In my recent piece on sovereign AI and the geopolitics of compute, I covered export controls, national chip programs, and the fracturing of the global AI hardware stack. That’s the …
Vamsi Chemitiganti
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AIAI Data CenterAI FactoryAI InfrastructureGPUGPU EconomicsOpinion
The Second-Hand GPU Market: What Happens When H100s Get Decommissioned?
Every GPU procurement conversation in AI infrastructure focuses on acquisition — allocation, lead times, pricing on the newest generation. Almost none of it touches the other end of the asset …
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Agentic AIAIAI Data CenterAI FactoryAI InfrastructureOpinion
AI Agents and Liability: Who’s Responsible When an Autonomous Workflow Fails?
Agentic AI adoption has outpaced the legal and governance frameworks that determine who bears responsibility when an autonomous workflow makes a costly mistake. A traditional software bug has a fairly …
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AIAI Data CenterAI FactoryAI InfrastructureGenAIGenerative AIOpinion
Model Routing Economics: Why Enterprises Are Quietly Building Multi-LLM Gateways
The single-model enterprise AI strategy — standardize on one provider, integrate deeply, move on — is quietly giving way to something more fragmented and, for most CIOs, more sensible: a …
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AIAI Data CenterAI FactoryAI InfrastructureStrategyTelcosTransformation
The Telecom AI Factory: Can Telcos Monetize Their Edge Compute Before Hyperscalers Do?
Telecom operators sit on an asset hyperscalers have spent a decade and tens of billions of dollars trying to replicate: physical proximity to the end user. Cell towers, central offices, …
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Agentic AIAIBankingFinTechOpinion
AI in Core Banking: Why Agentic Workflows Are Hitting a Compliance Wall
Agentic AI has moved fast in customer support, software engineering, back-office document processing. Core banking is a different story. The same autonomous, multi-step, tool-calling agent architecture transforming other industries is …
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AI Data CenterAI FactoryAI InfrastructureCloudOpinion
Neoclouds vs. Hyperscalers: Who Wins the GPU Rental Wars?
A new category of cloud provider has emerged specifically to rent GPU capacity: CoreWeave, Lambda, Crusoe, Together AI, and a growing list of “neoclouds” that do one thing — acquire …
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Agentic AIAIAI Data CenterAI FactoryAI InfrastructureOpinion
The Water Problem: AI Data Centers and the Coming Fight Over Cooling Resources
Power gets the headlines. Water is the quieter constraint starting to generate something power scarcity hasn’t produced yet at scale: organized local opposition. AI data centers, especially liquid-cooled high-density facilities, …
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AIAI Data CenterAI FactoryAI InfrastructureOpinion
Stranded Power: Why Utilities, Not GPUs, Are the Real AI Bottleneck in 2026
The AI capacity conversation has spent two years fixated on chip allocation — who can get NVIDIA’s next generation first, who’s secured supply from TSMC. That conversation is starting to …
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Agentic AIAIAI Data CenterAI FactoryAI Infrastructure
The AI Inference Cost Curve: Why Serving Is Eating the Training Budget
Every AI budget conversation in 2024 and 2025 obsessed over training cost — the eye-watering figures behind GPT-class and Claude-class runs, the billions hyperscalers were pouring into pretraining clusters. That …
