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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,601 words 8 min read
For most of the last decade the direction of travel in enterprise IT was one-way. Workloads moved outward, from the server closet to the data center to the public cloud, and the industry's answer to almost every infrastructure question was…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,575 words 8 min read
Somewhere on the floor of a Las Vegas convention hall this month, a Perth engineer wheeled a white box up to a booth and stacked two more on top of it. In under two and a half metres that is now forty-eight rack units, and the thing tops…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,447 words 7 min read
For two decades, the phrase "the cloud" described a short list of enormous buildings. A handful of hyperscale campuses, a longer list of colocation facilities, and a scattering of regional cloud zones. Every piece of that inventory sat on…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
2,212 words 11 min read
On the Friday before the United States midterm elections, the operator with the largest data center footprint in the world chose an unusual way to make an argument about infrastructure. Instead of announcing another gigawatt campus or…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,962 words 9 min read
For most of the history of the internet, the path a subsea cable takes from the ocean floor to a customer's server has been a chain of handoffs. A cable ship drops the fiber on a beach. A consortium owns a landing station in a windowless…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,832 words 9 min read
For most of its corporate life, CoreWeave sold a fairly narrow product: high-end Nvidia GPU compute, delivered fast, to companies that could not get it anywhere else. That was a good business, and it made the company one of the most…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,299 words 6 min read
For most of the past decade, the story about cloud infrastructure investment was a story about land, buildings and servers. Money flowed into the same three layers in roughly the same proportions, and the companies that won were the ones…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,680 words 8 min read
On the morning of September 25, 2026, Akamai Technologies shares jumped more than 20 percent in after-hours trading, touching as high as $133.71 in premarket activity. The trigger was an 8-K filing and a press release announcing that…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
1,637 words 8 min read
Introduction On 21 September 2026, at the Microsoft AI Infrastructure Summit in New Delhi, the company announced that India South Central — its new hyperscale datacenter region in Hyderabad — is live, and designated it a strategic hub for…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
2,249 words 11 min read
On 1 October 2026, a refrigerator-sized satellite carrying four of Google's Tensor Processing Units is scheduled to ride a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket out of Vandenberg Space Force Base into low Earth orbit. It is called MVP, it is built by…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
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For three years, the defining image of the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom has been the construction site: turbines spooling up, substations rising out of scrubland, and a steady drumbeat of capital expenditure announcements…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
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The data center industry's biggest challenge in 2026 is no longer just power grids or equipment lead times. It is public opinion. Over the past week alone, data center opposition has surged from community protests into state-level policy…