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.
Irish AI Infrastructure News
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Research and market analysis connected to AI Infrastructure
Google named Gartner cloud leader for ninth straight year
Equinix launches managed AI cloud connectivity service
SRE teams take on wider AI oversight in production
Fortinet buys Virtue AI to boost AI security tools
F5 expands AI Gateway to curb costs & secure agents
Featured News
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
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.
Airrived launches sovereign AI platform for governments
Governments and regulated firms can now keep agentic AI on their own systems, reducing cloud dependence and tighter data controls.
Google unveils Cloud Run instances for always-on AI agents
Persistent AI agents can now run for up to seven days on Google Cloud Run instances, with fixed endpoints and no autoscaling.
Eclypsium flags 1,051 CVEs in infrastructure advisories
Revised guidance and remotely exploitable flaws are heightening the risk of widespread compromise across firewalls, routers and switches.
AWS, NVIDIA to deploy 2 million more GPUs for AI workloads
The deployment will help AWS meet surging demand for AI computing as the cloud giant deepens reliance on NVIDIA hardware and robotics.
NVIDIA expands NVLink Fusion with new NVHBM memory
Cloud builders could gain more compute headroom, as NVIDIA shifts memory control off the chip and opens NVHBM to multiple suppliers.
Liner raises USD $36.1 million to expand enterprise AI
The fresh capital will help Liner turn its 14 million-user consumer search base into enterprise AI revenue as funding tightens for smaller rivals.
Google Cloud urges fallback planning for AI workloads
Enterprises facing AI demand spikes are being told to secure spare capacity and automate backups to avoid outages and overspending.
Leiolai launches AI model that runs on user devices
Users can earn cash and save water as Leiolai shifts AI inference onto phones, tablets and computers instead of data centres.
Ciena survey: AI revenue & quantum-safe encryption
Most operators expect AI services to drive new revenue, but nearly half say optical network upgrades are critical to meet demand.
Ciena says AI services to drive telecoms revenue growth
Telecom operators face urgent network upgrades as most expect AI and managed fibre services to be major new revenue sources.
AMD launches calculator for enterprise AI deployment costs
Rising token bills may push firms towards local or hybrid AI, as AMD's new tool estimates when hardware beats cloud-only spending.
Google Cloud & Anyscale launch Ray sandboxing tool
The experimental setup lets AI teams run untrusted model code in isolated Ray clusters on Google Kubernetes Engine without exposing host containers.
Kimi.ai picks TiDB for AI app data at massive scale
The move could cut costs and delays for millions of AI-built apps by giving each one an isolated database in about a second.