A Street Without Shade Is a Heat Trap: Design Cool Routes, Not Isolated Trees
Shade should work as connected public infrastructure. Learn how cool routes, trees, canopies, seating and water can make streets safer during extreme heat.
Category: infrastructure
Europe Is Exploring Data Centres in Orbit
European companies are exploring orbital computing and storage infrastructure as AI pushes the data-centre race beyond traditional land-based facilities.
Sponsored Agents Could Turn ChatGPT Ads Into Conversations
OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents that let users talk directly with businesses after seeing an ad, opening a new era of conversational commerce.
AI Infrastructure Needs a Calendar as Well as a Power Budget
AI capacity depends on when power and infrastructure arrive, not only headline megawatts. Examine timelines, dependencies and operational readiness.
AI Infrastructure Has a Neighbourhood: Ask Who Shares the Benefits
AI infrastructure decisions reach beyond server buildings. Communities need clear questions about local services, resources and promised benefits.
Google’s €13 Billion Finland Bet: Why Nuclear Power and Cold Climates Are Reshaping AI Infrastructure
Google plans major Finnish AI infrastructure investment backed by a long nuclear-power agreement. Energy and geography now shape AI strategy.
OpenAI’s Malaysia Compute Deal: Why Southeast Asia Is Becoming an AI Infrastructure Hub
OpenAI will buy computing capacity from two Firmus data centres in Malaysia. The deal shows how AI infrastructure is redrawing Southeast Asia’s economy.
Scaler Queen Startup Marketplace: Turning Ocean Research Into New Companies
Part 6 of Scaler Queen Offshore introduces the Startup Marketplace, where governed ocean research becomes investable companies and public solutions.
TCS Plans a 1GW AI Data Centre in Hyderabad: Compute Is Becoming Public Infrastructure
TCS and HyperVault’s proposed Hyderabad AI campus could reach one gigawatt—evidence that compute is becoming an infrastructure question, not just a software story.
Scaler Queen Exhibition City Centre: Where Research Meets the World
Part 5 of Scaler Queen Offshore introduces Exhibition City Centre—the public-facing layer where research, enterprise, education and culture meet.