Dell Technologies reported record revenue of $29.8 billion in the second quarter of fiscal 2026, up 19 percent from a year earlier. Earnings per share rose 38 percent to $1.70, while adjusted earnings were $2.32. Revenue from servers and networks grew 69 percent to $12.9 billion, driven by strong demand for AI systems. COO Jeff Clarke said Dell shipped more AI solutions in the first half of the year than it did in all of 2025
"It's not just computing capacity that contributes to the cost of AI: IT needs to reexamine existing storage operations too, Kimball said. "I would take a long look at my storage infrastructure and how to better optimize on and off prem. The infrastructure populating most enterprise datacenters is out of date and underutilized. Moving to servers that have the latest, densely populated CPUs is a first start," he said.
Mako, a startup co-founded by Cornell Tech assistant professor Mohamed Abdelfattah, has raised $8.5 million in seed funding to tackle one of artificial intelligence's most pressing infrastructure challenges: optimizing the computing efficiency of graphics processing units, or GPUs. The $8.5 million round was led by M13, with participation from Neo, Flybridge, and others. The company plans to use the funding to grow its engineering team and accelerate product development.
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Beverly Morris fears drinking water from her well due to sediment buildup she attributes to the nearby AI data center. "I'm afraid to drink the water, but I still cook with it, and brush my teeth with it," she expressed.