A new reliability assessment forecasts a 24% jump in peak electricity demand, largely from new data centers. Key U.S. grid operators face a high risk of power shortfalls within five years as the energy transition accelerates.
According to a report from Cisco ThousandEyes, 2025 was a rough year for online reliability. Major outages at companies like Asana, Zoom, and AWS highlighted how fragile our interconnected systems really are.
Nvidia is making a massive $2 billion follow-on investment in cloud provider CoreWeave. The deal aims to accelerate the build-out of over 5 gigawatts of AI computing capacity by 2030, even as CoreWeave carries nearly $19 billion in debt.
An Oklahoma state senator has introduced a bill to halt new data center construction for three years. The move aims to study the impacts on water, utilities, and land use as the AI boom drives development into new regions.
The race to run AI in the cloud is reshaping security. According to new data, nearly every organization is using or planning to use cloud services for AI workloads, which is intensifying competition between cloud providers and third-party security vendors. The shared responsibility model is getting
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has secured a massive $20 billion in its latest funding round. The cash is earmarked for a rapid expansion of its data center infrastructure to power its Grok chatbot and future AI models. The build-out, however, is facing pushback from local communities over its environ
VivoPower International is making a major strategic shift. The company has agreed to acquire an operational 40MW data center in Norway, with plans to convert it from crypto mining to an AI-focused hub powered by renewable energy.
BorderPlex Digital Assets is launching a major renewable energy sourcing program to power its data center project in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. Dubbed Project Green, it aims for 500MW by 2028, scaling to 1GW by 2032. The initiative is tied to a state MoU but faces a lawsuit from local residents.
The “cloud-first” mantra that dominated IT for a decade is being upended by AI. According to a new analysis, the economics and demands of AI workloads are pushing companies back toward a hybrid mix of cloud and on-premises computing.
Agentic AI is moving fast from concept to early tests in payments and banking. But a huge trust gap remains, as new protocols decide who controls the customer and the economics of future transactions.
