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Server Buyers Watch as Washington Weighs Broader Chip Tariffs
📅 - The Trump administration is considering broader semiconductor tariffs that could reach the servers filling U.S. data centers, according to Politico, potentially raising hardware costs just as operators are racing to add AI capacity. The proposal remains unsettled, but hosting companies, cloud providers, and data center developers may face another procurement variable beyond chips, power, land, and cooling.
Politico reported, citing eight people familiar with the discussions, that one approach under consideration would extend duties beyond semiconductors themselves to products containing them, potentially including laptops, gaming consoles, and data center servers. Commerce Secretary [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Azure Joins AWS Multicloud Network Model First Built With Google - AWS and Microsoft have opened managed private networking between their clouds, extending a multicloud framework AWS first unveiled with Google Cloud in 2025. The public preview lets enterprises provision AWS – Azure connectivity through cloud tooling for customers, reducing carrier coordination while giving hyperscalers more control over interconnection, resilience, encryption, monitoring, and the economics surrounding cross-cloud traffic.
For enterprises already operating across both platforms, this removes some familiar plumbing. Private AWS – Azure connectivity has typically meant coordinating cloud ports, physical circuits, routing, third-party connectivity providers, monitoring, [...]
📅 - Scaling DeepSeek-V3 Across Multi-GPU Nodes: The Bare Metal Performance Blueprint - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASELONDON, UK – eServers, a leading provider of high-performance bare metal infrastructure and GPU-accelerated hosting in the UK, has released a comprehensive technical blueprint titled "Scaling DeepSeek-V3 Across Multi-GPU Nodes." The newly published guide provides AI agencies, researchers, and enterprise developers with a clear, step-by-step roadmap for deploying massive open-weights models without incurring exorbitant public cloud fees.
The release of DeepSeek-V3, featuring an astonishing 671 billion parameters and a highly efficient Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, has fundamentally disrupted the AI industry. However, serving
📅 - SLB Buys Kelvion in $4.1B Data Center Cooling Expansion Deal - Global technology company SLB has agreed to acquire German thermal management specialist Kelvion in a $4.1 billion transaction, extending the oilfield technology group deeper into data center infrastructure as AI facilities strain power and cooling systems. The deal gives SLB a cooling business, but exposes it to a market where capacity forecasts, construction schedules, and capital intensity are moving fast.
The acquisition is an unusually direct move by SLB into equipment sitting inside one of the more difficult parts of the AI infrastructure buildout.
Cooling has become less peripheral as rack densities rise. SLB already has a data center business built around modular manufacturing, [...]
📅 - Anthropic's Cloud Spending Expands With $35B Lambda Agreement - Anthropic has reportedly signed a $35 billion cloud computing agreement with NVIDIA-backed Lambda for capacity at a Texas data center, adding another enormous infrastructure commitment to its AI expansion. The deal would secure roughly 350 megawatts of NVIDIA-based compute, while exposing how tightly AI demand, cloud financing, chip supply, and data center development are becoming commercially intertwined.
The agreement, first reported by The Wall Street Journal and confirmed by Reuters through a source familiar with the matter, has not been publicly announced by Anthropic or Lambda. No detailed commercial terms have been disclosed. The infrastructure is tied to a data center in Nueces [...]
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