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07 september
01h05
Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals
PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek’s vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; and more
04 september
11h37
Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox
No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices
04h48
Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and - surprise - took down a chunk of the G-Cloud
This sounds like a RTFM error at hyperscale
01 september
14h16
Microsoft and AWS build the multicloud bridge they said customers barely needed
New services promise private 100 Gbps links between the rival platforms without months of networking faff
25 august
05h21
SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year
And fly significant scale’ in 2028 - a claim that isn’t entirely bonkers, but needs a solid grain of salt
21 august
04h38
Alibaba Cloud plans to use fewer Western chips, to boost its already huge AI margins
Cloudy AI is Chinese giant’s most certain’ path to growth as e-commerce slows
20 august
16h12
US claims 15 of the world’s top 20 hyperscale datacenter locations
Northern Virginia alone accounts for nearly 12% of global capacity, though new builds are shifting inland
19 august
19h33
Google pits Marvell against Broadcom as it chases AI crown
And Marvell just offered the Chocolate Factory a 12.2B stake to sweeten the deal
13 august
12h31
Ryanair adds Google to its dual-cloud flight plan
Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat
04h45
Tencent says it could make instant profits on 53B hardware splurge by renting it for AI workloads
Plans to build models instead because it thinks selling tokens will prove more lucrative in the long term
12 august
22h56
Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn’t nebulous
And it’ll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there
16h13
CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches 35.6B
Neocloud says AI compute demand is becoming continuous, but so is the spending
11 august
18h51
Together AI embraces the competition with 240M IBM Cloud deal
Deal to fund ’large’ deployment of Nvidia’s last-gen HGX B300 systems launching in Q1 2027
05h52
OVH Cloud warns of 87% price hikes to help it cover RAMpocalypse costs
Gaming servers get the steepest rises but sticker shock is also coming to conventional instances running on old and new boxes
10 august
16h15
LexisNexis pulls three services offline after suspicious server activity
Customers say issues began Wednesday and still not resolved
06 august
12h23
European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven’t made an escape plan
Nearly three-quarters worry Washington could cut access, yet fewer than half regularly test their fallback
05 august
13h04
Cloud startup Volta claims 10B AI lab deal for Norway bit barn
Anthropic said to be the client wanting to secure rent-a-GPU company’s compute resources
04 august
13h09
Cloud giants pour nearly 600B into capex as AI demand surges
Revenue is soaring, yet hyperscalers say they still cannot build capacity fast enough
01 august
07h00
Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing
Cloud revenue now north of 143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating
30 july
10h00
The majority of corporate IT is now off premises for the first time
Survey finds more workloads run off-site than at in-house corporate facilities for the first time
24 july
01h24
Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours
Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services
22 july
20h15
Web app turns your old phone into a new smart display
ScreenWall’s creator tells El Reg he doesn’t want those obsolete devices going to waste
06h29
Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five
Digital transformation’ is a better bet, apparently, so private equity gets a turn
21 july
18h35
Iran says it’s struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again
AWS’ me-south-1 region has been offline for months, so more like beating a dead cloud
05h39
Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes
UPDATED: Single datacenter and just three services taken down by upstream’ power problem and failure of diesel generators
20 july
19h37
AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical
An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral
17 july
16h37
Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates
Amazon asks users not to panic as it works to fix the bug
12h35
Top EU court clips YouTube’s intermediary defense over reviewed content
You can’t claim to be a passive host after vetting a creator’s channel, Google warned
16 july
10h54
AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites
Storm sends winds whipping beyond cloud giant, knocking out services including Hugging Face and the UK’s National Lottery
14 july
02h18
India’s tech services giant HCL is getting into the AI datacenter business
Starting small with 37m and maybe 50MW but reckons full-stack service plan can succeed
09 july
12h42
Britain’s cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk
24-hour outage in key AWS region could leave UK firms nursing massive losses, researchers claim
01h53
Microsoft shifts to annual exchange rate price revision for cloudy products
Previously did it twice a year, so customers now have fewer chances to surf FX waves
03 july
02h22
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers - and not even AI can save it
Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts
14 june
21h36
Fire burns Google Cloud India’s network, which remains slow a week later
PLUS: Japan’s space truck is back in business; Zoho’s DIY servers; Record tech exports for Korea, and more
09h15
EU sovereignty push gives tech buyers a new alphabet soup to swallow
Brussels presses on despite US fury as it looks to enforce cloud autonomy and bolster open source
28 may
19h00
Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs
Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream
08h00
Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack
SPONSORED POST: Hyperscaler adoption and AI workloads are accelerating multi-architecture infrastructure
27 may
21h20
Snowflake to burn 6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators
Dataware house gambles cloud conveniences, AI accelerated insights will justify the cost.
26 may
10h30
Big Tech extracts retirement-scale wealth from UK internet users, research shows
Britain’s ’free’ internet economy is powered by invisible data extraction that feeds advertisers, AI firms, and digital platforms
21 may
05h38
Open Compute urges local government to bask in the warm glow of excess datacenter heat
Org that represents Meta, Google and Microsoft plans more heat reuse guidelines as debate over bit barn social license burns red hot
20 may
04h37
Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage
This is the service we get when we spend 10m plus? asks automated code deployment outfit
19 may
12h10
Broadcom finds a VMware customer willing to stick around: London Stock Exchange
LSEG signs up for five more years of Cloud Foundation, but keeps quiet on how much it’ll cost
06h52
Baidu says the quiet part out loud - you can’t build AI infrastructure, so clouds can cash in
CFO says GPU rentals are structurally higher margin than CPU cloud’
15 may
05h39
AWS racks M3 Ultra Macs that boast specs you can’t currently buy
Manages to get its hands on some Mac Studio machines before the OpenClaw machine grabs them
14 may
04h40
Tencent admits GPUs only pay for themselves when powering personalized ads
Chinese web giant says accelerator shortage is over as local hardware arrives in volume
12 may
00h14
Red Hat blasts RHEL 10.1 into orbit aboard Voyager’s micro datacenter
Orbital compute platform, which launched on a mission to the ISS last year, gets an immutable upgrade alongside refreshed container images
11 may
05h31
Sovereign cloud is only possible if you’re Chinese or American: Gartner
Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent
08 may
04h50
Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough
Around 20 percent of staff get an In one hour, you might not work here anymore’ email
02h33
AWS warns of EC2 ’impairment’ as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region
Extra aircon found to cool overheating datacenter as users complain their resources are... nowhere
07 may
16h04
IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power
Customers say services were down for at least 4 hours, while status page showed no issues
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