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Motivair CEO: Power and cooling tech “absolutely critical” to enabling AI
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (762+ words) Motivair by Schneider Electric's new Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU), announced today, is designed to cool high-density data centres reliably and at scale. Known as MCDU-70, the new CDU can deliver cooling for up to 2.5MW of power without compromise, preserving full…...
V.tal subsea cable to link the US and Brazil
5+ hour, 48+ min ago (257+ words) V.tal is investing in a new next-generation network with 16 fibre pairs, spanning 9,700km and connecting Tuckerton, New Jersey to S'o Paulo in Brazil. Linking the US and Brazil and hoping to strengthen connectivity between both countries, the cable project will support…...
Vantage Data Centers supports hyperscale growth, joins Open Compute Project
6+ hour, 39+ min ago (284+ words) The leading hyperscale data centre company will aim to shape the OCP ecosystem across silicon, systems, cooling and energy. Selected by the OCP Foundation Board of Directors and Foundation CEO George Tchaparian, Vantage Data Centers will join hyperscale enterprise infrastructure…...
U.S. and Taiwan strike major chip tariff and investment deal amid broader semiconductor trade shifts
6+ hour, 50+ min ago (351+ words) The move, the U.S says, is designed to bolster domestic production and secure critical supply chains. Under the terms of the deal, reciprocal tariffs on most Taiwanese goods imported into the U.S. will be reduced from around 20% to roughly 15%, bringing them…...
Verizon restores service after major US network outage
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (211+ words) The disruption struck on January 14, with users across major cities reporting they could not make calls, send texts or access mobile data. Outage monitor Downdetector logged well over 100,000 reports at the peak, and customers saw their handsets switch to "SOS…...
SK Hynix’s $13bn packaging bet won’t fix memory shortages any time soon
1+ week, 1+ day ago (371+ words) That warning comes as South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix today unveiled plans for a near $13bn advanced chip packaging plant, the biggest move so far by one of the "Big Three" memory providers to address supply constraints. The facility, focused on…...
Empyrion Digital expands across Asia, breaks ground on first Taiwan data centre
1+ week, 1+ day ago (405+ words) The data centre marks Empyrion Digital's first entry into the Taiwan market, with the 10 megawatt (MW) powered Taipei data centre " referred to as TW1 " being one of the newest facilities to be developed in the area. Empyrion Digital said it has…...
SUBCO’s SMAP hypercable moves closer to service as Australia prepares major east–west capacity upgrade
1+ week, 6+ day ago (303+ words) SUBCO said construction of SMAP remains on track, with the system expected to enter service in 2026. Once completed, the cable will directly connect Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, delivering what the company describes as the most significant upgrade to Australia's…...
The ‘Rubin Revelation’: Nvidia CEO remarks cause data centre cooling stocks to fall
2+ week, 6+ hour ago (425+ words) The comments were made at the CES 2026 trade show in Las Vegas during Jensen Huang's talk, with the CEO suggesting that Nvidia's next-generation Rubin chips can be cooled using water at temperatures that do not require traditional water chillers. This…...
AMD sets out end-to-end AI roadmap at CES 2026, from AI PCs to yotta-scale data centres
2+ week, 1+ day ago (420+ words) Taking the stage in Las Vegas, CEO and chair Dr Lisa Su positioned the announcements as part of a single strategy: scaling AI capability seamlessly from consumer hardware to hyperscale and sovereign deployments. On the client side, AMD introduced the…...