After the midterms, a bigger clash over data centers could be coming
Data center opposition crossed party lines in Tuesday’s midterms.
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The Blue Wave Has Tech Bros Scrambling for Data Centers in Space
After Democrats won big in Texas and other AI infrastructure hot spots on Tuesday, data center enthusiasts looked for comfort in low Earth orbit.
Cloud Computing
Qualcomm is betting big on data centers as smartphone sales sink
With smartphone sales tanking by around 20 percent compared to 2025, Qualcomm is looking to data centers to help boost its bottom line. During its Q4 2026 earnings call, the company laid out its plans to make a splash in the AI data center business, through partnerships with companies like Amazon and Meta announced…
Software
webAI Releases TwIL-8B, an 8.8B Reasoning Model Scoring 98.2 on MATH-500
webAI released TwIL-8B, an 8.8B reasoning model post-trained from IBM Granite 4.2 8B. It posts 98.2 on MATH-500 and 81.6 on LiveCodeBench, but trails similar-size models on knowledge benchmarks. The post webAI Releases TwIL-8B, an 8.8B Reasoning Model Scoring 98.2 on MATH-500 appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Chips & Semiconductors
How NVIDIA Uses AI Agents to Streamline AI Factory Operations
As GPU clusters scale, operations span compute, network, hardware, and scheduling. Site reliability engineers (SREs) often have to examine multiple dashboards...
Cloud Computing
Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”
Tech industry in denial as US overwhelmingly votes to restrict AI, data centers.
Networking
The Biggest Pro-AI Super PAC Network Didn’t Really Impact the Midterms
Leading the Future, backed by Silicon Valley’s biggest billionaires, had a war chest of $100 million and an aggressive stance against AI regulation. All of it didn’t add up to much on Tuesday night.
Cloud Computing
Texas was the new epicenter of the AI data center buildout. That might be kaput.
Texas is the fastest-growing data center market in the US and ground zero for Big Tech’s largest AI buildouts. But the blue wave that swept the Lone Star State may jeopardize that position. Democrat James Talarico won the US Senate seat against Ken Paxton. Gina Hinojosa won the race for governor against the Republican…
Chips & Semiconductors
NVIDIA CUDA 13.5 Brings NVIDIA Vera Rubin GA Support
As artificial intelligence and accelerated computing continue to push the boundaries of what's possible, the latest NVIDIA CUDA release arrives to unlock...