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Mastering compliance
Reporting strategies for data center sustainability
Former US DOE staffers launch modular data center firm Mavria
Raises $130m to scale factory-built data center platform
Norway halts grid connection applications for new data centers
Seeks to limit rapid buildout while regulation catches up
Bank of England pours cold water on AI productivity boom
Turns out throwing billions at GPUs doesn't automatically mean everyone gets more done
DigiCert admits 16-month security lapse exposed customer information
Botched server move left the door open, and DigiCert took months to notice someone had wandered in
Riot Platforms signs 910MW agreement with unnamed frontier AI lab
Capacity will be provided at Riot's Corsicana, Texas, data center
AI’s next infrastructure constraint
Data center expansions have long been represented in gigawatts, but measurements of terabits-second and microseconds are now entering the constraint conversation
AirTrunk named as operator behind data center project in Melbourne, Australia
Also behind project to develop Kurri Kurri smelter into data center
New Jersey Senate passes bill banning data center-related NDAs
Bill now goes to NJ Assembly
CoreWeave signs multi-year cloud agreement with Wayve
Will provide compute capacity for autonomous vehicle company
Anthropic signs $3.4bn gas generator deal to support 1.7GW of data center power
Takes over OnePWR order of Caterpillar gen-sets
Nvidia looks to tap Brightspeed central offices for inference network - report
GPU company eyes legacy copper facilities for potential AI use
Q.ANT partners with Ionos for photonic computing pilot program
Successful applicants will be able to test and evaluate their AI models on Q.ANT’s photonic hardware
Datacenters, Elon Musk, and AI are all on the chopping block once Congress changes hands in 2027
Rage, rage against the dying of the right
Google's UK data center disruption caused by 'misconfiguration' of systems
Outage impacted Lloyds Bank, Revolut, Halifax, and delivery services DPD and Royal Mail
Microsoft winds down 2023 compute deal with Oracle
Newer contracts remain ongoing
UK’s Defra plans £4.8m data center contract renewal with Atos
While Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust awards Rackspace a colocation deal
Sponsored: EPG Modular Data Center marks topping-out of its US$120 million Malaysia FIZ Factory
The factory is expected to help the company coordinate production and assembly, respond more effectively to project schedules, and deliver with greater flexibility
Your data center may be halfway to waterless
How existing data centers can retrofit waterless cooling systems to reduce water consumption, recover waste heat, and improve cooling efficiency
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang starring in possible remake of The Spy Who Shagged Me
Admits to affair after company board opens probe into alleged contact with Chinese asset who bought GPUs in bulk
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits affair with alleged Chinese spy, board to investigate
Huang previously denied any relationship with Megaspeed exec
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Cyber, and promises this one stays within 'rules of engagement'
The latest bug hunting model 'avoided exploiting out-of-scope services over 99 percent of the time', claims House of Altman
'Stop dirty datacenters': Europe-wide protests planned demanding building moratorium
Curbing compute farms played a big part in recent US elections, now Euro activists are making their feelings known
When datacenters lose power, generators should kick in. That didn’t happen for Google in London
October outage caused by bad PLC config exposed at a time maintenance work reduced resilience
What data centers need to consider when storing produced water
A possible alternative to portable supplies
Meta brings Conductor on board its model train
Agent orchestration startup gets its exit
Fireworks says you’re wasting money on AI unless you’re using all the models
The case for managed inference, or automatically routing queries to the right model for the right job
Sponsored: Water stewardship starts with design, not offsets
How can data center development not only minimize its impact on local water resources, but contribute to the long-term resilience of the watersheds in which we operate?
Bitdeer plans to expand AI infrastructure investment in Malaysia
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on November 6, 2026, that Jihan Wu, founder, chairman and CEO of Bitcoin mining company Bitdeer (NASDAQ: BTDR), led a delegation to visit him and expressed the company's intention to further expand its investment in Malaysia. Bitdeer is refining a long-term investment plan and plans to further develop AI infrastructure. The Malaysian government will facilitate relevant strategic investment and expects the company to create high-value jobs and provide technical training opportunities. Bitdeer has continued to expand its AI data center footprint in Malaysia in recent years. In October 2026, it announced a data center services agreement for the 67 MW A901 project, targeting delivery of the full capacity in Q2 2027. The company has also pursued multiple AI data center projects in Johor and other locations, as well as a 1 GW AI data center (AIDC) park project in Kuantan.
PyTorch 2.15 tackles the 'one bad GPU' problem
Technical debt shoveled aside to make large-scale AI training more resilient
Agents reveal secrets when offered to team up with each other
If you wouldn't put it on GitHub, don't give models access to it