TikTok says a power outage at a US data center is causing upload failures and algorithm resets for American users. The outage comes just days after a new, Oracle-led joint venture officially took over US operations, sparking immediate concerns about stability and data routing.
In a surprising twist, residents of a French town are celebrating a new data center. The project will repurpose an old TV factory and use its waste heat to power local agriculture, shelving a problematic housing plan in the process.
PowerHouse Data Centers has executed a long-term hyperscale lease at its PowerHouse Arcola campus in Loudoun County, Virginia. The 37-acre campus is designed to support up to 120MW of power for AI and cloud workloads, marking a key expansion in Data Center Alley.
Meta is locking in nuclear power for the next two decades to feed its energy-hungry data centers. The company is buying from existing plants and funding new small modular reactor projects to secure its AI ambitions.
Cyera, a data security platform, has secured $400 million in a Series F funding round led by Blackstone. The deal skyrockets the company’s valuation to $9 billion, a massive jump from $3 billion just over a year ago.
European data center developer Global Technical Realty (GTR) has secured a massive $1.9 billion equity investment. The capital comes from KKR, which added $1.5 billion to its existing stake, and new investor Oak Hill Capital, which committed $400 million. The funding will fuel a major expansion acro
Internet provider Brightspeed is investigating claims by the Crimson Collective that they stole data on over a million customers. The criminals have listed the dataset for sale for three bitcoin, roughly $276,370, and threaten to dump it publicly.
Residents of Greenleaf, Wisconsin, are being offered big money to sell their land for a potential data center project. The developer’s identity is a mystery, but it’s part of a major building boom in the state.
PayPal is launching a major new advertising platform built on its “transaction graph” of real purchases. The move directly challenges the “walled gardens” of traditional tech giants by offering verified sales data, not just modeled intent. Early results, like a 20% sales lift for Ulta Beauty, show t
Prologis is seeking to annex 429 acres in Shelbyville, Illinois, for a new data center campus. The project, which would total up to 13 buildings, is meeting resistance from residents despite city support. The move is part of Prologis’s aggressive push into the data center market.
