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Renting From the Enemy

Google and Anthropic are now paying xAI a combined ~$2.2 billion a month to rent Colossus GPUs — turning Elon Musk's AI lab into the landlord of its own competitors.

The Compute Desk · Jul 19, 2026 · 3 min

CoolingData Centers

Cooling Is Eating the Rack

At 130 kW per rack, air is over. Liquid cooling is now a first-order design constraint — and a supply chain of its own.

Aaron · Jun 24, 2026 · 2 min

Data CentersPower

The Data Center Wants Its Own Power Plant

Behind-the-meter generation, restarted reactors, and gas turbines in the parking lot: the campus is becoming a utility.

Aaron · Jun 24, 2026 · 2 min

PowerData Centers

Gigawatts Are the New Benchmark

MLPerf told you whose chips were fastest. The interconnection queue tells you who ships.

Aaron · Jun 10, 2026 · 2 min

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