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A sprawling, ultra-modern liquid-cooled data center with glowing blue coolant pipes, standing in stark contrast next to a decaying, abandoned first-generation air-cooled data center with rusted massive ventilation fans.

Feb 19, 2026 • 7 min read

The AI Subprime Crisis: Funding Obsolete Data Centers

We are so distracted by the AI chip wars that we have forgotten about the buildings housing them. First-generation AI data centers built in 2023 are already becoming physically obsolete, creating a $40 billion real estate timebomb that retail investors are currently holding.

#Data Centers #Wall Street #Retail Investors

Cyberpunk visualization of OpenAI and AWS logos on a futuristic microchip in a data center.

Dec 25, 2025 • 7 min read

The $38B Bet: OpenAI Pivots to AWS Silicon

OpenAI is diversifying its infrastructure with a massive $38 billion AWS partnership, signaling a shift away from pure Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA CUDA dependence.

#AI #AWS #OpenAI

A massive blue IBM monolith integrating with a flowing orange Confluent data stream

Dec 8, 2025 • 5 min read

IBM Buys Confluent: The Final Pillar of the Hybrid Cloud

At $31/share, Big Blue completes its open-source trifecta. Here’s why IBM just bought the central nervous system of the modern enterprise.

#IBM #Confluent #Kafka