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AI Needs Power: The Data-Center, Grid, and Energy Investments Behind the Software Boom

AI infrastructure is forcing software companies to become energy investors. Data-center electricity demand is rising fast enough that grids, generation, transmission, storage, and community power costs now shape the economics of model scaling.

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Facebook Open Compute: The Data-Center Investment That Turned Infrastructure Design Into an Ecosystem

Facebook spent tens of millions redesigning servers and data-center infrastructure, then gave the designs away through Open Compute. The counterintuitive investment lowered its own costs while helping create an open hardware ecosystem.

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EMC Buys VMware: The $625 Million Bet That Made Virtualization a Data-Center Platform

EMC’s roughly $625 million VMware acquisition bought a new software control layer just as server virtualization was becoming central to data-center economics.

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