https://starfield.net/news/ Announcements, interviews and updates from Starfield Inc., the distributed AI infrastructure company. en Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://starfield.net/news/compute-closer-to-power-and-demand/ https://starfield.net/news/compute-closer-to-power-and-demand/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What the NYSE and YOTTA told us about where AI inference is going: power is the constraint, inference wants to be close, and compute is becoming a market. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/why-distributed-ai-infrastructure/ https://starfield.net/news/why-distributed-ai-infrastructure/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why we say "distributed AI infrastructure": what the phrase means, what it does not mean, and why we prefer it to other labels. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/why-ai-chips-need-cooling/ https://starfield.net/news/why-ai-chips-need-cooling/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why AI chips need so much cooling: every watt of power becomes heat, where that heat goes, and why it shapes data center design. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/why-ai-chips-are-hard-to-get/ https://starfield.net/news/why-ai-chips-are-hard-to-get/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why AI chips are hard to get: a plain walk through why supply is tight, from factories and memory to power, buildings and long lead times. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/latency-privacy-ownership/ https://starfield.net/news/latency-privacy-ownership/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Where should AI inference run? Paweł Czech on Money Moves: latency, data privacy and ownership decide it, and why compute will have to go decentralized. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/money-moves-globalized-intelligence/ https://starfield.net/news/money-moves-globalized-intelligence/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Paweł Czech on Money Moves with Samantha Lewis and Ian Epstein: latency, data privacy and ownership decide where AI runs, and why compute will decentralize. PODCAST https://starfield.net/news/stop-buying-the-sun/ https://starfield.net/news/stop-buying-the-sun/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Paweł Czech on theCUBE: "You don't have to power up the sun to cook something in the microwave." What right-sized AI capacity means, in one page. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/thecube-nyse-ai-factories/ https://starfield.net/news/thecube-nyse-ai-factories/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Starfield CEO Paweł Czech and Cole Crawford on theCUBE + NYSE Wired: why most AI buyers need the right capacity, close to them, at a fair price. INTERVIEW https://starfield.net/news/what-compute-is-worth/ https://starfield.net/news/what-compute-is-worth/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why AI buyers pay a premium for compute, in Paweł Czech's words on theCUBE, and how Model Watch publishes dated list prices you can check. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/what-is-a-token/ https://starfield.net/news/what-is-a-token/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What is a token in AI? A plain guide to the unit behind per-use AI pricing, with a simple illustrative example of how costs add up. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/what-is-a-modular-data-center/ https://starfield.net/news/what-is-a-modular-data-center/ Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A plain guide to modular data centers: factory-made units for AI capacity, what is inside a module, and how they change the time it takes to go live. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/smaller-ai-models/ https://starfield.net/news/smaller-ai-models/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT When is a smaller AI model enough? How matching model size to the task can lower cost and waiting time without hurting results. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/size-ai-workload/ https://starfield.net/news/size-ai-workload/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A simple way to estimate requests, tokens and peaks before you buy AI capacity, so you can test any quote against your own use. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/introducing-starfield/ https://starfield.net/news/introducing-starfield/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Starfield AI infrastructure deploys standardized compute close to power, connectivity and demand, then connects it through one network for AI inference. ANNOUNCEMENT https://starfield.net/news/running-open-models/ https://starfield.net/news/running-open-models/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What does it take to run an open AI model yourself? The hardware, people and monitoring involved, compared with paying per use. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/residency-vs-localisation/ https://starfield.net/news/residency-vs-localisation/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Data residency vs data localisation: what each term usually means, how they differ, and examples a compliance team will recognise. Not legal advice. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/rent-reserve-or-own/ https://starfield.net/news/rent-reserve-or-own/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rent, reserve or own: the three common ways for a business to get AI hardware, and what each means for cost, control and commitment. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/renewable-power-questions/ https://starfield.net/news/renewable-power-questions/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Renewable power and AI: how to ask an AI provider about its energy sources, what common claims mean, and which answers you can actually check. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/reading-reliability-promises/ https://starfield.net/news/reading-reliability-promises/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What an AI service's uptime statement covers, what it leaves out, and what to ask when the wording is vague. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/reading-ai-benchmarks/ https://starfield.net/news/reading-ai-benchmarks/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT How to read an AI benchmark: what model scores can and cannot tell a buyer, and the questions to ask before trusting a result. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/operator-day/ https://starfield.net/news/operator-day/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What an AI infrastructure operator does all day: power, cooling, monitoring and on-call work, explained plainly for readers outside data centres. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/opening-word-of-an-ai-answer/ https://starfield.net/news/opening-word-of-an-ai-answer/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why the opening word of an AI answer is the slow one: what happens between pressing enter and the answer starting, in everyday terms. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/open-weight-vs-paid-models/ https://starfield.net/news/open-weight-vs-paid-models/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Open-weight vs paid AI models: what "open" means for a model, what it does not mean, and how it changes who runs the hardware. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/on-site-power/ https://starfield.net/news/on-site-power/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT On-site power for data centers explained: what generating power next to the site means, the main types, and the trade-offs AI buyers should know. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/modular-vs-traditional-data-center/ https://starfield.net/news/modular-vs-traditional-data-center/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Modular vs traditional data center: a plain side-by-side of build time, expansion and upkeep, and the questions that decide the choice. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/many-people-at-once/ https://starfield.net/news/many-people-at-once/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT How AI services answer many people at once: batching and queues in plain words, and why a busy hour feels different from a quiet one. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/latency-and-throughput/ https://starfield.net/news/latency-and-throughput/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Latency and throughput in AI, explained in plain words: how fast one answer arrives versus how many answers a system can handle at once. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/input-output-tokens/ https://starfield.net/news/input-output-tokens/ Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Input tokens vs output tokens: why AI providers charge more to write an answer than to read a prompt, and what it means for your costs. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/grid-connection-queue/ https://starfield.net/news/grid-connection-queue/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why grid connections delay AI data centers: how the connection queue works, who waits in it, and why builders look for power that already exists. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/gpus-and-cpus/ https://starfield.net/news/gpus-and-cpus/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT GPUs and CPUs explained for AI: why AI work leans on graphics chips, and what the ordinary processor still does in an AI system. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/fabric-in-development/ https://starfield.net/news/fabric-in-development/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What "in development" means for Fabric, our control plane: how we describe our status, and what readers can and cannot take from it. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/data-center-waste-heat/ https://starfield.net/news/data-center-waste-heat/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What can be done with a data center's waste heat? How it can warm buildings, greenhouses and industry, and where reuse works and where it does not. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/compliance-questions-ai/ https://starfield.net/news/compliance-questions-ai/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What a compliance team asks about AI: the records and answers auditors typically want, and how an AI provider can supply them. Not legal advice. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/choose-inference-provider/ https://starfield.net/news/choose-inference-provider/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A plain checklist for choosing an AI inference provider: location, records, pricing terms and exit, in the order buyers meet them. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/air-or-liquid-cooling-for-ai/ https://starfield.net/news/air-or-liquid-cooling-for-ai/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Air cooling or liquid cooling for AI? What each method suits, how they differ, and why denser AI machines push data centers toward liquid. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/ai-data-rules-by-region/ https://starfield.net/news/ai-data-rules-by-region/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI and data rules by region: a plain starting map of the privacy, AI, sector and public-sector rules that affect where AI work can run. Not legal advice. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/adding-ai-capacity-in-steps/ https://starfield.net/news/adding-ai-capacity-in-steps/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why growing AI capacity in steps suits demand that is hard to predict, and what each step asks of the site, its power and its operators. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/why-we-publish-dated-prices/ https://starfield.net/news/why-we-publish-dated-prices/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why Model Watch publishes AI model list prices with the date they were read, how we read them, and how buyers can use dated prices to budget. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/why-standard-units-matter/ https://starfield.net/news/why-standard-units-matter/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How building AI capacity from the same repeatable unit helps a site start sooner, and makes it easier to run, upgrade and replace. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/why-ai-uses-so-much-electricity/ https://starfield.net/news/why-ai-uses-so-much-electricity/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT What happens inside an AI request that draws real power, and why total AI electricity use keeps growing as more people use it. In plain words. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/why-ai-prices-differ/ https://starfield.net/news/why-ai-prices-differ/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why the same AI task costs different amounts: power, location, utilisation and commitment, and the questions to ask when comparing quotes. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/when-one-site-goes-down/ https://starfield.net/news/when-one-site-goes-down/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How spreading AI capacity over several sites changes what an outage means for a customer, and the questions to ask before the bad day. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/what-we-will-and-wont-claim/ https://starfield.net/news/what-we-will-and-wont-claim/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How the News and Research sections handle numbers, sources, dates, quotes and corrections, and what readers can hold us to. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/what-close-to-the-user-means/ https://starfield.net/news/what-close-to-the-user-means/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT "Close to the user" can mean on site, in the same city or in the same country. What each one solves, what it costs, and the questions that pin it down. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/what-a-megawatt-buys-you/ https://starfield.net/news/what-a-megawatt-buys-you/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT From one megawatt of power to the AI work it can serve: where the power goes, what decides the output, and what buyers should ask. No chip detail. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/trust-is-a-record/ https://starfield.net/news/trust-is-a-record/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why auditable delivery gives finance and compliance teams something to check instead of a sales claim: Commit, Place, Deliver. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/training-vs-inference/ https://starfield.net/news/training-vs-inference/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Training a model and using it every day need different kinds of capacity. A plain guide to AI training vs inference, and which one you are actually buying. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/stored-here-processed-there/ https://starfield.net/news/stored-here-processed-there/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Follow one document through an AI feature to see where it is stored, processed, logged and cached, and how to close the gap before an audit. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/spare-power-usable-power/ https://starfield.net/news/spare-power-usable-power/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Spare power is hard to find for AI, but a site still needs a usable connection, cooling, network links and people before it can serve. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/read-an-ai-price-list/ https://starfield.net/news/read-an-ai-price-list/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A practical guide to comparing AI prices: per-token, per-hour and plan pricing, the small print that changes the total, and what to ask providers. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/questions-before-sending-customer-data-to-ai/ https://starfield.net/news/questions-before-sending-customer-data-to-ai/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT An AI data privacy checklist for sending customer data to an AI service: processing location, access, retention, training use and the evidence to ask for. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/partners-network-of-sites/ https://starfield.net/news/partners-network-of-sites/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT For partners: where installers, utilities, facility operators, fibre providers and maintenance teams fit when many AI sites run as one network. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/operators-not-developers/ https://starfield.net/news/operators-not-developers/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why Starfield AI infrastructure calls itself operators, not developers, and why the people who run power, sites and networks shape AI capacity. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/many-small-sites-or-a-few-big-ones/ https://starfield.net/news/many-small-sites-or-a-few-big-ones/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Large AI campuses and small distributed sites suit different work. What each does well, where each struggles, and why a network can use both. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/intelligence-is-next/ https://starfield.net/news/intelligence-is-next/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The founders' view: how earlier networks reached everyone, why AI capacity is concentrating instead, and why compute will have to go decentralized. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/inference-explained/ https://starfield.net/news/inference-explained/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT What AI inference is, why it is now the main way people meet AI, and why it needs capacity built for steady, local, everyday work. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/how-far-your-ai-answer-travels/ https://starfield.net/news/how-far-your-ai-answer-travels/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT One AI request, step by step: out of your building, across the internet, through a queue and the model, and back. Where distance adds waiting time. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/hosting-ai-capacity-site-owners/ https://starfield.net/news/hosting-ai-capacity-site-owners/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT For site owners: what hosting AI capacity involves, from space, power, cooling and network to access, permits and the agreements to expect. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/hidden-costs-of-ai-capacity/ https://starfield.net/news/hidden-costs-of-ai-capacity/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Five costs around AI capacity that rarely appear on the quote, and the questions that bring them into view before you sign. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/does-it-matter-where-ai-runs/ https://starfield.net/news/does-it-matter-where-ai-runs/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sort your AI workloads into three piles: where location barely matters, where it matters somewhat, and where it matters a lot. Four questions to sort them. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/data-residency-explained/ https://starfield.net/news/data-residency-explained/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Data residency for AI inference in plain words: what it covers, why rules and contracts ask for it, and why AI makes it harder to answer. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/control-tower-for-ai-work/ https://starfield.net/news/control-tower-for-ai-work/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT What a traffic controller for distributed AI inference would do: pick a site for each request by policy, meter the work and keep a delivery record. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/can-a-small-town-host-ai-capacity/ https://starfield.net/news/can-a-small-town-host-ai-capacity/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT What a local AI site needs, what it can offer a community, and the questions a town should ask before saying yes. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/buying-ai-capacity-questions/ https://starfield.net/news/buying-ai-capacity-questions/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A buyer's guide to AI capacity: what to ask any provider about location, records, pricing units, outages, models, data and exit terms. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/ai-infrastructure-glossary/ https://starfield.net/news/ai-infrastructure-glossary/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A buyer's glossary of AI infrastructure terms: cloud, edge, inference, tokens, latency, residency, reserved capacity and delivery records. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/ai-capacity-follows-power/ https://starfield.net/news/ai-capacity-follows-power/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why the wait for grid connections is pushing AI capacity toward places with power already available, and why inference fits that map. PERSPECTIVE https://starfield.net/news/a-receipt-for-ai-work/ https://starfield.net/news/a-receipt-for-ai-work/ Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why AI buyers should be able to see what was delivered, where and when, and what a useful record of AI work looks like. PERSPECTIVE