Santa Clara projects sit idle as AI boom slams into an energy wall

Two massive data centre projects in Santa Clara, California, in the heart of Nvidia’s glorious green empire, are sitting empty as the city’s grid buckles under demand from the AI gold rush.

Commission watchdogs want tougher rules on ‘high-risk vendors’

The European Commission is weighing up plans to turn its 2020 guidance on high-risk telecom vendors into binding law, a move that could effectively force EU nations to phase out Huawei and ZTE kit from their mobile and fixed-line networks.

Industry warns of rising threats and underinsured businesses

British insurers shelled out at least £197 million in cyber claims during 2024, more than triple the £60 million paid the year before, according to fresh data showing how cyber gangs have stepped up attacks on UK companies.

Project Concord aims to make humans redundant in server farms

A group of investors in South Korea claims it is building the world’s first large-scale data centre designed, constructed and operated entirely by AI.

Delays bite despite a flood of new deals.

CoreWeave, one of the biggest outfits flogging cloud computing to AI outfits, saw its revenue more than double in the third quarter as it cosied up to some of the biggest beasts in the AI jungle.

Vera Rubin superchip sprints from keynote glare to TSMC’s lines

Nvidia is racing its Rubin GPUs into production, turning the Vera Rubin superchip from stage prop into silicon while the ink on the slides is still drying.

Windows lets Linux virtual machines do what they like 

Russian hackers have figured out how to bypass Windows security by running their malware on Linux inside Microsoft’s own Hyper-V virtualisation.

Laid-off engineer for vanishing with 18,000 files during mass sackings

Troubled Chipzilla is dragging one of its former engineers to court after he allegedly made off with a treasure trove of confidential files, some stamped “Intel Top Secret,” before pulling a disappearing act.

Shiny, thin and unwanted

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple rolled out the iPhone Air as if it were the second coming of Steve Jobs, but a consumer survey found that only one in ten US iPhone 17 customers chose the Air during the early weeks of sales, and it’s being quietly axed from production lines.

Nukes $4bn in value

Take-Two Interactive has once again kicked the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI down the road, this time to 19 November 2026.