The Hallway Track

AI infrastructure

27 tracked signals on AI infrastructure.

Powering AI: The New Nuclear Era | Dreamforce 2026

Salesforce · Sep 17, 2026

Alo Atomics is mass-manufacturing nuclear power plants for AI data centers.

“we're mass manufacturing nuclear power plants that are purpose-built for powering AI data centers”
$1,1,00,000,000. The Machine Age Fund | a16z

a16z · Aug 30, 2026

a16z launches $110B Machine Age Fund to rebuild US AI infrastructure

“The United States is short power, short compute, short chips. There's going to be shortages in all three.”
10 Years of NVIDIA DGX: From One System to AI Factories

NVIDIA GTC · Sep 24, 2026

NVIDIA marks 10 years of DGX, evolving from a single system into the blueprint for modern AI factories.

“And now with the NVIDIA Vera Rubin rack-scale system, we are seeing up to a 10x reduction in inference token cost, crucial for today's agentic AI workloads.”
The Case for Data Centers in Space

Y Combinator · Aug 05, 2026

StarCloud raised $170M to build space data centers solving AI's terrestrial energy bottleneck

“we are very quickly running up on constraints on where we can build new energy projects terrestrially. And so by building them in space, we get access to this almost unlimited lowcost energy in the form of solar.”
Stop Renting Your Cognitive Infrastructure - Thiyagarajan Maruthavanan, Kalmantic Labs

AI Engineer · Jul 18, 2026

Enterprises are abandoning rented AI inference after runaway costs force infrastructure ownership.

“It's almost as if you're loading credits inside a casino. You put some and then you pull it and then you are so addicted to it then you end up doing more and more of it and by some time you realize that you've blown past the threshold that you had mentally kept in mind.”
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Satya Nadella · Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jun 02, 2026

Nadella says Microsoft must earn community 'permission' before building AI data centers.

“Only when we live up to these principles, do the hard work around it, is when we earn the permission to go ahead and innovate and build.”
DTW 2026 - Latest AWS AI Innovations as of H1 2026 | AWS Events

AWS (re:Invent) · Sep 01, 2026

AWS AI Factories bring full cloud AI stack including Bedrock on-premise to telco data centers.

“it's not only about GPUs and AWS AI chips, but we also bring services like AWS Bedrock and SageMaker into the customer premise”
NVIDIA NVLink: The Scale-Up Network for AI Factories

NVIDIA Developer Blog · Jul 20, 2026

NVIDIA positions NVLink as the essential scale-up network backbone for AI factory data centers.

“AI factories—data center-scale systems that continuously convert data and energy into intelligence—are being deployed to meet this insatiable demand.”
DeepSeek Just Solved AI's Billion Dollar Problem

Two Minute Papers · Jun 22, 2026

DeepSeek introduces a method to fix GPU underutilization by rerouting prefill work through idle decoding machines.

“you don't need a bigger brain. You need a bigger straw.”
Intel CEO: They All Walked Out on Me

Lisa Su · No Priors · Aug 10, 2026

Semiconductors went from VC-shunned to multi-trillion dollar sector in two decades

“Jensen is a 5.3 trillion market cap company. And then Broadcom and TSMC is 2 trillion market cap company.”
The Future is Metal - Mariana Minerals | a16z American Dynamism

a16z · Aug 05, 2026

Over 90% of US critical minerals are refined in China, threatening AI hardware supply chains.

“Over 90% of the critical minerals we use are refined in China today, which is kind of wild to imagine given that that was a very fast transition just over the last several decades.”