Hyundai plans 9 trillion won AI data center hub as Intel shares drop 20% on weak guidance
Microsoft spent $6.5 billion less than expected on AI infrastructure, and Gartner warned that $3.5 trillion in AI infrastructure spending could be at risk by 2030. Aon's chief executive said data-center insurance risks could threaten project financing, while voters in the US pushed back on data-center construction at the ballot box and Tampa's council advanced a moratorium.
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Hyundai's AI data center hub investment
Hyundai Motor Group plans a 9 trillion won AI data center hub as part of an AI Valley project. The Korea Times reports the group will set up two special-purpose companies for the project.
Intel shares fell about 20% after the chipmaker warned of a tough year ahead. OregonLive tied the drop to a factory bottleneck and a PC slowdown, and CNBC put the fall at 21%. Anadolu reported a 21% third-quarter revenue rise on data-center demand.
Microsoft spent $6.5 billion less than expected on AI infrastructure, and TechSpot reports this was not by choice. StreetInsider reported that Nebius fell as the Microsoft capex miss hit AI infrastructure stocks.
Gartner warned that $3.5 trillion in AI infrastructure spending could be at risk by 2030. Separately, Aon CEO Greg Case told CNBC that insurance risks at AI data centers could threaten their financing.
Nebius and AIB signed a 12-year agreement for 50 MW of AI data center capacity. Data Center Dynamics reports AIB plans the site at a former cryptomine in Spartanburg.
Taiwan's semiconductor output is forecast to reach NT$9.1 trillion, and the TSIA industry group is urging stable power supply. energynews.pro reports the industry has reaffirmed its support for restarting nuclear power plants.
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SK Hynix record profit, shortage to 2030. Two more outlets repeated the record results and the forecast that memory demand will outpace supply until 2030; no new figures.
Data centers · 37 storiesSites, colocation, cooling, capacity leases.Hyundai commits to a Korean AI hub as US local opposition growsNew capacity came from Hyundai in Korea and from AIB for Nebius in South Carolina. In the US, ballot measures and a Tampa moratorium added to local opposition.Frontier AI sites: power against capital costEach point is a site in Epoch AI's frontier register with both a stated power capacity and a stated capital cost — the further above the trend, the more each megawatt cost to build.Hyundai is building a 9 trillion won AI data center hub, and Seoul Economic Daily reports it will launch Saemangeum AI data center units next month.FinimizeSeoul Economic DailyAIB plans a 50 MW AI data center at a former Spartanburg cryptomine to serve Nebius.Data Center DynamicsReuters reports the AI data center boom faces backlash at the US ballot box, and Tampa City Council advanced Alan Clendenin's moratorium proposal.ReutersFlorida PoliticsOpen 37 stories →
Hyperscalers · 12 storiesCapex, power procurement, model-capacity deals.Microsoft capex shortfall and Gartner warning weigh on AI infrastructureMicrosoft's AI infrastructure spending came in below expectations, and Gartner flagged spending at risk. Nvidia is looking to backstop Nscale's data center debt.Hyperscalers, indexed over the last 10 sessionsClosing prices on each company's home exchange, indexed to 100 at the first session shown, for the 5 hyperscalers that moved most over the window.Microsoft spent $6.5 billion less than expected on AI infrastructure, and TechSpot reports it was not by choice.TechSpotGartner warned that $3.5 trillion in AI infrastructure spending could be at risk by 2030.Network WorldFinimize reports Nvidia is looking to backstop Nscale's AI data center debt.FinimizeOpen 12 stories →
Semiconductors · 36 storiesAccelerators, memory, foundry, packaging.Intel shares fall 20% while STMicro raises its outlookIntel's shares fell on weak guidance despite revenue growth. STMicroelectronics raised its fourth-quarter outlook on AI data-center demand, and a Chinese GPU maker claimed parity with Nvidia's H200.Chipmakers this window, by move6 of 8 tracked chipmakers rose over the window; the change is close to close on each company's home exchange, in its own currency.CNBC reports Intel stock fell 21% as the chipmaker blamed a PC slowdown for weak guidance.CNBCSTMicroelectronics lifted its fourth-quarter revenue outlook to $4.15 billion as AI data center demand accelerates.BigGo FinanceChina's Iluvatar CoreX says its new GPU matches Nvidia's H200.South China Morning PostOpen 36 stories →
Semi equipment · 5 storiesLithography, deposition, etch, test, export rules.Edwards Vacuum opens first US pump plant; Basler lifts outlookEquipment suppliers added US manufacturing sites and one raised its 2026 outlook on semiconductor and data-center demand.Toolmakers from window open to close1 of 5 tracked toolmakers closed the window above where they opened it; each line is one company's close, indexed to 100 at the open.Edwards Vacuum formally opened its first US semiconductor pump plant.The Business JournalsA semiconductor testing company working with Nvidia bought land in Fort Worth.Dallas NewsBasler's nine-month sales rose on semiconductor and data-center demand, and the company lifted its 2026 outlook.TradingViewOpen 5 stories →
New research
Inference-efficiency papers report large throughput gains in MoE serving and on-device memory
Sun Yat-sen University and Zhipu AI report up to 19.0× throughput with elastic expert offloading (Rimuru), and Tsinghua-led NORmal reports 12.5× tokens per joule running 200B-class models on a smartphone. MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab reports +12.8 points on HMMT 2025 and LiveCodeBench v6 from weakening-induced self-distillation. Only the Tübingen–Alibaba multi-teacher self-distillation paper released code; an Erlangen-Nuremberg study measures the energy per token of speculative decoding on H100/H200 production serving.
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Frontier AI power on the record, by country8 rows · 1 source
Stated power capacity summed across the frontier sites Epoch AI records in each country — where the grid load of the build-out actually sits.Epoch AI · Frontier Data Centers Hub
2 charts built from 5 stated figures across 14 stories, the first planned by the composer from the record. Also had the data for what today covered · topic by region, when the energy stories landed, pressure and relief by topic. Held back: power committed in deals that state a figure (no deal in this edition states the capacity it commits); power disclosed per edition · last 7 (only 2 of the last 7 editions put a number on it).