OFF-PREM 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
systems Qualcomm won’t be a big datacenter player anytime soon But AI has come along just in time to cover being dumped by Apple
SOFTWARE Microsoft's cloud brings rain of revenue but modest M365 AI revenue harvest Capex spending? What? Me worry?
On-PREM Hyperscale, hypersensitive: US teacher cuffed for applauding datacenter critics Public meeting over proposed AI bit barn ended with zoning approval, a physics teacher arrested, and fresh questions over whether clapping now counts as disorderly conduct
ON-prem Trump expands voluntary pledge to keep datacenter costs off household power bills Pinkie promise gains 200-plus new participants and precisely zero enforcement
ON-PREM Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter The Reg was there as locals aired grievances over poor communication, noise, and light pollution at Waltham Cross facility
Systems AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's Spec for spec, the House of Zen's first rack-scale AI compute platform is bigger and faster than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by nearly every metric, but that's only on paper
ON-PREM Britain isn't considering datacenters' thirst for water in its 'AI superpower' ambitions Grand compute push could end up as dry as England's reservoirs unless ministers act fast
off-prem 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
off-prem 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
AI AND ML Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises Regulator refuses to budge on $7B guarantee for nearly 1 GW campus being developed with Vantage and OpenAI
SYSTEMS Nvidia shows off Vera Rubin platform for tokenmaxxing If your AI Factory sells tokens, why not optimize token emission?
SYSTEMS Scalding hot AI accelerators have put datacenters in hot water. Two-phase cooling could chill them out Startup Accelsius claims it can achieve up to 14° C cooler GPU temps by by converting a liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge to run on refrigerants
ai and ml Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project Extinction Rebellion claims responsibility for chemical-filled balloon attack targeting concrete and steel
AI AND ML AI power binge delivers best half since 2022 for climate tech venture funding Low-carbon projects reap accidental windfall as billions chase compute infrastructure
on-prem AWS sustainability claims don't hold water, lawsuit alleges Ex-staffer accuses Amazon's Virginia datacenters of quietly guzzling H20 all year round, despite 'water positive' PR push
ai and ml New York becomes first state to halt datacenter buildouts 50 MW-plus bit barn builds on hold while Empire State hashes out rules to protect the environment and ratepayers
off prem 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
systems Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider Renting out spare compute is simply the natural progression for any sufficiently large infra company
ON-PREM Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity Consumption rose another 10% while restrictions on most new grid connections remained around Dublin
On-Prem Orbital datacenter gold rush needs an environmental review, FCC told Green groups want licenses frozen before a million satellites litter the exosphere
ai and ml Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova breathes new life into aging Nvidia GPUs in latest benchmarks Third-party testing shows heterogeneous compute platform combining H200s and SN50 RDUs churning out 763 tok/s in MiniMax M2.7
AI AND ML South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI invades European datacenters RNGD accelerators land in Equinix's Lisbon DCs
ON-PREM UK guts planning red tape so datacenters can bypass the neighbors faster Overhaul of process could give NIMBYs one year less to complain
AI AND ML AI startup that’s never turned a profit says it'll totally be around in 2047 to close its $19B lease Model dev and AGI fearmonger Anthropic signs 20-year lease with TeraWulf
ON-PREM Samsung floats 2028 launch for seaborne datacenter Korean megacorp sets itself a target date to commercialize watery server farm concept
ON-PREM EU appears to find datacenter emissions easier to offset than lobbyists Report says proposed rewrite gives operators more freedom to shop around for a greener grade
AI and ML Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme What's better than getting paid once? Getting paid twice of course
ai and ml SoftBank enters the rent-a-GPU race as America looks for support for AI training Japanese giant needs to find some use for that 10 GW US server farm it is building
SYSTEMS Qualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM With its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall
AI and ML How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS Central bank for central banks sees shades of dotcom mania in hyperscaler capex binge
DATABASES 21,000 Oracle jobs vanish amid Big Red's big bets on AI Annual report reveals workforce fell from 162,000 to 141,000 in a year as company pours billions into datacenter expansion
systems Datacenters dip a toe back into waterborne computing despite obvious challenges Floating or sub-surface bit barns are all the rage, but unlikely to compete with multi-gigawatt sites
SYSTEMS Tensordyne makes a big bet on log math to beat Nvidia Who needs compute-hungry multiplications when you can just add logarithms
On-PREM 2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud You might say the system packs two kilapixels of compute
SCIENCE Neuromorphic computing may one day offer AI a power-saving brainwave Hybrid systems could bring efficiency gains at the edge, but conventional infrastructure isn't going anywhere fast
NetworkS Nvidia-backed optics vendor to boost wafer output by 4x to meet AI interconnect demand Jensen can't risk semiconductor supply chains derailing the AI hype train
ON-PREM Only half of US datacenter capacity planned for 2026 is actually under construction Another fun example of AI hype and reality colliding
SYSTEMS AMD's Mext buy shows how AI could solve the RAM shortage it created Running low on memory, can't afford more? The House of Zen's latest acquisition puts an AI spin on flash-based memory expansion
SYSTEMS There's no such thing as an agentic CPU AI agents are a general-purpose workload no different from any other
Systems Qualcomm said to be circling AI chip biz Tenstorrent in $10B RISC-V power play Potential takeover would represent significant commitment to the open instruction set architecture
PUBLIC SECTOR Feds snooze as US datacenter law set to lapse with no replacement in site Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) of 2023 covers standards including security and sustainability
systems SK Hynix to boost memory production 3x ... you can wait another 8 years, right? We're moving as fast as we can, says SK Group chair
SYSTEMS Delos Data offers AI chip startups a fast track to rack scale Half the trouble of building an Nvidia NVL or AMD Helios competitor is just getting the networking out of the box
on-prem GM gets datacenter fever, decides to build grid-scale sodium-ion batteries Detroit automaker partners with Peak Energy to try a saltier route to energy storage
on-prem Datacenter growth may run into a power wall by 2030 Grid operators could struggle to support new bit barn construction
science Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security DoE wants to keep 13 coal-fired power generators going at the same time as funding nuclear research
SYSTEMS Gigabyte packs 40 Intel Lunar Lake PCs in a pizza box Who needs one big CPU when you could have dozens of little ones?
SYSTEMS AMD takes a third of server CPU market as shipments grow Intel still owns the room, but Epyc keeps nicking the furniture
AI and ML Intel's mysterious new datacenter GPU is what Nvidia's Rubin CPX nearly was Nvidia's prefill accelerator was shelved, but Chipzilla's Crescent Island could fill the void
Networks The tech that could make Marvell the next trillion dollar company CU later, rivals? That's if Broadzilla doesn't eat its lunch first
AI and ML Intel and pals cram 36,864 CPU cores into a 100kW rack while chasing the agentic AI dragon Meanwhile, Intel and SambaNova's disaggregated inference blueprint lands its first customer
On-Prem Ohio hits pause on datacenter tax breaks draining its coffers Buckeye State found it had inadvertently joined the billion dollar losers' club
Systems Intel Diamond Rapids to boost core counts to 192, but RIP Hyperthreading Threads on a half shell, Intel power!
On-Prem Europe told to cool its datacenter boom before water and power run short Get the balance right, Grundfos says, and the region will be a shining example of how to do it without sacrificing the environment
off-Prem Snowflake to burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators Dataware house gambles cloud conveniences, AI accelerated insights will justify the cost.
AI and ML Broadcom's custom ASIC biz adds South Korea's FuriosaAI to its empire Third-gen chips to use Broadzilla's advanced packaging, networking tech
Systems Samsung memory workers call off strike and may score six-figure bonuses PLUS: Huawei says it’s replaced Moore’s Law; Chinese mobile plans add token allowances; Singtel slinging Optus; And more!
Off-Prem 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
On-prem MAGA's Mace wants to make power bills great again, calls for datacenter moratorium Even self-described ‘Trump in high heels’ candidate warns bit barns could send power bills soaring
AI + ML Agent harnesses, like OpenClaw, are changing how we build and run AI models Ride your bots further by putting them in a harness
On-prem Datacenters slurping up so much juice they boosted prices 75% in largest US energy market BYO power for AI bit barns may be the best way to ease the problem, says energy watchdog
AI+ML Cerebras risked it all on dinner plate-sized AI accelerators a decade ago. Today it's worth $66B Here's a look at the tech powering the first big IPO of 2026
On-Prem Datacenters are having fewer, but bigger failures And neither AI nor international conflict are helping
On-Prem Utah mega datacenter could dump 23 atomic bombs worth of energy per day Physicist warns proposed Stratos campus could seriously affect local environment
Off-Prem 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
AI + ML China's agentic AI policy wants to keep humans in the loop PLUS: Robot becomes Buddhist monk in Korea; TikTok spending $25bn in Thailand; Baidu floating chip biz; and more!
Systems Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?
CxO Tech is now rolling out the old grievance grift Not just for hated US Presidents, now even tech bros lament their foes
Systems AMD puts out new slottable GPU for AI-curious enterprises MI350P packs 144 GB of HBM3e and up to 4.6 petaFLOPS of FP4 grunt into a dual slot card
Off-Prem Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS
AI + ML OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won't question the math
AI + ML Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy
Networks Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia's 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs
Off-Prem Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand
On-Prem Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm No sense in OpenAI stressing over its cloud bills if Oracle can't get the lights on
AI + ML Tenstorrent’s Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon RISC-V-based systems pack 32 Blackhole accelerators in a 6U, $110K chassis
Systems Core Scientific accelerates crypto-to-AI pivot, converts Bitcoin mine to gigawatt-scale token farm They were doing it in Texas...
AI + ML DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs Now available in preview, DeepSeek V4 cuts inference costs to a fraction of R1
AI + ML Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win x86 gets the boot as Google pairs up its TPUs with some Arm-based Axion cores
AI + ML Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain's latest offshoring wave is AI projects Brit firms look to run tech overseas as govt tries to support 'sovereign' creators
On-Prem Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment
On-Prem Trump-branded datacenter project fails to make itself great, again The struggles continue for Fermi America's 17 GW bit barn ambitions
Public Sector Chase got a spiff of $77 million to create one job with New York datacenter Official involved in deal tells El Reg number doesn't paint entire picture of datacenter's economic benefit
On-Prem AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London Bit barns need to worry more about space, access to grid – overstuffed center no longer a must, say experts
On-Prem Growing AI power slurpage prompts MPs to examine low-energy computing Committee launches inquiry into emerging chip designs to curb datacenter energy use
Public Sector Loud, power hungry – opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban If there's one thing folks want less than Copilot in their taskbar, it's a bit barn in their backyard
On-Prem US states can't account for datacenter tax breaks. Literally Report says authorities are flouting rules by failing to disclose revenue lost to server farm subsidies
On-Prem Microsoft takes up residence next to OpenAI, Oracle at Crusoe's 900 MW Texas datacenter expansion
Nvidia GTC Nvidia powers further into the CPU market with new rack systems packing 256 Vera processors
PaaS + IaaS AWS says drones hit two of its datacenters in UAE, urges users to move resources to different regions
AI + ML Amazon and Nvidia open their wallets to lock in OpenAI's business while SoftBank keeps the lights on
AI + ML India’s top telco tackles AI with $110 billion build plan and proven fast market dominance playbook
Storage Microsoft boffins cook up archival storage using Pyrex glass they say can last over 10,000 years
Off-Prem It's bubble or nothing for Google as search giant looks to plow ~$180B into datacenters this year
PaaS + IaaS Amazon's European datacenter buildout blows a breaker as grid connection wait list hits 7 years
Public Sector Next-gen nuclear reactors safe enough to skip full environmental reviews, says Trump admin
Public Sector House GOP wants final say on AI chip exports after Trump gives Nvidia a China hall pass
AI + ML Hyperscalers, vendors funding trillion dollar AI spree, but users will have to pay up long term
