A new partnership aims to link a renewable-powered data center in Hokkaido with facilities in Singapore and Indonesia. The goal is to attract Southeast Asian AI compute demand to Japan using a low-latency network.
Aker Nscale is developing a 96MW data center in Skien, Norway, aimed at AI workloads. This follows Google’s 240MW campus in the same town, highlighting Norway’s growing appeal for major compute projects.
NVIDIA has officially launched its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service as a native Linux application. It’s packaged as a Flatpak, giving desktop Linux users direct access to a library of over 4,500 streamable games. However, official support is currently limited to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and x86_64 systems.
Microsoft’s massive capital expenditures are fueling the AI boom, but investors are getting nervous. The stock dropped 7% as cloud growth slowed and the company’s heavy reliance on OpenAI came into focus.
Microsoft has announced the general availability of a new feature for its Dynamics 365 Contact Center platform. The upgrade gives administrators far more control over how live customer calls are transferred between agents and queues.
Wholesale electricity prices in Virginia surged to over $1,800 per megawatt-hour as a deep freeze hit the U.S. The spike was driven by higher-than-forecast demand from the world’s largest cluster of data centers, straining the grid.
Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday of 2026 for Windows 11 has been a disaster, requiring not one but two emergency updates. The latest, KB5078127, aims to fix serious cloud file access and Outlook crashes introduced by earlier patches. The fallout includes broken sleep modes, black screens, and enterpr
AI infrastructure company Nscale is aiming to raise a massive $2 billion in a pre-Series C round. This comes just days after closing its Series B funding, which was led by industrial investment giant Aker ASA.
Snowflake is making its largest acquisition ever, agreeing to buy observability platform Observe for around $1 billion. The deal, announced January 8th, aims to integrate monitoring tools directly into Snowflake’s data cloud as AI workloads explode.
Pax8 has named tech veteran Avery Moon as its new Chief Technology Officer. Moon, who has held leadership roles at LinkedIn, Indeed, and Wealthfront, will lead the company’s engineering strategy as it pushes deeper into agentic AI and managed intelligence for MSPs.
