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Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Google Funds Upgrades at Six Nuclear Sites to Meet AI Data Center Demand

Google has signed a 20-year agreement with Constellation to upgrade 11 reactors at six nuclear sites in the United States, which is expected to add 890 megawatts over five years. The move comes amid difficulties for the PJM grid in keeping pace with growing demand from AI data centers, alongside rising concerns about grid reliability and electricity costs.

2026-10-06

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Lambda Seeks to Raise $4 Billion Ahead of Planned 2027 IPO

Nvidia-backed Lambda plans to raise up to $4 billion at a pre-money valuation of $14.5 billion in a round led by Coatue Management and Blackstone, ahead of a planned initial public offering in 2027. Much of the announced demand growth is based on a $35 billion commitment from Anthropic.

2026-10-06

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Russian Drone Attacks Disrupt Data Centers and Communications Networks in Ukraine

A growing wave of Russian drone attacks on data centers and communications networks in Ukraine has caused outages affecting tens of thousands of homes, amid warnings about threats to the digital economy and public services. The attacks exploit air-defense gaps, particularly because faster jet-powered drones are difficult to intercept.

2026-10-05

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Cloudflare Reveals 46 Announcements During Its 16th Birthday Week: Tools for AI and Post-Quantum Security

Cloudflare revealed 46 updates and launches during Birthday Week 2026, covering open-source tools, application security, post-quantum cryptography, developer platforms, and the economics of AI agent services. The announcements point in one direction: reshaping Cloudflare’s architecture to handle growing automated traffic and increasingly autonomous applications and agents.

2026-10-05

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

AWS Enables OpenAI-Powered Managed Bedrock Agents and Announces Changes to Its Cloud Services

AWS announced a public preview of OpenAI-powered managed Amazon Bedrock Agents, running them within AWS and connecting them to existing identities, permissions, and governance. The updates included new models, data and artificial intelligence launches, and a timeline for ending or reducing the availability of several services.

2026-10-05

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

AWS Stops Using Non-Disclosure Agreements with Government Agencies Over Data Centers

Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services, said the company no longer uses non-disclosure agreements with government agencies for data center projects, in an attempt to ease growing opposition in the United States. This comes amid demands for greater transparency and concerns about water and energy consumption, emissions, and the impact of these projects on electricity prices.

2026-10-03

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Amazon Pledges to Build Responsible Data Centers and Allocates More Than $1 Billion to U.S. Communities

Amazon announced the “Built Together” framework to invest more than an additional $1 billion over five years in education, training, energy and water efficiency, and local projects connected to U.S. data center communities. The company also published commitments related to energy, water, transparency, and emissions, along with its own figures on resource consumption and the economic impact of data centers.

2026-10-02

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Cloudflare Launches Streamline for Building Custom Video Processing Pipelines with Workers and Containers

Cloudflare launched the open-source Streamline project, a practical example for building long-running video processing pipelines that combine Cloudflare Stream, Workers, Durable Objects, and Containers. The project enables adding layers, overlays, burned-in subtitles, and other modifications to live streams or hosted video, while processing continues even if the control application disconnects.

2026-10-02

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Cloudflare: Leading in Performance Across 74% of the World’s Largest Internet Networks

Cloudflare said it has become the fastest network provider across 74% of the 1,000 largest networks worldwide, compared with 60% in April 2026. The company now also relies on background measurements from Challenge Pages to expand the scope of real-user data while preserving privacy characteristics.

2026-10-02

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Cloudflare Adds Email Authentication to Quick Tunnels Without an Account

Cloudflare has added the --allowed-mail option to Quick Tunnels, allowing access to local applications to be restricted by specific email addresses or domains without requiring the owner or visitor to have a Cloudflare account.

2026-10-02

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Cloudflare Expands Availability of Features Once Exclusive to Enterprise Customers and Raises Platform Limits

Cloudflare announced that it is making Logpush, Transformers, custom dashboards, and account-management tools available to broader customer segments, while expanding RBAC roles and raising limits for services such as Workers, Containers, and Workflows. The company says the difference between plans will increasingly center on usage volume rather than feature exclusivity, while certain restrictions for Enterprise customers and phased rollout schedules remain.

2026-10-02

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Cloudflare Launches Traces to Track Requests Across the Entire Platform Path

Cloudflare announced the availability of Cloudflare Traces in open beta, providing a single timeline showing a request’s journey through security rules, transformations, caching, routing, Workers, and the origin. The service supports W3C and OpenTelemetry context, with sampling options and export to external monitoring platforms.

2026-10-02

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Cloudflare Unifies Logging, Tracing, and Analytics in a Single Observability Platform

Cloudflare announced eight updates that bring logs, tracing, analytics, alerts, dashboards, and data export together in a unified observability platform. The changes include a unified SQL interface, request tracing in open beta, and Logpush availability for self-service plans, along with a new pricing model beginning December 1, 2026.

2026-10-02

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Google Tests Operating TPU Chips in Orbit and Estimates 1,800 Launches Needed to Build Space Data Centers

Google launched its first advanced TPU chip into orbit aboard an experimental satellite developed by Planet Labs to test running artificial intelligence in space. A company-reviewed study estimates that expanding orbital data centers could require about 1,800 Starship launches over a decade, while launch, cooling, power, and large-scale operations challenges remain substantial.

2026-10-01

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

NVIDIA and CoreWeave Advance Agentic AI Infrastructure into Production

CoreWeave announced the availability of NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems and Spectrum-X networks, along with new services that connect model training, evaluation, and production deployment. Cognition tests showed up to a 4.8x increase in aggregate token generation rate compared with the GB200 NVL72 platform for software engineering workloads.

2026-09-30

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Cloudflare Rebuilds Containers to Accelerate Isolated Workspaces for AI Agents

Cloudflare announced a redesign of Cloudflare Containers for the workspaces created on demand by AI agents, reducing container startup time to 648 milliseconds in an independent test and enabling runtime selection of the system image and instance type. It also launched filesystem snapshots in public beta, while Container class and Legacy Sandbox class will receive no updates after December 31, 2026.

2026-09-30

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Cloudflare Enables Usage Fee Collection from AI Agents via HTTP 402

Cloudflare has launched a closed beta of Monetization Gateway, a layer that enables websites, APIs, and MCP tools to collect usage-based payments from AI agents. The service relies on HTTP 402 and settles payments in USDC on the Base network, with production deployments at Cloudflare AI Gateway, Ceramic.ai, Stocktwits, and API2PDF.

2026-09-30

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Enables Direct Queries from Iceberg and Parquet Within the Data Lake

AWS has added to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL the ability to combine live operational data with Apache Iceberg and Parquet data stored in Amazon S3 in a single PostgreSQL query, without ETL pipelines to move the data. The capability relies on embedded DuckDB and supports the AWS Glue Data Catalog and Iceberg catalogs compatible with IRC.

2026-09-30