The Photonic Dilemma

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

As artificial intelligence systems scale to unprecedented levels, the real bottleneck is no longer computing power but data movement. Silicon photonics promises faster, cooler communication between chips—yet the industry still faces a critical challenge: manufacturing optical hardware reliably at massive scale.

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Data Centers Waste Energy — Not Because of AI, but Because of Electronics

Monday, February 9, 2026

AI is not exhausting our energy systems because it computes too much, but because digital infrastructure still wastes energy on heat, resistance and cooling. Photonics offers a structural way out.

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Inside Nebius: The Dutch Rooted AI Cloud Builder

Thursday, December 4, 2025

Nebius emerged quietly, almost unexpectedly, as one of Europe’s most strategic AI-infrastructure players. Its corporate home in Amsterdam–Schiphol Rijk gives it a European identity, but its operations stretch far beyond Dutch borders. Born from the international restructuring of Yandex in 2024, Nebius now positions itself as an independent global technology group, building cloud systems designed not for traditional enterprise workloads, but for intensive AI training and high-performance computing.

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