Cloud & Data Centers

FCC to vote on whether prisons can jam contraband cellphone calls

Orange seeks compensation from Nokia over outage in France earlier this month - report

The outage last week impacted millions of Orange customers

Marwynn plots up to $500m AI data center and solar farm in Grenada

Signs MoU with Grenada National Resort, a large-scale luxury tourism and real estate development

Simplifying safety to drive savings

How Fastenal used consolidation to standardize data center spend

Entel shuts down 3G network in La Paz, Bolivia

As the telco seeks to boost 4G coverage instead

Also: Developing Telecoms

Akamai launches AI inference service

Company adds new GPUs to cloud fleet, targets next year for Vera Rubin hardware

Alibaba launches Amsterdam cloud region, plans further European expansion

Company also launches latest version of on-premise rack offering

Building liquid cooling systems that last: the critical role of sustaining engineering

Liquid cooling must remain reliable, serviceable, and adaptable to what the future holds

Discord to let search engines index public server messages

Discord will allow search engines to index discussions in Discoverable Servers and make them accessible on the web to users outside the platform without an account or invitation.

KBRA assigns preliminary ratings to up to $525m in US Signal notes, secured against ten data centers

Vertiv shares jump 14 percent as data center earnings beat expectations

Reversing a steady decline amid market uncertainty

UK budget: Grid connection incentives for data centers under new “covenant”

Chancellor also discussed aims to help the public benefit from AI upsides

Former New Zealand pulp mill eyed for storage-focused data center

Data Igloo wants to develop a data center in Ruapehu

Blockchain and crypto firm Blockmate Ventures enters neocloud market with purchase of Nvidia B200 cluster

Company has partnered with Scannit for the venture, with the latter to host the hardware in an undisclosed data center

Genius Group looks to pivot to data centers, partners with FingerMotion and BlueFlare for project in Canada

Edtech firm wants some of that sweet GPU cloud revenue

Neocloud General Compute raises $100m in Series A funding round

Round provides startup with post-money valuation of $800m

TPG eyes UK data center firm Ark - report

UK operator could be valued at $5 billion

Microsoft signs two PPAs with Macquarie-backed Blueleaf Energy in Japan

Blueleaf has a portfolio of around 1.2GW of solar projects in the Japanese market

Gigawatt-scale data center and energy project proposed outside Adelaide, Australia

Project to feature on-site natural gas and adjacent BESS

DCD Studio: The physical constraints of AI scaling with Sean James, Nvidia

Kat Sullivan speaks with Sean James of Nvidia about the company’s data center energy strategy, exploring efficiency, integrated systems, cooling innovations, water usage, and the challenges of increasing power density

Readiness checklist & project plan workbook

For enterprise, colocation, hybrid, and multi-site environments

Where Solid-State Micro-Cooling Fits in Data Centers

Solid-state micro-cooling could help data centers reduce hotspots in SSDs and other subsystems that liquid cooling and system fans don't fully reach.

Nvidia Vera Rubin and Vera CPUs now generally available on Oracle

And other AI hardware deployments soon to arrive

Also: NVIDIA Newsroom

Analog Superposition Increases Effective PCM Storage Density (IBM Research Europe)

Researchers at IBM Research Europe published “Superposed analog memory for vector storage in neural networks.” Summary: Researchers demonstrated an analog phase-change memory architecture that stores multiple AI vectors in superposition…