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QTS and Lancium Plan $10 Billion Texas Data Center Campus - 📅 - QTS Data Centers and Lancium plan a data center campus near Turkey, Texas, carrying an expected investment above $10 billion and potentially thousands of construction jobs. QTS would build and operate the facilities on Lancium's Clean Campus, while Lancium supplies infrastructure, power systems, storage and solar. The scale raises questions around execution, grid capacity and local impact.For Hall County, the proposal is unusually large relative to the surrounding economy. The companies estimate as many as 7,000 construction jobs at peak activity and roughly 350 permanent positions spanning QTS staff, maintenance, security and tenant operations. Those figures could alter local labor [...]
Study: Enterprise AI Security Risks Are Already Hitting Operations - 📅 - DigiCert says 78% of enterprises have already encountered AI related security incidents or vulnerabilities, according to a May 2026 survey of 1,001 IT and cybersecurity leaders in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. The findings suggest deployment is outrunning governance, while identity, traceability, and revocation controls remain uneven across organizations and industries today at production scale.The findings are based on an independent online survey conducted by Propeller Insights for DigiCert in May 2026. It covered 1,001 IT and cybersecurity decision makers - 500 in the United States, 251 in the United Kingdom, and 250 in Australia. Respondents worked across [...]
Study: Enterprise AI Security Risks Are Already Hitting Operations - 📅 - DigiCert says 78% of enterprises have already encountered AI related security incidents or vulnerabilities, according to a May 2026 survey of 1,001 IT and cybersecurity leaders in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. The findings suggest deployment is outrunning governance, while identity, traceability, and revocation controls remain uneven across organizations and industries today at production scale.The findings are based on an independent online survey conducted by Propeller Insights for DigiCert in May 2026. It covered 1,001 IT and cybersecurity decision makers - 500 in the United States, 251 in the United Kingdom, and 250 in Australia. Respondents worked across [...]
Pure DC Launches €7.5B Finland AI Data Center Development - 📅 - Pure Data Centres Group is committing more than €1.5 billion to launch a 110 MW artificial intelligence campus in western Finland, with plans to expand the Seinäjoki site beyond 550 MW and €7.5 billion. If completed, the project would rank among Europe's largest AI infrastructure developments and Britain's biggest corporate investment into Finland to date.The scale immediately shifts the conversation beyond another hyperscale campus announcement. Europe is trying to answer a practical question rather than a technological one. Where will the compute come from?
Governments across the region want greater AI capability without relying exclusively on infrastructure outside Europe. That [...]
AI-Operated Cyberattacks Tighten Enterprise Response Windows - 📅 - Check Point says artificial intelligence is now participating directly in live cyberattacks, executing commands, analyzing stolen data and accelerating exploitation with limited human supervision. Its 2026 security report argues that enterprise adoption is outrunning governance, leaving defenders with shorter response windows, weaker identity assumptions and a rapidly expanding attack surface across approved and unauthorized AI tools alike.
The central concern is not that criminals have gained another productivity aid. They already had one. The more consequential shift is that commercial models and coding agents can apparently remain active inside an intrusion, carrying out [...]
The central concern is not that criminals have gained another productivity aid. They already had one. The more consequential shift is that commercial models and coding agents can apparently remain active inside an intrusion, carrying out [...]
Flexential Upgrades Data Center Network Backbone to 400 Gbps - 📅 - Flexential has upgraded parts of its private backbone to 400 Gbps across 15 data centers in Atlanta, Dallas, Denver and Hillsboro, Oregon, giving customers access to 100 Gbps ports as artificial intelligence workloads, data replication and hybrid cloud traffic increasingly expose the limits of older network designs and slower provisioning models across major United States markets today.The capacity increase is aimed less at making individual applications suddenly faster than at removing a growing choke point between data centers, cloud regions and carrier networks. Customers can purchase 100 Gbps access on a single port and use burstable capacity rather than assembling several smaller [...]
AI Boom Spurs New York Moratorium on Hyperscale Data Centers - 📅 - New York has imposed a one-year moratorium on new hyperscale data centers as the artificial intelligence boom drives up electricity costs, strains water supplies and increases pressure on local communities. Governor Kathy Hochul's order freezes key permits while regulators design statewide rules determining who funds grid upgrades, resource use and the broader public costs of digital infrastructure.The executive order pauses discretionary environmental permits for large new facilities while regulators prepare a common assessment of their effects on electricity demand, water consumption, air quality and surrounding communities. Projects with completed applications may continue through the [...]
Supermicro Unveils Edge AI Stack for Distributed Operations - 📅 - Supermicro has introduced a preconfigured Kubernetes appliance for running AI inference at edge locations, combining its compact servers with Red Hat OpenShift and Portworx by Everpure. The system is intended to give retailers, manufacturers, telecom operators, and distributed enterprises a common platform for containers, virtual machines, storage, and data protection without installing conventional arrays at every site.
The product lands in a market where edge AI projects often stall after successful pilots. The model may work. The camera, sensor, or local application may work. Operating the resulting infrastructure across hundreds or thousands of sites is harder. Each location brings [...]
The product lands in a market where edge AI projects often stall after successful pilots. The model may work. The camera, sensor, or local application may work. Operating the resulting infrastructure across hundreds or thousands of sites is harder. Each location brings [...]
Oratomic Lands $300M to Challenge Quantum Scaling Limits - 📅 - Oratomic has secured a $300 million Series A led jointly by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures, giving the Pasadena quantum startup unusually deep financial backing only months after emerging from stealth. The financing arrives alongside increasingly aggressive claims that fault-tolerant quantum computing could require far fewer physical qubits than widely assumed across industry.
Money is rarely the limiting factor in quantum computing. Physics usually is. Yet funding still shapes which technical ideas survive long enough to confront reality, and this round immediately places Oratomic among the industry's best-capitalized early-stage companies. The company surfaced [...]
Money is rarely the limiting factor in quantum computing. Physics usually is. Yet funding still shapes which technical ideas survive long enough to confront reality, and this round immediately places Oratomic among the industry's best-capitalized early-stage companies. The company surfaced [...]
Intel's €5B Ireland Investment Expands Europe's Chip Output - 📅 - Intel will invest €5 billion at its Leixlip manufacturing campus in Ireland, expanding output for Xeon 6 and future Xeon processors built on Intel 3. The program adds equipment and upgrades existing fabrication space as European cloud providers, hosting companies and data center operators confront rising demand for AI computing, tighter supply chains and higher infrastructure costs.
The investment is less about adding another European fab than extracting more output from one already running. Intel plans to install advanced manufacturing tools, expand research and development activity and connect separate production modules through a larger automated track system. That should raise [...]
The investment is less about adding another European fab than extracting more output from one already running. Intel plans to install advanced manufacturing tools, expand research and development activity and connect separate production modules through a larger automated track system. That should raise [...]