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8 Ways AI Will Rewrite Data Center Infrastructure in 2026
In Part 1 of Voice of Innovation Matty Bakkeren’s 2026 predictions series, he explores how AI, power, cooling, and supply chains are reshaping data center infrastructure for a utility-scale future.
The AI Divide in 2026: Economic Wildfire and an Information Elite
As up to 10 million jobs disappear and quality content moves behind paywalls, the question isn’t if AI will reshape society. It’s whether 2026 is the year we’ll control the burn or watch it spread.
Castrol Offers a Fluid Fix for AI’s Overheating Data Centers
New liquid cooling solutions have created a critical new system for data centers, and the company's “magic dust” additive packages are proving essential to keep AI running.
From Intel To Machani Robotics: Niv Sundaram On Human-First AI
Intel veteran and Machani Robotics CSO/CTO Niv Sundaram, one of TechArena’s newest voices of innovation, talks emotionally intelligent AI, companion humanoids, and why real innovation starts and ends with human wellbeing.
From Operators to Innovators: Inside Midas Immersion Cooling
With AI racks exceeding 100kW, immersion cooling isn’t optional anymore. Midas’s operator-driven design delivers hot-swappable maintenance and thermal recovery economics.
AI, the Silent Partner Mitigating Clinician Burnout
Healthcare teams are drowning in admin work and decision fatigue. This piece explores how AI can quietly automate workflows, ease cognitive load, and give clinicians time back for patient care.
Valvoline Global Operations Engineers Data Center Liquid Cooling
As hyperscalers grapple with unprecedented chip density, the 159-year-old company known for high performance lubricants is engineering fluids that enable immersion cooling at scale.
6 Plays to Close the AI-Era Connectivity Gap
As AI inference, edge, and autonomous systems outpace legacy networks, this playbook shows how to combine fiber, RF, FSO, and satellite to tame digital asymmetry and build resilient AI connectivity.
Equinix on Architecting the AI-Ready Data Center
Inside Equinix and Solidigm’s playbook for turning data centers into adaptive, AI-ready platforms that balance sovereignty, performance, efficiency, and sustainability across hybrid multicloud.
Physical AI in Production: Datara AI’s Data-Loop Edge Playbook
Physical AI is leaving the lab for the line. Datara AI’s edge-first data-loop playbook—real-time inference, disciplined updates, and human-centered rollout—turns pilots into reliable, scalable uptime.
Inside the New Rules of Responsible AI Governance
AI now informs credit, healthcare, and fraud decisions. This piece unpacks US and EU rules, core principles, and how Responsible AI governance can be a competitive edge, not just compliance.
Efficiency: The New Moat for Data and AI Teams
Cloud waste, FinOps, and sustainability goals are reshaping data engineering. Teams that design efficient stacks, track cost and energy, and treat constraints as features will ship more with less.
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Podcasts
How Hedgehog Brings Hyperscaler Networking to Enterprise AI
Hedgehog CEO Marc Austin joins Data Insights to break down open-source, automated networking for AI clusters—cutting cost, avoiding lock-in, and keeping GPUs fed from training to inference.
Nebius at SC25: Building the Neocloud for Enterprise AI
From SC25 in St. Louis, Nebius shares how its neocloud, Token Factory PaaS, and supercomputer-class infrastructure are reshaping AI workloads, enterprise adoption, and efficiency at hyperscale.
Inside Runpod’s GPU Cloud for Long-Running AI Agents
Runpod head of engineering Brennen Smith joins a Data Insights episode to unpack GPU-dense clouds, hidden storage bottlenecks, and a “universal orchestrator” for long-running AI agents at scale.
Walmart and Cornelis Expose the Costs of Network Inefficiency
Billions of customer interactions during peak seasons expose critical network bottlenecks, which is why critical infrastructure decisions must happen before you write a single line of code.
Giga Computing on Rack-Scale AI: From Training to Inference
Recorded at #OCPSummit25, Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Giga Computing’s Chen Lee to unpack GIGAPOD and GPM, DLC/immersion cooling, regional assembly, and the pivot to inference.
Data Insights at OCP: DataraAI on Edge Robotics
Durgesh Srivastava unpacks a data-loop approach that powers reliable edge inference, captures anomalies, and encodes technician know-how so robots weld, inspect, and recover like seasoned operators.
How Hedgehog Brings Hyperscaler Networking to Enterprise AI
Hedgehog CEO Marc Austin joins Data Insights to break down open-source, automated networking for AI clusters—cutting cost, avoiding lock-in, and keeping GPUs fed from training to inference.
Nebius at SC25: Building the Neocloud for Enterprise AI
From SC25 in St. Louis, Nebius shares how its neocloud, Token Factory PaaS, and supercomputer-class infrastructure are reshaping AI workloads, enterprise adoption, and efficiency at hyperscale.
Inside Runpod’s GPU Cloud for Long-Running AI Agents
Runpod head of engineering Brennen Smith joins a Data Insights episode to unpack GPU-dense clouds, hidden storage bottlenecks, and a “universal orchestrator” for long-running AI agents at scale.
Walmart and Cornelis Expose the Costs of Network Inefficiency
Billions of customer interactions during peak seasons expose critical network bottlenecks, which is why critical infrastructure decisions must happen before you write a single line of code.
Giga Computing on Rack-Scale AI: From Training to Inference
Recorded at #OCPSummit25, Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Giga Computing’s Chen Lee to unpack GIGAPOD and GPM, DLC/immersion cooling, regional assembly, and the pivot to inference.
Data Insights at OCP: DataraAI on Edge Robotics
Durgesh Srivastava unpacks a data-loop approach that powers reliable edge inference, captures anomalies, and encodes technician know-how so robots weld, inspect, and recover like seasoned operators.
