Kioxia Takes an Optical SSD to Customer Trials, and Names the Obstacle
At the Open Compute Project summit in Taipei, Kioxia said a PCIe Gen6 optical drive is going to customer trials and that...
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India's Largest GPU Cluster Is Being Built for an American Company
Up to 10,000 NVIDIA B300s at a Chennai campus, booked at Rs 10,000-15,000 crore. It is Together AI's second buildout in...
Your VPS Bill Is Going Up Because of Somebody Else's AI
OVHcloud will raise server prices by up to 87 per cent. The RAM it buys has risen sixfold in a year and is heading for t...
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The Breach Was at the Vendor. The Notification Came From Everyone Else.
Valve, Framework and a football club all told customers about a breach this week. None of them was broken into. One logi...
Singapore Has Warned About Cisco More Times in 2026 Than in Any Full Year Before It
We read all 847 CSA alerts since 2020. Cisco leads every vendor, 2026 is already the heaviest Cisco year on record, and...
Nvidia Is Reported in Talks to Guarantee $250 Billion of OpenAI's Ohio Data-Centre Debt
The Wall Street Journal reports Nvidia would backstop the lease and construction financing for a 10-gigawatt campus in P...
Hut 8's Second Beacon Point Lease Is $9.8bn — Which Works Out at $124.74 per kW a Month, Rising to $188.68
The filing discloses the term, the escalator and the capacity but not the rent. We solved for it — and for the three dif...
AWS Split SES Into Three Plans — and the Dearer Ones Cost More Per Email at Every Volume
Amazon SES now has Essentials, Pro and Enterprise tiers. Pro carries a US$105 monthly fee and a higher per-email rate in...
Wafr's $100M Cooling Raise Is Small — the AI Data-Centre Water Problem It Targets Is Not
Vancouver startup Wafr Technologies has raised $100 million from undisclosed private investors — toward a $300 million g...
Meta Compute: Meta Is Reportedly Exploring a Cloud Business for Excess AI Capacity
Bloomberg reports that Meta is building a cloud business, internally called Meta Compute, to sell access to excess AI in...
Three Singapore-Based Operators Moved Into South Korea's Data-Centre Market in Two Weeks
STT GDC opened its first South Korea data centre this month, days after Keppel and Digital Edge each moved on Greater Se...
Dallas Tops the World's Data-Centre Ranking — but Northern Virginia Still Has the Most Capacity
Cushman & Wakefield ranked Dallas the world's top primary data-centre market for the first time in May 2026. But Norther...
Who Pays for the Grid: The US Push to Make Data Centres Cover Their Own Power
US regulators and a voluntary federal pledge are shifting data-centre grid costs onto operators rather than households....
The Cloud Market Just Crossed a Half-Trillion-Dollar Run Rate — and AI Is Why It's Still Accelerating
Global cloud-infrastructure spending hit US$129 billion in Q1 2026 and is growing 35% a year — the ninth straight quarte...
Forrester Says 2026 Will Bring Two Major Multi-Day Cloud Outages — Here's the Resilience Math Behind the Warning
Forrester predicts at least two major multi-day hyperscaler outages in 2026, arguing that the rush to build AI data cent...
ASEAN's Data-Centre Boom Is Hitting a Wall of Power and Water — and Johor Is Already Turning Projects Away
Southeast Asia has become one of the world's hottest data-centre markets, led by Johor's roughly 5.3GW pipeline. But the...
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