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Google Secures Power Deal for 890 MW of Additional Nuclear Capacity
📅 - Google and Constellation Energy have signed a 20 year power purchase agreement supporting 890 megawatts of additional nuclear generation on the PJM grid, with the first plant upgrade expected in 2028. The arrangement ties Google's expansion to investment in existing reactors, rather than new construction, but leaves questions about when individual data centers can access that electricity.
For cloud infrastructure buyers, the deal puts generation financing closer to the center of capacity planning. Google is using a lengthy purchasing commitment to support equipment investments that increase supply, instead of relying exclusively on electricity already available. Constellation Energy plans [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Digital Realty Starts Construction of 24 MW Osaka Data Center - Digital Realty has begun construction of a 24 megawatt data center in Osaka, adding planned capacity for cloud and AI customers through its Japanese joint venture with Mitsubishi. The KIX15 facility is scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of 2028, with air and liquid cooling designed to accommodate higher density computing at its existing campus there.
For infrastructure buyers, the immediate change is in the development pipeline. Companies planning Japanese deployments have another facility to evaluate, although workloads needing space sooner will require other arrangements. The two years before the scheduled opening also leave buyers assessing a building against hardware requirements [...]
📅 - IBM and Red Hat Fix 400 Java Flaws, Expand Lightwell Remediation Service - IBM and Red Hat said October 6 that their Lightwell initiative had identified and fixed more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries, while opening its Clearinghouse service to enterprise requests. For cloud operators and application owners, the immediate question is whether those fixes can survive production testing without forcing disruptive upgrades or outages.
A corrected dependency is a starting point. Getting it into a customer application requires checking behavior, compatibility and performance against the environment actually running the business. Backporting repairs to older library versions can reduce the scope of that work. It cannot establish [...]
📅 - IBM and Red Hat Join Zscaler to Address Application Patch Gap - Zscaler announced a collaboration with IBM and Red Hat on October 5 to protect private applications while enterprises prepare software patches, linking its Autonomous Application Shield with the partners' Lightwell remediation technology. The arrangement targets a stubborn infrastructure problem: keeping vulnerable services running safely when security teams can identify a flaw but cannot immediately deploy a fix.
For cloud operators and managed service providers, that interval is familiar. A vulnerable application may support customer transactions, internal workflows or integrations that nobody wants to interrupt. Replacing its software requires testing, scheduling and somebody willing [...]
📅 - HPE ProLiant Servers Add AMD CPUs and New Cooling Options - Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced four servers using sixth generation Advanced Micro Devices EPYC processors, including a single socket model supporting up to 256 cores. The systems give dedicated hosting and cloud operators new hardware options, with availability beginning later in 2026, but their commercial value will depend on utilization, licensing, memory provisioning and facility power limits.
The clearest hosting proposition starts with the ProLiant DL525 Gen13, a 1U machine combining one processor socket with 16 memory channels and PCIe Gen6 connectivity. It supports DDR5 and MRDIMM memory. For providers selling dedicated servers or assembling virtual machine clusters, that [...]
📅 - Arista Networks Introduces Liquid Cooled Fabrics for AI Cloud Deployments - Arista Networks has introduced Ethernet rack architectures supporting up to 144 accelerators within a single rack and larger computing domains across racks. The portfolio targets AI training and inference infrastructure, combining networking and liquid cooling, while leaving cloud operators to establish whether greater density and architectural choice improve GPU utilization enough to justify deployment costs in practice.
For providers renting GPU clusters, the relevant purchasing unit is increasingly the interconnected system. Accelerators waiting for data cannot deliver their full processing capacity, even when the underlying hardware is expensive and available. A faster fabric may [...]
📅 - AWS Gets Linux Foundation Board Seat With Membership Upgrade - Amazon Web Services has become a Platinum Member of the Linux Foundation, gaining representation on its board as the cloud provider expands its institutional role in open source infrastructure. The upgrade places governance alongside its existing project contributions, with implications for hosting companies and enterprise buyers relying on software that hyperscalers also help fund and develop globally.
For infrastructure operators, the immediate change is in representation rather than deployment. There is no new cloud instance, migration tool or hosting package attached to the membership upgrade. AWS gains a formal role at the foundation level, while the announcement leaves the scale of [...]
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