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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John Margerison on the new class of employee: AI managers
Businesses should treat AI like a new hire, as weak oversight could expose sensitive data and leave staff needing fresh skills to stay relevant.
Exclusive: Virtuozzo sees GPU clouds reshape AI infrastructure
AI demand is pushing cloud providers towards GPU-as-a-service models, with efficiency and utilisation emerging as key differentiators.
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Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent AI Infrastructure News
Red Hat AI 3.5 adds safety tools for enterprise AI
Enterprises can now monitor and govern AI systems more closely as the new release adds benchmarking, compliance reporting and GPU controls.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.