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Arago Raises €22.1M to Develop Energy-Efficient Photonic AI Chips - 📅 Jul 11, 2025 - Paris-based DeepTech startup Arago has raised €22.1 million in seed funding to accelerate the development and commercialization of its photonic processor, a novel computing platform that uses light instead of electricity to power artificial intelligence workloads. The company claims the technology could reduce energy usage in AI systems by up to tenfold compared to today's top-performing GPUs.

Founded less than a year ago, Arago is aiming to radically shift the AI hardware paradigm with its photonic chip codenamed JEF. The processor is based on a proprietary photonic architecture that uses lasers and photons - particles of light - to perform computations, in contrast to traditional [...]

Yondr Group Launches 40MW Frankfurt Data Center - 📅 Jul 11, 2025 - Yondr Group has announced the full operational launch of its new 40-megawatt data center located in Bischofsheim, just south of Frankfurt, marking a significant milestone in its rapid expansion across Europe. The facility is the latest addition to the company's growing portfolio of hyperscale data centers and concludes a multi-phase rollout that has seen over 100MW of capacity come online across Europe in the past 12 months.

The Frankfurt deployment completes four ready-for-service (RFS) stages, each delivered through close collaboration with clients from initial design through to final construction. The partnership-focused approach enabled early access to data halls and expedited service [...]

Google to Cut U.S. Gov Cloud Costs Amid Trump Pressure on Big Tech - 📅 Jul 11, 2025 - In a bid to rein in federal spending, major cloud service providers are responding to mounting pressure from the Trump administration by slashing prices on contracts with the U.S. government. According to the Financial Times citing sources familiar with ongoing negotiations, Google Cloud is now preparing to offer significant reductions in the cost of its cloud computing services for federal agencies - a move expected to be finalized in the coming weeks.

The development comes as part of a broader federal strategy aimed at curbing long-standing, high-cost technology contracts. The General Services Administration (GSA), which oversees federal procurement, is leading the initiative. A senior [...]

AI Demand Fuels 16% Growth in China’s Cloud Market in Q1 2025 - 📅 Jul 10, 2025 - Cloud infrastructure spending in Mainland China reached US$11.6 billion in the first quarter of 2025, marking a 16% year-over-year increase, according to the latest figures from Canalys, now part of Omdia. This growth highlights the continued momentum of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption as a major force shaping the cloud computing landscape across the region.

As AI workloads become increasingly central to digital transformation efforts, cloud service providers in China are scaling investments in infrastructure and foundational model development. The rising reliance on GPU-based cloud infrastructure to support AI operations is changing enterprise IT strategies, driving migration from [...]

Website Hosting Speed Plays Important Role in Google Rankings - 📅 Jul 10, 2025 - Google's algorithm has increasingly prioritized user experience in its ranking criteria, and loading speed — especially on mobile devices — is a key part of that experience. A slow-loading website not only risks frustrating users but may also be pushed further down in search results, regardless of the quality of its content.

Brett Thomas, owner of Rhino Web Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana, has seen firsthand how hosting infrastructure affects visibility.

"Hosting speed isn't just a technical issue," said Thomas. "It's a marketing issue. A site that loads slowly may never even get seen — not because of its design or message, but because search engines devalue the [...]

Hosting Firm HOSTKEY Expands DC Presence to Warsaw and Milan - 📅 Jul 10, 2025 - Hosting and infrastructure services provider HOSTKEY has launched a new facility in Warsaw, Poland, marking its latest strategic expansion across Europe. The facility is located at the LIM Data Center 3, one of the most secure and interconnected colocation centers in Poland.

The new Warsaw data hall will initially launch with two racks and four upstreams, accommodating approximately 20 hours of deployment work. LIM Data Center 3, situated in the iconic LIM building on Aleje Jerozolimskie in central Warsaw, is a Tier 2+ facility known for its dual-path power infrastructure, precision cooling with 6+1 redundancy, and stringent fire protection measures. It hosts around 100 telecom carriers [...]

Khazna Data Centers Partners with IDCA to Adopt Global Standards - 📅 Jul 10, 2025 - Abu Dhabi-based Khazna Data Centers, one of the largest operators of hyperscale data centers in the Middle East, has entered into a strategic partnership with the International Data Center Authority (IDCA) to align its operations with globally recognized digital infrastructure standards.

Khazna CEO - Mr. Hassan AlnaqbiThe move marks a significant step toward standardizing best practices across Khazna's operations and reinforcing its position as a global player in data center development.

Under the agreement, Khazna will ensure that its entire ecosystem - including workforce development, AI and cloud deployments, service delivery, and architectural design - complies with IDCA's stringent [...]

Vodafone, Digital Realty Partner to Boost Crete as Mediterranean Data Hub - 📅 Jul 10, 2025 - Vodafone Greece and Digital Realty have announced a strategic partnership aimed at transforming the digital infrastructure of Crete into a key connectivity hub for the Mediterranean. This initiative marks a major step toward reinforcing Greece's position in regional and global digital ecosystems by enhancing data center capabilities and network resilience on the island.

As part of the collaboration, Vodafone Greece will establish a new point of presence (PoP) at Digital Realty's HER1 data center in Heraklion. The facility will serve as the first carrier-neutral interconnection point in Crete, enabling submarine cable operators to terminate their equipment and interconnect with a broad [...]

Study: Aging Subsea Cable Fleet Puts Global Internet Resilience at Risk - 📅 Jul 9, 2025 - A new joint report by TeleGeography and Infra-Analytics has revealed that maintaining the world's growing network of submarine cables will require an estimated $3 billion investment to avoid service degradation and repair delays by 2040. The study, ‘The Future of Submarine Cable Maintenance,' outlines an impending shortfall in the number and viability of cable maintenance vessels, raising concerns about the long-term resilience of the global internet infrastructure.

Submarine cables form the invisible backbone of the modern internet, transmitting more than 95% of international data. As global demand for bandwidth increases and the push for network redundancy intensifies, investment in new [...]

CoreWeave Debuts RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell for AI and Graphics Workloads - 📅 Jul 9, 2025 - CoreWeave, a specialist cloud provider focused on AI and GPU-accelerated workloads, has announced the general availability of the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition in its infrastructure. With this move, CoreWeave becomes the first cloud platform globally to offer access to the new RTX PRO 6000-based instances, marking another milestone in its effort to bring cutting-edge GPU technology to AI developers and enterprise customers.

The new RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU, developed by NVIDIA, is designed to significantly boost performance for demanding AI and graphics tasks. Specifically optimized for inference workloads up to 70 billion parameters, it offers up to 5.6 times faster [...]