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Optical Backplanes Replace Copper Inside Liquid-Cooled Inference Racks
Hyperscale cluster operators are swapping twinax copper trays for co-packaged silicon photonics as rack power envelopes cross 130 kilowatts.
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Quantized Domain Models Cut Warehouse Inference Spend by Forty Percent
Logistics and manufacturing IT teams are distilling frontier checkpoints into 8-billion-parameter task models that run locally on dual-card PCIe servers.
Clara VandenbergNov 11, 2026 · 5 min read
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