
A2A and Garnot turn data centre heat into home warmth
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.

US is making consumers pay for corporate data centre plans
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.

Google going nuclear
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.

IBM wants total power in the datacentre
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.

Nvidia clamps down on datacentre use
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.

Apple’s cloud disaster
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.
Facebook to build huge data-centre in Sweden
Climate will help with cooling