GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners
updated Engineers cried foul over plan to charge $0.002/min.
Devops17 Dec 2025 | 50
Datacenter
Why do bit barns keep bumping up our bills, Senators ask DC operators
Amazon, meanwhile, claims its datacenters are helping ratepayers despite tons of evidence to the contrary
The Future of the Datacenter16 Dec 2025 | 21
US freezes $42B trade pact with UK over digital tax row
Tech Prosperity Deal paused after London resists pressure on online services levy
Public Sector16 Dec 2025 | 75
From Georgia to Essex, AI datacenters are testing public goodwill
Communities on both sides of the Atlantic push back against rapid build-outs
The Future of the Datacenter16 Dec 2025 | 24
Ford shifts gears to build batteries for datacenters
EV sales didn’t accelerate as hoped, so it will repurpose idling factories
Off-Prem16 Dec 2025 | 41
Oracle isn't done with Ampere yet as A4 instances arrive on OCI boasting 96 cores
Big Red said it had sold its stake in its long-time silicon partner last week
PaaS + IaaS15 Dec 2025 | 4
NARROWER TOPICS
Delays? What delays? Oracle insists its $300B cloud contract with OpenAI is on track
And don't sweat the debt either, we've got plenty of capital at our disposal
The Future of the Datacenter15 Dec 2025 | 7
Hyperscalers fuel $112B server spending spree in Q3
IDC's latest tracker numbers were brought to you by the letters A and I
The Future of the Datacenter15 Dec 2025 | 6
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The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years
SPhotoix moves its 5D Memory Crystal cold storage tech closer to deployment in data centers
Storage14 Dec 2025 | 102
AI datacenter boom could end badly, Goldman Sachs warns
Bank sketches four scenarios in which monetization falters or demand swamps supply by 2030
The Future of the Datacenter12 Dec 2025 | 32
AI superintelligence is a Silicon Valley fantasy, Ai2 researcher says
The dream of electric sheep gets a reality check from Moore’s Law
AI + ML11 Dec 2025 | 73
Nvidia's unreleased infrastructure management service isn't for tracking GPUs, but it can
updated If you opt in to the paid service that is
Systems10 Dec 2025 | 2
Qualcomm takes RISC on Arm alternative with Ventana acquisition
California chipset giant says it’ll develop Arm and RISC-V CPU cores in parallel
The Future of the Datacenter10 Dec 2025 | 4
Galactic Brain space datacenter coming in 2027, pledges startup Aetherflux
Getting inferencing infrastructure into orbit may soon be cheaper than building it down here
The Future of the Datacenter10 Dec 2025 | 27
Diversion to power datacenters earns Boom Supersonic a ticket to revive fast air transport
Adapts its engines to power bit barns, and lands cash to fund its takeoff roll
Off-Prem10 Dec 2025 | 40
Letting Nvidia sell H200s to China is closing the door after the horse has bolted
US export controls on AI accelerators have only succeeded in forcing China to develop its own tech
Systems09 Dec 2025 | 27
Activist groups urge Congress to pause US datacenter buildouts
Bad for consumers, bad for the environment, 230+ groups say
The Future of the Datacenter09 Dec 2025 | 9
AI mania to swell datacenter capex to $1.6T by 2030 – if the bubble doesn't pop first
Analysts say demand keeps rising despite constraints, shaky returns, and mounting investor nerves
The Future of the Datacenter09 Dec 2025 | 10
Bezos-backed Unconventional AI aims to make datacenter power problems go away
Interview Startup wagers the path to sustainable AI might be found in nature’s most amazing design - the brain
The Future of the Datacenter08 Dec 2025 | 27
Meta and Google turn to NextEra to feed insatiable datacenter power hunger
The Chocolate Factory will also put its AI to work inside one of America’s biggest utilities
The Future of the Datacenter08 Dec 2025 |
Datacenters are hoarding grid power just in case, says Uptime Institute
Warning that over-reserved capacity is blocking new connections
The Future of the Datacenter08 Dec 2025 | 31
Datacenters planned for Scotland could end up draining a loch of power
3 GW is roughly three quarters of the country's peak demand, says Foxglove
The Future of the Datacenter04 Dec 2025 | 147
Datacenters that don't have their own power supplies will fail
It's time to ask your bit barn provider how they'll keep the lights on, and what their plans mean for prices
The Future of the Datacenter04 Dec 2025 | 9
London grid crunch delays new housing amid datacenter boom
Assembly report urges clearer planning as soaring AI power demands strain capital's network
The Future of the Datacenter02 Dec 2025 | 32
Digital Realty, Equinix battle for €4.5B atNorth acquisition
Nordic datacenter operator's cool-climate facilities attract bids amid AI-driven market frenzy
On-Prem28 Nov 2025 | 3
Tenstorrent QuietBox tested: A high-performance RISC-V AI workstation trapped in a software blackhole
hands on $12K machine promises performance that can scale to 32 chip servers and beyond but immature stack makes harnessing compute challenging
Systems27 Nov 2025 | 10
Nvidia scoffs at threat from Google TPUs after rumored Meta tie-up
Embracing the Chocolate Factory's tensor processing units would be easier said than done for The Social Network
AI + ML25 Nov 2025 | 6
HPE scores $931M contract to make DoD’s cloud migration a little less public
Works like a public cloud but keeps everything on-prem
Public Sector25 Nov 2025 | 7
Rent-a-GPU neoclouds need to adapt or die as the AI market evolves
McKinsey points out the quandary facing companies like CoreWeave
PaaS + IaaS25 Nov 2025 | 6
Airbus: We were hours from pausing production in Spain
Exclusive Power outage in Iberia forced datacenter contingency rethink
On-Prem25 Nov 2025 | 58
Britain plots atomic reboot as datacenter demand surges
Taskforce calls UK the priciest place on Earth to build nuclear projects and urges radical regulatory reset
The Future of the Datacenter25 Nov 2025 | 28
Amazon-backed X-energy sweet talks investors into another $700M for small modular reactor dream
Start-up claims to have booked orders for 144 miniaturized reactors totaling 11GW across US and UK
Science24 Nov 2025 | 10
Open Compute Project figuring out how to get quantum computers into classical datacenters
It’s an ethereal and weighty problem, not a powerful conundrum
The Future of the Datacenter21 Nov 2025 | 10
Google and Westinghouse lean on AI to speed US nuclear plant builds
Pair say digital twin-powered scheduling will cut costs, shrink timelines for 10 planned reactors
On-Prem20 Nov 2025 | 24
US pumps $1B into Three Mile Island nuclear plant reboot to keep AI datacenters fed
A reactor at the site suffered a partial meltdown in 1979
Systems19 Nov 2025 | 16
Datacenter fossil fuel habit 'not sustainable' as AI workloads soar
Rising AI power demand is straining grids and pushing operators toward hydrogen, batteries, geothermal, and nuclear
AI + ML18 Nov 2025 | 8
Scientific computing is about to get a massive injection of AI
Interview Nvidia's Ian Buck on the importance of FP64 to power research, in a world that's hot for inferencing
SC2518 Nov 2025 | 14
Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs eyes hyperscale customers with GUC design collab
Exclusive Who needs 600 kilowatt racks when a single computer can span entire datacenters?
SC2516 Nov 2025 | 3
Power: The answer to and source of all your AI datacenter problems
Interview Digital Realty CTO Chris Sharp weights impact of densification on the datacenter and the rise of the AI factory
Supercomputing Month15 Nov 2025 | 21
Baidu answers China's call for home-grown silicon with custom AI accelerators
Chinese search giant plans to bring custom silicon to the rack scale in 2026 with 256- and 512-chip systems
AI + ML13 Nov 2025 | 1
Microsoft is building datacenter superclusters that span continents
The 100 trillion-parameter models of the near future can't be built in one place
Systems13 Nov 2025 | 28
OpenAI’s viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft
Microsoft internal financials also suggest AI flag bearer is nowhere close to $13 billion in revenues
AI + ML12 Nov 2025 | 26
US taxpayers being kept in the dark over datacenter subsidies
Disclosure? We've heard of it
On-Prem11 Nov 2025 | 20
Battery trade war hits booming datacenter industry
Tariffs can't stop cheaper, better Chinese tech, says Jefferies. Tesla is America's great hope
Supercomputing Month11 Nov 2025 | 22
Altman sticks a different hand out, wants tax credits instead of gov loans
We can't let supply chain shortages burst the bubble boy's balloon
AI + ML10 Nov 2025 | 39
Meta can't afford its $600B love letter to Trump
The Zuck better hope his finance bros have deep pockets and a whole lotta patience to pull this off
Off-Prem08 Nov 2025 | 69
Blackwell a no-sell in China as trade deal fails to materialize
Xi and Trump haven't gotten to discuss the chips, though they were supposed to
AI + ML07 Nov 2025 | 6
Google’s Ironwood TPUs represent a bigger threat than Nvidia would have you believe
Chocolate Factory's homegrown silicon boasts Blackwell-level perf at massive scale
AI + ML06 Nov 2025 | 11
OpenAI's Altman and Friar walk back remarks about federal loan guarantees
updated Money-losing biz says it does not need help to meet massive infrastructure commitments
AI + ML06 Nov 2025 | 27
Colt gets greenlight for £2.5bn London datacenter splurge
Three hyperscale sheds to double capacity near Heathrow
On-Prem06 Nov 2025 | 24
Qualcomm bets on inferencing in the cloud, which Arm says can’t run it all it forever
Awkward, seeing as they’re close partners
AI + ML06 Nov 2025 | 3
Perplexity shows how to run monster AI models more efficiently on aging GPUs, AWS networks
Some clever networking hacks open the door
AI + ML05 Nov 2025 | 2
Power crunch threatens to derail AI datacenter construction
Supply chains also unprepared for liquid cooling demands
Supercomputing Month05 Nov 2025 | 12
UK agri dept spent hundreds of millions upgrading to Windows 10 – just in time for end of support
Updated After a £312M upgrade to the retiring OS, Defra still has 24,000 devices to replace
Public Sector05 Nov 2025 | 125
$10B + spent on liquid cooling this week – it's only Tuesday
Eaton and Vertiv splash cash as HPC infrastructure and AI factories run hot
Supercomputing Month04 Nov 2025 | 4
Datacenter biz and nuke startup join forces for Texas AI ranch
The bit barn will run on gas power first.
Systems31 Oct 2025 | 1
Meta to sell $30B in bonds to build AI datacenters
Zuckcorp will gladly pay you in 2065 for the eyewatering sums it is borrowing today
On-Prem31 Oct 2025 | 19
Google parent company spending like a drunken sailor as capex triples over 2 years
Microsoft also ramping up spending, but investors concerned about overshooting demand
AI + ML30 Oct 2025 | 14
Equinix revealed as occupant of £3.9B UK datacenter campus
Investment will fund 250 MW, three-facility campus near London as AI and cloud demand surge
On-Prem30 Oct 2025 | 15
AWS Stargate-smashing Rainier AI megacluster is up and running
Half a million Trainium2 chips now running Anthropic workloads, with half a million more waiting in the wings
AI + ML29 Oct 2025 | 8
Nvidia pitches Omniverse DSX as model for gigawatt-scale AI factories
GPU giant teams with partners to create digital twin blueprint for next-gen datacenters
The Future of the Datacenter29 Oct 2025 | 1
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