Deepak Jain, founder of AiNET Factory, will host two sessions at NVIDIA GTC 2026 (March 16-19) discussing AI infrastructure economics and the bottleneck of GPU-ready power infrastructure limiting AI deployment scaling.
Verrus, a data center startup, has designed grid-friendly facilities that use battery storage to support local power grids during peak demand rather than drain resources, with testing at the National Laboratory of the Rockies' ARIES platform validating the system's ability to handle real-world scenarios.
Meta unveiled four custom Broadcom-built AI inference chips (MTIA 300/400/450/500) designed for ranking, recommendation, and generative AI workloads, with plans to deploy multiple gigawatts starting in 2027. The chips use modular chiplet architecture with RISC-V cores and HBM stacks, with successive generations claiming performance competitive or superior to commercial alternatives like Nvidia.