TuesdayJul 08, 2025 9:00 am

Nvidia Backs New Startup Seeking to Transform How Data Centers Utilize Power

Nvidia and other notable firms in the finance and tech fields are backing a startup whose aim is to change data centers into assets to electrical power grids instead of being liabilities to energy providers. Emerald AI is the startup focused on addressing growing concerns about the power-hungry character of data centers at a time when grids are on the brink of being overwhelmed by this power demand. In a recently completed funding round, Emerald AI raised $24.5 million. Radical Ventures led this funding round which featured Nvidia and AMPLO, among other leading firms. Notable individuals that participated in this…

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FridayJul 04, 2025 9:00 am

Trump Renews His Calls for Jerome Powell to Resign

President Trump has escalated his attacks against Fed Chair Jerome Powell and renewed his calls for him to resign immediately. This latest attack was in a Truth Social post in which Trump said Powell “should resign immediately.” This particular attack included a link to an article in which a federal housing regulator called for the Fed chair to be investigated with regard to his testimony on the renovations that were done to the headquarters of the Federal Reserve in Washington. During Trump’s first stint at the White House, he nominated Jerome Powell to head the Federal Reserve. Since then, Trump…

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ThursdayJul 03, 2025 9:00 am

Taiwan’s Transnational Semiconductor Industry Highlights Flaws in Trump’s Tariff Policy

Trump has repeatedly reasoned that his “Liberation Day” tariff announcements would reshore manufacturing to the United States. The semiconductor industry in Taiwan provides proof of the extent to which this thinking is flawed. In the wake of Trump’s claim that Taiwan needs to pay for stealing semiconductor manufacturing from the U.S., Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, TSMC, announced that it would be investing an additional $100 billion in its proposed manufacturing facility in Arizona. Trump and Lutnick, the Trade Secretary, boasted that this deal provides proof that the trade policy upon which the tariffs are anchored was working and would bring…

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TuesdayJul 01, 2025 9:00 am

Insufficient Staffing is Hampering Data Center Operations

As data center construction experiences explosive growth, it is becoming clearer that the specialized talent needed to work at these data centers isn’t growing at the same pace. Insufficient staffing at data centers results in a number of challenges as we explore below. One immediate effect of insufficient staffing at data centers is reduced operational efficiency. When people with the needed specialized skills are unavailable to work at data centers, it becomes harder to manage the workloads running on hybrid infrastructures. The result is that the data center will be unable to optimize its operations since the existing staff is…

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