Italian utility giant A2A is entering the data center market, with plans to build its first facility in Lombardy starting in 2027. The company has earmarked a whopping €1.6 billion for data center construction and management over the next decade. This comes as Milan’s data center capacity is project
A San Francisco startup just raised a huge Series A to create a marketplace for AI compute. SF Compute lets companies resell their unused GPU capacity, offering flexibility in a market dominated by long-term contracts.
Shopify suffered a major outage on one of the biggest online shopping days of the year. The login authentication failure left merchants unable to process sales, highlighting a critical single point of failure.
AWS is finally making a move to simplify operations across rival clouds, starting with Google. The timing, amid regulatory pressure, is no coincidence. But will this open approach actually help customers, or just the giants themselves?
Applied Digital has finished constructing its first 100MW data center building in Ellendale, North Dakota. The entire capacity of the campus is now committed to AI cloud provider CoreWeave under a massive long-term agreement.
HPE is loading up its private AI cloud offerings with new Nvidia tech, including Blackwell GPUs and virtualization. They’re also planning an AI Factory Lab in Grenoble, France, for 2026 and touting a new storage system to tackle the data bottleneck.
Data protection officers in Switzerland are pushing for a major shift in how governments use cloud software. They argue that simply storing data locally isn’t sufficient; agencies must hold the encryption keys themselves to have true control.
AWS is launching a new, specialized AI Competency focused on agentic AI systems. The program offers partners significant benefits, including funding and priority access to AWS resources. According to AWS, projects with a competency partner launch 30 days faster on average.
Google has withdrawn its antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud business that was filed with the European Commission in 2024. The complaint alleged Microsoft used restrictive software licensing to lock customers into Azure. This marks a significant retreat in the ongoing cloud wars between th
The UK government is seeking cloud providers for a massive £250 million AI compute expansion. The four-year contract aims to seamlessly integrate with existing supercomputer infrastructure while dramatically scaling national AI capacity.
