Open Compute taps IOWN to help design distributed datacenters and a 'computing continuum'

The Register
Feb 10, 2026, 10:46 pm202 ptsTrendingTop
Because AI won’t only run in Big Tech’s giant GPU garages, and won't tolerate slow connections The Open Compute Project (OCP) wants to develop specs for distributed datacenters and has decided the all-optical Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) stack can make them possible.…

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