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Tech industry
fromTechCrunch
3 hours ago

In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs | TechCrunch

Meta has signed a deal to use millions of AWS Graviton chips for its AI needs, shifting from competitors like Google Cloud.
#ai
DevOps
fromTechRepublic
1 day ago

AI Demand Is Forcing a Rethink of Data Center Power, Cooling

AI's rapid growth is challenging data center infrastructure, necessitating rethinking of power, cooling, and construction strategies.
Information security
fromSecurityWeek
1 day ago

AI Can Autonomously Hack Cloud Systems With Minimal Oversight: Researchers

AI systems can autonomously hack cloud environments, demonstrating advanced capabilities in executing sophisticated attacks without specific instructions.
London startup
fromTheregister
4 days ago

AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London

UK AI datacenter capacity may shift from London due to power shortages and planning constraints, making other locations more appealing.
Business intelligence
from24/7 Wall St.
6 days ago

Nuclear's AI Moment Is Here -- There Is Only 1 Play for the 4X Data Center Demand Explosion

Global data center power demand will quadruple by 2034, with nuclear energy being crucial for meeting this surge in energy needs.
DevOps
fromTechRepublic
1 day ago

AI Demand Is Forcing a Rethink of Data Center Power, Cooling

AI's rapid growth is challenging data center infrastructure, necessitating rethinking of power, cooling, and construction strategies.
Information security
fromSecurityWeek
1 day ago

AI Can Autonomously Hack Cloud Systems With Minimal Oversight: Researchers

AI systems can autonomously hack cloud environments, demonstrating advanced capabilities in executing sophisticated attacks without specific instructions.
London startup
fromTheregister
4 days ago

AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London

UK AI datacenter capacity may shift from London due to power shortages and planning constraints, making other locations more appealing.
Business intelligence
from24/7 Wall St.
6 days ago

Nuclear's AI Moment Is Here -- There Is Only 1 Play for the 4X Data Center Demand Explosion

Global data center power demand will quadruple by 2034, with nuclear energy being crucial for meeting this surge in energy needs.
Data science
fromTechzine Global
11 hours ago

Pinecone On-Demand is thirsty for bursty workloads

Pinecone offers solutions for variable and sustained query workloads in AI, focusing on cost-effective and predictable performance.
fromBig Think
1 day ago

Why AI data centers might lower electricity prices - not raise them

"These are mega-rich people who are not here to do charitable things. They don't love Joliet. I'm here because I love Joliet, and I don't want to see my utilities go up."
Silicon Valley real estate
Marketing tech
fromExchangewire
5 hours ago

Bedrock Debuts Containerised DSP Deployment on Index Cloud, Enabling Model-Driven Bidding at Scale

Bedrock Platform launched the first containerised DSP on Index Cloud, enhancing programmatic buying efficiency and decision-making capabilities.
#cloud-computing
fromInfoQ
1 day ago
DevOps

When a Cloud Region Fails: Rethinking High Availability in a Geopolitically Unstable World

Online learning
fromInfoWorld
6 hours ago

Where to begin a cloud career

Effective free courses establish foundational knowledge and context, making hands-on learning in cloud computing more accessible and effective.
European startups
fromTechzine Global
3 days ago

The European cloud of the future is built using actual, physical containers

Cloud workloads increasingly utilize physical containers through initiatives like the Modular Integrated Sustainable Datacenter (MISD) project.
Business intelligence
fromInfoWorld
1 week ago

The hyperscalers are pricing themselves out of AI workloads

AI is challenging traditional cloud pricing models, as buyers seek exceptional value beyond brand recognition and familiar pricing strategies.
DevOps
fromInfoQ
1 day ago

When a Cloud Region Fails: Rethinking High Availability in a Geopolitically Unstable World

Cloud regions are influenced by geopolitical events, necessitating multi-region strategies for resilience against disruptions.
DevOps
fromInfoWorld
1 week ago

When cloud giants neglect resilience

Cloud outages highlight reliability issues as providers prioritize cost-cutting over service stability, raising questions about acceptable levels of unreliability.
#data-centers
Environment
fromWIRED
2 days ago

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations

Natural gas projects for data centers linked to major tech companies could emit over 129 million tons of greenhouse gases annually.
EU data protection
fromTechzine Global
2 days ago

New EU rules stall due to lack of data center data

Europe's data center sustainability regulations reveal significant gaps in data quality and reporting, hindering accurate assessments of energy consumption and environmental impact.
Environment
fromwww.dw.com
3 days ago

Why the cloud still runs on coal and gas

Data centers in the U.S. are straining energy grids, leading to increased reliance on fossil fuels and delaying renewable energy goals.
Data science
fromTechzine Global
1 week ago

Eaton: AI data centers need aerospace-grade engineering

AI demands require a complete overhaul of data center infrastructure, moving from traditional cooling methods to advanced systems-level designs.
Environment
fromWIRED
2 days ago

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations

Natural gas projects for data centers linked to major tech companies could emit over 129 million tons of greenhouse gases annually.
EU data protection
fromTechzine Global
2 days ago

New EU rules stall due to lack of data center data

Europe's data center sustainability regulations reveal significant gaps in data quality and reporting, hindering accurate assessments of energy consumption and environmental impact.
Environment
fromwww.dw.com
3 days ago

Why the cloud still runs on coal and gas

Data centers in the U.S. are straining energy grids, leading to increased reliance on fossil fuels and delaying renewable energy goals.
Data science
fromTechzine Global
1 week ago

Eaton: AI data centers need aerospace-grade engineering

AI demands require a complete overhaul of data center infrastructure, moving from traditional cooling methods to advanced systems-level designs.
fromInfoQ
1 day ago

How to Build an Exchange: Sub Millisecond Response Times and 24/7 Uptimes in the Cloud

Exchanges are a place where you can submit an order to buy something, letting everyone know about the price you want and notifying you when your order gets filled. They serve as financial infrastructure, providing up-to-date prices and facilitating trades.
Cryptocurrency
NYC startup
fromFuturism
16 hours ago

Trump's Huge AI Data Center Project Is Falling Apart Behind the Scenes

Fermi America struggles with leadership changes and lacks commercial tenants for its AI data center project.
fromHarvard Business Review
1 day ago

The End of One-Size-Fits-All Enterprise Software

Generative AI is dissolving the economic logic that made standardized enterprise software the only practical choice for most companies. What replaces it will be shaped not just by the rapidly evolving capabilities of this new technology, but by leaders willing to ask a harder question: Which workflows do we actually need to own?
Startup companies
Business
from24/7 Wall St.
3 days ago

Forget Nvidia: Why HPE Could Be the Overlooked AI Infrastructure Play of 2026

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an overlooked investment opportunity in AI infrastructure with strong financial growth and expanding margins.
Web frameworks
fromInfoQ
3 days ago

Cloudflare Introduces Project Think: A Durable Runtime for AI Agents

Cloudflare's Project Think introduces durable AI agents with a kernel-like runtime, enabling long-lived workloads and preserving execution progress during platform restarts.
Tech industry
fromTheregister
1 day ago

AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers

The chip shortage is impacting power management chips, threatening server shipments as demand for AI products prioritizes manufacturing capacity.
DevOps
fromTheregister
1 day ago

Hybrid clouds have two attack surfaces - so watch both

Hybrid cloud management tools present significant security vulnerabilities that users often overlook.
Environment
fromArs Technica
1 day ago

Greenhouse gases from data center boom could outpace entire nations

New gas projects for data centers in the US may emit more greenhouse gases than Morocco in 2024.
#meta
Tech industry
fromTheregister
3 hours ago

Meta to use millions of AWS Graviton cores

Meta will use tens of millions of AWS Graviton 5 CPU cores to support its AI deployments, marking a significant collaboration with Amazon.
Tech industry
fromTheregister
3 hours ago

Meta to use millions of AWS Graviton cores

Meta will use tens of millions of AWS Graviton 5 CPU cores to support its AI deployments, marking a significant collaboration with Amazon.
fromComputerWeekly.com
2 days ago

Blackbox replaces two racks of HPE storage with 8U of Everpure | Computer Weekly

Blackbox Hosting has consolidated storage from two full racks down to just 8U of rack space following migration to Everpure FlashArray hardware, achieving a 10:1 data reduction ratio and an 85% reduction in power utilization.
DevOps
#ai-infrastructure
DevOps
fromMedium
3 days ago

The AI Infrastructure Stack in 2026: Companies Building the Future of AI

AI infrastructure companies are transforming the deployment and scaling of artificial intelligence into full production systems with essential governance and observability.
fromFortune
3 weeks ago
Environment

Data centers are so hot, their 'heat island' effect is raising temperatures up to 6 miles away and impacting 343 million people worldwide, study finds | Fortune

Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Your datacenter's power architecture called. It's not happy

Accelerated computing demands exceed legacy datacenter power architectures, forcing migration from 48V to high-voltage DC systems to handle extreme power densities and current requirements.
Artificial intelligence
fromNetwork World
2 months ago

Engineers rush to master new skills for AI data centers

AI infrastructure growth is driving massive data center expansion and urgent need for skilled facilities staff amid unprecedented capex by major tech companies.
DevOps
fromTechzine Global
3 days ago

95% of GPU capacity goes unused in Kubernetes clusters

GPU and CPU usage remains low despite rising cloud costs, highlighting inefficiencies in resource utilization as Kubernetes adoption increases.
DevOps
fromMedium
3 days ago

The AI Infrastructure Stack in 2026: Companies Building the Future of AI

AI infrastructure companies are transforming the deployment and scaling of artificial intelligence into full production systems with essential governance and observability.
Environment
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

Data centers are so hot, their 'heat island' effect is raising temperatures up to 6 miles away and impacting 343 million people worldwide, study finds | Fortune

AI infrastructure is creating a 'data heat island effect' that raises local temperatures and impacts millions of people.
London startup
fromComputerWeekly.com
1 week ago

Data dive: A new American Century in the datacentre pipeline? | Computer Weekly

US datacentre capacity is projected to triple, while the UK will slip in global rankings for datacentre capacity.
DevOps
fromInfoQ
15 hours ago

Yelp Achieves Zero-Downtime Upgrade of Over 1,000 Cassandra Nodes

Yelp upgraded its Apache Cassandra infrastructure across 1,000 nodes without downtime, showcasing effective management of stateful systems at scale.
Software development
fromTechzine Global
1 week ago

Scale sets edge platform's software ever more free from hardware constraints

Scale Computing is reducing hardware requirements for its software, allowing more flexibility for partners and customers in choosing hardware platforms.
Environment
fromBig Think
1 day ago

The power grid is breaking. Can it fix itself?

A deliberate power outage affected 50,000 people in Colorado due to high winds, highlighting vulnerabilities in America's power grid.
#tpu-8t
Tech industry
fromTechzine Global
2 days ago

Google presents TPU 8t and TPU 8i chips; splits training and inference

Google Cloud introduces 8th-generation TPUs, TPU 8t for training and TPU 8i for inference, enhancing performance and efficiency in AI infrastructure.
Tech industry
fromTechzine Global
2 days ago

Google presents TPU 8t and TPU 8i chips; splits training and inference

Google Cloud introduces 8th-generation TPUs, TPU 8t for training and TPU 8i for inference, enhancing performance and efficiency in AI infrastructure.
DevOps
fromTheregister
1 day ago

Datadog digs down into GPU efficiency as AI costs soar

Datadog introduces GPU monitoring to enhance visibility and cost management for AI-driven organizations.
fromTechzine Global
3 days ago

Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code become the agentic AI control layer

"Snowflake gives customers one place to bring their data together, connect the systems they rely on, and turn AI into something that actually helps teams get work done," says Baris Gultekin, VP of AI at Snowflake.
Artificial intelligence
Tech industry
fromComputerworld
2 days ago

Microsoft trims cloud desktop pricing, even as it boosts AI costs

Microsoft is reducing prices for Windows 365 and AVD while increasing Microsoft 365 costs, aiming to promote cloud-based PCs and AI services.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
2 days ago

Google Cloud's next big moment-and what it needs to continue its ascent | Fortune

Google's AI advancements are revitalizing its cloud division, with significant revenue growth and a focus on addressing bottlenecks in AI implementation.
DevOps
fromComputerWeekly.com
4 days ago

Storage implications of a modern IT architecture | Computer Weekly

Organizations are increasingly using containers to modernize applications and manage both cloud-native and traditional workloads with Kubernetes.
fromFortune
3 days ago

Data centers now account for half of all new U.S. electricity use, just as Americans start to sour on AI | Fortune

Data centers accounted for around 50% of all electricity demand growth in the U.S. last year, according to the IEA, far surpassing the rise in electricity usage in the residential, industrial, and transport sectors.
Environment
Artificial intelligence
fromTearsheet
3 days ago

Why the back office comes first in AI deployments and failures that keep reappearing - Tearsheet

67% of banks and credit unions are implementing AI, but only 16% have a coherent strategy for it.
Tech industry
fromwww.businessinsider.com
3 days ago

Meta fast-tracks fiber technician training to solve a major data center bottleneck

Meta is launching a program to train fiber technicians to address the shortage of skilled workers for AI data centers.
DevOps
fromDevOps.com
1 day ago

How to Manage Operations in DevOps Using Modern Technology - DevOps.com

Operations in DevOps now involves supporting faster releases, managing cloud-native environments, improving security, and ensuring reliability at scale.
DevOps
fromTechzine Global
1 day ago

Kubernetes v1.36 enhances security and AI support

Kubernetes 1.36 introduces 71 improvements, focusing on access control, hardware failure visibility, and support for AI and batch workloads.
fromTechzine Global
2 days ago

Red Hat OpenShift takes sovereign step to Google Cloud Dedicated

Red Hat OpenShift on Google Cloud Dedicated is designed to address several key pillars of digital sovereignty: data residency, technological autonomy, and supply chain resilience. With isolated infrastructure, it must comply with regulations such as the GDPR and regional sovereignty rules.
DevOps
Gadgets
fromComputerworld
1 month ago

Dell: Cut AI cloud costs with data-center class desktops

High-performance AI desktop computers offer powerful processing capabilities but consume significant electricity and command premium prices exceeding $97,000.
DevOps
fromInfoQ
2 days ago

Cloudflare Outlines MCP Architecture as Enterprises Confront Security and Governance Risks

Centralized governance and remote infrastructure are essential for secure Model Context Protocol deployments, addressing risks like prompt injection and supply chain attacks.
fromInfoQ
4 days ago

Engineering Stable, Secure and Scalable Platforms: A Conversation with Matthew Liste

I was always a tinkerer, I guess. I grew up in the age where computers were not ubiquitous or common. An experience as a kid was instrumental in how my career happened.
DevOps
DevOps
fromTechzine Global
3 days ago

SUSE seeks to make VMware migrations a "non-event"

SUSE partners with Cloudbase to integrate Coriolis for seamless migration of virtual machines from VMware and public clouds.
DevOps
fromComputerWeekly.com
1 week ago

AI, energy, and the new rules of cloud sustainability competition | Computer Weekly

Cloud providers offer sustainability metrics, but lack standardization makes it difficult for enterprises to compare workloads effectively.
#ai-data-centers
Artificial intelligence
fromEngadget
1 month ago

AI data centers could reduce power draw on demand, study says

AI data centers can dynamically reduce energy consumption by up to 40% without disrupting critical workloads, enabling grid stability and reducing infrastructure strain.
Artificial intelligence
fromEngadget
1 month ago

AI data centers could reduce power draw on demand, study says

AI data centers can dynamically reduce energy consumption by up to 40% without disrupting critical workloads, enabling grid stability and reducing infrastructure strain.
DevOps
fromBusiness Matters
1 week ago

The Role of Dedicated Servers in Scaling Modern Businesses

Infrastructure investment is crucial for SMEs to ensure reliability, performance, and user experience in a competitive digital landscape.
DevOps
fromTechzine Global
1 week ago

Cloudflare introduces new features for building and deploying agents

Cloudflare is transforming AI development with Dynamic Workers, Sandboxes, and Artifacts for secure, scalable, and efficient code execution.
DevOps
fromwww.businessinsider.com
2 weeks ago

Amazon creates 'Project Houdini' to make data center delays disappear

Amazon's Project Houdini aims to speed up data center construction by moving processes to factories, addressing AI demand and capacity constraints.
US politics
fromTelecompetitor
2 months ago

Data center analysts suggest need for regulation to control hyperscaler costs

Hyperscale data centers' heavy power, land, water, and network demands are raising electricity and broadband costs, prompting calls for regulated contributions and funding solutions.
Data science
fromTechRepublic
1 month ago

Inside the Gas Engine Strategy Powering AI's Next Wave

Gas reciprocating engines are emerging as a critical power solution for AI data centers, with manufacturers like Caterpillar securing multi-gigawatt orders to meet demand that exceeds grid and turbine capacity.
Tech industry
fromUnited States Edition
1 month ago

Spotlight report: Accelerating Data Center Modernization

Data center modernization is critical for AI deployment, requiring integrated infrastructure solutions across servers, storage, networking, and security.
Artificial intelligence
fromInfoWorld
1 month ago

Why AI requires rethinking the storage-compute divide

AI workloads require continuous processing of unstructured multimodal data, causing redundant data movement and transformation that wastes infrastructure costs and data scientist time.
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