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206- Sparkle, Hellas Sat test quantum-safe satellite link
Sparkle and Hellas Sat have extended Sparkle's QSI service from a terrestrial data-centre link to a GEO satellite connection between Greece and Cyprus.
Primary articlePublished 2026-09-03 - A Code-Signing Certificate Has Two End Dates
A replacement certificate changes tomorrow's build, but a valid timestamp can preserve yesterday's binary beyond the signer's expiry. The real cutover is therefore an inventory of artifacts, timestamp tokens, revocation time and verifier results—not a closed renewal ticket.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-28 - Sage Weil: the engineer who made distributed storage computable
Sage Weil’s most enduring contribution was not a storage device but an architecture. CRUSH calculates data placement, while RADOS distributes storage, repair and movement across the cluster. Ceph enabled ordinary machines to operate as one system, then had to learn to continue without its founder.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-19 - UCIe's chiplet promise hinges on what lies beyond the link
UCIe has defined a die-to-die interface that reaches 64 GT/s and now covers 3D packaging, raw data traffic and package-wide management. The deciding question is whether these rules can support multi-vendor products when power delivery, thermals, manufacturing yield, software, security and liability still have to be resolved outside the standard.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-19 - UCIe’s chiplet promise depends on more than the link
UCIe has defined a die-to-die interface reaching 64 GT/s and expanded its scope to 3D packaging, raw data traffic and whole-package management. The decisive test is whether these rules can support multi-vendor products while power, thermal design, manufacturing yield, software, security and responsibility remain matters resolved outside the standard.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-19 - The Azure Front Door Protection Bypass That Became an Accountability Test
Microsoft’s account of QNBQ-5W8 shows how a temporarily disabled safeguard let bad control-plane metadata reach edge resources—and why recovery promises need operational proof.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-15 - DeadLock spreads the recovery path so one takedown no longer ends the negotiation
Microsoft Threat Intelligence’s new analysis of DeadLock focuses on an extortion architecture that separates encryption from the channels used to communicate and deliver recovery resources. Session and blockchain-backed services may let the operation recover from the loss of one site, forcing defenders to map a system rather than chase a single domain.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-11 - Nuclea, New Mining assess US data-centre microreactors
Nuclea Energy and New Mining will study behind-the-meter microreactors for an existing 30MWe load, without committing either side to a power project.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - FuelCell Energy signs 75MW Texas data-centre reservation
An unnamed data-centre operator has paid to reserve manufacturing capacity for a planned 75MW FuelCell Energy project in Texas.
Primary articlePublished 2026-09-02 - US order tightens scrutiny of foreign grid equipment
New federal powers could affect how US data-centre projects procure covered transformers, batteries, generators and control equipment before installation.
Primary articlePublished 2026-09-04 - MasOrange tests 6GHz radio technology with Ericsson
MasOrange has tested 6GHz spectrum with 256TR active antennas and beamforming as it evaluates radio technology for future 6G deployment.
Primary articlePublished 2026-09-04 - US fibre market records 41 deals in 2026
A 41-deal count gives the US fibre consolidation debate a measurable base as investors weigh existing networks against further construction.
Primary articlePublished 2026-09-04 - MSSA updates NTN architecture for regenerative payloads
MSSA's Version 2.0 adds regenerative payload guidance and shared 5G NR and NB-IoT design options for non-terrestrial networks.
Primary articlePublished 2026-09-02 - LS Electric, KT Cloud partner on AI data-centre power
LS Electric will work with KT Cloud from the design stage on power systems for modular AI data centres, with equipment supply planned for future projects.
Primary articlePublished 2026-09-03 - Nscale closes $3bn financing for two US AI sites
Separate delayed-draw loans will fund Nscale's Texas and North Carolina deployments, including GPUs, networking, storage, cooling and site retrofit work.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-31 - Orange acquires Obvios's Dome private 5G core
The acquisition brings Dome's private 5G core and its developers into Orange Business for defence and critical-infrastructure deployments.
Primary articlePublished 2026-09-03 - Boldyn adds RedCap sensors to West Sussex private 5G
A livestock sensor is using RedCap on an existing private 5G network in West Sussex, extending the network to lower-bandwidth IoT devices.
Primary articlePublished 2026-09-02 - Data-centre orders surge at transformer makers
Rising transformer orders are pushing equipment delivery dates earlier into data-centre planning, alongside grid connections and construction schedules.
Primary articlePublished 2026-09-02 - Data centre water use could hit 644bn litres
Rystad says cooling choices could cut 2030 water demand sharply, but some lower-water systems require more electricity.
Primary articlePublished 2026-09-01 - Anthropic reportedly agrees US$35bn Lambda compute deal
The reported agreement links Anthropic’s compute demand to Lambda, Nvidia hardware and data-centre capacity being developed by Hut 8 in Texas.
Primary articlePublished 2026-09-01 - SMA launches AI data centre power portfolio
The systems are designed to smooth volatile AI loads before they reach grids or generators, with an 800VDC option planned for 2027.
Primary articlePublished 2026-09-01 - Ecolab links cooling-loop fill to week-long data centre outage
A contractor's coolant choice reportedly contributed to a week of downtime, exposing a handover risk in direct-to-chip cooling.
Primary articlePublished 2026-09-01 - Compu Dynamics moves AI data-centre construction off-site
Compu Dynamics is expanding factory-built delivery for AI projects, shifting more power, cooling and white-space work away from the construction site.
Primary articlePublished 2026-09-01 - Nexans qualifies 525kV HVDC repair system for 3,000m
The qualification adds a tested repair joint to Nexans' deepwater cable system for the planned Crete-Cyprus electricity interconnector.
Primary articlePublished 2026-09-01 - Subsea Cable Assets launches carousel rental service
The new service gives subsea contractors temporary access to 4,000- and 6,000-tonne cable carousels, with a first European contract already secured.
Primary articlePublished 2026-09-01 - Alberta NDP seeks pause on AI data-centre approvals
The opposition wants approvals paused until projects are tested on jobs, siting, water, utility costs, reclamation, data sovereignty and consultation.
Primary articlePublished 2026-09-01 - Sault Ste. Marie moves to pause data centres above 50MW
Council has ordered a bylaw for 21 September that would pause applications above 50MW while the city writes rules for large data centres.
Primary articlePublished 2026-09-01 - Velo Technologies expands its infrastructure business from Cyberjaya
The Malaysian private company spans data-centre capacity, cloud, managed security, networks and IT outsourcing. Its partnerships are increasingly visible, but its ownership names, absolute financial scale and the economics behind some of its infrastructure commitments remain private.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-26 - Italian trial links 18km free-space QKD to single-mode fibre
Researchers linked an 18km free-space quantum channel to single-mode fibre, showing how adaptive optics can bridge atmospheric and terrestrial quantum links.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-31 - FreeCast targets telecom operators with streaming PaaS
FreeCast is pitching its streaming platform to telecom and broadband providers, with Assist Wireless and enTouch Wireless already signed to use the service.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-31 - Mauritius Telecom completes Learn-AI internship for 15 schools
Students and teachers spent two weeks inside Mauritius Telecom, seeing how AI tools are used across the operator’s business.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-31 - Mavenir and Sanas begin mobile-core speech AI validation
Mavenir and Sanas will test real-time speech processing inside Mavenir’s mobile-core voice platform before making the functions commercially available to operators.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-31 - OpenAI data-centre chief leaves after team reorganisation
Chris Malone’s exit follows an earlier reorganisation that placed OpenAI’s data-centre engineering, compute and build-and-delivery work under separate leaders.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-29 - Rogers backs one-year Michigan data-centre pause
Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers is calling for a one-year statewide pause on new data centres while the state considers stronger approval rules.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-26 - Inside Axclusive: from systems integrator to international ISP
*At BATIC 2026, Axclusive introduced itself in four uncomplicated facts: it is an ISP, it was founded in 2013, it is based in Singapore, and it has operations in Vietnam and India. The public record supports that outline, but the more revealing story sits underneath it: the company behind AS132337 has assembled a genuine Asia–Europe interconnection footprint, while the ownership, financial capacity and commercial returns behind that network remain far less visible than the routes themselves.*
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-25 - Itochu targets 10 Japan data centres by 2030
Itochu is reportedly planning around 10 50MW data centres in Japan by 2030, with leasing and eventual asset sales central to the model.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-23 - linuxptp and the control loop behind precision time
linuxptp turns a Linux host, hardware clock and network timing source into a precision-time system. Its daemons coordinate IEEE 1588 state, packet timestamps, servos and system clocks, but software alone cannot manufacture accuracy: the result still depends on NICs, oscillators, profiles, topology, calibration and the integrity of the reference source.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Colleferro approves Cobra Green AI data centre
Colleferro has approved Cobra Green Hyperscale's planned AI data centre, but national clearance is still required before construction can begin.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-23 - Laurent Vanbever and the network that must be tested while it changes
Laurent Vanbever’s work treats network configuration as executable software whose failures can emerge before, during or after deployment. From safe routing migrations and configuration synthesis to runtime BGP detection and energy-aware operations, his research at ETH Zurich asks how operators can preserve intent while the network is continuously changing.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Abbott says few firms answered Texas data-centre survey
Texas is requiring more project information as ERCOT tries to assess a data-centre connection queue that has grown to more than 474GW.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-24 - Vapat proposes 160MW Valladolid data-centre campus
Vapat has proposed a 160MW data-centre campus in Valladolid beside its wind assets and La Mudarra substation, with the project under environmental review.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-23 - Big Tech adds community commitments to data-centre plans
OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft are putting community funding, construction jobs and greater disclosure into data-centre development as local opposition grows.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-24 - Katerina Argyraki and the search for proof in packet forwarding
Katerina Argyraki’s research follows a problem that becomes harder as networks become more programmable: a packet-processing system may be fast and flexible, yet operators and users often have little evidence that it behaved correctly. Her work at EPFL connects software-router scale, code verification, performance contracts, packet receipts and external measurement into a layered approach to network accountability.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Starcloud raises $250m for orbital data centres
Starcloud will use the new funding to expand spacecraft manufacturing and Nvidia engineering work as it develops larger orbital computing systems.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-24 - FreeRADIUS and the trust decisions behind network access
A network login may be decided in a few packets, but the trust behind it can span certificates, directories, access devices, roaming partners and accounting systems. FreeRADIUS makes that policy inspectable and programmable, while leaving operators responsible for the legacy clients, dependencies and failure paths that turn a small authentication exchange into critical infrastructure.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - ACT keeps data-centre approvals open
Canberra will keep assessing new data-centre projects under existing rules while the federal government develops national standards for large facilities.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-24 - Prometheus, Istmo plan 2.5GW gas-powered Texas campus
The Reeves County project would start with 1.5GW of behind-the-meter generation using pipeline natural gas and on-site ethane, with first power targeted for 2027.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-23 - Dave Maltz and the operating stack behind Azure networking
Dave Maltz’s role at Microsoft is best understood through the breadth of the organisation he leads. Azure Networking spans customer-facing services, DNS, security, distributed control, host offload, switch software, data-centre fabrics, wide-area links and optical systems. That remit makes Maltz an accountable integrator across layers, not the sole inventor of the many systems beneath Azure.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - BIRD and the routing policy engine behind internet exchanges
The BIRD Internet Routing Daemon grew from a Czech university project into a control-plane system used in demanding routing environments, including internet exchanges where policy is concentrated and operational mistakes can spread quickly. Its history shows how open routing software can reduce dependence on proprietary control planes while shifting more responsibility for configuration, branch management, testing and incident response onto the operator.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Amphora Connect switches on West Mersea fibre network
Amphora Connect's 18km fibre route from Colchester to West Mersea is live, putting around 4,000 homes and businesses within reach.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-24 - TVA raises data-centre rates, adds capacity charge
New and expanding loads above 5MW face capacity-commitment charges, while some projects can take interruptible power before permanent capacity is ready.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-23 - Colombia cancels Amazon fibre tender after costs rise
Colombia has cancelled a planned Amazonas and Putumayo fibre network after its estimated cost rose 67.1% and officials identified delivery risks.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-24 - China shifts AI data-centre capacity west for power
China is placing more computing capacity in western regions where renewable power, land and cooler climates are easier to secure.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-24 - containerd: the runtime daemon most container users never see
Kubernetes, Docker and managed cloud platforms make containers look like applications, pods and services. Beneath those interfaces, containerd moves images, prepares filesystems, preserves runtime state and supervises processes. Its value comes from being deliberately incomplete: a common, privileged middle layer that many products can share while leaving orchestration, networking, policy and most user experience elsewhere.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-06 - Latos submits East Manchester data centre plans
Latos's compact edge model now has to clear planning with its power, plant, noise controls and access built into the site design.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-22 - Generac commits $250m to data-centre generator capacity
Hyperscale orders are pushing Generac to expand US generator production ahead of 2027 deliveries, while supplier capacity and tariff exposure remain unresolved.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-20 - AUC rejects Synapse's 1.4GW Olds power plant
The regulator found Synapse's proposed gas plant too close to homes, forcing a rethink of the power plan behind its 1GW Olds data centre.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-20 - Slurm: The Scheduler That Decides Who Gets the GPU
Slurm allocates scarce compute across HPC and AI clusters, turning queue policy into a practical decision about who gets GPUs and when. NVIDIA’s 2025 acquisition of SchedMD gave the project more resources while making vendor-neutral stewardship a question that now has to be judged through releases, testing and contribution behaviour.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-06 - Slurm: The Scheduler That Decides Who Gets the GPU
Slurm allocates scarce compute across HPC and AI clusters, turning queue policy into a practical decision about who gets GPUs and when. NVIDIA’s 2025 acquisition of SchedMD gave the project more resources while making vendor-neutral stewardship a question that now has to be judged through releases, testing and contribution behaviour.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-06 - Public Suffix List: The File That Draws Web Trust Boundaries
DNS can show that `shop.example.co.uk` sits beneath `co.uk`; it cannot tell a browser where independent registration begins. The Public Suffix List supplies that missing policy map. A volunteer-maintained text file now informs cookies, site grouping, certificates and service limits across products whose decisions the maintainers neither control nor guarantee.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-06 - NSW sets 40% wind threshold for data-centre fast track
Projects meeting the new NSW guidelines can seek a 75-day state assessment while committing to additional renewables, storage and flexible electricity demand.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-18 - NSW sets 40% wind threshold for data-centre fast track
Projects meeting the new NSW guidelines can seek a 75-day state assessment while committing to additional renewables, storage and flexible electricity demand.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-18 - Thylander, CIP start 11.5MW Esbjerg data centre
DDC1 pairs a new Danish colocation facility with grid-responsive power management, testing whether flexible electricity use can work alongside normal data-centre operations.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-18 - Thylander, CIP start 11.5MW Esbjerg data centre
DDC1 pairs a new Danish colocation facility with grid-responsive power management, testing whether flexible electricity use can work alongside normal data-centre operations.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-18 - Thylander, CIP start 11.5MW Esbjerg data centre
DDC1 pairs a new Danish colocation facility with grid-responsive power management, testing whether flexible electricity use can work alongside normal data-centre operations.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-18 - Meta-BlackRock $14bn data centre carries partial insurance
Insurance limits cover only part of Sopaipilla's potential losses, leaving lenders to rely more heavily on Meta's lease and contractual support.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-19 - Meta-BlackRock $14bn data centre carries partial insurance
Insurance limits cover only part of Sopaipilla's potential losses, leaving lenders to rely more heavily on Meta's lease and contractual support.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-19 - Ericsson, MediaTek test sub-30cm positioning over 5G
The trial sends GNSS correction data through 5G core and radio networks, putting precise outdoor positioning onto standard mobile-network infrastructure.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-19 - Sage Weil: The Architect Who Made Distributed Storage Calculable
Sage Weil’s most durable contribution to internet infrastructure was not a storage appliance but an architecture. Ceph used CRUSH to calculate where data belongs and RADOS to spread storage, repair and movement across a cluster. The design helped commodity machines behave like one storage system—and created an operational project that ultimately had to outgrow its founder.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-06 - Sage Weil: The Architect Who Made Distributed Storage Calculable
Sage Weil’s most durable contribution to internet infrastructure was not a storage appliance but an architecture. Ceph used CRUSH to calculate where data belongs and RADOS to spread storage, repair and movement across a cluster. The design helped commodity machines behave like one storage system—and created an operational project that ultimately had to outgrow its founder.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-06 - Ericsson, MediaTek test sub-30cm positioning over 5G
The trial sends GNSS correction data through 5G core and radio networks, putting precise outdoor positioning onto standard mobile-network infrastructure.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-19 - Sage Weil: The Architect Who Made Distributed Storage Calculable
Sage Weil’s most durable contribution to internet infrastructure was not a storage appliance but an architecture. Ceph used CRUSH to calculate where data belongs and RADOS to spread storage, repair and movement across a cluster. The design helped commodity machines behave like one storage system—and created an operational project that ultimately had to outgrow its founder.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-06 - Ericsson, MediaTek test sub-30cm positioning over 5G
The trial sends GNSS correction data through 5G core and radio networks, putting precise outdoor positioning onto standard mobile-network infrastructure.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-19 - Ericsson, MediaTek test sub-30cm positioning over 5G
The trial sends GNSS correction data through 5G core and radio networks, putting precise outdoor positioning onto standard mobile-network infrastructure.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-19 - FCC puts US terrestrial 100/20 coverage at 96.9%
Satellite lifts the FCC's reported 100/20 broadband availability to 99.7%, but terrestrial coverage remains lower and satellite performance can vary.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-19 - FCC puts US 100/20 terrestrial broadband access at 96.9%
The FCC says terrestrial 100/20 broadband reaches 96.9% of Americans, while satellite lifts reported fixed availability to 99.7% despite usability limits.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-19 - UK awards £13m to 16 satellite communications projects
UK Space Agency funding covers optical links, ground stations, onboard processing, rail connectivity and terrestrial-network integration across 16 satellite communications projects.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-19 - UK awards £13m to 16 satellite communications projects
UK Space Agency funding covers optical links, ground stations, onboard processing, rail connectivity and terrestrial-network integration across 16 satellite communications projects.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-19 - Prince George approves C$400,000 Northern Health fibre link
Prince George will add a second Northern Health fibre link before hospital construction severs an existing route, using revenue from its municipal network.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-19 - Prince George approves C$400,000 Northern Health fibre link
Prince George will add a second Northern Health fibre link before hospital construction severs an existing route, using revenue from its municipal network.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-19 - Ford backs Ontario data centres to keep data in Canada
Ontario's draft framework would assess large data-centre projects on data sovereignty, economic contribution and community benefit alongside grid requirements.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-19 - NVM Express: How Storage Became a Network Protocol
NVMe began as a queue architecture for flash attached over PCI Express. It has grown into a modular protocol family that can reach storage across TCP and RDMA fabrics, support discovery and multipath, expose specialised media models and connect to management systems. The abstraction made disaggregated storage practical, but it moved new complexity into networks, software and security.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-06 - Ford backs Ontario data centres to keep data in Canada
Ontario's draft framework would make data sovereignty a factor in large data-centre connection approvals, alongside grid, economic and community considerations.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-19 - NVM Express: How Storage Became a Network Protocol
NVMe began as a queue architecture for flash attached over PCI Express. It has grown into a modular protocol family that can reach storage across TCP and RDMA fabrics, support discovery and multipath, expose specialised media models and connect to management systems. The abstraction made disaggregated storage practical, but it moved new complexity into networks, software and security.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-06 - Alberta begins AI data-centre town halls in Ponoka
Alberta is opening public discussions on AI data centres as communities weigh power, water and infrastructure requirements alongside new investment.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-19 - Telecom Plus adds 162,032 shares to treasury
The latest purchase is part of a £40m buyback programme tied to Telecom Plus's valuation-based shareholder distribution policy.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-19 - Space Force awards $60m for multi-vendor SDN integration
The Space Force will test cross-network links and orbital routers as it tries to connect commercial satellite systems through standard interfaces.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-18 - BUZZ HPC signs $350m AI cloud contract
BUZZ will deploy 2,016 GPUs at Bell's Merritt facility under a five-year customer contract, with service targeted to begin in Q4 2026.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-18 - DIU selects Katalyst for deorbit-as-a-service design
Katalyst will take DIU's deorbit-as-a-service programme through preliminary design, with any flight phase using NEXUS still conditional.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-18 - PCI-SIG and the rulebook inside the AI server
An AI server may bring together processors, accelerators, network adapters, storage controllers, switches, retimers and security devices from companies that compete everywhere else. PCI-SIG maintains the shared interface that lets those parts find one another and exchange data, then runs the compliance system used to test whether implementations follow the same rules. Its influence is substantial, but bounded: the organisation governs a common path into the machine, not the complete machine or every outcome once the parts are assembled.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Steven Bellovin and the security questions that escaped the network
Steven M. Bellovin began by testing the claims computers accepted from packets: source addresses, routes, sequence numbers and names. His later work applied the same suspicion to institutions, asking what systems make the public trust when governments demand access, companies infer identity and regulators turn technical possibility into policy.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Steven Bellovin and the security questions that escaped the network
Steven M. Bellovin began by testing the claims computers accepted from packets: source addresses, routes, sequence numbers and names. His later work applied the same suspicion to institutions, asking what systems make the public trust when governments demand access, companies infer identity and regulators turn technical possibility into policy.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Caliptra and the root of trust inside the data-centre chip
Modern servers contain several chips that boot code, hold keys and enforce policy before the host operating system is awake. Caliptra gives those components a common open root of trust, but factories, provisioning systems, physical implementations and fleet verifiers still decide whether its public design becomes dependable infrastructure.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Caliptra and the root of trust inside the data-centre chip
Modern servers contain several chips that boot code, hold keys and enforce policy before the host operating system is awake. Caliptra gives those components a common open root of trust, but factories, provisioning systems, physical implementations and fleet verifiers still decide whether its public design becomes dependable infrastructure.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Caliptra and the root of trust inside the data-centre chip
Modern servers contain several chips that boot code, hold keys and enforce policy before the host operating system is awake. Caliptra gives those components a common open root of trust, but factories, provisioning systems, physical implementations and fleet verifiers still decide whether its public design becomes dependable infrastructure.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Caliptra and the root of trust inside the data-centre chip
Modern servers contain several chips that boot code, hold keys and enforce policy before the host operating system is awake. Caliptra gives those components a common open root of trust, but factories, provisioning systems, physical implementations and fleet verifiers still decide whether its public design becomes dependable infrastructure.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Caliptra and the root of trust inside the data-centre chip
Modern servers contain several chips that boot code, hold keys and enforce policy before the host operating system is awake. Caliptra gives those components a common open root of trust, but factories, provisioning systems, physical implementations and fleet verifiers still decide whether its public design becomes dependable infrastructure.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Caliptra and the root of trust inside the data-centre chip
Modern servers contain several chips that boot code, hold keys and enforce policy before the host operating system is awake. Caliptra gives those components a common open root of trust, but factories, provisioning systems, physical implementations and fleet verifiers still decide whether its public design becomes dependable infrastructure.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Nebius to lease Vantage capacity in Newport
Nebius is adding another UK location for its AI cloud infrastructure through leased data-centre capacity at Vantage's Newport campus in South Wales.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-14 - Nebius to lease Vantage capacity in Newport
Nebius is adding another UK location for its AI cloud infrastructure through leased data-centre capacity at Vantage's Newport campus in South Wales.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-14 - Ion Stoica and the abstractions behind distributed computing
Distributed systems fail when software assumes machines are interchangeable. Ion Stoica’s work repeatedly moves complexity behind a narrower abstraction—from packet-carried state and Chord to Mesos, Spark, Ray and cross-cloud placement—then tests how much operational, economic and governance burden that abstraction can actually hide.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Ion Stoica and the abstractions behind distributed computing
Distributed systems fail when software assumes machines are interchangeable. Ion Stoica’s work repeatedly moves complexity behind a narrower abstraction—from packet-carried state and Chord to Mesos, Spark, Ray and cross-cloud placement—then tests how much operational, economic and governance burden that abstraction can actually hide.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Azure’s West US route-removal outage made maintenance scope an accountability test
A repair intended to reduce one reliability risk instead widened a datacenter’s isolation scope and disrupted routes serving traffic into and out of Azure West US. The incident shows why cloud-network accountability depends not only on redundant paths, but also on aggregate safety checks, useful failure signals and recovery mechanisms that remain available when ordinary connectivity is degraded.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-17 - Microsoft's first Fairwater facility is operational, but its infrastructure proof remains bounded
Microsoft's June milestone turns Fairwater from a construction story into an operating-infrastructure case, while leaving usable capacity, physical supply paths, redundancy and measured performance outside the public record.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-16 - OpenINTEL built a memory for the DNS—not a copy of it
The Domain Name System answers current questions and preserves little of its own history. OpenINTEL has built a longitudinal record by repeatedly measuring a defined set of domains and address space, creating unusual research value while leaving user demand, resolver behaviour and unmeasured names outside the archive.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Richard Barnes and the protocols that made trust routine
Richard Barnes has worked on the protocols that make trust routine enough to disappear into operations: automated certificates, recipient encryption, changing group membership and protected media. Their value lies in open, composable mechanisms; their limits appear when services, endpoints and institutions decide how those mechanisms are deployed.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Richard Barnes and the protocols that made trust routine
Richard Barnes has worked on the protocols that make trust routine enough to disappear into operations: automated certificates, recipient encryption, changing group membership and protected media. Their value lies in open, composable mechanisms; their limits appear when services, endpoints and institutions decide how those mechanisms are deployed.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Nebius to lease Vantage data centre capacity in Newport
Nebius is adding another UK location for its AI cloud through leased capacity at Vantage's Newport campus.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-14 - Nebius to lease Vantage data centre capacity in Newport
Nebius is adding another UK location for its AI cloud through leased capacity at Vantage's Newport campus.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-14 - RWE says two data centre site deals near agreement
RWE is moving two data centre sites towards customer agreements as it tests how existing power infrastructure can support new European capacity.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-14 - VMO2 says equipment reuse avoided 5,262 tonnes COâ‚‚e
A 10-year equipment recovery programme with TXO shows how refurbished network hardware can reduce waste and the need for newly manufactured replacements.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-14 - Vodafone Business and TCS partner on UK enterprise AI
The companies plan AI-led transformation services for UK businesses as Vodafone Business expands its digital-services portfolio beyond core connectivity.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-13 - Vodafone Business and TCS partner on UK enterprise AI
The companies plan AI-led transformation services for UK businesses as Vodafone Business expands its digital-services portfolio beyond core connectivity.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-13 - Optus launches mission to extend D3 satellite life
Optus has sent the hardware for extending D3's life into orbit, but the propulsion pod still has to reach and attach to the satellite.
Primary articlePublished 2026-07-23 - Optus D3 life-extension pod launches
Optus has moved its D3 life-extension plan into orbit, but the propulsion pod must still reach the satellite and be installed before it can take over station-keeping.
Primary articlePublished 2026-07-23 - Waterloo Region seeks data-centre impact report
The review will assess economic benefits alongside power, water and environmental impacts without changing the local planning approval process.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-12 - Waterloo Region seeks data-centre impact report
The review will assess economic benefits alongside power, water and environmental impacts without changing the local planning approval process.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-12 - Oakville imposes one-year moratorium on data centres
Oakville has paused new data-centre development for one year while it studies planning rules, with no application filed for the proposed 320MW project.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-11 - Oakville imposes one-year moratorium on data centres
Oakville has paused new data-centre development for one year while it studies planning rules, with no application filed for the proposed 320MW project.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-11 - Envision commissions Ulanqab AI campus
The Galaxy Campus is designed to scale beyond 2GW, but Envision has not disclosed how much IT capacity is currently operating.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Envision commissions Ulanqab AI campus
The Galaxy Campus is designed to scale beyond 2GW, but Envision has not disclosed how much IT capacity is currently operating.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Phi-2 turned small-model efficiency into a research question, not a deployment verdict
Microsoft Research's 12 December 2023 release paired a 2.7-billion-parameter base model with striking selected academic results. The durable lesson is not that size stopped mattering, but that compact-model claims need an evidence trail separating research measurements from production acceptance.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-13 - Envision commissions Ulanqab AI campus
The Galaxy Campus is designed to scale beyond 2GW, but Envision has not disclosed how much IT capacity is currently operating.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Envision commissions Ulanqab AI campus
The Galaxy Campus is designed to scale beyond 2GW, but Envision has not disclosed how much IT capacity is currently operating.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Envision commissions Ulanqab AI campus
The Galaxy Campus is designed to scale beyond 2GW, but Envision has not disclosed how much IT capacity is currently operating.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Envision commissions Ulanqab AI campus
The Galaxy Campus is designed to scale beyond 2GW, but Envision has not disclosed how much IT capacity is currently operating.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Envision commissions Ulanqab AI campus
The Galaxy Campus is designed to scale beyond 2GW, but Envision has not disclosed how much IT capacity is currently operating.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Envision commissions Ulanqab AI campus
The Galaxy Campus is designed to scale beyond 2GW, but Envision has not disclosed how much IT capacity is currently operating.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Envision commissions Ulanqab AI campus
The Galaxy Campus is designed to scale beyond 2GW, but Envision has not disclosed how much IT capacity is currently operating.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Envision commissions Ulanqab AI campus
The Galaxy Campus is designed to scale beyond 2GW, but Envision has not disclosed how much IT capacity is currently operating.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Envision commissions Ulanqab AI campus
The Galaxy Campus is designed to scale beyond 2GW, but Envision has not disclosed how much IT capacity is currently operating.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Envision commissions Ulanqab AI campus
The Galaxy Campus is designed to scale beyond 2GW, but Envision has not disclosed how much IT capacity is currently operating.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Envision commissions Ulanqab AI campus
The Galaxy Campus is designed to scale beyond 2GW, but Envision has not disclosed how much IT capacity is currently operating.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Envision commissions Ulanqab AI campus
The Galaxy Campus is designed to scale beyond 2GW, but Envision has not disclosed how much IT capacity is currently operating.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Envision commissions Ulanqab AI campus
The Galaxy Campus is designed to scale beyond 2GW, but Envision has not disclosed how much IT capacity is currently operating.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Telesat wins C$2.3bn Arctic military satellite communications contract
Telesat's Canadian defence contract funds 69 more Lightspeed satellites, expanding the constellation to 225 while global service remains targeted for Q1 2028.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - DNSViz and the graph that makes DNSSEC failures legible
DNSViz turns one of the internet’s least intuitive failure modes into a picture that operators can investigate. Created by Casey Deccio and publicly operated by DNS-OARC, the open-source project links delegations, keys, signatures and authenticated denial records into an operational graph, while making clear that any diagnosis remains tied to the vantage point, time and policy under which the data was observed.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-06 - Virginia orders Dominion to propose data-centre transmission cost rules
Dominion must propose new rules for allocating the cost of transmission facilities built primarily for large-load customers.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Firebird opens Armenia AI factory, targets 300MW
Firebird has opened its Hrazdan AI factory, with expansion to 300MW and more than 70,000 Nvidia GPUs planned by the end of 2027.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Bruce Maggs and the algorithms that turned distance into an infrastructure business
Akamai did not shorten the internet; it built a system that made distant content behave as though it were nearby. Bruce Maggs helped turn placement, mapping, caching and failure algorithms into commercial infrastructure, while the scale of that achievement belongs to the team and institutions that carried it.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - perfSONAR and the path no single network can diagnose alone
perfSONAR gives research and education networks a shared way to test paths that cross several institutions. It can replace anecdote with common evidence, but endpoint quality, clock accuracy, local policy and incomplete coverage keep diagnosis a collective judgement rather than an automated verdict.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Array site-rental revenue rises 95% after T-Mobile lease
Array's tower rental revenue nearly doubled in Q2 as the T-Mobile lease lifted its base, while tenancy rose only slightly.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - OpenTitan’s real test began after the silicon shipped
OpenTitan makes the first security decisions inside a computer inspectable. Its reported March 2026 Chromebook deployment moved the project from open design to commercial hardware, where manufacturers, provisioning systems and long-term maintenance now determine whether transparency produces a credible chain of trust.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Array Digital Infrastructure reports 95% rise in site-rental revenue
Array's second-quarter site-rental revenue almost doubled after its T-Mobile tower lease took effect, making growth beyond the contracted base the next operating test.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Energy Vault signs 1.25GW Texas AI power deal
Energy Vault's 1.25GW Texas agreement pairs batteries, power controls and Caterpillar gensets to bring AI data-centre capacity online ahead of utility interconnections.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Energy Vault signs 1.25GW Texas AI power deal
Energy Vault's 1.25GW Texas agreement pairs batteries, power controls and Caterpillar gensets to bring AI data-centre capacity online ahead of utility interconnections.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Energy Vault signs 1.25GW Texas AI power deal
Energy Vault's 1.25GW Texas agreement pairs batteries, power controls and Caterpillar gensets to bring AI data-centre capacity online ahead of utility interconnections.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Eric Dumazet and the small queues inside Linux server economics
A busy server can appear healthy on a throughput chart while wasting time, memory and processor capacity behind its own packets. Eric Dumazet’s work on TCP Small Queues, fair queueing, pacing and cache-aware data structures helped Linux account for those hidden costs more carefully. The result is not one branded invention or a claim to own the TCP stack, but a long record of making a shared kernel behave more predictably when millions of connections compete for the same hardware.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Eric Dumazet and the small queues inside Linux server economics
A busy server can appear healthy on a throughput chart while wasting time, memory and processor capacity behind its own packets. Eric Dumazet’s work on TCP Small Queues, fair queueing, pacing and cache-aware data structures helped Linux account for those hidden costs more carefully. The result is not one branded invention or a claim to own the TCP stack, but a long record of making a shared kernel behave more predictably when millions of connections compete for the same hardware.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Stephen Hemminger and the commands that make Linux networking operable
Stephen Hemminger’s long stewardship of iproute2 sits between Linux kernel capability and operational control. The suite’s commands make routes, queues, bridges, sockets and devices inspectable, while carrying decades of compatibility and maintainer obligations.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Stephen Hemminger and the commands that make Linux networking operable
Stephen Hemminger’s long stewardship of iproute2 sits between Linux kernel capability and operational control. The suite’s commands make routes, queues, bridges, sockets and devices inspectable, while carrying decades of compatibility and maintainer obligations.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - CyrusOne wins Southall data-centre approval
Ealing approved CyrusOne’s Southall data-centre campus, but the company has not disclosed when its separately sourced power connection will be energised.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-13 - CyrusOne wins Southall data-centre approval
Ealing approved CyrusOne’s Southall data-centre campus, but the company has not disclosed when its separately sourced power connection will be energised.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-13 - CyrusOne wins Southall data-centre approval
Ealing approved CyrusOne’s Southall data-centre campus, but the company has not disclosed when its separately sourced power connection will be energised.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-13 - CyrusOne wins Southall data-centre approval
Ealing approved CyrusOne’s Southall data-centre campus, but the company has not disclosed when its separately sourced power connection will be energised.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-13 - CyrusOne wins Southall data-centre approval
Ealing approved CyrusOne’s Southall data-centre campus, but the company has not disclosed when its separately sourced power connection will be energised.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-13 - CyrusOne wins Southall data-centre approval
Ealing approved CyrusOne’s Southall data-centre campus, but the company has not disclosed when its separately sourced power connection will be energised.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-13 - CyrusOne wins Southall data-centre approval
Ealing approved CyrusOne’s Southall data-centre campus, but the company has not disclosed when its separately sourced power connection will be energised.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-13 - Kathleen Nichols and the queue delay a fast link cannot hide
Kathleen Nichols’ best-known work changed the variable used to judge a network queue: time, rather than packet count. CoDel made persistent waiting measurable, while leaving deployment dependent on bottleneck placement, responsive senders and maintained implementations.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Kathleen Nichols and the queue delay a fast link cannot hide
Kathleen Nichols’ best-known work changed the variable used to judge a network queue: time, rather than packet count. CoDel made persistent waiting measurable, while leaving deployment dependent on bottleneck placement, responsive senders and maintained implementations.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Kathleen Nichols and the queue delay a fast link cannot hide
Kathleen Nichols’ best-known work changed the variable used to judge a network queue: time, rather than packet count. CoDel made persistent waiting measurable, while leaving deployment dependent on bottleneck placement, responsive senders and maintained implementations.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Kathleen Nichols and the queue delay a fast link cannot hide
Kathleen Nichols’ best-known work changed the variable used to judge a network queue: time, rather than packet count. CoDel made persistent waiting measurable, while leaving deployment dependent on bottleneck placement, responsive senders and maintained implementations.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Kathleen Nichols and the queue delay a fast link cannot hide
Kathleen Nichols’ best-known work changed the variable used to judge a network queue: time, rather than packet count. CoDel made persistent waiting measurable, while leaving deployment dependent on bottleneck placement, responsive senders and maintained implementations.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Poul-Henning Kamp and the performance discipline of doing less
Poul-Henning Kamp’s systems work is held together by a suspicion that software becomes slow and fragile when several layers keep the same state or repeat the same task. His record shows what doing less can gain—and which responsibilities it transfers.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Arkansas local governments set different data-centre rules
Carroll County has paused approvals while Fayetteville and Little Rock use new rules, creating different local routes for data-centre development.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-13 - Sally Floyd made congestion control accountable to evidence
Sally Floyd linked router queues, transport feedback, traffic models and standards into a discipline of shared-network responsibility. Her legacy lies less in one celebrated algorithm than in a method for testing throughput, delay, fairness, stability and deployment assumptions together.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Sally Floyd made congestion control accountable to evidence
Sally Floyd linked router queues, transport feedback, traffic models and standards into a discipline of shared-network responsibility. Her legacy lies less in one celebrated algorithm than in a method for testing throughput, delay, fairness, stability and deployment assumptions together.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Massimo Candela and the interfaces that turn routing data into action
From BGPlay and RIPE Atlas interfaces to BGPalerter and geofeed monitoring, Massimo Candela has built tools that turn partial internet measurements into something operators can investigate. Their value depends on preserving the sources, thresholds and maintenance ownership behind every visual or alarm.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Massimo Candela and the interfaces that turn routing data into action
From BGPlay and RIPE Atlas interfaces to BGPalerter and geofeed monitoring, Massimo Candela has built tools that turn partial internet measurements into something operators can investigate. Their value depends on preserving the sources, thresholds and maintenance ownership behind every visual or alarm.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - Hoopa Valley opens data centre for tribal fibre network
The NTIA-funded facility will support network operations as Hoopa Valley expands fibre-to-the-home and builds a separate 23-mile middle-mile route.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Paolo Lucente built the junction between traffic and routing data
Paolo Lucente’s pmacct sits where packet and flow records acquire routing context. By joining traffic with BGP, BMP, RPKI and operator-defined pipelines, it can support peering and capacity decisions—provided the network preserves sampling, timing and business provenance.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - HD Hyundai wins 1GW US data-centre power order
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries will supply 1GW of HiMSEN engine capacity to Corban Energy for data centres operated by an unnamed US technology company.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Claudio Jeker: Maintaining a small, auditable BGP daemon for serious routing
Claudio Jeker has spent more than two decades keeping OpenBGPD small enough to audit and capable enough for serious routing roles. The project’s restraint reduces some software risks, but it cannot simplify BGP policy, routing-security dependencies or the consequences of a bad export.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-05 - SBA talks with satellite providers over D2D infrastructure
SBA says direct-to-device services may need terrestrial support, but discussions remain early and no partner or deployment has been disclosed.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Magnora, Blix plan 1MW Oslo AI data centre
The joint venture will convert space in the same building as Blix’s existing Oslo facility, starting with 1MW and technical potential to scale to 9MW.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-12 - Talbot County weighs one-year data-centre moratorium
Talbot County may pause data-centre approvals while it studies water and power impacts and writes local rules for future projects.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-12 - Minneapolis 511 Building outage disrupts Midwest connectivity
The carrier hotel hosts MICE, dozens of carriers and multiple colocation providers, making it a major regional interconnection site.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-11 - MDM announces Ireland-US subsea cable system
The proposed transatlantic system would add another fibre route between Ireland and the United States.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-12 - Alkira’s software network now answers to a fibre carrier
Alkira turned multi-cloud routing, segmentation and service insertion into a managed control plane that enterprises could consume through a portal and code. Lumen’s US$475 million acquisition now tests whether owned fibre can improve path assurance without turning a multi-provider abstraction into a more captive network.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-03 - UK government approves Brick Lane data centre
The government has approved Truman Estates’ Brick Lane data centre after Tower Hamlets councillors unanimously said the application should have been refused.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-12 - CoreWeave’s network must turn financed capacity into useful AI time
CoreWeave reported 43 data centres and more than 850 MW of active power, while its contracted footprint was about 3.1 GW and Microsoft supplied 67% of 2025 revenue. The network beneath the GPUs must convert that financed expansion into reliable, diversified service before carrying costs and hardware cycles overtake it.
Primary articlePublished 2026-07-30 - Eutelsat expands 5G NTN work beyond OneWeb
Eutelsat is testing 5G NTN on OneWeb while preparing replenishment satellites, IRIS² and a proposed new constellation for standards-based integration.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-12 - Hisdesat awards SpainSat NG III replacement contract
Hisdesat has awarded Airbus and Thales Alenia Space the SpainSat NG III replacement programme, with launch planned for the third quarter of 2030.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - PowerHouse plans 300MW Westlake data-centre campus
Circle T would comprise four 300,000-square-foot buildings and a developer-funded Oncor substation, while later phases still require specific-use permits.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-11 - Minneapolis 511 Building outage disrupts regional connectivity
The carrier hotel hosts MICE, dozens of carriers and several colocation providers, giving one downtown facility an important role in regional connectivity.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-11 - US data-centre opponents challenge local approvals in court
Opponents are increasingly contesting how US data-centre projects were approved, focusing lawsuits on public-notice, zoning and transparency rules.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-11 - Amazon plans Texas data centre with on-site gas power
Amazon’s Pecos County campus will initially use private generation, while GW Ranch’s gas permit allows up to 33 million tonnes of annual CO₂ emissions.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-11 - Amazon plans Texas data centre with on-site gas power
Amazon’s Pecos County campus will initially use private generation, while GW Ranch’s gas permit allows up to 33 million tonnes of annual CO₂ emissions.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-11 - Nick Feamster built tools to explain networks—and exposed their limits
In 2005, a checker he co-authored reported more than 1,000 previously undetected faults across configurations from 17 autonomous systems. The same effort to make hidden infrastructure legible later reached spam, broadband, censorship, smart homes and machine learning—and repeatedly showed that observation becomes dangerous when it is mistaken for causation.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-03 - Nick Feamster built tools to explain networks—and exposed their limits
In 2005, a checker he co-authored reported more than 1,000 previously undetected faults across configurations from 17 autonomous systems. The same effort to make hidden infrastructure legible later reached spam, broadband, censorship, smart homes and machine learning—and repeatedly showed that observation becomes dangerous when it is mistaken for causation.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-03 - Pado says legacy data centres can run AI inference
Pado says older data centres can run many AI inference workloads, offering a way to use existing power and hardware before building new capacity.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-11 - US lenders weigh community opposition in data-centre financing
US lenders are scrutinising community opposition when assessing data-centre loans, adding local political risk to financing decisions as project resistance spreads.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-11 - TalkTalk nears exclusive talks to sell PXC to Octopus
A PXC sale would put TalkTalk’s wholesale network and consumer business under separate ownership, extending an operational split that began in 2024.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-11 - Impact Drones offers counter-drone service for data centres
Impact plans Q3 pilots for containerised interceptors, but no data-centre customer or operational results have been disclosed.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Impact Drones to offer counter-drone service for data centres
Impact plans Q3 pilots for containerised interceptors, while deployment at commercial sites depends on detection systems, launch authority and local airspace rules.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Impact Drones to offer counter-drone service for data centres
Impact plans Q3 pilots for containerised interceptors, while deployment at commercial sites depends on detection systems, launch authority and local airspace rules.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Impact Drones to offer counter-drone service for data centres
Impact plans Q3 pilots for containerised interceptors, while deployment at commercial sites depends on detection systems, launch authority and local airspace rules.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Citylink signs Wrocław data-centre heat recovery LOI
The 24MW facility is still under construction, giving Citylink and Kogeneracja time to design heat recovery before the data centre is complete.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Electrovaya launches 7MW ElvaPulse battery for data centres
The 2.88MWh ElvaPulse 1500 targets short-duration, high-power data-centre applications, with certification and first deliveries targeted for 2027.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Viasat survey finds 75% would pay for in-car satellite services
Drivers put emergency calling ahead of entertainment in a Viasat-5GAA survey on satellite services for cars outside cellular coverage.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Iraq regulator moves to shut Korek Telecom network
Iraq’s telecom regulator is moving to shut Korek’s network after a settlement collapsed, while customers await instructions on what happens to their SIMs.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - ANU urges Australia to secure subsea cable repair access
An ANU report says Australia should secure priority repair access for subsea cables as security concerns grow around critical undersea infrastructure.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Echo subsea cable lands in Singapore
Echo has landed in Singapore, extending a US-Southeast Asia route that bypasses the South China Sea but is not yet fully operational.
Primary articlePublished 2026-08-10 - Microsoft’s 88 data centres are a throughput claim, not a map
Microsoft says it brought 31 new data centres online across five continents in its final fiscal quarter and 88 across the year. The larger revelation is not the pin count. In the same quarter it added another gigawatt of capacity, while cutting the time needed to move new GPUs from delivery dock to live service by nearly half over the year. Those are separate measurements of an AI infrastructure system: places, power, equipment velocity and capital. Reading them together shows why the bottleneck has shifted from announcing buildings to repeatedly turning expensive components into sellable cloud capacity.
Primary articlePublished 2026-07-30 - Microsoft’s $329.1bn lease stack is capacity that has not started
Microsoft has disclosed $329.1 billion of additional leases, primarily for datacentres, that had not commenced at 30 June. The number maps a future infrastructure commitment, not live computing capacity or cash already spent. A simultaneous accounting change makes the distinction sharper: reported 2026 capex falls from roughly $190 billion to roughly $175 billion even though management says its underlying investment expectation has not.
Primary articlePublished 2026-07-30 - The CMA’s Microsoft 365 probe turns renewal design into the evidence
Britain’s competition regulator is investigating whether Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers saw a cheaper continuity option clearly enough before renewal. The annual difference was £25, but the economic question is larger than the price: when a supplier adds Copilot, changes the default plan and leaves the customer to find an alternative, the renewal journey can determine which product is bought.
Primary articlePublished 2026-07-30
