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Trying to Keep Up With AI Right Now Feels Like Drinking From a Fire Hydrant

  • Writer: DPS
    DPS
  • Mar 25
  • 2 min read

New AI tools are launching every few hours. New applications hit the market before you finish reading about the last one. Enterprise software that was cutting-edge in January is already obsolete. It genuinely feels like trying to drink water from a fire hydrant.

Here's what's actually moving the needle right now — and what it means for the companies building the infrastructure underneath all of it.

OpenAI Is Getting Ready to Go Public — and Calling Out Microsoft

In a document that reads like an IPO prospectus, OpenAI has formally flagged its dependence on Microsoft as a material risk to investors. After billions in funding and a multi-year partnership, Sam Altman is essentially telling the market: we are too tied to one provider, and that's a problem we need to fix.

Translation: the world's most powerful AI company is looking to own more of its own stack. That means more compute. More power. More infrastructure. Not less.

Agentic AI Is Now Enterprise Software

This week alone: Oracle launched Fusion Agentic Applications — autonomous AI agents built directly into enterprise ERP. Palo Alto Networks launched Prisma AIRS to secure autonomous agents at runtime. NVIDIA released its Agent Toolkit to help enterprises build and run AI agents at scale. Zoom expanded its agentic AI platform to orchestrate workflows across its entire product suite.

In a single week, four major enterprise platforms shipped autonomous AI agent capabilities. That's not a trend. That's a structural shift.

AI Is Moving Into Every Industry — Simultaneously

Zillow launched AI Mode — a conversational real estate search experience. WordPress.com added AI write capabilities that let agents edit live websites. Anaplan shipped 12 new AI-powered business planning apps in one release. Databricks entered the cybersecurity market with an AI-native SIEM platform. Law firms are deploying agentic AI workflows. Colleges are rewriting exams because AI writes perfect homework.

Every sector. Every function. Every workflow. All at once.

The US-China AI Race Just Got More Intense

The Trump administration is expanding strategic competition with China across AI, chips, and biotech simultaneously. The EU antitrust chief is meeting with Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Amazon CEOs to discuss AI dominance. The geopolitical race for AI infrastructure supremacy is no longer background noise — it's front-page news every single day.

The Real Bottleneck Everyone Keeps Ignoring

Spiceworks published something worth reading today: the bottleneck for AI isn't the model — it's the data. And they're right, as far as software goes. But there's a deeper layer below the data layer that almost nobody is talking about.

Power.

Every Oracle agentic application, every NVIDIA agent, every OpenAI model, every Zoom AI workflow — all of it runs on physical infrastructure that consumes enormous amounts of electricity. And right now, the grid cannot keep up.

That's the gap Data Power Supply fills. Modular data centers. Turbines. Generators. BESS. Microgrids. SCADA. Full turnkey infrastructure deployed in weeks — grid-independent, ratepayer-neutral, ready for the pace at which this industry is actually moving.

The applications are coming faster than anyone can track. The infrastructure underneath them needs to match that pace.

We already built it.

 
 
 

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