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Marc Austin: Jul 28, 2026, 7:45:52 PM
Increase the utilization of an AI cluster by 15 to 20 percent, and the network has essentially paid for itself, often within a month or two. That economic reality sits at the heart of AI infrastructure, where networking is only about 20 percent of...
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Marc Austin: Jul 21, 2026, 3:57:03 PM
A megawatt GPU cluster can cost roughly $1 million to set up, and every month that build runs late is about $1.4 million in lost revenue. That...
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Marc Austin: Jun 25, 2026, 10:54:06 AM
Every enterprise we talk to is somewhere on the same road. The faces in the boardroom change, the industry changes, the model du jour changes — but...
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Marc Austin: Jun 22, 2026, 1:50:03 PM
The last couple of weeks have been filled with news of big-ticket AI acquisitions. It was against this background that I spoke with Ashmeet Sidana,...
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Marc Austin: Jun 17, 2026, 3:30:59 PM
When the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) gathered for its Global Summit last year, more than 11,000 people showed up, putting a once-niche...
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Marc Austin: Jun 9, 2026, 5:34:26 PM
The Moment the Industry Noticed the Network At Computex 2026 in Taipei, the AI infrastructure industry got its first look at disaggregated inference...
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Marc Austin: May 21, 2026, 5:58:49 PM
Hedgehog AI Network Planner: Part 7
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Marc Austin: May 21, 2026, 5:41:49 PM
Hedgehog AI Network Planner: Part 8
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Marc Austin: May 21, 2026, 3:45:36 PM
Hedgehog AI Network Planner: Part 6
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Marc Austin: May 21, 2026, 3:45:09 PM
Hedgehog AI Network Planner: Part 5
