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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.
AI Didn’t Break Your Data Platform; It Exposed Your Data Debt
Enterprise AI doesn’t create fragility; it reveals undocumented assumptions, missing ownership, and invisible pipeline debt. Fix the foundations and AI gets cheaper, faster, and more trusted.
GlobalFoundries to Acquire Synopsys ARC Processor IP Business
The deal moves Synopsys’ ARC processor IP and ASIP Designer/Programmer tools to GF’s MIPS business, while Synopsys keeps interface and foundation IP and leans further into AI-era engineering.
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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.
CelLink PowerPlane: Flat Power for AI Server Racks
Innovative power delivery unlocks a shift in data-center design. CelLink PowerPlane routes thousands of amps in a flat, flexible circuit—cutting cabling and accelerating AI factory builds.
Ventiva Brings Innovative Solid-State Cooling to the AI Data Center
CEO Carl Schlachte joins TechArena at OCP Summit to share how Ventiva’s solid-state cooling—proven in dense laptops—scales to servers, cutting noise, complexity and power while speeding deployment.
Metrum AI’s Steen Graham on Multi-Agent AI and Smarter Storage
From OCP Summit, Metrum AI CEO Steen Graham unpacks multi-agent infrastructure, SSD-accelerated RAG, and the memory-to-storage shift—plus a 2026 roadmap to boost GPU utilization, uptime, and time-to-value.
Flex at OCP: Chris Butler on Breaking the IT–Power Wall
From the OCP Global Summit in San Jose, Allyson Klein sits down with Chris Butler of Flex to unpack how the company is collapsing the gap between IT and power—literally and figuratively.
Kelley Mullick of Avayla on Rack-Scale Design & Hybrid Cooling
From OCP Summit 2025, Kelley Mullick joins Allyson Klein and co-host Jeniece Wnorowski for a Data Insights episode on rack-scale design, hybrid cooling (incl. immersion heat recapture), and open standards.
Momenthesis’ Matty Bakkeren: ‘We Need to Keep Open Open’
At OCP’s 2025 global summit, Momenthesis founder Matty Bakkeren joins Allyson Klein to explore why open standards and interoperability are vital to sustaining AI innovation at datacenter scale.
