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Six Million Cell Towers Walk Into a Data Center

Six Million Cell Towers Walk Into a Data Center

At MWC Barcelona, NVIDIA and a 130-company coalition just announced plans to turn the global telecom network into a distributed AI compute grid. Cell towers running AI inference alongside 5G traffic. The industry is spending $700 billion building new centralized data centers while ignoring the large

The Great Refusal

The Great Refusal

In six weeks, 300+ data center bills have been filed across 30+ states. Six states have moratorium proposals. Local governments in 14 states have already hit pause. The industry frames this as a PR problem. It is an architecture problem.

One Year After DeepSeek and The $600 Billion Question

One Year After DeepSeek and The $600 Billion Question

What would you do with a sum of money equivalent to 2% of the US GDP?

The Agentic AI Infrastructure Gap: Everyone's Building Agents. Nobody's Building the Substrate.

The Agentic AI Infrastructure Gap: Everyone's Building Agents. Nobody's Building the Substrate.

Salesforce dropped its 2026 Connectivity Report this morning, and there's a stat in there that perfectly captures what's going wrong with enterprise AI: 50% of deployed AI agents operate in complete isolation from each other. Half. They can't share context, they can't

GitOps & Infrastructure

10 Years of Distributed Computing with Kubernetes

A look back at the history of Kubernetes and where it's headed (hint: it's about the data).