It's International Datacenter Day for those who colocate, er, celebrate
It's not a party until someone builds a bit barn on greenbelt land
Offbeat26 Mar 2025 | 1
Dan is a Register journalist based in EMEA, and primarily covers datacenter systems and related enterprise infrastructure technologies. He also contributes to our sister titles.
UK satellite smartphone services could get green light this year
At last, cell service from SPAAAAAACE
Networks26 Mar 2025 | 23
Alibaba exec warns of overheating AI infrastructure market
Joe Tsai says speculative datacenter builds could exceed actual demand
On-Prem25 Mar 2025 | 7
London's poor 5G blamed on spectrum, investment, and timing of Huawei ban
Interview Other cities either started with rival kit, or had Chinese vendor core already built before any bans, says expert
Networks25 Mar 2025 | 37
FCC on the prowl for Huawei and other blocked Chinese makers in America
Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting rackets
Networks24 Mar 2025 | 6
Euro businesses flummoxed by Scope 3 emissions
Measuring all the dirty work of the supply chain and other indirect influences? Ugh, just give us the fine
On-Prem21 Mar 2025 | 14
No big changes to UK broadband regs, despite no real competition for BT
Regulator reviews wholesale telecoms markets and decides healthy fiber is its biggest concern
Networks21 Mar 2025 | 32
Euro semi firms push for 'Chips Act 2.0' to expand beyond manufacturing
Industry leaders want broader strategy, citing supply chain gaps, investment needs, and global trade uncertainty
Systems20 Mar 2025 | 11
UK's biggest mobile operator starts 3G switchoff, hopes it won't catch out April fools
VMO2 starts in the north of England, says it's already contacted 'known vulnerable customers'
Networks20 Mar 2025 | 30
Nvidia invests in quantum computing weeks after CEO said it's decades from being useful
GTC Qubit awkward, you might say
Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 6
Schneider Electric plugs into AI's power hunger with Nvidia digital twin tech
GTC Because guesswork won't keep the lights on
Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 1
Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data
GTC Power sipping bandwidth bottleneck busters – or that's the hope, anyway
Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 2
Los Alamos boffins whip up a speedometer for satellites
First license plates, now a way to calculate pace in orbit. Speeding tickets next?
Science17 Mar 2025 | 23
Euro techies call for sovereign fund to escape Uncle Sam's digital death grip
Nearly 100 orgs plead for homegrown lifeline amid geopolitical tensions
Public Sector17 Mar 2025 | 107
AI bubble? What AI bubble? Datacenter investors all in despite whispers of a pop
Billions continue to pour into bit barns across the globe
On-Prem14 Mar 2025 | 39
France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke
Aix-Marseille University rolls out welcome mat for American researchers facing funding cuts
Offbeat14 Mar 2025 | 333
OpenAI asks Uncle Sam to let it scrape everything, stop other countries complaining
Updated The rest of the world doesn't think 'fair use' is fair but we should make 'em
AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 103
Microsoft tempted to hit the gas as renewables can't keep up with AI
So much for 'carbon negative by 2030'
On-Prem13 Mar 2025 | 18
Frack to the future? Geothermal energy pitched as datacenter savior
If operators are willing to cough up a 'green premium' and tax credits are not repealed
On-Prem13 Mar 2025 | 55
Amazon, Meta, Google sign pledge to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050
AI doesn't run on fairy dust after all
Systems12 Mar 2025 | 16
Energy trio wants to pipe gas from coal mines to keep datacenter lights on
Nothing says 'sustainable AI' like the burps of Appalachian industry
Systems11 Mar 2025 | 9
Official HP toner not official enough after dodgy update, say users
Updated Folks with LaserJets complain of error code even when using approved supplies
Personal Tech11 Mar 2025 | 72
Britain dusts off idle spectrum for rail and emergency comms
1900 MHz band dormant since Y2K, but not available until 2029
Networks11 Mar 2025 | 50
ASML will open Beijing facility despite US sanctions on China
Updated Center will reuse and recondition systems returned from field
Systems10 Mar 2025 | 30
Quad goals: Meta proposes QLC SSDs as a new storage tier in datacenters
Trying to find a middle ground between spinning rust and performant TLC
Storage07 Mar 2025 | 6
HPE revenue outlook feels the thump of Trump tariffs
Thousands brace for layoffs as shares slide 20%
On-Prem07 Mar 2025 | 15
Ex-Googler Schmidt warns US: Try an AI 'Manhattan Project' and get MAIM'd
ANALYSIS That's Mutual Assured AI Malfunction in the race for superintelligence
AI + ML06 Mar 2025 | 35
Watchdog fails to stop big vendor lock-in, say UK cloud market's smaller players
Global giants shouldn't be allowed to make 'committed spend' public sector deals and make discounts we cannot match
PaaS + IaaS06 Mar 2025 | 9
Trump says US should kill CHIPS Act, use the cash to cut debt
Updated Lemme guess ... he'll fix it all with tariffs? We sat through the entire speech so you don't have to
Systems05 Mar 2025 | 158
CoreWeave rides AI wave with IPO filing – but its fate hinges on Microsoft
GPU farm discloses 77% of revenue tied to just two customers, putting Redmond giant front and center
AI + ML04 Mar 2025 |
Microsoft: So what if it costs 4X as much to run Windows Server in AWS, Alibaba, and Google?
That's competition, that's protecting our IP, Redmond's lawyers tell UK monopoly cops
PaaS + IaaS04 Mar 2025 | 44
Lenovo teases solar-powered and folding screen concept laptops
MWC Annual Barcelona tech fest brings demo devices that aren't commercially available... will they ever see light of day?
Personal Tech03 Mar 2025 | 9
Altnets told to stop digging and start stuffing fiber through abandoned pipes
Why churn up roads when there's thousands of miles of disused infrastructure underfoot?
Networks03 Mar 2025 | 84
Microsoft warns Trump: Where the US won't sell AI tech, China will
Rule hamstringing our datacenters is 'gift' to Middle Kingdom, vice chair argues
AI + ML28 Feb 2025 | 28
Framework Desktop wows iFixit – even with the soldered RAM
Is stuck-down memory forgivable if it's for the sake of performance?
Personal Tech27 Feb 2025 | 51
Ampere bets on Arm to muscle into Intel's telco territory
Chipmaker touts high-core, low-power Altra processors as the future of 5G and AI inferencing
Systems27 Feb 2025 | 2
Network edge? You get 64-bit Armv9 AI. You too, watches. And you, server remote management. And you...
Arm rolls out the Cortex-A320 for small embedded gear that dreams of big-model inference
Networks26 Feb 2025 | 6
Framework guns for cheap laptops with upgradeable alternative
Chromebook-area pricing for latest designs
Personal Tech26 Feb 2025 | 41
London is bottom in Europe for 5G, while Europe lags the rest of the world
Plus: Fandroid alert – Android devices sometimes say '5G' when connecting to 4G
Networks25 Feb 2025 | 27
Hurrah! AI won't destroy developer or DBA jobs
Uncle Sam's number-crunchers warn lawyers, customer service reps to brace for change, say techies will be fine
Databases25 Feb 2025 | 11
Microsoft's drawback on datacenter investment may signal AI demand concerns
Investment bank claims software giant ditched 'at least' 5 land parcels due to potential 'oversupply'
AI + ML24 Feb 2025 | 20
Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash
Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier no brighter than LED, but readable with telescopes
Networks21 Feb 2025 | 26
T-Mobile US puts NYC emergency services in the 5G fast lane with network slicing
Updated 911 gets VIP treatment in 'one of the most congested and demanding environments for connectivity'
Networks21 Feb 2025 | 9
Euro cloud biz trials 'server blades in a cold box' system
Hot air or a 50% energy saving? Exoscale datacenter runs proof-of-concept to test veracity of Digger's claims
On-Prem20 Feb 2025 | 14
Talk of Broadcom and TSMC grabbing pieces of Intel lights fire under investors
Chipzilla's design and manufacturing limbs said to be on the table
Systems20 Feb 2025 | 12
Dark mode might be burning more juice than you think
Most people crank up the brightness, making energy savings moot
Personal Tech20 Feb 2025 | 89
Telco to open lab to test cell network interoperability with satellites
Because 4G notspots aren't much good to anyone
Networks19 Feb 2025 | 1
Mobile operators brace for bigger, faster headaches with 6G
NGMN reports what telcos want, but admits most can be delivered by 5G
Networks19 Feb 2025 | 47
Huawei to bring massively expensive trifold smartphone to world market
There's everything to play for, but there ain't no Play Store
Personal Tech18 Feb 2025 | 26
NAND flash prices plunge amid supply glut, factory output cut
Flaky demand for PCs and smartphones blamed
Storage17 Feb 2025 | 14
UK court says Chinese operation must sell Scottish chip biz stake without delay
'Satisfied' the risk to national security is 'a real and significant one' that should not be 'prolonged'
Systems17 Feb 2025 | 24
TechUK demands that Britain's chip strategy is crisped up
Trade body wants recommendations fast-tracked and fabs designated critical national infrastructure
Systems17 Feb 2025 | 9
Voda-Three name post-merger top team, keep schtum on layoffs
Union estimates up to 1,600 job on the line
Networks14 Feb 2025 | 26
WD told to pay half a billion in patent damages before biz splits
With drivemaker poised to become 2 publicly traded companies, judge says he has 'concerns' over restructuring
Storage13 Feb 2025 | 11
Undergrad and colleagues accidentally shred 40-year hash table gospel
Student shows 'uniform hashing is optimal' was just wishful thinking
Science13 Feb 2025 | 27
Running hot? Server shipments forecast to cool in 2025
Supply chain and regulatory hurdles likely to shrink figures
On-Prem12 Feb 2025 | 2
UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant
Economy-boosting bit barn? Not in my back yard, some locals expected to say
On-Prem12 Feb 2025 | 119
Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US
Updated So now everyone's happy
Personal Tech11 Feb 2025 | 194
DeepMind working on distributed training of large AI models
Alternate process could be a game changer if they can make it practicable
AI + ML11 Feb 2025 | 10
T-Mobile goes live with beta of satellite phone service for the US
Free text messages for users of its own and rival networks during test period
Personal Tech10 Feb 2025 | 23
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