Amsterdam police confiscated a server belonging to Italian internet provider Autistici/Inventati at a Science Park datacenter, acting on a US legal assistance request. A digital copy of the server's contents will be sent to the United States before the hardware is returned to its owners. A/I, which provided free web hosting and email to roughly 20,000 organizations, dissolved itself after the Trump administration designated it a terrorist entity for allegedly facilitating antifa.
nrc.nl
· 2026-10-14
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, leaders from Ambrosia Energy and Bloom Energy discussed how the physical infrastructure supporting AI is becoming a critical area for innovation. They emphasized that as AI models and applications expand, the demand for power, cooling, and data center capacity grows, creating new business opportunities. The session focused on the challenges and emerging categories within AI infrastructure that could shape future market dynamics.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-08
Research firm Aterio says Oracle's Project Lighthouse datacenter in Port Washington, Wisconsin, developed with Vantage, may miss its planned second-half 2027 opening because American Transmission Company still needs Public Service Commission approval to build the site's grid connection. Aterio also noted Oracle recently sent a force majeure notice to a Blue Owl Capital subsidiary over its Project Jupiter campus in New Mexico, seeking to defer payments if that site isn't ready on time, though Oracle maintains Jupiter remains on schedule.
theregister.com
· 2026-10-02
A year-long investigation by Lighthouse Report, Trouw and other European media found that most data centers in Europe do not disclose their electricity and water consumption, despite an EU directive requiring larger facilities to report such data. In the Netherlands, fewer than a quarter of the 186 commercial data centers with capacity of 500 kW or more have published usage figures, and the national agency tasked with collecting this data has records for only 104 of them.
nltimes.nl
· 2026-09-30
Gimlet Labs has closed a $300 million Series B funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Arm, Samsung Ventures, Tiger Global and others. The company says it has added billions in contracted revenue and gigawatts of datacenter pipeline since March, and is scaling toward hundreds of megawatts of managed capacity, just five months after its Series A.
gimletlabs.ai
· 2026-09-04
Nvidia is defending its practice of financially backing AI labs and data-center builders, arguing that its core chip-sales business generates enough cash to sustain these commitments without strain. The company describes its revenue engine as a self-reinforcing 'flywheel' capable of funding both its own growth and the broader AI ecosystem it supports.
wsj.com
· 2026-08-28
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