Server sweat to heat 1,350 flats in Brescia

A new data centre in northern Italy is doing more than just powering AI calculations and cloud storage. Italian utility A2A and French tech firm Qarnot have teamed up to build a liquid-cooled facility in Brescia that dumps its waste heat into the city’s district heating system, warming more than 1,350 local homes.

It is the American way

The US has a novel way of funding big IT company data centres and AI plans: it hikes ordinary people's power bills.

Will buy small modular reactors

In a shocking move, Google has decided to go nuclear and will purchase power from Kairos Power's small modular reactors (SMRs) as part of its ongoing commitment to clean energy and to meet its data centre demands.

All your datacentres should belong to Big Blue

IBM is quietly confident that its new POWER chip can sweep ARM and x86 out of the datacentre market.

You pay for it, but we tell you what to do with it

Nvidia has decided that it has had enough of users buying its consumer grade hardware and slapping them in data centres.

Blaming Obama now

Fruity Cargo cult Apple has spent billions trying to build its own cloud structure and failed and rather than question its own networking competence it is blaming the government.

Climate will help with cooling