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• Jan 12, 2026

  Ben O’Shea: Global warming, post-apocalyptic politics mean 2026 could bring as much bad news as 2025

  Ben O’Shea argues that accelerating AI infrastructure growth combined with man-made global warming could make 2026 as bad as 2025.

  • The author’s main point: Ben O’Shea warns that unchecked AI expansion and climate change threaten political stability and the viability of winter sports; he cites Goldman Sachs estimating $747 billion in AI capital investment in 2026 and references UN/IEA findings on rising water and electricity use by data centres.
  • Background and concrete details: CES (tech convention) returned to Las Vegas in January 2026 showcasing AI applications, and the Winter Olympics (February 2026) face climate-related viability questions.
    • CES: January 2026 — Location: Las Vegas — Agenda/subject: major tech convention highlighting near-term AI applications.
    • Winter Olympics: February 2026 — Location: (referenced generically as the upcoming Games) — Agenda/subject: discussion of ongoing viability of winter sports under warming climate.
• Jan 12, 2026

  Reporter's Notebook: CES2026 Showed AI's Shift Toward Always-On Infrastructure

  At CES2026, multiple technology companies framed AI as an infrastructure challenge requiring systems that run continuously and reliably.

  • Main announcement/action: NVIDIA introduced the Vera Rubin computing platform and AMD showcased the Helios rack-scale system as integrated solutions for continuous AI workloads; AMD noted global AI computing capacity has grown roughly a hundred-fold since 2022 but remains insufficient for next-generation systems.
  • Background and details: Exhibits included industrial robots (Hyundai + Boston Dynamics’ Atlas), Caterpillar’s Cat AI Assistant for fleet and maintenance management, Waymo planning expansion to five additional U.S. cities later this year (current markets: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Austin, Atlanta), ASUS demoing WiFi 8 claiming 2x IoT coverage and sixfold P99 latency improvement, and wearable devices from Lenovo, Peri (perimenopause monitoring), and Dephy (Sidekick exoskeleton).
• Jan 9, 2026

  CES2026: From Innovation to Guardrails, Senators Confront Tech’s Next Phase

  Democratic senators at CES called for faster federal policy on broadband affordability, AI safeguards, biotechnology security, and autonomous systems.

  • Main action: At the Consumer Electronics Show, Senators Jacky Rosen, Ben Ray Luján, and Gary Peters urged Congress and regulators to accelerate reforms on broadband affordability and data governance, citing the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program and warning that roughly 90 million Americans live in households that cannot afford broadband even where networks exist. They pressed for Universal Service Fund (USF) modernization and noted a bipartisan Universal Service Fund Working Group is examining reforms to stabilize funding and expand eligibility.
  • Background and details: Senators highlighted national-security and safety measures: BIOSECURE Act (included in the recent defense authorization bill) to protect biomedical/genomic data; reliance of federally funded researchers on Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories high-performance computing and secure data environments; calls for transparency in AI training data and federal standards for vehicle automation including references to the HALT Act and proposals for driver-monitoring and impaired-driving detection systems. The panel cited Nvidia‘s recent chip announcement as accelerating commercialization pressures on regulators.
• Jan 9, 2026

  No chillers needed for Vera Rubin server racks: Nvidia CEO

  NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced at CES that the Vera Rubin rack is a “radical, extreme” design that is 100% liquid-cooled and can operate without a chiller.

  • Main announcement: At CES in Las Vegas (Monday), Jensen Huang said the Vera Rubin rack is “100% liquid-cooled” and that “At 45 degrees Celsius, the data center doesn’t need a chiller,” noting Vera Rubin consumes twice as much power as Grace Blackwell while delivering 5x peak inference and 3.5x peak training performance; Huang also emphasized assembly speed (five minutes versus two hours for its predecessor).
  • Background and details: HVAC and data-center cooling firms (e.g., Johnson Controls, Carrier) saw stock reactions after the remarks; Joe Capes (LiquidStack CEO) said Vera Rubin will likely accelerate demand for liquid cooling, while also noting high secondary water-loop temperatures may increase opportunities for dry coolers/free cooling and reduce reliance on evaporative cooling; local planning concerns about data-center water use were cited in the Shelbyville, Indiana 429-acre project rejection.
• Jan 9, 2026

  CES2026: On AI and Energy, It's Nevada vs. Alaska

  Nevada and Alaska governors outlined how their states are positioning for investment tied to artificial intelligence, data centers, and energy‑intensive industries during a CES panel on Jan. 9, 2026 in Las Vegas.

  • Main announcement/action: Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo and Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy promoted state competitiveness around permitting speed, land access, and long-term power availability at CES 2026; Lombardo emphasized regulatory simplicity, a stable tax environment, and workforce alignment while noting ~80% federal land in Nevada and that solar supplies roughly 50% of Nevada’s electricity.
  • Background and details: Dunleavy highlighted ~60% federal land in Alaska, 65% share of U.S. wetlands, geothermal potential from >150 volcanoes, and a proposed 800-mile natural gas pipeline with 20 million tons/year capacity and ~4.2 billion cubic feet per day throughput to support long‑duration electricity for data centers and energy‑intensive uses; both governors said businesses prioritized energy cost, reliability, and regulatory certainty over incentives.
• Jan 9, 2026

  CES2026: Quantum Computing Leaders Map Next Phase in AI Age

  A CES panel of industry and government representatives outlined a roadmap emphasizing hybrid quantum-classical systems, international research ties, workforce development, supply-chain coordination, and near-term engineering and policy constraints.

  • Main announcement and roadmap details: Panelists from Dell Technologies, Amazon Web Services, the Quantum Economic Development Consortium, and the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade said progress requires coordination across infrastructure, workforce, supply chains, and public policy; referenced near-term target years 2028, 2030, and DARPA’s goal of useful quantum computing by 2033.

    • Event: CES panel in Las Vegas, Jan. 8, 2026; subject: quantum computing roadmap, hybrid systems, policy and engineering constraints; participants discussed hardware R&D, post-quantum security, and international collaboration.

  • Background, funding, and concrete commitments: The Department of Energy has committed $625 million over five years to support quantum information science research centers; Colorado committed $44 million in tax credits and a loan-loss reserve program for early-stage quantum companies; Colorado signed government-to-government agreements with the United Kingdom and Finland; AWS noted hardware R&D in Pasadena, California and an internal post-quantum security team; panelists highlighted narrow, internationally distributed supply chains (cryogenics, refrigeration components).

• Jan 8, 2026

  NVIDIA Unveils Rubin, Goes Beyond GPU Sales to Provide Full-stack AI Computing Systems

  NVIDIA announced the Rubin platform: an end-to-end, full‑stack AI computing system that combines six new chips and co‑designed software, now in full production with partner products expected in H2 2026.

  • Main announcement: NVIDIA introduced Rubin, a full‑stack AI computing platform (named after Vera Rubin) that integrates six chips — Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6 Switch, ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, BlueField-4 DPU, Spectrum-6 Ethernet — and is claimed to be in full production with Rubin-based partner products expected in the second half of 2026. The company claims benefits including up to 10x reduction in inference token costs, up to 4x fewer GPUs for MoE training vs Blackwell, and up to 5x improvement in power efficiency and system uptime (vendor-tested ideal conditions).
  • Background and deployment details: NVIDIA positions Rubin as a shift from GPU-level design to data-centre-level architecture to improve tokens per watt and tokens per rack and to increase utilisation and reliability. NVIDIA named target deployers and partners including Microsoft (Fairwater NVL72 racks), Google, AWS, Anthropic, Lenovo, Meta, Mistral AI, OpenAI, Perplexity, and xAI. Additional CES announcements included open models/tools: Nemotron, Cosmos, Alpamayo, Isaac GR00T, and Clara.
• Jan 8, 2026

  CES2026: White House Science Office Outlines Strategy to Win AI Race

  Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, outlined the Trump administration’s AI strategy emphasizing domestic infrastructure, removal of regulatory barriers, and promotion of U.S.-developed AI globally.

  • Main announcement: The administration’s AI strategy centers on innovation, infrastructure, and global deployment, with a planned national AI framework legislative proposal this year to prevent state-level fragmentation; it is pressing AI infrastructure firms to finance and supply their own power and working to remove permitting barriers for data centers and energy projects to avoid local construction delays.
  • Background and details: The administration cited $250 million in federal funding for quantum computing benchmarking research, referenced an April 2025 executive order to integrate AI literacy into K-12 classrooms, and signaled longer-term support for advanced energy technologies (small modular reactors and fusion) and workforce reskilling programs via the Department of Labor and private partners.
• Jan 8, 2026

  A Broadband Breakfast Spotlight on AI Infrastructure at CES2026

  Broadband Breakfast Live Online hosted a CES 2026 webcast highlighting that AI must be treated as digital infrastructure, not just software, with panelists focusing on energy efficiency and grid capacity.

  • Main announcement/action: The webcast’s panelists, including Jasmine Shih (VC with Nvidia and Applied Materials experience) asserted that “performance per watt” is a primary AI goal and that “we’re actually talking about AI and infrastructure”; Joseph Longway claimed upcoming Nvidia chips will reduce energy usage by 10x, and the panel repeated that clients seeking megawatts of power face capacity constraints.
  • Background and details: Panelists raised concerns about overbuilding AI infrastructure without optimizing energy needs (Shafaq Abdullah); Porter Wong said Clean Leap has seen nearly 3,000 startup applicants and warned “Our national electric grid is not built for that”; Aaron Rose highlighted digital access disparities and cited warnings from The Economist about escalating capital expenditures.
• Jan 7, 2026

  CES 2026: Lenovo Unveils AI Inferencing Servers, Nvidia Gigafactory Team-up

  Lenovo announced new AI inferencing servers and a gigawatt-scale AI factory collaboration with Nvidia at CES in Las Vegas.

  • Main announcement: Lenovo unveiled three new servers — ThinkSystem SR75i, ThinkSystem SR650i, and ThinkEdge SE455i — targeting AI inferencing across manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, retail, telecom, and industrial environments; and announced a gigawatt-scale AI factory program with Nvidia to deliver fully integrated, rack-scale systems (including Nvidia’s GP300 NVL72) that aim to reduce deployment timelines from months to weeks.
  • Background and implementation details: Lenovo will integrate Neptune air and liquid cooling technologies and offer TruScale pay-as-you-go pricing, add inferencing advisory, deployment, and managed services, and partner across platforms with Nutanix, Red Hat, and Canonical; market context includes ABI Research and Futurum estimates and Lenovo holding 11% of the AI server market in a July 2025 ABI Research report.