Cloud & Data Centers

Vertical Data Centers Face Cost-Proximity Trade-Offs

A proposed 20-story Kansas City data center trades suburban sprawl for urban density, offering proximity and network diversity – but at higher construction costs that only specific workloads may justify.

AWS drops NDAs with governments and pledges $1B to data center communities

AWS chief Matt Garman says Amazon will stop using NDAs with government agencies and spend over $1 billion in communities that host its data centers.

America’s AI race won’t be won by hitting pause on data centers

Google hearts Apple's Swift so much it's pumping out server-side support

After a decade of false starts, Swift is showing backend appeal

Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B+ into quashing datacenter dissent

Thou shalt love the datacenter! Verily, thou shalt rejoice in the house of the datacenter!

General Compute signs multi-year agreement with Cerebras

Will see Cerebras' wafer-scale compute coming to the AI cloud platform

Intro Group to invest $270m in Egypt’s Kemet Data Center

The facility will be developed in two phases

Poland’s National Data Processing Center receives EU funding grant

The data center network has received PLN 1.56 billion ($401m) from the European Funds for Digital Development program

Large-scale data centre planned for former Scottish nuclear site

Plans for a 1GW data centre campus at a former nuclear power station have highlighted tension between Scotland’s AI investment and local community pushback.

$165bn Project Jupiter: What Oracle’s force majeure notice means for AI data centre risk

Oracle has issued a force majeure notice over Project Jupiter, its flagship Stargate data centre campus in southern New Mexico, preserving the right to defer rent if the site misses its 2028 start because its power supply is not ready.

Data centre of the month: Inside AtlasEdge’s unconventional Stuttgart site

When AtlasEdge opened the first phase of its STR001 data centre in Böblingen, near Stuttgart it was betting on a different model of European digital infrastructure.

From Opposition to Buy-In: Tactics for Data Center Developers

Data center developers are responding to growing community opposition by embracing transparency, funding power infrastructure, and prioritizing locations with supportive residents.