A few years ago, I found myself sitting in a photonics lab, very aware that I was the least qualified person in the room. I had been brought in by a company I was doing some AI work with — flew me out to Dallas, met the team, did some training, got a feel for what they were building. Smart people. Real engineers. The kind of environment where you realize pretty quickly where your lane ends. On a follow-up trip, there was an issue they were working through. I didn't fully unde

On March 5, 1976, something extraordinary arrived at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It weighed more than five tons , cost roughly $19 million , and looked like a piece of futuristic furniture designed by someone who understood both physics and aesthetics. It was the Cray-1, designed by legendary engineer Seymour Cray, and at the time it was the fastest computer on Earth. The machine could perform roughly 160–250 million floating-point operations per second. That number might

Let’s be honest — the 10kW rack era isn’t just over. It’s ancient history.And it’s not coming back. What’s happening right now is something entirely different: an all-out power and cooling arms race inside every data center — built or unbuilt. The demand curve isn’t plateauing. It’s accelerating, steeply. And for the foreseeable future, that’s not going to change. People keep saying, “Well, quantum will change everything.” Not for this. Quantum is incredible, but it’s not bui

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In a wave of fresh benchmarks for the M4 Pro and M4 Max chips, we’re seeing some jaw-dropping numbers that could make even the most...