Pinterest has signed a US$4 billion cloud deal with AWS, extending its cloud services agreement with Amazon Web Services through 2031. The agreement is Pinterest’s largest infrastructure commitment to date. It builds on a cloud relationship that began in 2010, when Pinterest started using AWS to support the reliability and performance of its core services. […]
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Google has broken ground on a new data centre in Horndal, Sweden. The facility will support Google services including Search, Cloud, Workspace, and YouTube. The company said the site will help meet demand for cloud services in Sweden and other markets. The International Energy Agency said electricity demand from data centres rose 17% in 2025 […]
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Last month’s drop in the share prices of many cloud-based software companies has been partially reversed after several software companies reported good figures. The big dip in SaaS providers’ share prices was caused by claims that companies would soon be able to develop their own applications using large language model-aided development tools. Many in the […]
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Snowflake has raised its product revenue forecast for fiscal 2027 after reporting stronger-than-expected quarterly revenue, with the Snowflake AWS deal adding a US$6 billion infrastructure commitment for enterprise AI workloads on Amazon Web Services. The company now expects fiscal 2027 product revenue of US$5.84 billion, up from its earlier forecast of US$5.66 billion. It also […]
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Over 40% of security leaders say their pentest results are invalid by the time reports arrive, according to Horizon3.ai research based on 50,000 penetration tests in 2024. Meanwhile, 89% of enterprises now run multi-cloud strategies in an average of 3.4 providers, per Flexera’s 2025 reporting. The testing is happening, but the infrastructure has already moved […]
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Anthropic is reportedly in early discussions to rent server capacity powered by Microsoft’s Maia chips, according to The Information and CNBC. The talks come shortly after Anthropic agreed to use Google’s cloud infrastructure and Tensor Processing Units under a large multi-year agreement. They also follow a separate Microsoft agreement announced in November. Under that deal, […]
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Google and Blackstone plan to create a US-based AI cloud venture that will provide access to data centre capacity and Google’s custom AI chips. Blackstone will make an initial equity investment of US$5 billion to support the venture. The firm will be the majority owner of the new business. The companies said the investment will […]
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SambaNova and Intel have extended their collaboration with a heterogeneous hardware solution that “combines GPUs for prefill, Intel Xeon 6 processors as host and ‘action’ CPUs, and SambaNova RDUs (reconfigurable dataflow units) for decode,” according to a press release. By assigning each step to hardware suited to each, the companies claim higher quality, faster AI […]
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Google is discussing future launch options with SpaceX and other companies for Project Suncatcher, a research effort into orbital AI data centres. The project is designed to test whether AI computing infrastructure can operate in orbit. The project centres on a network of solar-powered satellites carrying Google’s Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs. These chips are […]
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AWS has made Claude Platform on AWS generally available, giving customers access to Anthropic’s native Claude Platform through their existing AWS accounts. AWS said it is the first cloud provider to offer access to the Claude Platform natively. The service allows developers and organisations to use Claude APIs, the Claude Console, and early-access beta features […]
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