The Ultimate Guide to AI Infrastructure
A curated Irish edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for AI Infrastructure.
What to know about AI Infrastructure
AI Infrastructure explores the hardware, software, and systems that make modern artificial intelligence possible. This tag covers everything from compute and storage architectures to networking, data pipelines, and observability stacks that keep AI workloads reliable and efficient.
Stories here dig into practical questions: how to design scalable training and inference clusters, choose between GPUs and emerging accelerators, manage feature stores, and orchestrate distributed workloads. You’ll find discussions of MLOps practices, cost optimization, performance tuning, and the trade-offs behind different infrastructure patterns.
Whether you’re building a new AI platform or evolving an existing stack, this tag helps you understand the components, constraints, and design decisions that sit underneath AI products. Reading these pieces will give you concrete examples, architectural patterns, and lessons learned that you can apply to your own systems.
Irish AI Infrastructure News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
Vertiv buys King Environmental Services for EMEA
The deal extends Vertiv's fluid management services into Europe, the Middle East and Africa as data centre cooling demands grow.
Intel boosts Leixlip chip plant with EUR €5 billion
The upgrade is set to lift output of advanced semiconductors in Ireland and bolster Europe's supply chain as demand grows.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to AI Infrastructure
InfrOS launches tool to tune cloud AI infrastructure
InfrOS launches tool to adapt cloud infrastructure for AI
MongoDB launches Atlas Agent Engine for production AI
Gartner forecasts AI strain on services, costs & jobs
LG's 2.6MW cooling unit wins NVIDIA DSX qualification
Featured News
Celonis banking head: Banks want proof before scaling agents
Celonis argues frontier AI models are too generic for regulated banking, urging firms to weigh cost, risk and process gains before scaling deployments.
Interview: Cloudera says AI agents reshape zero trust
Enterprises must update identity controls as software agents generate more requests and need tightly time-limited access to sensitive systems.
Expert Columns
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the network
Recent AI Infrastructure News
Lava flags NVIDIA DCGM flaw exposing AI GPU servers
About 2,100 internet-exposed monitoring hosts left AI GPU telemetry open, putting more than 12,000 GPUs and roughly USD $100 million of hardware at risk.
Dell expands AI Factory to push agentic AI on-site
Adoption has climbed to more than 6,500 customers as businesses shift from AI pilots to on-premise production and weigh rising costs.
VAST & Nvidia launch AI agent sandbox for enterprises
It aims to help enterprises run thousands of short-lived AI agents securely while keeping their state, costs and decisions auditable after shutdown.
Dell expands AI Factory with NVIDIA for enterprise use
More than 6,500 enterprises are now using the platform as Dell adds software, deskside systems and servers to help move AI from pilot to production.
Equinix opens Sydney centre for liquid-cooled AI tests
Enterprises can now test liquid-cooled AI systems in Sydney before committing to costly rollouts, as power and heat demands surge.
Nutanix expands AI ties with NVIDIA, Supermicro & Netris
The tie-ups are aimed at making it easier for enterprises and cloud providers to run agentic AI in production across mixed infrastructure.
Equinix launches global liquid cooling test centres
Enterprises racing to deploy AI systems can now test liquid cooling in live data centres before committing to large-scale infrastructure changes.
PyTorch Foundation adds nine members, including Shopify
The expansion signals deeper industry backing for open source AI as three new platinum members join the foundation's ecosystem.
Five Nines Global & Nexus Core plan Casablanca AI centre
The initial 20MW site near Casablanca will anchor a much larger 180MW AI campus built around Nvidia's latest server architecture.
Bull opens Angers factory to boost supercomputer output
The upgraded site will double production capacity and cut maintenance costs by 30% as Europe races to secure more sovereign computing power.
NVIDIA deepens Nordic AI bets with startups & partners
Regional AI infrastructure is set to surge, with cloud providers on course to deploy 1 gigawatt of capacity by the end of 2027.
CScale raises USD $145 million to tackle AI optics
The funding backs efforts to reduce downtime in large AI systems as optical links become a critical bottleneck across data centres.
Microsoft unveils Maia 300 for 2027 AI deployments
The new chip is meant to lift Microsoft's AI services, with Maia 300 set for production deployments in 2027 and wider roll-out plans from then.
Trane launches LiquidStack CDU 2.X for AI data centres
Operators can now pre-order a cooling unit that aims to reduce redesigns as GPU roadmaps shift and rack densities for AI servers keep rising.
Acalvio launches ShadowPlex AI Agent in Gemini marketplace
Security teams can now generate deception playbooks in minutes, as AI-assisted attacks and enterprise AI systems raise the stakes for defenders.
Google flexible VMs aim to keep Spark jobs running
The change could reduce failed cluster setups as AI demand tightens compute supply and Spark users lose access to preferred machine families.
Aiven launches Runtime & DataHub for production AI
The services aim to help firms run AI agents on live company data without moving it outside customer environments, as production use becomes a priority.
Powernexu launches 3200W CRPS supply for AI servers
The higher-output unit reflects growing pressure on AI server designers to manage heat, current and redundancy as power demands rise.
AMD details latest local AI capabilities in Ryzen AI Max PCs
The update lets Windows users run bigger AI models on-device, as AMD bids to make local processing a rival to cloud-based services.
IBM Bob gains self-hosted deployment for enterprise AI
The option lets regulated firms keep source code and sensitive data inside their own infrastructure while using AI for software development.