SAP flings €20 billion at sovereign cloud
German outfit wants to keep Europe’s ai data away from US
The maker of esoteric business software, which no one is sure quiet what it does, SAP has promised to splurge more than €20 billion ($23.3 billion) over the next decade on “sovereign cloud” infrastructure in Europe.
AI darling’s data centre growth slows as H20 blacklisting bites
Nvidia has blown past earnings expectations again, but that wasn’t enough to satisfy the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street.
Fortnite boss slams UK Big Tech regulation
Epic Games fumes over delay while rivals move ahead
The UK is falling behind the rest of the world when it comes to standing up to Big Tech, according to Epic Games chief Tim Sweeney.
ARM poaches Amazon chip guru for AI push
Ramps up in-house CPU plans
Chip designer ARM has poached one of Amazon’s top silicon brains, Rami Sinno [pictured], to spearhead its in-house AI chip efforts, in a move that looks suspiciously like a direct shot at Chipzilla, AMD, and Nvidia's datacentre turf.
Streaming chaos driving piracy's comeback
Industry own goal
Streaming is in such a mess that piracy is starting to look like the grown-up option.
US consumers paying for Big Tech’s bargain power bills
Data centres blamed for pushing household electricity costs skyward
State governments across the US are starting to feel the heat from consumers who are being asked to foot the power bills of Big Tech data centres.
Amazon works out a way to kill off Alexa
Why not shove in adverts?
Amazon has just come up with a wizard wheeze to kill off its Alexa product by making it unusable by stuffing each conversation with more adverts.
AWS hits capacity wall
Amazon boss blames chips and power for lagging GenAI performance
Amazon supremo Andy Jassy does not appear to be sweating over whether his outfit can keep pace with Microsoft and other AI-obsessed cloud vendors.
Cloudflare, Groq and Positron chase greener inference alternatives
Chip boffins are scrambling to cut the soaring energy costs of artificial intelligence, with a new generation of startups targeting Nvidia’s grip on the market by building faster, leaner, and more efficient inference silicon.
Starlink suffers massive outage
Tens of thousands lose service
SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet was hit by a major outage, knocking tens of thousands of users offline just as the company celebrated a key milestone in its partnership with T-Mobile.