Google Breaks Ground on Its First Owned Data Center in Sweden, and Makes Waste Heat Part of the Pitch
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Bruno Digital · 1h ago

Google Breaks Ground on Its First Owned Data Center in Sweden, and Makes Waste Heat Part of the Pitch

Google is building its first self-owned data center in Horndal, Sweden, an air-cooled facility wired for off-site heat recovery and paired with a community fund. As the Nordic build-out accelerates, the company is selling its grid as a feature, not just a footprint.

Google Breaks Ground on Its First Owned Data Center in Sweden, and Makes Waste Heat Part of the Pitch
Cloud·1h ago

Google Breaks Ground on Its First Owned Data Center in Sweden, and Makes Waste Heat Part of the Pitch

Google is building its first self-owned data center in Horndal, Sweden, an air-cooled facility wired for off-site heat recovery and paired with a community fund. As the Nordic build-out accelerates, the company is selling its grid as a feature, not just a footprint.

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Alibaba Cloud Opens Two Paris Zones and a UEFA Deal, Betting Sovereignty Will Sell Chinese Cloud in Europe
Cloud·2h ago

Alibaba Cloud Opens Two Paris Zones and a UEFA Deal, Betting Sovereignty Will Sell Chinese Cloud in Europe

Alibaba Cloud just lit up two availability zones in Paris, its first new European region since 2018, and paired the launch with a UEFA partnership running to 2033. The wager is that data sovereignty messaging can overcome European wariness of a Chinese hyperscaler.

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Nvidia Takes the Data Center Ethernet Crown in a Single Year, and the Networking Map Gets Redrawn
Cloud·4h ago

Nvidia Takes the Data Center Ethernet Crown in a Single Year, and the Networking Map Gets Redrawn

IDC says Nvidia became the number one vendor in data center Ethernet switching by revenue, a position it did not hold a year ago. For CIOs building AI clusters, the company that sells the GPUs now wants to sell the network around them too.

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Texas Approves ERCOT's Batch Zero, and the AI Data Center Free-For-All Gets a Gatekeeper
Cloud·5h ago

Texas Approves ERCOT's Batch Zero, and the AI Data Center Free-For-All Gets a Gatekeeper

The Public Utility Commission of Texas just approved a new interconnection process that studies large data center loads in groups rather than one at a time. For CIOs siting AI campuses, the era of first-come, first-served grid access in ERCOT is over.

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Virginia Becomes the First State to Tax Data Center Power, at 1.1 Cents per Kilowatt Hour
Cloud·1d ago

Virginia Becomes the First State to Tax Data Center Power, at 1.1 Cents per Kilowatt Hour

Data Center Alley just got a new line item. Virginia's new $205 billion budget levies a first-in-the-nation tax on the electricity data centers consume, and the bill could top $100 million a year for a single gigawatt campus.

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Microsoft Declares the Azure SDK for Rust Generally Available at Version 1.0.0
Cloud·1d ago

Microsoft Declares the Azure SDK for Rust Generally Available at Version 1.0.0

After more than a year in beta, Microsoft has shipped Azure SDK for Rust 1.0.0 covering Core, Identity, Key Vault, and Storage, a signal that Rust has crossed from systems-programming favorite into officially supported enterprise cloud tooling.

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Microsoft Turns On Its Fairwater Supercomputer in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin
Cloud·1d ago

Microsoft Turns On Its Fairwater Supercomputer in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin

Microsoft's first Fairwater data center is fully operational in Racine County, anchoring a 4.7 billion dollar Wisconsin investment and what Brad Smith calls the world's most powerful supercomputer, two years after the project broke ground.

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SpaceX Leases Colossus 2 to Reflection AI in a Compute Deal Worth Up to 6.3 Billion Dollars
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SpaceX Leases Colossus 2 to Reflection AI in a Compute Deal Worth Up to 6.3 Billion Dollars

Reflection AI will pay SpaceX 150 million dollars a month for Nvidia GB300 capacity at the Colossus 2 site near Memphis, a contract that could reach 6.3 billion dollars and signals SpaceX's hardening ambitions as an AI compute landlord.

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Nvidia Backs Upscale AI in a 190 Million Dollar Round to Attack the AI Networking Bottleneck
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Nvidia Backs Upscale AI in a 190 Million Dollar Round to Attack the AI Networking Bottleneck

Upscale AI raised 190 million dollars at a 2 billion dollar valuation, with Nvidia joining a roster that includes Premji Invest and Salesforce Ventures, betting that networking, not raw compute, is now the hardest problem in AI infrastructure.

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AWS Summit New York: Agentic AI Takes Center Stage, a Hanoi Local Zone Lands, and S3 Prices Fall
Cloud·2d ago

AWS Summit New York: Agentic AI Takes Center Stage, a Hanoi Local Zone Lands, and S3 Prices Fall

AWS used its New York Summit to reframe its entire stack around AI agents, ship a new Local Zone in Hanoi for data residency, and cut S3 Vectors query charges by up to 80 percent. Here is what enterprises should take from it.

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Microsoft and Chevron Will Power a 2 Gigawatt Texas AI Campus With Behind the Meter Natural Gas
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Microsoft and Chevron Will Power a 2 Gigawatt Texas AI Campus With Behind the Meter Natural Gas

Microsoft is funding its own power plant to energize a 2 gigawatt AI campus in West Texas, with Chevron supplying gas behind the meter. The deal is a template for skipping the grid queue, and a sign that Big Oil now sits across the table in data center power deals.

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Digital Realty Buys a 2-Gigawatt Kansas City Site and Raises Its Teraco Stake to 77 Percent in a 1.6 Billion Dollar Day
Cloud·2d ago

Digital Realty Buys a 2-Gigawatt Kansas City Site and Raises Its Teraco Stake to 77 Percent in a 1.6 Billion Dollar Day

Digital Realty spent roughly 1.6 billion dollars in a single announcement to lock up power, deepen its African foothold and buy a capital platform, a snapshot of how the AI buildout now turns on watts, not square feet.

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