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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,052 words 5 min read
Two landmark announcements in October 2026 reveal a decisive shift in enterprise AI infrastructure strategy: Akamai's $11.6 billion edge computing deal with Anthropic and Microsoft's multi-gigawatt expansion of its Azure Maia custom AI…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,014 words 5 min read
The Maia 300 Gamble Microsoft announced plans to deploy more than a million Maia 300 AI chips next year, according to Reuters reporting. The Maia 300 holds 96 chips in a single rack and uses 167 kilowatts of power, compared with Nvidia's…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,872 words 9 min read
The defining constraint of cloud infrastructure in 2026 is no longer rack space or fiber — it is steady, carbon-free power that does not vanish when the sun sets or the wind drops. For three years, the industry's answer has been lithium…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,004 words 5 min read
The boom in artificial intelligence and cloud services is pulling more electricity, not less. Gavin Maguire, Reuters' global energy transition columnist, reported in August that demand from AI data centers, industrial reshoring and the…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,457 words 7 min read
Two announcements within 24 hours show edge computing splitting in two directions at once. On October 13, satellite news outlet SatNews reported that ArbaLabs' ArbaEdge payload is now in orbit aboard Space & Bean's SD-1 Sat, a 3U CubeSat…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,259 words 6 min read
Four companies just won the right to build 200 megawatts of new data centre capacity in Singapore, and the government has tied every megawatt of it to a low-carbon power supply and liquid cooling. Digital Realty, Equinix, Keppel Data…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,368 words 7 min read
62% of organizations now run edge architectures for IoT workloads October 6, 2026 — A new survey from Omdia reveals that 62% of organizations have adopted edge computing architectures for their Internet‑of‑Things (IoT) deployments, a…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,194 words 6 min read
Microsoft is planning to more than triple its data center capacity over the next six years. According to a Bloomberg report published September 10 and covered the next day by Data Center Dynamics, the company operates roughly 12GW of data…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,256 words 6 min read
Subco, an Australian submarine cable developer, said Tuesday it will build three new cable systems totalling roughly 24,100 km, all of them targeted for service in 2029. The shortest on paper is the one that matters to Indonesia. APX West…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,310 words 6 min read
Goldman Sachs raised its 2026 year-end US data center capacity forecast by 5 gigawatts to 64 GW on Sunday, then reduced its 2027 year-end forecast by 5 GW to 90 GW in the same research note. Two edits to the same spreadsheet, pointing in…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,118 words 6 min read
Amazon Web Services added more data center capacity in 2025 than any other company on the planet, including 1.2GW in the last quarter alone. The company disclosed the figures in its annual sustainability report, and they dwarf anything the…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,262 words 6 min read
For the better part of two years, the story of AI infrastructure has been one of scale and scarcity: bigger clusters, longer transformer lead times, grid connection queues measured in years rather than months. A quieter and more…