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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,771 words 9 min read
China's Z.AI Flips the Switch on a 1-Gigawatt Data Center Built Entirely on Chinese Chips — and the Global Cloud Industry Is Watching Z.AI, the Chinese AI company formerly known as Zhipu, has fired up a 1-gigawatt data center powered…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,186 words 6 min read
US data centers will burn through one-fifth of the nation's electricity by 2035 — four times what they use today — according to a fresh forecast from BloombergNEF that underscores just how much power the AI boom demands. A surge in AI…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,246 words 6 min read
Meta is in early talks to rent out computing capacity to Anthropic under a two-year agreement that could be worth as much as $10 billion, The New York Times reported on July 20. If the talks close, Anthropic would gain access to server…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,292 words 6 min read
New York became the first US state to impose a statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centers on July 14, 2026, when Governor Kathy Hochul signed Executive Order No. 62. The order freezes state environmental permits for up to a year…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,044 words 5 min read
Microsoft has switched on Confidential Live Migration for Azure, a capability that lets a protected virtual machine move from one physical host to another without exposing its memory or halting the guest for a full restart. The company…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,313 words 6 min read
Cloudflare pushed two changes to its edge platform this month that change how sites built on its network handle caching. On July 6 the company launched Workers Cache, a tier that sits in front of a Worker and serves responses without…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,011 words 5 min read
The story of AI infrastructure used to be simple: train the model in a hyper-scale data center, then serve it from the same place. That model is cracking. Across 2026, production AI is pulling inference back toward cities, factory floors…