Tactical Compute (TACOM) will help scale Web3 infrastructure.
Tactical Compute (TACOM) will help scale Web3 infrastructure.
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Aethir and partners pour $40M into decentralized infrastructure for AI and blockchain

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Aethir, which provides under-used graphics processing units (GPUs) to decentralized companies, announced a $40 million initiative to launch Tactical Compute (TACOM).

Together with its partners Beam Foundation (through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Beam Investments) Sophon Foundation and Permian Labs, Aethir will set up TACOM to address the global surge in demand for scalable compute infrastructure by leveraging decentralized technology to bridge traditional compute economics with tokenized and distributed solutions.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.