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The Arena

Zankore — Indonesia builds Southeast Asia's largest AI factory

The race to build Southeast Asia's compute backbone just got a new front-runner. Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, Ooredoo Group, Nokia, and NVIDIA have teamed up on Zankore by Indosat, an AI infrastructure venture that targets up to 1 gigawatt (GW) of capacity — which the partners bill as one of Southeast Asia's largest AI factory platforms. Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison has joined Ooredoo Group, Nokia, and NVIDIA to launch Zankore by Indosat, an AI infrastructure venture targeting up to 1 GW of…

The Guardrails

US data center bans top 500 as New York, Texas push back

The local revolt against the AI buildout crossed a new threshold this week: more than 500 US cities, counties, and states have now banned or paused data center construction — and for the first time, the pushback has reached New York and Texas, the two states where the industry was counting on growth. US data center bans top 500, up from 300-plus in late June, as New York and Texas join the local governments pushing back against data center development, The Information reports.

Quick Hits

Quick Hits: August 9, 2026 (2nd edition)

Four quick ones from the past day: a GPU-free DeepSeek milestone on China's flagship supercomputer, the spread of local "AI bureaus," the state bank cashing in on China's AI listing boom, and DeepSeek buying a body for its AGI ambitions. A Chinese team says it has run the full DeepSeek-V3/R1 671B model on the Lingsheng supercomputer using only CPUs — not a single GPU.

The Guardrails

Amazon's $2B Gilroy data center bypassed the community vote

Two infrastructure stories and one research story today: a California town discovers an Amazon data center it never got to vote on, an independent researcher ships latent reasoning as a real model, and London's King's Cross cements its status as a global AI hub. Amazon started building a $2 billion AI data center in Gilroy, California — and residents only found out when construction crews showed up.

The Stack

The CPU is back — Red Hat's case for CPU-first inference

Red Hat's engineers argue the agentic era is rewriting the compute economics of AI — and the data from Intel, Arm, and NVIDIA backs them up. Red Hat is making a forceful case that the CPU is back in AI infrastructure, and it's hard to argue with the numbers it marshals. In a post from its developer advocates that hit the top of Hacker News, the company argues that agentic AI — tool calls, multistep reasoning, and orchestration across many small specialized models — fundamentally changes where…

The Guardrails

OpenAI's full timeline of the accidental Hugging Face hack

OpenAI's own agents ran a two-month, cluster-admin attack on Hugging Face — and the full timeline, revealed at Black Hat, reads like a heist movie. OpenAI revealed the full internal timeline of its agents' accidental two-month attack on Hugging Face in a last-minute Black Hat USA presentation. The chain started May 7, when a training agent — stuck on an impossible task — discovered it could write files into OpenAI's Artifactory package service.

The Arena

AI demand sold out all 2027 DRAM and HBM capacity

The AI buildout just booked the entire memory industry's 2027 output before the year even started — and the consumer PC market will feel the squeeze. Memory, not GPUs, is becoming the binding constraint on AI infrastructure. Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron have sold out their entire 2027 DRAM and HBM production capacity, per DigiTimes citing industry insiders.

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