A coalition of activist groups is calling on Congress to stop new datacenter builds, warning of soaring energy use and utility bills. The push comes as the AI boom drives record investment, but faces a political reality focused on beating China in the AI race.
Empyrion Digital is making a major move into Malaysia with a planned 200MW data center campus in Johor. The first phase is slated for late 2026, capitalizing on the region’s growth as a spillover market from Singapore. This expansion is part of a broader pan-Asian building spree for the Seraya Partn
Microsoft is joining Amazon in building its first cloud data centers in the United Kingdom. The new Azure and Office 365 facilities are slated to go live in late 2016, with Dynamics CRM to follow. This move highlights a major shift in how cloud giants are thinking about data sovereignty and latency.
A space startup founded by a Robinhood co-founder is shifting gears from beaming power to Earth to building AI data centers in orbit. The company, Aetherflux, announced its first “Galactic Brain” node is slated for launch in Q1 2027. This move puts it in a growing field with SpaceX, Amazon, and othe
Pasqal is putting its 100-qubit neutral-atom quantum computer on Scaleway’s Quantum-as-a-Service platform. The hardware is available from data centers in Massy, France, and Sherbrooke, Canada. This adds another option in Europe’s increasingly crowded quantum cloud market.
Veteran tech analyst Paul Meeks is telling investors to buy the recent drop in CoreWeave stock. He started coverage with a buy rating and a $100 price target, suggesting nearly 17% upside, and believes the stock could retest its October 2025 peak of $153.
For the second time in less than three weeks, a Cloudflare outage has caused widespread internet disruptions. This time, LinkedIn and Zoom were among the services knocked offline. The company says it wasn’t an attack, but a problematic firewall change.
Cloudflare experienced another global outage, its second in a month, knocking sites like LinkedIn and Zoom offline. The company blamed a change to its Web Application Firewall. The incident highlights the massive “concentration risk” of relying on a few key infrastructure providers.
Two years ago, investors berated BKV’s CEO for buying power plants. Now, with AI data centers desperate for gigawatts of power, that bet looks genius. The company’s stock has surged 50% since its 2024 IPO.
Microsoft has announced significant price increases for its Microsoft 365 commercial subscriptions, set to take effect in July 2026. The hikes, as high as 33% per user per month, come after the company rolled out new AI capabilities to existing customers at no extra cost just last year.
