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## Dropbox Outlines How Focusing on Existing Infrastructure Efficiency Can Create Headroom for AI

DevFeed: [Dropbox Outlines How Focusing on Existing Infrastructure Efficiency Can Create Headroom for AI](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/dropbox-outlines-how-focusing-on-existing-infrastructure-efficiency-can-create-headroom-for-ai-30908.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/dropbox-datacenter/>)

Author: Matt Foster

Published: 2026-09-16T07:15:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [InfoQ](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/infoq.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Magic Pocket](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/magic-pocket.md>), [data centers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-centers.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-architecture.md>), [ai-ml-data-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-ml-data-engineering.md>), [capacity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/capacity.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [data-center](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-center.md>), [data-storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-storage.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [dropbox](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dropbox.md>), [dropbox-datacenter](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dropbox-datacenter.md>), [efficiency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/efficiency.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [infrastructure-optimisation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure-optimisation.md>), [magic-pocket](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/magic-pocket.md>), [ml-data-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ml-data-engineering.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>), [sustainable-computing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sustainable-computing.md>)

### AI overview

Dropbox describes how long-running infrastructure optimization helps it accommodate growing AI demand by improving forecasting, fleet utilization, storage density, hardware lifecycles, and rack-level power delivery. Its storage infrastructure has used more than 50% less power per petabyte since 2020.

### Source excerpt

Dropbox has outlined how a decade of infrastructure optimization is helping it absorb growing demand from AI without treating new data-center capacity as the only answer. Its work spans forecasting, fleet utilization, storage density, hardware lifecycles, and rack-level power delivery, much of it predating the current AI boom. By Matt Foster

## Improving the speed and energy-efficiency of AI agents

DevFeed: [Improving the speed and energy-efficiency of AI agents](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/improving-the-speed-and-energy-efficiency-of-ai-agents-37959.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://news.mit.edu/2026/improving-ai-agent-speed-and-energy-efficiency-0625>)

Author: Adam Zewe | MIT News

Published: 2026-06-25T04:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [MIT AI News](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mit-ai-news.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [agentic workflows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agentic-workflows.md>), [Loop Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/loop-engineering.md>), [Green Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/green-software.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microsoft.md>), [microsoft-azure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microsoft-azure.md>)

Tags: [adam-belay](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/adam-belay.md>), [agentic-workflows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-workflows.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [algorithms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/algorithms.md>), [artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory-csail](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory-csail.md>), [computer-science-and-technology](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/computer-science-and-technology.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [data-centers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-centers.md>), [defense-advanced-research-projects-agency-darpa](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/defense-advanced-research-projects-agency-darpa.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [efficiency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/efficiency.md>), [electrical-engineering-and-computer-science-eecs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science-eecs.md>), [electronics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/electronics.md>), [energy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/energy.md>), [energy-efficiency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/energy-efficiency.md>), [gohar-chaudhry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gohar-chaudhry.md>), [machine-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/machine-learning.md>), [microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microsoft.md>), [microsoft-azure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microsoft-azure.md>), [mit-schwarzman-college-of-computing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mit-schwarzman-college-of-computing.md>), [murakkab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/murakkab.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>), [school-of-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/school-of-engineering.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [sustainability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sustainability.md>), [sustainable-computing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sustainable-computing.md>), [workflows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflows.md>)

### AI overview

MIT and Microsoft researchers developed Murakkab, a system that automatically designs and deploys agentic workflows by selecting models, tools, hardware configurations, and computational resources according to user priorities. Tests found that it reduced computational requirements, energy use, and costs without reducing performance.

### Source excerpt

A new system, known as Murakkab, optimizes the design and deployment of multistep workflows that power AI applications.

## Startup's nuclear-inspired cooling system could make data centers more sustainable

DevFeed: [Startup's nuclear-inspired cooling system could make data centers more sustainable](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/startup-s-nuclear-inspired-cooling-system-could-make-data-centers-more-sustainable-37977.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://news.mit.edu/2026/nuclear-inspired-cooling-system-ferveret-could-make-data-centers-more-sustainable-0610>)

Author: Zach Winn | MIT News

Published: 2026-06-10T04:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [MIT AI News](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mit-ai-news.md>)

Topics: [data centers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-centers.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Computer science](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/computer-science.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-data-centers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-data-centers.md>), [artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence.md>), [computer-science-and-technology](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/computer-science-and-technology.md>), [cooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cooling.md>), [data-center-cooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-center-cooling.md>), [data-center-sustainability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-center-sustainability.md>), [data-centers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-centers.md>), [efficiency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/efficiency.md>), [energy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/energy.md>), [energy-efficiency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/energy-efficiency.md>), [energy-storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/energy-storage.md>), [ferveret](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ferveret.md>), [matteo-bucci](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/matteo-bucci.md>), [nuclear-science-and-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nuclear-science-and-engineering.md>), [power](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/power.md>), [reza-azizian](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reza-azizian.md>), [school-of-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/school-of-engineering.md>), [startups](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/startups.md>), [sustainability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sustainability.md>), [sustainable-computing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sustainable-computing.md>), [technology-and-society](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technology-and-society.md>), [water](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/water.md>)

### AI overview

Ferveret, a startup founded by two MIT researchers, is adapting nuclear-reactor heat-transfer methods to cool AI data-center servers with a specialized liquid. Its Adaptive Phase Cooling system uses small, frequently detaching bubbles to improve heat transfer without water and with less electricity.

### Source excerpt

Founded by two researchers from MIT, Ferveret reduces the amount of energy and water required to cool the chips that power AI.