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The Ultimate Guide to AI Infrastructure

A curated Asian 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

Taiwan market value tops USD $5 trillion on AI demand
Sustainability

Taiwan market value tops USD $5 trillion on AI demand

Foreign investors are helping drive Taiwan's stock market to record size as chip and AI shares account for more than four-fifths of value.

Last month

Firmus wins award for energy-efficient AI data centre
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres

Firmus wins award for energy-efficient AI data centre

Singapore's Firmus Technologies has won the Asia Pacific Data Centre Project of the Year for its energy-efficient AI Factory, leading in sustainable AI innovation.

Sun, 5th Jan 2025

Singtel & SK Telecom join forces for next-gen telecom networks
Breach Prevention

Singtel & SK Telecom join forces for next-gen telecom networks

Singtel and SK Telecom have signed an MoU to advance next-gen telecom networks, focusing on AI, virtualisation, and preparing for 6G over the next two years.

Thu, 11th Jul 2024

Featherless launches fixed-fee GLM 5.2 private cloud
IT Department

Featherless launches fixed-fee GLM 5.2 private cloud

Engineering teams could cut AI coding bills by more than USD $1.46 million a year as Featherless offers GLM 5.2 on fixed-fee private cloud.

Yesterday

DataX Connect widens data centre pay survey to regions
IT Industry

DataX Connect widens data centre pay survey to regions

Regional pay data could help data centre employers tackle shortages as DataX Connect expands its 2026 survey across Europe and the United States.

Yesterday

Beyond opens Manila delivery centre with 200 roles
Outsourcing

Beyond opens Manila delivery centre with 200 roles

The move expands its cloud delivery network in Asia-Pacific as demand for AI and transformation projects drives hiring for engineers.

Yesterday

Nanya sales surge as DRAM prices drive margin gains
Sustainability

Nanya sales surge as DRAM prices drive margin gains

Nanya Technology's second-quarter revenue rose 68.2% as DRAM prices climbed, while gross margin reached 79.5% and net income hit TWD NT$50.2 billion.

2 days ago

Google adds GPU & TPU support to GKE Autopilot
Public Cloud

Google adds GPU & TPU support to GKE Autopilot

Developers can now run accelerator-heavy AI workloads on managed GKE Autopilot without handling node setup or low-level network allocation.

Last week

NVIDIA & LangChain launch open stack for AI agents
Large Language Models

NVIDIA & LangChain launch open stack for AI agents

Businesses can now build AI agents more cheaply, as the open stack matches top closed models on one benchmark while cutting run costs sharply.

Last week

Vection wins Retelit certification for Algho AI platform
Small Business

Vection wins Retelit certification for Algho AI platform

The certification opens Retelit's enterprise and public sector client base to Vection's Algho platform after live testing at an Italian data centre.

Last week

Fastly joins DIMPACT coalition to track digital emissions
Sustainability

Fastly joins DIMPACT coalition to track digital emissions

The move could improve carbon accounting for streaming and publishing firms as emissions from content delivery become harder to ignore.

Last week

Google Cloud says firms need AI infrastructure upgrades
Storage

Google Cloud says firms need AI infrastructure upgrades

Most organisations must upgrade their systems to run agentic AI in production, as cloud costs, governance and energy use climb.

Last week

Nvidia pitches national AI factories for governments
Sustainability

Nvidia pitches national AI factories for governments

Countries risk losing control over data and AI policy unless they build local computing capacity and home-grown models, Nvidia says.

Last week

Michigan study backs battery recycling for security
Electric vehicles

Michigan study backs battery recycling for security

Rising demand for critical minerals is pushing US automakers and policymakers to treat battery recycling as a supply-chain security issue.

Last week

Molted touts operating layer for AI agents in production
Data centers

Molted touts operating layer for AI agents in production

As fleets of autonomous agents move into daily use, teams are wrestling with crashes, credentials and recovery that model demos never cover.

Last week

AI data centre demand to exceed supply by 500% by 2030
Digital Transformation

AI data centre demand to exceed supply by 500% by 2030

The shortfall is set to intensify competition for power, land and grid connections as AI workloads push global data centre demand far ahead of supply.

Last week

Singapore firms scale AI as governance lags behind
Leadership

Singapore firms scale AI as governance lags behind

Governance and control systems are trailing AI roll-outs in Singapore, even as 37% of firms widen use and 14% embed it fully.

This month

Ecolab completes USD $4.75 billion CoolIT takeover
Sustainability

Ecolab completes USD $4.75 billion CoolIT takeover

The purchase bolsters Ecolab's push into AI data centres as demand for liquid cooling surges, with CoolIT sales more than doubling this year.

This month

Nvidia launches revenue-sharing AI cloud financing
Semiconductors

Nvidia launches revenue-sharing AI cloud financing

The new model could ease access to scarce AI computing for startups and cloud providers, while giving Nvidia a recurring revenue stream.

This month

AI boom to leave data centre demand far above supply
Sustainability

AI boom to leave data centre demand far above supply

AI-driven demand could overwhelm available capacity by 2030, with spending on servers and GPUs pushing supply short of need across key markets.

This month