Hyperscalers, sovereign cloud, data centres and networking.
German operator firstcolo has begun construction on a 24MW data center in Rosbach vor der Höhe, designed for high-density AI and cloud workloads with liquid cooling and green electricity. The €250M project aims to address local demand for sovereign infrastructure while navigating power constraints and sustainability expectations.
Google has been positioned as a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for SIEM, praised for its AI integration, threat intelligence, and search performance. The assessment highlights Google’s vertical AI stack and Mandiant’s curated detection content as key differentiators.
Brazos, Google's rack-mounted liquid cooling system, enables high-density AI and HPC deployments in existing air-cooled data centers with minimal infrastructure changes. The design will be open-sourced via the Open Compute Project.
France’s push for digital sovereignty has hit a snag: while the Education Ministry successfully scaled Nextcloud storage to 400,000 accounts, users continue to use Microsoft Office on their desktops, undermining the goal of full autonomy from non-European tech.
firstcolo has broken ground on FRA7, a 24MW colocation data center in Hesse, Germany, designed for AI and high-performance computing workloads. The €250 million project targets 200kW rack densities, liquid cooling, and 100% certified green electricity.
Israel is launching a NIS 150 million photonics R&D infrastructure program and a quantum startup ecosystem initiative to bolster domestic hardware production amid global supply chain fragmentation.
AWS WAF now enables digital publishers to monetize AI bot traffic by setting per-request pricing, collecting payments in stablecoins, and monitoring revenue through a dashboard. The feature targets the growing volume of AI crawlers consuming content without generating referral traffic.
The lapse of the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) could remove standardized requirements for federal datacenters, including uptime, sustainability, and security, as neither Congress nor the Trump administration has moved to extend or replace it.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is partnering with eight quantum technology companies to develop hybrid architectures combining supercomputers, AI accelerators, and quantum processors. The initiative aims to address infrastructure challenges like ultra-low latency interconnects and workload orchestration for future scientific and industrial workloads.
European enterprises and policymakers are reassessing reliance on U.S. AI providers after Anthropic disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models following a U.S. export control order. The incident highlights operational risks in sovereign AI strategies and procurement practices.
AWS FinOps Agent enters public preview, connecting cost anomaly detection and natural-language spending queries to the engineering tools teams already use — but its effectiveness depends heavily on tagging hygiene and account ownership data.
KDDI has commercially deployed a distributed disaggregated backbone router architecture at major Japanese network sites, combining DriveNets software with UfiSpace hardware, with full nationwide rollout targeted by fiscal 2027.
KKR has formally launched Helix Digital Infrastructure, an AI-focused infrastructure company led by former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky, with anchor investors including Kuwait Investment Authority, NVIDIA and Vistra and commitments exceeding $10 billion.
Crusoe says contracted capacity across its data center projects and Crusoe Cloud has reached 4.9GW, with a broader development pipeline exceeding 40GW — numbers that highlight both the appetite for AI infrastructure and the execution challenges still ahead.
A detailed look at where fuel cells, hydrogen engines, and renewable diesel stand as alternatives to diesel generators in data centers, with Bloom Energy and Oracle striking a 2.8 GW deal and Microsoft running multiple pilot programs.
NEMA, ASHRAE, and PNNL have jointly released the AI Data Center Energy Performance Framework, a unified guide covering electrical systems, thermal management, and operational practices for power-intensive AI facilities.
Smals, which serves more than 300 Belgian public institutions, has signed a framework agreement with Google Cloud, making it the primary cloud provider for member organizations including social security and healthcare bodies. Google Cloud joins existing infrastructure tiers rather than replacing them.
Capgemini is the first partner to receive SAP's Sovereign Cloud Partner designation across France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK — and is already deploying that credential on the HMRC Enterprise Tax Management Platform migration to SAP S/4HANA.
Synchronized pauses baked into modern AI training create sharp power-demand swings that operators mask with secondary workloads, inflating consumption, accelerating hardware wear, and lengthening grid interconnection timelines.
American utilities are restructuring their planning, financing, and procurement operations after discovering that only a fraction of AI-related electricity requests translate into signed agreements or energized facilities.