Category: Hardware

Data Center Retrofit Limits In Aging Facilities

Aging facilities make data center retrofit work less like component replacement and more like risk-controlled engineering. As of September 2026, research cited by Azura Consultancy says more than 27% of data center facilities are more than 15 years old, while … Read more

Data Center Energy Forecasts and Power Risk

Data center energy forecasts have moved from sustainability reporting into hard infrastructure planning. As of September 15, 2026, the strongest public evidence points to higher U.S. electricity demand from data centers through 2030 and, under some scenarios, through 2050. The … Read more

AMD Helios rack-scale AI system in a liquid-cooled data center row

AMD Helios: Rack-Scale AI Efficiency Test

AMD Helios arrived on July 23, 2026, as AMD’s rack-scale AI infrastructure system for frontier AI, large-scale inference, and foundation-model training. AMD positioned the system as a full-stack rack design rather than a set of discrete accelerators, CPUs, networking components, … Read more

C-V2X transition hardware test setup inside a vehicle lab

C-V2X Transition: Hardware Compatibility Risks

The C-V2X transition is not only a standards change. It is a hardware migration that touches radios, antennas, processors, security modules, roadside units, and long-lived vehicle platforms. The difficult part is that vehicles and roadside infrastructure do not refresh on … Read more

Quantum communications equipment connected to fiber networking hardware in a lab rack

Quantum Communications And Energy Efficiency

Quantum communications is often discussed as a security technology, but its energy profile deserves the same level of technical scrutiny. The strongest evidence today points to specific hardware mechanisms rather than broad replacement of classical networks: lower-energy photon detection, improved … Read more