What happens when we can’t just build bigger AI datacenters anymore?
Feature We stitch together enormous supercomputers from other smaller supercomputers of course
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Special Features
Mega UK datacenter greenlit, but we still don't know who's moving in
Hyperscaler mystery deepens as Hertfordshire braces for bit barn blitz
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Musk torches $500B Stargate AI plan, Altman strikes back
Updated OpenAI boss tell world's richest man money is there to fund infrastructure project
AI + ML23 Jan 2025 | 77
SK hynix wobbles on market uncertainty, despite record 2024 earnings
Shares slide at 'most profitable' company in Korea as world worries over geopolitics
Storage23 Jan 2025 |
Microsoft throws more cash at its carbon guilt by replanting Brazilian rainforest
Updated Meanwhile, datacenter emissions continue to soar
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Real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret
Amazon doesn't break out figures, but then again neither do Microsoft nor Google
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OpenAI wants to blow through $500B on AI infrastructure for itself, with help from pals
Updated SoftBank, Oracle, MGX form Stargate Project with ChatGPT maker, intend to outspend Microsoft this year
AI + ML22 Jan 2025 | 16
AI datacenters putting zero emissions promises out of reach
Plus: Bit barns' demand for water, land, and power could breed 'growing opposition' from residents
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AI frenzy continues as Macquarie commits up to $5B for Applied Digital datacenters
Bubble? What bubble?
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Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI
Energy consumption set to become a key performance indicator by 2027
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Biden opens federal land to power-hungry AI datacenters
Watt's the problem? Not enough energy to win the arms race?
The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond14 Jan 2025 | 6
With AI boom in full force, 2024 datacenter deals reach $57B record
Fewer giant contracts, but many more smaller ones, in bit barn feeding frenzy
Systems14 Jan 2025 | 2
CoreWeave drops £1bn in UK datacenters – but don't expect the latest Nvidia magic just yet
Rent-a-GPU outfit's latest datacenters are packed to the brim with H200s
Systems13 Jan 2025 | 2
UK unveils plans to mainline AI into the veins of the nation
Government adopts all 50 venture capitalist recommendations but leaves datacenter energy puzzle unsolved
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UK prepared to throw planning rules out the window for massive datacenters
Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project designation could tear down more restrictions
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Amazon splashes $11B on AI datacenters in Georgia
Peach State already home to more than 50 bit barns
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AI hype led to an enterprise datacenter spending binge in 2024 that won't last
GPUs and generative AI systems so hot right now... yet 'long-term trend remains,' says analyst
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Demand for AI servers sees Foxconn fly and suppliers come along for the ride
Record quarterly revenue at contract manufacturing giant suggests strong demand for hardware of all sorts
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AI spending spree continues as Microsoft commits $80B for 2025
With those whopping returns who could argue with the premis... oh wait
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Looming energy crunch makes future uncertain for datacenters
But investors still betting big on bit barns thanks to AI and cloud demand
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What happens when we can’t just build bigger AI datacenters anymore?
Feature We stitch together enormous supercomputers from other smaller supercomputers of course
STORIES
How datacenters use water – and why kicking the habit is nearly impossible
Feature If they're not consuming H2O directly, the power plant almost certainly is
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With datacenter power crisis looming, US government looks to Constellation
Not just AWS, Microsoft et al that are betting on nuclear energy, 13 federal agencies get in on act too
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US logic in question, but perhaps American memory can still prevail
Comment With Intel's foundry future in doubt, Micron takes center stage in US Chips Act push
Storage03 Jan 2025 | 10
IBM and GlobalFoundries settle multibillion-dollar trade secret and contract lawsuits
Clears way for 'new opportunities' for collab, say pair
Systems03 Jan 2025 |
Screwed by the cloud: Hardware vendors looking for that raison d'refresh
40% of world's servers are 6 years +, drink 66% of DC energy, provide 7% of compute. Please refresh, says HPE
On-Prem02 Jan 2025 | 14
Schneider Electric warns of future where datacenters eat the grid
Report charts four scenarios from 'Sustainable AI' to 'Who Turned Out The Lights?'
On-Prem02 Jan 2025 | 60
AI ambition is pushing copper to its breaking point
SC24 Ayar Labs contends silicon photonics will be key to scaling beyond the rack and taming the heat
The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond28 Nov 2024 | 6
Investors just can't pull the plug despite datacenters facing AI power crunch
Even if 98% say they're worried about energy availability and reliability
The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond27 Nov 2024 | 12
You're buying fat new servers to save energy and make room for AI hardware, claims Dell
But PCs and Nvidia are weak points, because you’re not buying one and can't buy the other
The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond27 Nov 2024 | 10
Datacenters could blow up your electric bill thanks to AI
Operators may have to pay more for energy if capacity cannot meet demand
The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond22 Nov 2024 | 24
Japan looks to nuclear energy to power AI-powered datacenter boom
Shuttered reactor's operator says it's needed - once giant seawall is finished
The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond20 Nov 2024 | 17
UK councils bat away DDoS barrage from pro-Russia keyboard warriors
Local authority websites downed in response to renewed support for Ukraine
Cyber-crime01 Nov 2024 | 34
Gang gobbles 15K credentials from cloud and email providers' garbage Git configs
Emeraldwhale looked sharp – until it made a common S3 bucket mistake
Research31 Oct 2024 | 2
LottieFiles supply chain attack exposes users to malicious crypto wallet drainer
A scary few Halloween hours for team behind hugely popular web plugin
Cyber-crime31 Oct 2024 | 11
Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years
India makes it onto list of likely threats for the first time
Cybersecurity Month31 Oct 2024 | 15
Russian spies use remote desktop protocol files in unusual mass phishing drive
The prolific Midnight Blizzard crew cast a much wider net in search of scrummy intel
Cyber-crime30 Oct 2024 | 18
Cast a hex on ChatGPT to trick the AI into writing exploit code
'It was like watching a robot going rogue' says researcher
Cybersecurity Month29 Oct 2024 | 29
Belgian cops cuff 2 suspected cybercrooks in Redline, Meta infostealer sting
US also charges an alleged Redline dev, no mention of an arrest
Cyber-crime29 Oct 2024 | 1
Admins better Spring into action over latest critical open source vuln
Patch up: The Spring framework dominates the Java ecosystem
Security29 Oct 2024 | 1
Five Eyes nations tell tech startups to take infosec seriously. Again
Only took 'em a year to dish up some scary travel advice, and a Secure Innovation … Placemat?
Cybersecurity Month29 Oct 2024 | 14
Brazen crims selling stolen credit cards on Meta's Threads
Exclusive The platform 'continues to take action' against illegal posts, we're told
Cyber-crime28 Oct 2024 | 20
Delta officially launches lawyers at $500M CrowdStrike problem
Legal action comes months after alleging negligence by Falcon vendor
Cybersecurity Month28 Oct 2024 | 23
Dutch cops pwn the Redline and Meta infostealers, leak 'VIP' aliases
Legal proceedings underway with more details to follow
Cybersecurity Month28 Oct 2024 | 5
AWS Cloud Development Kit flaw exposed accounts to full takeover
Remember Bucket Monopoly? Yeah, it gets worse
Cybersecurity Month24 Oct 2024 | 13
Ransomware's ripple effect felt across ERs as patient care suffers
389 US healthcare orgs infected this year alone
Cybersecurity Month24 Oct 2024 | 1
Here's a NIS2 compliance checklist since no one cares about deadlines anymore
Only two EU members have completed the transposition into domestic law
Cybersecurity Month24 Oct 2024 | 11
Perfctl malware strikes again as crypto-crooks target Docker Remote API servers
Attacks on unprotected servers reach 'critical level'
Cybersecurity Month24 Oct 2024 | 1
FortiManager critical vulnerability under active attack
Updated Security shop and CISA urge rapid action
Cybersecurity Month23 Oct 2024 | 7
Millions of Android and iOS users at risk from hardcoded creds in popular apps
Azure Blob Storage, AWS, and Twilio keys all up for grabs
Cybersecurity Month23 Oct 2024 | 17
Akira ransomware is encrypting victims again following pure extortion fling
Crooks revert to old ways for greater efficiency
Cybersecurity Month22 Oct 2024 | 2
Pixel perfect Ghostpulse malware loader hides inside PNG image files
Miscreants combine it with an equally tricky piece of social engineering
Cybersecurity Month22 Oct 2024 | 34
macOS HM Surf vuln might already be under exploit by major malware family
Like keeping your camera and microphone private? Patch up
Cybersecurity Month21 Oct 2024 | 16
Jetpack fixes 8-year-old flaw affecting millions of WordPress sites
In Brief - Updated Also, new EU cyber reporting rules are live, exploiters hit the gas pedal, free PDNS for UK schools, and more
Security18 Oct 2024 | 5
Spectre flaws continue to haunt Intel and AMD as researchers find fresh attack method
The indirect branch predictor barrier is less of a barrier than hoped
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2024 | 28
Alleged Bitcoin crook faces 5 years after SEC's X account pwned
SIM swappers strike again, warping cryptocurrency prices
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2024 | 14
ESET denies it was compromised as Israeli orgs targeted with 'ESET-branded' wipers
Says 'limited' incident isolated to 'partner company'
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2024 | 3
Biz hired, and fired, a fake North Korean IT worker – then the ransom demands began
'My webcam isn't working today' is the new 'The dog ate my network'
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2024 | 41
Someone's tried sneaking semiconductor secrets out of South Korea's patent office
Government hardens up infosec to stop this - as you would when Samsung and SK hynix are massive parts of your economy
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2024 | 5
Healthcare Services Group discloses 'cybersecurity incident' in SEC filing
Laundry and dining provider still investigating cause and scope
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2024 | 5
Brazilian police claim they've cuffed serial cybercrook behind FBI and Airbus attacks
Early stage opsec failures lead to landmark arrest of suspected serial data thief
Cybersecurity Month17 Oct 2024 | 3
WeChat devs introduced security flaws when they modded TLS, say researchers
No attacks possible, but enough issues to cause concern
Cybersecurity Month17 Oct 2024 | 15
Anonymous Sudan isn't any more: Two alleged operators named, charged
Gang said to have developed its evilware on GitHub – then DDoSed GitHub
Cybersecurity Month17 Oct 2024 | 5
US contractor pays $300K to settle accusation it didn't properly look after Medicare users' data
Resolves allegations it improperly stored screenshots containing PII that were later snaffled
Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2024 | 7
Internet Archive wobbles back online, with limited functionality
DDoS detectives deduce Mirai used to do the deed, using home entertainment boxes in Korea, China, and Brazil
Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2024 | 14
Google's memory safety plan includes rehab for unsafe languages
Large C and C++ codebases will be around for the 'foreseeable future'
Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2024 | 30
Pentagon stumped by mystery drone swarm flying over Langley Air Force Base
Not that there's anything important there – just F-22s and stuff
Cybersecurity Month15 Oct 2024 | 85
Microsoft says tougher punishments needed for state-sponsored cybercriminals
Although it also reaffirmed commitment to secure-by-design initiatives
Cloud Infrastructure Month15 Oct 2024 | 17
China again claims Volt Typhoon cyber-attack crew was invented by the US to discredit it
Enough with the racist-sounding 'dragons' and 'pandas', Beijing complains – then points the finger at koalas
Cybersecurity Month15 Oct 2024 | 17
US healthcare org admits up to 400,000 people's personal info was snatched
It waited till just before Columbus Day weekend to make mandated filing, but don't worry, we saw it
Cybersecurity Month14 Oct 2024 | 3
Would banning ransomware insurance stop the scourge?
White House official makes case for ending extortion reimbursements
Cybersecurity Month14 Oct 2024 | 87
Trump campaign arms up with 'unhackable' phones after Iranian intrusion
Florida man gets his hands on 'the best ever'
Cybersecurity Month14 Oct 2024 | 144
Thousands of Fortinet instances vulnerable to actively exploited flaw
No excuses for not patching this nine-month-old issue
Cybersecurity Month14 Oct 2024 | 8
Crypto-apocalypse soon? Chinese researchers find a potential quantum attack on classical encryption
With an off-the-shelf D-Wave machine, but only against very short keys
Cybersecurity Month14 Oct 2024 | 23
Schools bombarded by nation-state attacks, ransomware gangs, and everyone in between
Reading, writing, and cyber mayhem, amirite?
Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2024 | 32
INC ransomware rebrands to Lynx – same code, new name, still up to no good
Researchers point to evidence that scumbags visited the strategy boutique
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2024 | 10
Ukraine cyber cops collar man who allegedly hooked citizens up to Russian internet
'Self-taught hacker' facing a possible 15 years in the slammer
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2024 | 10
FBI created a cryptocurrency so it could watch it being abused
It worked – alleged pump and dump schemers arrested in UK, US and Portugal this week
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2024 | 55
Fore-get about privacy, golf tech biz leaves 32M data records on the fairway
Researcher spots 110 TB of sensitive info sitting in unprotected database
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 36
CISA adds fresh Ivanti vuln, critical Fortinet bug to hall of shame
Usual three-week window to address significant risks to federal agencies applies
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 |
Mozilla patches critical Firefox vuln that attackers are already exploiting
Firefixed: It's maintenance time for low-complexity, high-impact security flaw
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 26
Dutch cops reveal takedown of 'world's largest dark web market'
Two arrested after allegedly trying to make off with their ill-gotten gains
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 16
OpenAI says Chinese gang tried to phish its staff
Claims its models aren't making threat actors more sophisticated - but is helping debug their code
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 4
Internet Archive user info stolen in cyberattack, succumbs to DDoS
31M folks' usernames, email addresses, salted-encrypted passwords now out there
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 22
Moscow-adjacent GoldenJackal gang strikes air-gapped systems with custom malware
USB sticks help, but it's unclear how tools that suck malware from them are delivered
Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 24
Smart TVs are spying on everyone
Regulators know this is a nightmare and have done little to stop it. Privacy advocacy group wants that to change
Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 127
Marriott settles for a piddly $52M after series of breaches affecting millions
Intruders stayed for free on the network between 2014 and 2020
Cyber-crime09 Oct 2024 | 9
Microsoft cleans up hot mess of Patch Tuesday preview
Go forth and install your important security fixes
Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 5
Ransomware gang Trinity joins pile of scumbags targeting healthcare
As if hospitals and clinics didn't have enough to worry about
Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 6
Asian crime gangs are growing – fast – thanks to AI and other tech
UN report finds Telegram, cryptocurrency are tools of a growing 'criminal service economy'
Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 7
Microsoft issues 117 patches – some for flaws already under attack
Patch Tuesday Plus: SAP re-patches a failed patch for critical-rated flaw
Cybersecurity Month08 Oct 2024 | 6
Qualcomm urges device makers to push patches after 'targeted' exploitation
Given Amnesty's involvement, it's a safe bet spyware is in play
Patches08 Oct 2024 |
Google brings better bricking to Androids, to curtail crims
Improved security features teased in May now appearing around the world
Cybersecurity Month08 Oct 2024 | 24
Feds reach for sliver of crypto-cash nicked by North Korea's notorious Lazarus Group
A couple million will do for a start … but Kim's crews are suspected of stealing much more
Cybersecurity Month08 Oct 2024 | 2
American Water rinsed in cyber attack, turns off app
Updated It's still safe to drink, top provider tells us
Cybersecurity Month07 Oct 2024 | 12
Chinese cyberspies reportedly breached Verizon, AT&T, Lumen
Salt Typhoon may have accessed court-ordered wiretaps and US internet traffic
Security07 Oct 2024 | 6
'Critical' CUPS vulnerability chain easy to use for massive DDoS attacks
Infosec In Brief Also, rooting for Russian cybercriminals, a new DDoS record, sneaky Linux server malware and more
Cybersecurity Month07 Oct 2024 | 5
UK's Sellafield nuke waste processing plant fined £333K for infosec blunders
Radioactive hazards and cyber failings ... what could possibly go wrong?
Cybersecurity Month05 Oct 2024 | 21
About a quarter million Comcast subscribers had their data stolen from debt collector
Cable giant says ransomware involved, FBCS keeps schtum
Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2024 | 6
Apple fixes bug that let VoiceOver shout your passwords
Not a great look when the iGiant just launched its first password manager
Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2024 | 6
Harvard duo hacks Meta Ray-Bans to dox strangers on sight in seconds
'You can build this in a few days – even as a very naïve developer'
Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2024 | 115
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