen people'

… Brussee strongly suggests the use of AI agents in developing the engine, but whether that means there will be AI tools built into The Immense Engine remains to be seen. Follow Tom's Hardware on Google News , or add us as a preferred source , to get our latest news, analysis, & reviews in your feeds. …

May 10, 2026 · Mark Tyson

Supermicro says it assisted Taiwanese authorities in server smuggling bust that led to three arrests — company issues statement on working with US, Taiwan to block illicit diversion of servers to China

… In March, the Trump Administration proposed a strict licensing system for advanced AI hardware exports , and some U.S. senators have called on a wholesale ban on export licenses for Nvidia hardware to China, as well as several other south-east Asian countries including Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietn… …

May 28, 2026 · Jake Roach

Imec builds world's first High-NA EUV-fabricated quantum dot qubit device — breakthrough could pull quantum computing onto the same manufacturing roadmap as next-gen AI processors, compressing timelines

… Instead of waiting for quantum-specific fabrication ecosystems to mature independently, silicon quantum hardware may be able to exploit the extremely advanced infrastructure of a multibillion-dollar industry , potentially significantly compressing quantum computing timelines. …

May 25, 2026 · Etiido Uko

Jensen says Nvidia now has 'zero percent' market share in China — says US export policy 'has already largely backfired'

… In software — the so-called CUDA moat in particular — remains the main frontier of American AI technology in China that local companies have yet to conquer. Follow Tom's Hardware on Google News , or add us as a preferred source , to get our latest news, analysis, & reviews in your feeds. …

May 3, 2026 · Anton Shilov

Laser-driven spintronic memory device switches 1,000 times faster than DRAM —non-volatile device switches in 40 picoseconds while generating almost no heat

… Currently, almost all electrical energy consumed by computing hardware eventually becomes heat. Modern AI infrastructure is already hitting serious power and cooling limits as GPU clusters scale to hundreds of thousands of accelerators. …

May 20, 2026 · Etiido Uko

Huawei develops 122TB SSD with new packaging tech to sidestep US sanctions on 3D NAND chips — Chinese firm develops proprietary tech to cram more NAND dies in a smaller footprint

… Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck The data center cooling state of play Massive AI data center buildouts are squeezing energy supplies Ultra Ethernet: The data center interconnection of tomorrow DoB ditches traditiona… …

May 23, 2026 · Jowi Morales

Microsoft warns GPU mining malware is being spread to users through SEO poisoning and AI chatbots — cryptojacking campaign targets gamers and high-end PC users with downloads disguised as popular PC utilities

… According to a detailed threat report published Tuesday by Microsoft Defender Experts and the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team, the operation specifically targeted users who likely own high-performance graphics cards, including gamers, hardware enthusiasts, AI users, and overclockers. …

May 29, 2026 · Etiido Uko

Linus Torvalds says flood of duplicate AI-generated vulnerability reports have made Linux security mailing list 'almost entirely unmanageable' — private list 'a waste of time for everybody involved' in switch to new public system

Linus Torvalds declared the Linux kernel's private security mailing list "almost entirely unmanageable" on Sunday in his weekly post to the Linux Kernel Mailing List LKML , blaming a flood of duplicate vulnerability reports generated by researchers running the same AI tools against the same code. …

May 18, 2026 · Luke James

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