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Generation and storage sited at or next to AI/cloud campuses so the load does not wait on a transmission queue. Common stacks pair gas turbines or engines with on-site BESS; some designs add behind-the-meter solar. Hyperscalers and developers announced multi-hundred-megawatt gas+BESS campuses in 2025–2026 to serve rack-scale AI halls.
Robots that sense, plan, and act in factories, warehouses, and outdoor sites using learned models rather than only teach-pendant programs. The set covers humanoids, industrial arms, mobile manipulators, and the foundation-model stacks that drive them. Vendors include Figure, Tesla Optimus, Agility (Digit), Boston Dynamics (Atlas, Spot, Stretch), Unitree, and NVIDIA (Isaac/Jetson) for the compute layer.
Dedicated application-specific processors and accelerators engineered for high-throughput, low-latency AI model inference in data centers and edge deployments. Architectures overcome the memory wall by utilizing massive on-chip SRAM, high-bandwidth memory (HBM3e), and specialized matrix processing engines. Commercial implementations include Etched Sohu ASICs, Groq Language Processing Units (LPUs), Tenstorrent Wormhole, and Cerebras CS-3 systems.
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