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Oracle Ad Campaign Defends Data Center Project in New Mexico
📅 - Oracle has launched a bilingual advertising campaign across New Mexico to defend its planned Project Jupiter data center campus in Doña Ana County, where the company faces local scrutiny over water use, energy demand, and public subsidies. The campaign frames the project as an economic development engine with revised infrastructure plans designed to limit environmental strain.
The ads will run for several months across television, radio, online platforms, and social media in English and Spanish. Oracle is trying to speak directly to residents, not just county officials, consultants, or business groups. That tells you something about the politics around large data center developments now. [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Dutch Halt Kyndryl’s Solvinity Deal Over Cloud Control - The Dutch government will block Kyndryl's planned acquisition of Solvinity, citing public-interest risks tied to critical cloud services and foreign control. The decision, disclosed to parliament by Dutch Junior Economic Affairs Minister Willemijn Aerdts, puts digital sovereignty ahead of a cross-border IT services deal involving a provider that hosts the Netherlands' DigiD identity system for citizens online services.
This is not just another M&A review turning sour. Solvinity is not a generic cloud reseller sitting somewhere in the Dutch IT supply chain. It hosts DigiD, the national digital identity system used by Dutch citizens to access tax records, insurance information, health data [...]
📅 - EU States Press Brussels on Nuclear Data Center Rules - Ten European Union countries are pressing Brussels to treat nuclear power as sustainable in planned data center rules, turning a technical efficiency label into a fight over AI infrastructure, energy sovereignty, and where Europe wants future compute built. The intervention lands before the Commission adopts its next data center package on June 3, with industry watching closely.
The countries reportedly include France, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Czechia, Croatia, and Romania. Their complaint is aimed at the European Commission's draft approach under the Energy Efficiency Directive, where they argue the rules favor renewable electricity over nuclear power even [...]
📅 - Qumulo Targets Idle Enterprise GPUs with New AI Data Fabric - Qumulo is aiming at one of enterprise AI's uglier cost problems: GPUs bought at premium prices but left waiting for data. Its new Cloud AI Accelerator presents distributed datasets to GPU resources across regions, clouds, and hybrid environments without copying or staging, positioning storage architecture as a direct lever on AI economics rather than invisible background plumbing.
The claim lands at a useful moment. Enterprises have spent heavily on accelerated compute, often under pressure from boards that do not want to miss the AI cycle. Then the infrastructure teams discover the less attractive part. Data is not where the GPUs are. Or it is not governed in a way that lets it move. Or [...]
📅 - InMotion Hosting Says It Contained Major cPanel Flaw - InMotion Hosting says it neutralized a severe cPanel and WHM authentication-bypass flaw that exposed roughly 1.5 million internet-facing servers globally, shielding nearly all affected customers through network-edge blocks and rapid patching. The episode shows how managed hosting providers now compete on operational containment, not just uptime, pricing, or control-panel convenience alone during live security incidents at scale.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-41940, carried a CVSS score of 9.8. Near the top of the severity scale. According to technical analysis from watchTowr Labs cited by InMotion Hosting, the bug chain could let a network-based attacker gain root-level control [...]
📅 - Modal Labs Raises $355M as AI Compute Demand Reshapes Cloud Now - Modal Labs has raised $355 million at a $4.65 billion valuation, turning a niche developer infrastructure company into one of the more closely watched suppliers in the AI compute stack. The funding follows a sharp revenue jump and reflects two market pressures arriving together: scarce GPU capacity and the spread of AI-generated code into production workflows.
The round was led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures, with General Catalyst taking a board seat. Menlo Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Accel also joined, alongside existing investors. Modal said its annualized revenue has climbed from about $60 million in September to more than $300 million.
That is the number investors [...]
📅 - Storm Risk Shadows $670B in Planned U.S. Data Center Builds - MS Amlin says half of planned U.S. data center projects, representing $670 billion in investment, are in states facing high risk from severe convective storms, including tornadoes, hail and damaging winds. The insurer's analysis lands as AI infrastructure expands into cheaper southern markets, where power, land and tax incentives look easier than climate certainty on paper today.
The specialty Lloyd's insurer reviewed more than 670 data center projects planned or under construction across the United States. It found 320 facilities in states classified as high risk for severe convective storms, or SCS in insurance shorthand. Ugly phrase. Expensive peril.
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