A country with deep nuclear power resources, France plans to dedicate a gigawatt of it (the power generated by 294 utility-scale wind turbines)  for an artificial intelligence computing project that rivals the Stargate project announced last month ....

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ROCKVILLE, Md., February 6, 2025 – X-Energy Reactor Company, LLC (“X-energy”), a leader in advanced nuclear reactor and fuel technology, today announced the closing of its upsized Series C-1 financing round of $700 million. Segra Capital Management, Jane Street, Ares Management funds, Emerson Collective, and others join the previously announced round anchored by Amazon.com, Inc.’s […]

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The HPC-AI world was upended last week by DeepSeek AI benchmark numbers, as the dust settles we offer commentary on what it may, at this stage, mean: Five lessons from DeepSeek, Intel GPU rack scale architecture ....

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Good August morning to you! We offer a quick (5:32) round-up of HPC-AI news: Hot Chips 2024, LANL exascale power needs enters NM politics, underground nuclear power for AI, AMD-ZT Systems deal

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