Infrastructure
Azure Just Added a Second AI Chip Supplier
Microsoft will run AMD Helios racks and MI455X accelerators on Azure. A second source for AI compute only cuts your bill if your stack is portable.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Your 2027 Memory Is Already Spoken For
SK hynix customers want 60 to 100 percent more AI memory in 2027. The chairman wants prices lower. That combination tells a European operator what to contract now.
Infrastructure
Nvidia's Real Lock-In Just Went Open Source
Alibaba's T-Head opened its SAIL software stack to challenge Nvidia's CUDA lock-in. For a European operator the useful lever is not the chip but your own framework layer.
Infrastructure
A Fourth Cloud Giant Just Got More Plausible
Meta hired Dave Brown, who ran AWS compute for nearly 19 years, to scale its data centres. For the first time a fourth hyperscaler is plausible, and here is what that would change for owners.
Infrastructure
Even a Trillion-Dollar Lab Must Rent Its Compute
Anthropic, valued near a trillion dollars, is in talks to rent about 10 billion dollars of compute from Meta over two years. Why the shortage is structural and what owners should budget for.
Infrastructure
TSMC Now Keeps 60 Cents of Every Dollar
TSMC reported second quarter 2026 profit up 77.4% on revenue up 36.0%, with operating margin of 60.3% above the top of its own guidance. The gap between those two numbers is the price rise moving through your hardware.
Infrastructure
ASML Just Booked the AI Chip Boom Into 2028
ASML raised its 2026 outlook and said 2027 EUV capacity is nearly sold out, with big 2028 orders already in. The AI chip supply pipeline is committed years ahead.
Infrastructure
The Firm That Feeds AI Agents the Web Hit $3.6bn
Oxylabs raised 130 million dollars at a 3.6 billion valuation on one bet: AI agents will read the web through paid data infrastructure, not the free open web.
Infrastructure
Albania's Domains Went Dark. Germany's Did in May.
A botched key rollover took .AL off the internet, ten weeks after the same thing hit .de. Both times the fix was resolvers switching DNSSEC validation off.
Infrastructure
One AI Data Center Now Costs Fifty Billion Dollars
Meta says its Hyperion campus in Louisiana will cost more than 50 billion dollars, five times the first plan. The real driver is a 20-year tax break and private credit, and Europe can match neither.
Infrastructure
Meta Starts Making Its Own AI Chip in September
Meta will put its first in-house AI chip, Iris, into production in September, built with Broadcom and TSMC. It will not free Meta from Nvidia, but it widens the cost gap between hyperscalers and everyone renting GPUs. Here is what that means for you.
Infrastructure
Intel Grows Its Irish Fabs Instead of Building New
Intel is putting 5 billion euros into its Leixlip campus in Ireland to build more Xeon server chips. For European operators that means supply proximity, not sovereignty. Here is what to track.
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