#hyperscale-data-centers

#hyperscale-data-centers

Every day, the strife at the center of director Ari Aster's 2025 film Eddington seems less satirical and more purely and devastatingly documentary. At the time of its release, the public discourse surrounding was largely centered around the way it depicted the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the period so many refer to offhandedly as "lockdown" and the way that policies such as social distancing, masking and public health initiatives were co-opted into the culture war and absorbed into preexisting petty feuds between individuals.

Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) shares have surged 65% year-to-date as the company transformed from an overlooked storage provider into an AI infrastructure powerhouse. The stock has grown significantly as investors recognized the company's pivot from consumer storage to AI infrastructure, reflecting a complete business reinvention driven by insatiable demand from hyperscale data centers. The catalyst? Western Digital announced its entire 2026 HDD production capacity is 100% sold out, signaling unprecedented demand from hyperscale AI data centers.

What we are beginning to see is that many open-source and other models are becoming compact enough and sufficiently optimized to run very efficiently on consumer GPUs,

On the summer solstice, a place known by many names brought us together. Referred to as Chuk Shon, Sentinel Peak, 'A' Mountain, or the birthplace of Tucson, this land is one of the only remaining areas where the expansive open desert west of Tucson, AZ, meets the Santa Cruz River. Essential to all life and continuously inhabited by humans for over 4,000 years, this place has been central to many, namely the Tohono O'odham.