DataMasque, a small data security and AI startup, is landing Fortune 100 customers without a physical presence in their countries. Their secret weapon? The AWS Marketplace, which handles global sales, compliance, and payments, allowing them to grow customers first and teams later.
Sean Farney’s day job is Vice President of Data Center Strategy for the Americas, overseeing more than 900 facilities. Off the clock, he lives a hyper-local lifestyle, hunting and growing most of his food.
Amazon is planning a new “rush” pickup service that would let customers collect online orders from its physical stores within an hour. The move is a direct play to catch up in the booming click-and-collect market, where Walmart currently leads.
Arista is tackling big campus networks with VESPA, a system designed to support over 500,000 wireless clients. It’s also adding new LLM-powered reasoning to its AVA AI assistant for deeper network insights and problem prevention.
A proposed $10 billion, 1GW data center campus in Lacy Lakeview, Texas, has received initial approval. The project promises huge tax revenue but faces resident concerns over being used as a “resource.”
A 150MW data center campus has been proposed for a 42-acre site in Baltimore County’s Woodlawn area. Construction is slated to begin in mid-2026, but details are sparse and local officials are demanding transparency.
Lumen Technologies has named Jim Fowler as its new chief technology and product officer, replacing Dave Ward. Fowler, who was already on Lumen’s board, faces the tough job of returning the struggling telecom to revenue growth.
A coalition of more than 350 environmental groups from all 50 states is urging Congress to stop new AI data center construction. They warn of skyrocketing electricity costs and unsustainable water use driven by the industry’s explosive growth.
Amazon just revealed its Trainium3 UltraServer racks, and they’re a dead ringer for Nvidia’s GB200 systems. This isn’t an accident. The entire AI infrastructure stack is rapidly standardizing, from the rack shape down to the compute blade layout.
Saudi Arabia’s Humain is making a major move into the US AI infrastructure race. The state-backed venture is partnering with Global AI to deploy in a 32MW, liquid-cooled facility in Endicott, New York, with plans to eventually scale to 100MW. This is the first step in Humain’s decade-long goal to de
