

June 19, 2025 . 5min read
AI’s surging appetite for computing power is driving record growth in data center energy use, with new entrants and advanced hardware reshaping the sector. This rapid expansion calls for responsible innovation as electricity demand and environmental impacts escalate
🧠 AI & Cloud Infrastructure
xAI’s Grok large language models are now available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, marking a significant expansion in AI model hosting and deployment options for enterprise customers.
SourceOracle announced that AI innovators worldwide are choosing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for AI training and inferencing, highlighting new global customers and expanded OCI Supercluster capabilities.
SourceCoreWeave launched three new AI cloud software products—Mission Control Integration, W&B Inference, and W&B Weave Online Evaluations—designed to help customers develop, deploy, and iterate AI faster, following its acquisition of Weights & Biases.
SourceIBM introduced industry-first software to unify agentic governance and security for generative AI systems, aiming to help businesses keep their agentic AI secured and responsible at scales.
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💻 Hardware & GPU Developments
Vultr added AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs to its global cloud platform, making advanced GPU hardware accessible for AI and HPC customers.
SourceCisco and Nvidia deepened their collaboration to advance AI-ready infrastructure, introducing new network devices and architectures designed for low-latency, high-speed connectivity in AI data centres.
Malaysia’s data centre projects remain unaffected by reports of Chinese firms using Nvidia chips; the government is verifying the claims, but industry activity and investments continue as normal
🧠 Insight of the Day
AI commerce is no longer human versus machine—it’s about scalable digital personas.
As AI avatars prove they can out-sell real hosts by millions, the true edge lies in who can design and orchestrate lifelike digital twins at scale. The next frontier of live commerce belongs to those mastering perpetual, personalized AI engagement—where every “stream” is infinitely replicable, and human touchpoints become the premium upgrade.
🏢 Sovereign & Data Centre News
Amazon’s $10 billion North Carolina AI campus will include new data centres, furthering sovereign infrastructure in the U.S.
SourceSK Group and AWS revealed a joint multibillion-dollar investment to build South Korea’s largest AI data centre in Ulsan, starting with 60,000 GPUs and targeting 1 GW of capacity by 2029. AWS will invest $4 billion, with SK subsidiaries. contributing further resources and planning an additional $2.5B in AI initiatives.
SourceHTHK and Huawei’s partnership will accelerate the deployment of sovereign, cloud-native infrastructure in Hong Kong, supporting regional digital transformation.
SourceMarsh launched Nimbus, a €1 billion insurance facility for large-scale data centre construction in the UK and Europe, offering all-risks, delay, property damage, and business interruption coverage.
🗓️ This Day in AI - June 6
🤖 2018 – NVIDIA Unveils Turing Architecture
At SIGGRAPH 2018, NVIDIA revealed its Turing GPU architecture, the first to bring real-time ray tracing and AI-accelerated denoising to graphics cards—paving the way for modern AI-driven rendering and simulation workloads.
🧠 2021 – In-Context Learning Spotlighted
OpenAI researchers published the seminal GPT-3 paper highlighting “in-context learning,” demonstrating that large language models can perform new tasks from just a handful of examples—without any gradient updates—redefining approaches to few-shot learning.
🚀 2024 – DeepMind Releases Gemini 1.0 to Early Access
Google DeepMind quietly launched the first “Gemini 1.0” rollout for select enterprise and research partners, marking its formal entry into multi-modal agentic AI and setting the stage for broader public launch later in the year.
🏦 Global AI Investments
Amazon announced a new AU$20 billion investment to expand and operate its data center infrastructure in Australia from 2025 to 2029, supporting AI and cloud growth.
SourceOpenAI lands $200 M Pentagon contract
The one-year DoD award marks OpenAI’s first formal Pentagon partnership, funding “prototype frontier AI” for warfighting, cyber defense, and enterprise use—while consolidating existing NASA, NIH, Air Force, and Treasury work under a single initiative.
SourceAlibaba Cloud announced it will open a second data center in South Korea by the end of June 2025, as part of its ongoing $52.9 billion investment in AI and cloud infrastructure. This expansion is driven by rising demand from South Korean businesses for advanced cloud and AI service.
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🛠️ AI Tools & Updates
DNMiner Cloud Mining Platform
Launched June 16, DNMiner’s new AI-powered green cloud mining service dynamically shifts crypto workloads to the cleanest available energy sources—optimizing hash rates while cutting carbon footprints by up to 50%.Operant AI MCP Gateway
Introduced June 16, Operant AI’s MCP Gateway provides an enterprise-grade security layer for Model Context Protocol (MCP) applications, safeguarding live AI workflows against data exfiltration and adversarial tampering.LambdaTest Accessibility MCP Server
Released June 16, this server integrates AI-driven accessibility testing directly into CI/CD pipelines—automatically detecting and fixing web-app compliance issues for screen readers, keyboard navigation, and other assistive technologies.Skyhawk Security Cloud CDR Partner Program
Announced June 16, Skyhawk’s new ecosystem accelerates adoption of its AI-powered Cloud Detection & Response platform—enabling partners to embed proactive threat hunting and remediation into multicloud environments.CreatorCube Prompt Generator
A developer tool for crafting optimized prompts across images, videos, articles, and code—streamlining prompt engineering with template libraries and AI-driven refinements.
🏁 Outro: Until Tomorrow…
And that’s it for today’s deep dive into avatars, agent stacks, and AI on the battlefield. From digital sales floors to sovereign compute clouds, we’ve charted the contours of AI’s relentless advance—where strategy meets infrastructure, and every byte carries geopolitical weight.
If this sparked an idea, share it with a colleague. If you’re launching the next AI-driven innovation, let us know. And if your agents finally nailed that demo—celebrate the small wins.
See you tomorrow at the cutting edge of AI and cloud. Keep the compute hot and the insights flowing!