Trump-branded AI data center megaproject stalls, CEO departs
The world's largest data center project — backed by Trump allies and bearing his name — is stalled by delays and logistical hurdles that could stop it before it even starts.
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Texas lawmakers held a hearing on data centers. Here are 4 key takeaways
Data centers are popping up around Texas like fire ant hills after a rainstorm. Or maybe like bluebonnets in the spring. Either way, they seem to be everywhere — and more are coming.
Dell Unveils New EPYC-Powered Server in NYC
The new Dell R6525 server is equipped with dual AMD EPYC 7763 processors, which offer 64 cores and 128 threads of processing power. It also features high-speed Gen4 NVMe solid-state drives, enabling faster data access and transfer speeds compared to traditional hard disk drives or even SATA-based SSDs.
Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell Sees AI Servers Scaling to $50B as Demand Stays Strong
Michael Dell said Dell’s AI server business has scaled from $2B to $10B to $25B and is expected to reach $50 billion this year, with over 4,000 customers using "AI factories" and roughly $64 billion in orders, signaling strong, ongoing demand and a steep part of the adoption S‑curve.
Shots fired – literally – over proposal to build datacenter in Indianapolis
Datacenter protests have taken an ugly turn in the US, with gunshots fired at the home of an Indianapolis councilor who recently lent his support to plans for a server farm in the area.
The Data Center Boom Reshaping Williamson County, Texas
More than 70 projects are being tracked across Central Texas, with Williamson County emerging as the epicenter of a multibillion-dollar digital infrastructure rush driven by AI demand, Samsung’s semiconductor investment, and a race for power.
Tiny Corp Begins Accepting Pre-Orders For Their $10M Exabox
AI Open-source friendly company Tiny Corp that is behind the Tinygrad MIT-licensed neural network framework and developing a "sovereign" AMD GPU driver stack with their Tinybox hardware offerings has their sights on shipping the Exabox next year. The Tiny Corp's Exabox is expected to retail for around $10M USD but offer immense AI compute power. #TinyCorp
Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi
The ‘hidden’ $30 billion Stargate AI datacenter in Abu Dhabi was singled out as a juicy target for Iranian destruction later in the video. The threats come on the heels of Iran reportedly delivering enough damage via rocket strikes to some Amazon AWS data centers that they have
Fire at AWS data center in Bahrain after Iranian attack - report
An Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in Bahrain has allegedly suffered another blow in the Iran-US conflict. Bahrain's interior minister said yesterday, April 1, that the defense force was “extinguishing a fire in a facility of a company as a result of the Iranian aggression,” though did not disclose the firm's name.
Anthropic’s next model could be a ‘watershed moment’ for cybersecurity. Experts say that could also be a concern
The next wave of AI-powered cybersecurity attacks will be like nothing we’ve seen before. That’s the message AI company Anthropic sent in a leaked blog post last week, in which it warned that its upcoming AI model, called Mythos, and others like it can exploit vulnerabilities at an unprecedented pace.
New FortiClient EMS flaw exploited in attacks, emergency patch released
Fortinet has released an emergency weekend security update for a new critical FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) vulnerability that is actively exploited in attacks.
Memory will consume 30% of hyperscaler AI data center spending this year, a 4X increase over 2023 — Nvidia gets preferential supply terms well below standard market rates, says analyst firm
SemiAnalysis estimates that memory will account for roughly 30% of total hyperscaler capex in calendar year 2026, up from approximately 8% in CY23 and CY24. The firm projects that share will climb further in CY27, representing a near four-fold shift in just four years as DRAM prices surge beyond imagination and HBM remains massively undersupplied.
New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs
The attacks exploit memory hardware’s increasing susceptibility to bit flips, in which 0s stored in memory switch to 1s and vice versa. In 2014, researchers first demonstrated that repeated, rapid access—or “hammering”—of memory hardware known as DRAM creates electrical disturbances that flip bits.
Over 14,000 F5 BIG-IP APM instances still exposed to RCE attacks
BIG-IP APM (short for Access Policy Manager) is F5's centralized access management proxy solution designed to help admins secure access to their organizations' networks, cloud, applications, and application programming interfaces (APIs). #F5Networks
CERT-EU: European Commission hack exposes data of 30 EU entities
The European Union's Cybersecurity Service (CERT-EU) has attributed the European Commission cloud hack to the TeamPCP threat group, saying the resulting breach exposed the data of at least 29 other Union entities.
Claude Code leak used to push infostealer malware on GitHub
Claude Code is a terminal-based AI agent from Anthropic, designed to execute coding tasks directly in the terminal and act as an autonomous agent, capable of direct system interaction, LLM API call handling, MCP integration, and persistent memory.
OpenAI Buys Streaming Show ‘TBPN,’ Aiming to Change Narrative on A.I.
OpenAI said the deal would help it “create a space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes A.I. creates.”
Microsoft takes on AI rivals with three new foundational models
Microsoft AI, the tech giant’s research lab, announced the release of three foundational AI models on Thursday that can generate text, voice, and images.
Cisco Patches Critical and High-Severity Vulnerabilities
Cisco on Wednesday announced fixes for two critical and six high-severity vulnerabilities that could be exploited for authentication bypass, remote code execution, privilege escalation, and information disclosure.
Google releases Gemma 4, a family of open models built off of Gemini 3
When Google released Gemini 3 Pro at the end of last year, it was a significant step forward for the company's proprietary large language models.