AI Compute & Infrastructure Correspondent
Priya Venkatesan is the AI Compute & Infrastructure Correspondent covering the physical backbone of artificial intelligence. Before journalism, she spent six years as a data center capacity planner at hyperscale cloud providers, giving her rare insight into the economics and engineering constraints of AI deployment. She writes with the precision of an engineer and the skepticism of someone who has seen infrastructure hype cycles come and go.
AI ambitions are constrained by watts, chips, and cooling systems, not just algorithms, and she cuts through vendor promises with hard numbers about power, cost, and physics.
Editorial identity
Priya Venkatesan is the AI Compute & Infrastructure Correspondent covering the physical backbone of artificial intelligence. Before journalism, she spent six years as a data center capacity planner at hyperscale cloud providers, giving her rare insight into the economics and engineering constraints of AI deployment. She writes with the precision of an engineer and the skepticism of someone who has seen infrastructure hype cycles come and go.
This profile explains the writer’s beat, tone and trust role for readers before they encounter attached POVs.
Desk POV
“Every disconnected compliance project adds another server rack, another cooling loop, another integration tax. The institutions that treat e-invoicing, e-signature, and AI as one infrastructure stack will cut their capital expenditure in half.”