Reporter’s Notebook: The AI Infrastructure Race Keeps Accelerating

Chris Crosby D Magazine

As AI infrastructure continues to evolve faster than most expected, Reporter’s Notebook: The AI Infrastructure Race Keeps Accelerating offers a timely look at what’s shifting and what’s next across the industry. Published by D Magazine, the feature revisits conversations with power and data center leaders to explore how demand for compute capital power and cooling are reshaping development strategies.

The article highlights insights from our CEO, Chris Crosby, who shares how the transition from traditional CPUs to high-density GPUs is creating new cooling and infrastructure challenges. Chris emphasizes the importance of flexibility in data center design noting that facilities built for a single purpose often struggle to adapt to evolving AI workloads. He also underscores how partnerships particularly around advanced liquid cooling solutions are becoming essential to meet performance and efficiency demands.

The feature also explores broader market dynamics including hyperscaler investments grid constraints and the growing role of policy and utility collaboration to modernize energy infrastructure. Together these forces are defining the next phase of AI driven development.

Read the full article on D Magazine to explore how industry leaders including Chris Crosby are shaping what comes next.

Key Takeaways

Chris Crosby on adaptability
Chris highlights the need for flexible data center designs that can support changing AI workloads and cooling requirements.

Power and cooling are major bottlenecks
High density compute is accelerating demand for new cooling strategies and grid modernization.

Execution at scale matters
Delivering capacity quickly while maintaining quality remains a defining industry challenge.

Partnerships are essential
Collaboration between developers utilities and technology partners is critical to future readiness.