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The AI Data Centre Has a New Attack Surface : The Entire Infrastructure Stack.
Opinion | Security The industry is buying AI security one tool at a time – Attackers see one building and until operators do the same, the gaps will be where the next breach happens. Last week Fortinet and Equinix announced a new way to govern AI traffic; It can inspect prompts and responses, apply policies…
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Investment Isn’t Consent: Why America’s Data Center Boom Has a New Development Challenge
Is America’s data center boom discovering that billions in investment, access to power and promises of economic growth do not automatically secure community support and consent? By Steven Foley | Datacenter Focus | 4 November 2026 The US data center industry has become accustomed to thinking in terms of scale: billions of dollars in investment,…
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The Data Centre Covenant Can Reallocate the Queue, but it Cannot Create the Capacity.
The Budget’s Data Centre Covenant shows the government has understood that power is the constraint, but a faster route through the grid queue is not the same as more electricity – and the detail that matters is still to come.
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The GPU Is No Longer the Data Centre
Silicon chauvinism has blinded the tech industry to a looming crisis. For years, we treated the GPU as the sole monarch of AI infrastructure. But as power grids buckle and fluid dynamics rewrite server design, the individual chip is no longer the story—the entire data centre is the computer.
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Google bets €13 billion on Finnish AI infrastructure
Hamina, Finland, is home to one of the datacenters Google maintains in Europe. Previously this location housed the Stora Enso paper mill.
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AMD Joins the Trillion Dollar Club
Advanced Micro Devices shares surged more than 9% to a record $613.31, pushing the company’s market capitalization above $1 trillion for the first time
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GridLock: Why Hyperscalers Are Buying Their Own Substations
While tech giants pour billions into advanced AI chips, their multi-gigawatt growth roadmaps are stalling at the local power grid. To survive the infrastructure crunch, cloud operators are transforming into heavy industrial procurement giants buying up transformer supply lines and building their own utility-scale substations.
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The hidden cost of cooling AI
AI data centres are cutting water consumption with liquid and low-water cooling, but the savings come with trade-offs. As thermal loads rise, the cost of cooling is shifting into electricity, grid capacity, capital expenditure, resilience and environmental risk.