The bio-circular data center: when servers feed algae
Data4s bio-circular data center grows algae on server waste heat, capturing up to 13 tonnes of CO2 a year per facility and turning a thermal liability into biomass.
AI & Infrastructure
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Posts tagged with AI & Infrastructure
CodeRabbit's $143M raise bets on the control layer for AI-written code
CodeRabbit's $143M Series C funds a new category, Agentic Change Management, the control layer that governs code from humans and agents alike. The bet is that review, not generation, becomes the scarce and defensible layer as coding agents flood teams with changes.
Etched's $21B Bet: Inference Silicon Is Now a One-Trick Wager
Etched's $21B August raise makes it the most valuable AI-chip startup with no shipped revenue. We assess whether transformer-only silicon is a durable wager or a narrow one.
Acrab's edge bet: a $130M wager on 100-billion-parameter AI that runs off the cloud
Singapore's Acrab raised $130M to ship GΞLIX 1, an edge AI chip built to run 100-billion-parameter models without a data center.
DNA Data Storage Enters the Data Center: Inside Biomemory's Consolidation Bet
Hyunjun Park built the machines that write data into DNA, then ran out of runway. Paris rival Biomemory bought the pieces, and with a Scality partnership in hand it promises racks in real data centers this half. The physics case is settled. The money math is not.
The Self-Driving Lab Is Becoming Infrastructure
Autonomous 'self-driving labs' are turning drug discovery into a closed-loop infrastructure play — from NVIDIA and Lilly's $1B bet to ARPA-E's national Accelerate program.
The AI infrastructure stack in 2026: where the value sits
A guide to the 2026 AI infrastructure stack, and why the training-to-inference flip rewrote where the money sits.
Velatir's EUR5M seed: why Europe's AI sovereign play is the control layer
Velatir raised EUR5M to build a sovereign European control layer for enterprise AI, betting governance and the EU AI Act beat raw model capability as the durable investment.