Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed Executive Order 22 on September 18, banning executive branch officials from signing non-disclosure agreements for data center projects and requiring local p…
GitHub.com suffered a 7-hour 47-minute outage on August 17, 2026, from 13:28 to 21:15 UTC, with peak error rates of approximately 20% for web/API and 50% for archive and raw-content downloads, affecti…
PJM Interconnection is evaluating new reliability requirements for data centers after nearly 3,800 MW of Northern Virginia computational load transferred to onsite generation on July 22, the largest s…
Amazon.com Inc. is redesigning its cloud setup for its e-commerce business under an internal initiative called 'Region Flex' to reduce reliance on a few large AWS regions due to power and data center …
North America's data center vacancy rate held at just 1% for the third consecutive year, according to JLL's North America Data Center Report Midyear 2026, with more than 66 gigawatts of capacity under…
PJM Interconnection, the largest US power grid serving 67 million people across 13 states and Washington, D.C., faces its first-ever capacity shortfall as AI data centers drive a projected 30 GW incre…
Severe weather has surpassed fire as the leading construction threat for AI-driven hyperscale data centers, according to a new report from Zurich North America. The report warns that 64% of U.S. data …
Enterprise technology manager Adeel Ali warns that tech giants are falling into an 'AI Infrastructure Trap,' shedding human capital to fund skyrocketing AI infrastructure costs. Citing Layoffs.fyi dat…
Amazon Web Services launched a Model Context Protocol server for its Registry of Open Data, giving AI agents standardized access to over 1,100 public datasets without storage costs. The server, built …
Digital Realty agreed to buy Blackstone's majority stake in three fully leased Virginia data centres for $7.8 billion, paying $3.5 billion for a 64% equity interest. The deal underscores surging deman…