Rate of play: How US states are changing the rules around data centers and power
Data center growth is outstripping the regulations designed to control it. Lawmakers are fighting
Long Reads - Government & Military
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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Data centers are war infrastructure now
For the industry to keep claiming civilian status, it needs to face core decisions on workload segregation
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The woods of IT are dark and deep
Seasoned CIO Tony Scott’s journey through the forest of Disney, Microsoft, and the US government
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SCTE TechExpo: BEAD program continues to divide US policymakers
As FCC chair goes after China, and telco industry calls for tougher action on network sabotage
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Operating in the light, and in the dark (net)
The infrastructure behind the issue of child sexual abuse content on the Internet, and tackling it
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Touring Europe’s fastest AI supercomputer
Lumi brings together traditional HPC and modern AI
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Poles apart: Building the Arctic's first subsea cable
Could going directly through the North Pole finally deliver the Arctic Circle an underwater Internet cable?
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The quest for space sovereignty
Many governments are looking for their own, secure, orbital infrastructure. This may not be a realistic goal
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Handling a nation’s confidential data
GCHQ loves its secrets. It also loves reading yours
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Nvidia wins, Intel loses, and xAI builds a Colossus: A year in compute
An incomplete list of the compute, storage, and networking stories everyone’s been talking about in 2024
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What now? Trump, data centers, and the next four years
Crypto, AI, and the unknown
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The future of Virginia post-Loudoun
As companies look beyond Northern Virginia, new counties across the state look to become major markets in their own right
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Just how safe are digital voting machines?
With the US presidential election too close to call, conspiracy theories about electronic election infrastructure abound
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Breaking Dawn: Inside the UK's newest AI supercomputer
The Intel-powered machine will support the work of scientists
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Here are the 15 DOE-funded projects hoping to usher in the next generation of data center cooling
COOLERCHIPS: From Nvidia to Raytheon, an exclusive look at an ambitious effort to 10× data center cooling
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Down with data centers
What we can learn from the struggles of the US government's Cloud First initiative?
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Trouble in Soviet Florida: How Russia and crypto are squeezing a small separatist state
On Russia’s border, cryptocurrency miners risk inflaming tensions in Abkhazia
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Connecting the South Pole
Why a subsea cable to the edge of Antarctica might not lessen the South Pole’s reliance on satellites
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How Russia took over the Internet in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine
What happened in 2014, and what happens when RuNet comes to Ukraine
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Antarctica comes in from the cold: Building subsea cables to the last unconnected continent
Could a submarine cable finally be close to connecting the last unconnected continent?
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Giving a Victorian bathhouse a second life as a data center
An abandoned Victorian bathhouse in Greater Manchester, the Ashton Old Baths has now reopened as a council-owned data center
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Navigating the insular growth of Japan’s data center sector
As the country experiences a shift to the cloud, demand is booming