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SoftBank to manufacture its own batteries with water-based tech to power AI data centers — targets gigawatt-hour-scale production by 2028

… 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 The Japanese company i… …

May 12, 2026 · Luke James
tomshardware.com › tech-industry › artificial-intelligence

Ubisoft reportedly testing generative AI in Far Cry 7, insider says it 'looks like sh*t' —  company recently posted a record €1.3 billion loss

… Ubisoft's full-year earnings report stated the company is "accelerating investments behind Teammates, its first playable Generative AI experience, to enrich player experiences," while also building AI-powered QA bots and systems for NPCs that "can adapt to player behavior and react more dynamically… …

May 24, 2026 · Luke James
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Standard Chartered plans to cut 7,000 jobs in AI push — lender wants to replace ‘lower-value human capital’ and focus on automation

… 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 On the other hand, we’… …

May 19, 2026 · Jowi Morales
tomshardware.com › tech-industry › cryptomining

New AI-compute cryptocurrency Pearl sparks a GPU mining rush but profitability is already sliding — RTX 5090 daily revenue has halved to $17.19 since April

… The coin launched its mainnet in late April 2026 and recently drew attention when AI cloud provider Together AI announced an exclusive partnership, but PRL's price and per-card returns are already dropping precipitously as more miners pile onto the network. …

May 31, 2026 · Luke James
tomshardware.com › tech-industry › artificial-intelligence

Musk's SpaceX has rented out access to its supercomputer's 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and 300 megawatts of AI compute power to rival Anthropic — Musk says “No one set off my evil detector,” Anthropic also interested in orbital data centers

… The Colossus 1 deal means that the whole first-generation cluster, originally built to power xAI’s own Grok models, is now powering one of its direct AI rivals, as the company focuses on building Colossus 2 . …

May 7, 2026 · Etiido Uko
tomshardware.com › tech-industry › big-tech

Intel swipes Qualcomm veteran of 25 years to lead client computing — Alex Katouzian jumps ship to oversee consumer CPUs and physical AI

… 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 Katouzian is bringing … …

May 4, 2026 · Etiido Uko
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Microsoft's massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government says — $1 billion project stalls over capacity disagreements and lack of infrastructure

A $1 billion data center that Microsoft and Abu Dhabi-based AI firm G42 planned to build in Kenya has stalled after the Kenyan government failed to meet Microsoft's demand for guaranteed annual capacity payments, Bloomberg reported Sunday. …

May 12, 2026 · Luke James
tomshardware.com › pc-components › cpus

AMD to broaden and specialize EPYC CPUs, already working on Zen 7 architecture — increased customization to better address evolving AI and cloud needs

… 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 "We are working with c… …

May 6, 2026 · Anton Shilov
tomshardware.com › tech-industry › artificial-intelligence

Musk's Colossus 1 AI supercomputer's inefficient mixed-architecture design couldn't be used to train Grok, so Anthropic's using it for inference instead — Musk readies unified Blackwell-only Colossus 2 for frontier training and potential IPO

… However, modern hyperscale AI data centers can cost tens of billions of dollars and take years to build. Utilities are increasingly struggling to supply sufficient electricity for AI projects, while land, transformers, cooling infrastructure, and high-end GPUs themselves remain constrained. …

May 15, 2026 · Etiido Uko