The Ultimate Guide to AI Infrastructure
A curated Kiwi edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for AI Infrastructure.
What to know about AI Infrastructure
AI Infrastructure explores the hardware, software, and systems that make modern artificial intelligence possible. This tag covers everything from compute and storage architectures to networking, data pipelines, and observability stacks that keep AI workloads reliable and efficient.
Stories here dig into practical questions: how to design scalable training and inference clusters, choose between GPUs and emerging accelerators, manage feature stores, and orchestrate distributed workloads. You’ll find discussions of MLOps practices, cost optimization, performance tuning, and the trade-offs behind different infrastructure patterns.
Whether you’re building a new AI platform or evolving an existing stack, this tag helps you understand the components, constraints, and design decisions that sit underneath AI products. Reading these pieces will give you concrete examples, architectural patterns, and lessons learned that you can apply to your own systems.
Kiwi AI Infrastructure News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
AI could drive advances that solve the problems it brings, computer scientist suggests
Higher electricity demand from artificial intelligence could be eased if it speeds up more efficient solar panels, batteries and chips.
NIWA partners with VAST Data to upgrade climate data systems
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand has chosen VAST Data's platform to enhance its climate data management capabilities.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to AI Infrastructure
Google tops Gartner's AI infrastructure magic quadrant
Couchbase launches AI Data Plane for enterprise agents
Quali expands Torque for enterprise AI infrastructure
Neocloud providers set to grab AI cloud market share
Linux Foundation sets 2026 confidential computing summit
Featured News
John Margerison on the new class of employee: AI managers
Businesses should treat AI like a new hire, as weak oversight could expose sensitive data and leave staff needing fresh skills to stay relevant.
Agentic AI creates enterprise challenge beyond LLM boom
Enterprises face rising costs and governance gaps as thousands of AI agents begin operating alongside staff across multiple systems.
Exclusive: Virtuozzo sees GPU clouds reshape AI infrastructure
AI demand is pushing cloud providers towards GPU-as-a-service models, with efficiency and utilisation emerging as key differentiators.
Marvell targets AI connectivity bottleneck with NVIDIA boost
AI data centres are hitting copper limits, pushing Marvell and Nvidia towards optics as clusters grow larger and more distributed.
Expert Columns
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent AI Infrastructure News
Google adds GPU & TPU support to GKE Autopilot
Developers can now run accelerator-heavy AI workloads on managed GKE Autopilot without handling node setup or low-level network allocation.
NVIDIA & LangChain launch open stack for AI agents
Businesses can now build AI agents more cheaply, as the open stack matches top closed models on one benchmark while cutting run costs sharply.
Vection wins Retelit certification for Algho AI platform
The certification opens Retelit's enterprise and public sector client base to Vection's Algho platform after live testing at an Italian data centre.
Fastly joins DIMPACT coalition to track digital emissions
The move could improve carbon accounting for streaming and publishing firms as emissions from content delivery become harder to ignore.
Datacom profit falls as data centre spending rises
Heavier capital spending and softer customer demand pushed Datacom's net profit after tax down to NZD $20 million despite higher revenue.
Google Cloud says firms need AI infrastructure upgrades
Most organisations must upgrade their systems to run agentic AI in production, as cloud costs, governance and energy use climb.
Molted touts operating layer for AI agents in production
As fleets of autonomous agents move into daily use, teams are wrestling with crashes, credentials and recovery that model demos never cover.
AI data centre demand to exceed supply by 500% by 2030
The shortfall is set to intensify competition for power, land and grid connections as AI workloads push global data centre demand far ahead of supply.
Singapore firms scale AI as governance lags behind
Governance and control systems are trailing AI roll-outs in Singapore, even as 37% of firms widen use and 14% embed it fully.
AI spending races ahead of revenue, warns academyEX
Investor hopes are outpacing returns as major tech groups pour US$725 billion into AI this year, academyEX says.
Ecolab completes USD $4.75 billion CoolIT takeover
The purchase bolsters Ecolab's push into AI data centres as demand for liquid cooling surges, with CoolIT sales more than doubling this year.
Nvidia launches revenue-sharing AI cloud financing
The new model could ease access to scarce AI computing for startups and cloud providers, while giving Nvidia a recurring revenue stream.
AI boom to leave data centre demand far above supply
AI-driven demand could overwhelm available capacity by 2030, with spending on servers and GPUs pushing supply short of need across key markets.
NVIDIA backs Verkada as AI security tie-up expands
The investment could speed up AI search and incident review for schools, factories and retailers using Verkada's cloud security platform.
Vertiv opens Johor plant to meet AI demand in Asia
Hundreds of jobs and local testing capacity are set to follow, as Vertiv expands regional supply for AI data centre equipment across Asia.
3Point launches 3AIgent to speed enterprise AI use
Businesses struggling to move AI pilots into daily use may find 3AIgent useful, as it links trusted data, governance and operational control.
Asia-Pacific GSMA roundtable calls for AI network upgrade
Rising AI demand is forcing Asia-Pacific telecoms to upgrade networks for lower latency, higher bandwidth and tighter cross-border coordination.
Asia-Pacific telecoms push AI monetisation at roundtable
Operators in Asia-Pacific are under pressure to find new revenue as AI services and 5G-Advanced reshape telecoms economics.
Google Cloud touts Lustre cache offload for AI inference
Benchmark tests show Managed Lustre can cut AI inference costs by more than half, easing GPU demand for long-context model serving.
Elastic adds native Prometheus support for metrics
Cloud-native teams could cut observability bills as Elastic says its rebuilt metrics engine stores data more efficiently and queries up to 30 times faster.