Aramco acquires 49% stake in Saudi Arabia’s Humain
PIF and energy and chemicals company Aramco have closed the acquisition of Saudi Arabian AI company Humain.. Under the agreement, PIF now…
Month: November 2026
Putin gives Russian companies permission to use foreign data centers after Ukraine drone strikes
Vladimir Putin has given Russian companies permission to run IT workloads in foreign data centers, following a series of Ukrainian drone strikes…
OpenAI launches ‘Grid Protectors Program’ to reduce data center electricity demand when the US grid is under strain
OpenAI has launched a plan to reduce the impact of its data centers on the US grid.. The non-binding ‘Grid Protectors Program’…
Nevada ISP owner pleads guilty to embezzling more than $7.8m from Internet buildout project
A Nevada ISP owner has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $7.8 million from a federally funded high-speed Internet construction project.. The…
Canada joins EuroHPC JU initiative
Canada has joined the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), becoming the initiative’s 39th participating state.. The move further builds on…
TerraVolt acquires site in Idaho to develop 240MW gas powered behind-the-meter data center campus
US-based land firm TerraVolt has acquired 1,077 acres in Cassia County, Idaho, where it plans to build a behind-the-meter gas-powered plant to…
Putin signs decree that non-state data centers will have to reserve 10 percent of capacity for government use
Non-state data centers in Russia will be required to reserve 10 percent of their capacity for government use, with 24 hours’ notice..…
Sponsored: Why flow measurement is emerging as a critical design consideration in liquid cooled data centers
AI, high-performance computing (HPC) and increasingly dense server architectures are reshaping data center cooling strategies. As rack power densities climb well beyond…
Fireworks contracts 5MW of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra capacity at Era4 data center in UK
Open-model AI company Fireworks has contracted capacity from UK-based data center provider Era4.. Under the agreement, Fireworks will lease 5MW of direct-liquid-cooled…
Fermi’s data center lease with TensorWave misses closing deadline
US data center hopeful Fermi has admitted that a data center lease with AMD-based neocloud TensorWave did not close by its October…