Vattenfall, Project Enki Explore Wind-Powered Offshore Data Centers
📅 - Energy company Vattenfall and Project Enki, together with technology partner ABB, have launched a joint initiative to explore the development of offshore data centers directly connected to offshore wind farms. The concept aims to power data center infrastructure entirely with renewable energy generated at sea, addressing growing demand for compute-intensive workloads such as artificial intelligence while reducing pressure on onshore electricity grids.
The collaboration focuses on integrating existing technologies in a new way. Project Enki would develop and operate the offshore data centers, while Vattenfall would provide a long-term supply of renewable electricity generated by offshore [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Digital Realty Makes Interconnection Programmable for AI - Digital Realty has made ServiceFabric Model Context Protocol available, extending its interconnection platform with programmable controls for private AI infrastructure across more than 800 data centers. The launch puts MCP-based interfaces around connectivity, telemetry, identity, and operations as enterprises try to run AI workloads near data while retaining policy control, sovereign placement, and partner flexibility at scale.
The company is not claiming to have solved private AI. Nobody has. But it is trying to make one part of the problem more programmable: the physical and network infrastructure that sits between enterprise data, AI systems, partners, clouds, and colocation [...]
📅 - Netskope Courts MSPs and AI Buyers With New Automation, AWS Tie-Up - Netskope is expanding its channel strategy and AI security footprint simultaneously, introducing a new managed services partner program while also deepening ties with Amazon Web Services around the governance of autonomous AI agents, as enterprises increasingly treat both cybersecurity operations and AI deployment as outsourced, platform-driven functions across increasingly complex environments today.
The two announcements address different audiences on paper. One targets managed service providers trying to scale SASE and security operations businesses. The other focuses on enterprises wrestling with the governance of agentic AI. Yet both point toward the same underlying challenge: [...]
📅 - U.S. CFOs Back Tech Spending as Economic Confidence Hits Low - Grant Thornton research says CFOs are increasing technology spending even as confidence in the U.S. economy falls to a 20-quarter low. The Q2 2026 survey finds 67% expect to raise IT and digital transformation budgets, while 68% still expect profit growth, despite inflation, tariffs, supply chain stress, and weaker confidence in cost control across companies this year.
That is the uncomfortable signal in the data. Finance chiefs are worried about the economy, but they are not freezing technology budgets. Not yet. They are spending into uncertainty, partly because the alternative looks worse: aging systems, weak automation, slower decision-making, and competitors using AI to cut costs or [...]
📅 - OVHcloud Pairs Agentic Workspace Preview With Quantum Plans - OVHcloud is widening its European cloud agenda on two fronts, previewing OVHai Workspace for encrypted agentic collaboration while advancing quantum infrastructure work with Welinq and Quobly. The moves place workplace software, AI agents, sovereign cloud, and quantum access under one infrastructure narrative, although the company still has to prove customers want them beyond specialist early adopters.
The announcements are easy to overread. They should not be.
OVHai Workspace is a preview product, not a finished market challenge to Microsoft or Google. The quantum work is partly research, partly platform expansion, and still some distance from broad enterprise use. But OVHcloud is doing [...]
📅 - AI Networks Open New Test Market, Frost and Sullivan Says - Frost and Sullivan says AI network infrastructure growth is opening a new market for test and measurement providers, with demand rising for tools that validate performance, security, compliance, interoperability, and scalability. Its 2025 to 2030 analysis identifies opportunities worth up to $500 million as AI workloads move into critical industries and more complex network environments globally.
The finding is not surprising. It is still useful.
AI infrastructure spending has been dominated by chips, servers, data centers, power, and cooling. Less visible is the testing layer needed to prove those systems actually perform under pressure. As AI workloads become more distributed and more [...]
📅 - Veeam, HPE Tie Private Cloud AI to Data Resilience Stack - Veeam and HPE are expanding their private cloud AI work with validated designs for HPE Private Cloud AI, positioning data resilience, governance, and recoverability as requirements for enterprise AI deployments. The companies are also packaging repeatable private-cloud templates for partners as customers try to move AI projects from pilots into controlled production environments without losing operational discipline today.
The announcement is less about another private-cloud bundle and more about the part of AI infrastructure that executives tend to understate until something fails: whether the data feeding the system can be trusted, protected, restored, and explained.