AI Infrastructure
Decision briefings on AI infrastructure: model APIs, self-hosting, cost structures, and adoption criteria.
AI Infrastructure
What Data Center Reliability Standards Require by End of 2026
FERC ordered NERC to file mandatory data center reliability standards by December 31, 2026, after a 2024 fault stripped 1,500 MW of load off the grid. Registration criteria remain unwritten, and demand growth, siting opposition, and a widening contracted-versus-operational capacity gap complicate any near-term commitment.
July 25, 2026
AI Infrastructure
Hugging Face Governance on Foundry Managed Compute, Explained
Microsoft's Foundry Managed Compute puts Hugging Face open-weight models behind the same RBAC, observability, and billing as any other Foundry model. Here is how that path compares to Hugging Face's own Inference Providers, a self-hosted Run:ai deployment, and local tools like Ollama and Jan on governance, GPU control, and switching cost.
July 24, 2026
AI Infrastructure
Why dnf install docker Gives You an Old Docker Version
Two engineers run what looks like the same command — install Docker via yum or dnf on an RPM-based host — and get different versions, different errors, or a daemon that won't start. The cause is never the package manager itself.
July 21, 2026