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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.

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Recent AI Infrastructure News

Red Hat AI 3.5 expands AI safety and observability tools
Hybrid Cloud

Red Hat AI 3.5 expands AI safety and observability tools

Enterprises get new governance, monitoring and multi-tenant controls as Red Hat targets safer, scalable AI use beyond pilot projects.

Today

Bitget launches GPU rental-price perpetuals for traders
Crypto

Bitget launches GPU rental-price perpetuals for traders

Retail traders can now bet on AI chip rental costs, as Bitget opens around-the-clock perpetuals tied to Nvidia GPU indices.

Yesterday

Google warns cyber attackers are moving to agentic AI
Malware

Google warns cyber attackers are moving to agentic AI

Attackers are compressing intrusions into hours, leaving defenders less time to spot and stop credential-harvesting campaigns.

Yesterday

KDDI cuts Buffmee AI latency by 38% after overhaul
EdTech

KDDI cuts Buffmee AI latency by 38% after overhaul

Users of Buffmee will get faster, better grounded answers after KDDI reduced response latency by 38% and improved first-token speed.

Yesterday

HPE deepens Oracle tie-up on AI data centre networking
Network monitoring

HPE deepens Oracle tie-up on AI data centre networking

The multi-year rollout aims to ease bandwidth and latency bottlenecks as Oracle scales GPU-heavy cloud clusters across its global AI estate.

Yesterday

Tuned Global boosts music ingestion tenfold with AWS
Software-as-a-Service

Tuned Global boosts music ingestion tenfold with AWS

Onboarding large catalogues now takes days rather than weeks, as the platform can ingest up to 20 million tracks a day after its AWS overhaul.

Yesterday

Qualcomm and Amazon team up on AI data centre chips
Semiconductors

Qualcomm and Amazon team up on AI data centre chips

The pact deepens Qualcomm's push into data-centre hardware as AWS seeks custom chips to cut costs, power use and latency for AI workloads.

Yesterday

NETSCOUT expands data platform to boost enterprise AI
DevOps

NETSCOUT expands data platform to boost enterprise AI

Enterprises could cut AI costs and speed incident resolution as NETSCOUT adds packet-derived evidence to existing observability tools.

2 days ago

AI data centres make grid access key to power deals
Hyperscale

AI data centres make grid access key to power deals

Grid congestion is adding risk and a scarcity premium to data centre deals as AI demand drives electricity needs sharply higher.

2 days ago

Guickly raises USD $4.2m to track enterprise AI spend
Software-as-a-Service

Guickly raises USD $4.2m to track enterprise AI spend

Enterprise buyers now have a new tool to curb unpredictable AI bills as Guickly secures USD $4.2 million and targets shadow usage.

3 days ago

Google Cloud finds Gemma 3 12B outscales 27B on TPU
Benchmarking

Google Cloud finds Gemma 3 12B outscales 27B on TPU

Under heavy generation load, the smaller model kept scaling on TPU v6e while the 27B version hit a throughput plateau above 64 users.

3 days ago

HPE raises outlook after record revenue & AI demand
Stock Market

HPE raises outlook after record revenue & AI demand

Demand for AI infrastructure and networking lifted HPE's backlog to a record, prompting the group to raise its fiscal 2026 and 2027 outlook.

Last week

Nvidia agrees USD $12.93 billion deal for Hugging Face
Semiconductors

Nvidia agrees USD $12.93 billion deal for Hugging Face

The deal puts a major open AI model hub under Nvidia's control, raising questions over whether its neutrality will survive intact.

Last week

F5 integrates AI Guardrails into MuleSoft Agent Fabric
Software-as-a-Service

F5 integrates AI Guardrails into MuleSoft Agent Fabric

Businesses using AI agents can now inspect prompts and responses inline, as F5's guardrails plug into MuleSoft's Agent Fabric.

Last week

Hetzner launches GEX45 GPU server for AI workloads
Data Protection

Hetzner launches GEX45 GPU server for AI workloads

A lower-cost option for AI, rendering and CAD users, the dedicated server keeps sensitive workloads in Europe under GDPR and ISO 27001 controls.

Last week

Equinix launches AI inference exchange with Nvidia
Colocation

Equinix launches AI inference exchange with Nvidia

Enterprises could cut AI latency and simplify compliance as the new service places inference closer to data, apps and users.

Last week

CrowdStrike launches SafeMind and cyber defence AI lab
Security Information and Event Management

CrowdStrike launches SafeMind and cyber defence AI lab

Enterprise security teams could see faster breach detection and response as CrowdStrike's new AI models are trained on live threat data.

Last week

Nvidia begins shipping Vera CPU for AI data centres
Data centers

Nvidia begins shipping Vera CPU for AI data centres

The move deepens Nvidia's grip on AI server design as cloud customers seek tighter integration, lower power use and faster deployment.

Last week

Mirantis k0rdent AI gains NVIDIA hypervisor certification
Hybrid Cloud

Mirantis k0rdent AI gains NVIDIA hypervisor certification

Certification could help cloud operators share costly GPUs more efficiently, with k0rdent AI coming within 5% of bare-metal performance.

Last week

Airrived launches sovereign AI platform for governments
Software-as-a-Service

Airrived launches sovereign AI platform for governments

Governments and regulated firms can now keep agentic AI on their own systems, reducing cloud dependence and tighter data controls.

Last week