Trump wants data center companies to pay host communities as opposition to AI infrastructure grows. Here's what the proposal could mean for future projects.

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Southeast Asia's digital economy is set to reach $368 billion in 2026 as AI investment grows, but fragmented data rules complicate regional operations.

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At the 2026 OCP Global Summit, Nvidia opened up its Vera Rubin rack designs, released open-source AI factory software, and announced plans with Cisco for a new pluggable-optics specification. Here's why openness has become a scaling requirement, and what IT pros should do about it.

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Nvidia has made its complete Run:ai GPU orchestration platform open source. Here's what's free, which support options cost money, and what IT teams still need to operate.

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