The coming year in cloud computing looks turbulent. According to new predictions, we’re facing major multiday outages as hyperscalers prioritize AI infrastructure over legacy systems. Enterprises are responding by shifting toward private AI deployments, while specialized neoclouds capture $20 billio
OVHcloud’s Gravelines region experienced a significant outage lasting nearly six hours on November 24. The incident affected instances across GRA5, GRA7, GRA9, and GRA11 zones, leaving customers temporarily unable to access their cloud resources. This marks another reliability challenge for the Euro
Amazon Web Services will invest $50 billion to dramatically expand its AI and high-performance computing capacity for US government agencies. The expansion will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of compute capacity across Top Secret, Secret, and GovCloud regions. Construction begins in 2026, featuring both A
Australia’s data center market has expanded forty-fold over the past two decades, with two-thirds of that growth happening since 2020. Demand is now outpacing supply for the first time on record, creating a critical inflection point for the sector.
Google’s AI infrastructure demand is growing so rapidly that the company must double serving capacity every six months. This explosive growth comes as Google ramps up capital expenditures to nearly $93 billion and deploys its latest Ironwood TPUs.
Data center operator Serverfarm is trying to raise $589 million through asset-backed securities, but the deal faces delays due to concerns about tenant Alibaba’s alleged ties to Chinese military operations. Banks have extended the deadline by at least a week as investors evaluate the security risks.
New Chromebook buyers can score a year of ad-free gaming through Nvidia’s GeForce Now service. The Fast Pass perk includes priority queue access and enhanced graphics, though it’s limited to 10 hours monthly. This adds value to Chromebooks’ traditionally weak gaming capabilities.
NVIDIA continues its weekly game additions to GeForce NOW with eight new titles this week. The company is also just one region away from completing its global RTX 5080 server rollout, with Stockholm being the final location to go live soon.
Microsoft has unveiled its next-generation Cobalt 200 CPU featuring 132 Arm cores and built on TSMC’s 3nm process. The company also announced Azure Boost upgrades delivering 1 million IOPS for storage workloads. Both technologies will see wider rollout in 2026.
Cloudflare initially thought it was facing a massive DDoS attack, but the real culprit was an internal database permission change that caused a bot management feature file to double in size. The corrupted file propagated across their network, causing widespread 5xx errors and taking down countless w
