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• Jul 6, 2026 · Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

  The Data Center Water Problem Is Soluble

  ITIF has published a policy report arguing that data center water use can be managed through state-led regulation, standardized disclosure, watershed-based review, and targeted federal support.

  • The report says states should require facility-level water disclosures, use watershed-specific performance standards, and establish joint water-energy review for large data center loads.
  • It also recommends federal action on standardized metrics, procurement, and R&D rather than a national water mandate; examples cited include Nvidia Rubin liquid cooling and Microsoft zero-water cooling designs.
• Jul 3, 2026

  Marvell boosts custom silicon push with AMD engineering lead hire

  Marvell Technology has hired former AMD engineering lead Jay Kirkland as SVP of custom silicon engineering.

  • Kirkland joins Marvell after more than six years at AMD, where he led customer engineering, platform engineering, and AI enablement for hyperscale and AI customers.
  • Marvell is also pursuing custom silicon, AI networking, and optical interconnects; the article cites a $2 billion Nvidia investment in Marvell and Marvell’s $3.25 billion acquisition of Celestial AI.
  • The story also mentions Marvell’s Teralynx T100 switch for AI and cloud data center infrastructure, and its acquisitions of Polariton Technologies and Celestial AI.
• Jul 3, 2026

  ‘It’s really about flexibility’: FERC issues ‘show cause’ orders to US grid operators on large load integration

  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued show cause orders to six US regional grid operators and their transmission owners to explain how large energy users are integrated onto the electric grid.

  • The orders were issued under Section 206 of the Federal Power Act and received support from all five FERC commissioners.
  • The six operators named are PJM, MISO, SPP, CAISO, ISO-NE, and NYISO; they must respond within 60 days as FERC seeks to maintain reliable, affordable power amid rising demand.
• Jul 2, 2026

  EdgeCore tops outs second data center in Virginia

  EdgeCore has announced it has topped out its 42MW AS02 facility at its Ashburn campus in Sterling, Loudoun County, Virginia.

  • The AS02 building reached topping out this week at 45831 Maries Road and 1501 Moran Road; the campus will total 114MW of critical load across 685,000 square feet at full build-out.
  • EdgeCore said the milestone marks progress at its Ashburn campus and broader growth in northern and central Virginia; the first building, AS01 (72MW), topped out in September 2025 and is due live in November.
  • EdgeCore launched in 2018 and was acquired by Partners Group in 2022, which planned to invest up to $1.2 billion in the acquisition and build-out of data center sites.
  • The company also operates in Silicon Valley, Greater Phoenix, and Reno, Nevada, and is developing additional sites in Virginia, including planned campuses in Culpeper County and Louisa County.
• Jul 2, 2026

  New York gas appliance ban upheld

  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has upheld New York’s law banning gas appliances in new buildings, but the ban is not set to take effect immediately because Gov. Kathy Hochul has said the state will not enforce it until appeals are finished.

  • The ruling keeps alive a challenge from gas companies and other interests; the challengers may seek en banc review or certiorari from the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • The article says the law would require electric appliances in most new buildings and that critics argue it could strain utilities amid rising demand from data centers, electric vehicles, and other loads.
  • The piece also cites NYISO saying the grid faces reliability challenges and may need several thousand megawatts of new dispatchable generation within the next ten years.
  • It references a 2023 Ninth Circuit ruling on Berkeley’s gas appliance ban that reached the opposite conclusion, creating a split among the circuits.
• Jul 2, 2026

  United States $19 Billion IT Solutions Company Super Micro Computer 4 Employees Detained by Taiwan Prosecutors for Alleged Smuggling Nvidia AI Chips to China

  Super Micro Computer has been reported as the subject of an alleged smuggling case, with four employees detained by Taiwan prosecutors over Nvidia AI chips purportedly being shipped to China.

  • Four employees were detained by Taiwan prosecutors over alleged smuggling of Nvidia AI chips to China; the article also identifies Super Micro Computer as a US IT solutions company.
  • The piece includes background on Charles Liang, Supermicro’s founder and CEO, and repeats company information about AI, cloud, 5G, data center, server, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions; it is a news article/commentary rather than a direct company announcement.
• Jul 1, 2026

  Inference chip startup Etched emerges from stealth with $800m funding, unveils working chip

  Etched has launched from stealth, announcing $800 million in total funding, a working inference chip produced on TSMC’s N4P process, and more than $1 billion in customer contracts.

  • Main announcement & technology: Etched announced $800 million raised to date (including a $500 million round in December that set a $5 billion post‑money valuation), claims a working inference chip produced on TSMC N4P, and reports more than $1 billion in customer contracts; the company is validating a rack‑scale product that implements a shared low‑latency memory pool and an ultra‑low‑latency, high‑bandwidth interconnect.
  • Facilities, investors & timelines: Headquarters in San Jose; the company says it has stood up a factory in Taiwan and built a 2MW data centre, test house, and NPI prototyping lab at its California offices. Investors named include VentureTech Alliance, Jane Street, Hudson River Trading, Stripes, Radical Ventures, Primary VC, Peter Thiel, Andrej Karpathy, and Geoffrey Hinton; the most recent $500M round closed in December (post‑money valuation $5B).
• Jul 1, 2026

  Omen AI raises $31m to develop fluid monitoring system for data centers

  Omen AI has announced the closing of a $31 million Series A round led by Nava Ventures to develop its fluid-analysis sensors and monitoring systems for data centers and industrial machines.

  • Main announcement: Omen AI closed a $31 million Series A led by Nava Ventures, bringing total funding to $41.5 million since its 2024 founding; the company develops permanent and portable fluid-analysis sensors that monitor coolant/oil/water health in real time for servers and industrial equipment.
  • Background/details: Investors include Sheryl Sandberg, Mike Mattacola (neocloud CoreWeave), CRV, Vanderbilt University, LMNT Ventures, Mann+Hummel, Borusan Ventures, Starhill Holdings, Hard Launch Capital, and executives from Bridgestone, GM, Johnson Controls, and TensorWave; the company says it already monitors coolant health for operators representing $200 billion in assets and 10GW–14GW of capacity.
• Jul 1, 2026

  Data Center Power Coalition Launches to Tackle AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

  The Sijbrandij Foundation has launched the Data Center Power Coalition to standardize and accelerate power infrastructure planning and deployment for AI data centers.

  • Main announcement: The Foundation published an open Data Center Power Playbook and convened a 12-member Data Center Power Coalition (founding partners: Amperesand, DG Matrix, Emerald AI, Florrent, GridCare, Hammerhead, Hanwha, Hitachi, NeuralWatt, Planted Solar, Skeleton Technologies, Voltus) to promote a four-phase, power-first approach (site selection, initial on-site generation, modular clean-energy buildouts, accelerated grid interconnection supported by embedded load flexibility). The Foundation says reference projects will commence within the next 12 months and the coalition will act as a neutral coordinator to assemble vendor packages for demand-side teams.
  • Background and implementation details: The Sijbrandij Foundation is a philanthropic non-profit (no revenue model) that published an open-source playbook at datacenterpower.ai; the coalition maps subcategories (on-site power, load flexibility, grid interconnection), vetted partners to fill each subcategory, and will update the playbook and coalition membership roughly monthly. The coalition intends to support operators of all sizes, provide vetted providers for execution, and feature additional emerging energy-technology players in future updates.
• Jul 1, 2026

  India Trains The World’s Robots, But At What Cost?

  Inc42 reports that Indian startups including Egolab.AI and Human Archive are collecting egocentric (first-person) video data from workers to train robotics models; Egolab.AI’s head-mounted camera footage from a Delhi NCR factory went viral in April 2026.

  • Main announcement/action: The article documents that multiple India-based data-collection startups (Egolab.AI, Human Archive, Awign, Objectways, Humyn Labs, RoBoEra, Neo Cambrian) are aggregating egocentric video from workers — capturing wrist angles, grips and micro-movements — and selling annotated data to global robotics labs; pricing examples include workers paid ~₹400/day, factories receiving ₹450–500 per hour from deployers, Human Archive pricing $1–$10 per hour for curated data, and finished annotated datasets sold to labs for $15–$50 per hour.
  • Context and background: This is a reported analysis (not a single corporate press release). The piece highlights viral footage in April 2026, legal and consent questions under India’s DPDP Act 2023 and Delhi High Court commentary, demand-side buyers such as Scale AI and downstream ownership by overseas robotics firms; it also notes related news such as Amazon’s $13 Bn commitment to India through 2030 to expand AWS data centre capacity in Mumbai and Hyderabad.