The TopCat AI Signal Report #85

There is also a power and data center infrastructure signal.

Power availability continues to dictate where enterprise compute can expand .

Emerald AI raised $150 million at a $1.05 billion valuation from a syndicate of chipmakers, industrial giants, and energy utilities to turn data centers into dynamic grid assets that coordinate power consumption with local electricity grids.[quasa]

Simultaneously, semiconductor suppliers like Analog Devices reported record quarterly revenues driven by their grid-to-chip architectures — covering power sensing, substation management, and rack-level energy delivery.[futurumgroup]

Data centers consumed an estimated 64 gigawatts of global power last year, with projections expected to quadruple by the end of the decade.