Axiado has secured over $100 million in new funding to develop its hardware-anchored security chips for AI data centers. The round was led by Maverick Silicon, signaling strong investor belief in this specialized approach to infrastructure protection.
Anna’s Archive, a shadow library, has backed up a huge chunk of Spotify’s catalog. The 300-terabyte archive aims to preserve music forever, but Spotify calls it an unlawful attack. This is a new front in the digital preservation war.
The Adani Group is considering building nuclear power plants specifically to fuel its aggressive push into AI data centers in India. The company plans to develop over one gigawatt of data center capacity and sees potential for 50GW of renewable demand from the sector alone. This comes as India’s dat
The explosive growth of AI and data centers is forcing a reckoning for the U.S. power grid. The problem isn’t just needing more batteries—it’s whether the supply chains for lithium and new tech like vanadium flow batteries can scale fast enough.
Google has launched a new Data Tables feature for NotebookLM. It uses AI to pull info from your notes and PDFs, organizing it into clean tables for Google Sheets. The feature is rolling out now to Pro and Ultra subscribers.
The relentless demands of AI and high-density computing are exposing weaknesses in foundational data center network design. A new practical framework argues that future-proofing requires a fundamental rethink of cabling and architecture from the ground up.
Power factor, a measure of electrical efficiency, is becoming a major focus for utilities and a hidden cost driver for data centers. Poor power factor leads to wasted energy, equipment stress, and soon, direct financial penalties from power companies.
German utility RWE sold an idle UK site to an unnamed hyperscaler for $265 million, and analysts now say the buyer was Amazon. The Didcot A coal plant, demolished between 2014 and 2020, could be replaced by a single data center building, with a planning decision expected by March 2026.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed lawsuits against five major TV manufacturers. The suits allege the companies use a technology called Automated Content Recognition to capture screenshots of viewer content without proper consent. This raises serious new questions about privacy in the conne
Mixpanel is pushing back against Pornhub’s claim that a recent breach of user data originated from the analytics provider. The company says the data was last accessed by a legitimate Pornhub employee account in 2023, suggesting an insider issue. The extortion group ShinyHunters is claiming responsib
