Google has introduced Brazos, an open-source liquid-to-air cooling sidecar for existing air-cooled data centers. The rack-level design supports OCP ORv3 racks, a 60kW nominal thermal load and a retrofit path for operators that need AI cooling capacity without rebuilding whole halls.

#cloud data centers #AI infrastructure #liquid cooling

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IFC Backs Sify’s India Data Centres With $371 Mn Package

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IFC Backs Sify’s India Data Centres With $371 Mn Package

IFC has committed $371 Mn to Sify Infinit Spaces Ltd. for two AI-ready data centres in Navi Mumbai and Chennai, adding another financing signal to India’s cloud infrastructure build-out.

#cloud data centers #AI infrastructure #India data centres

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Alibaba Cloud Adds Tokyo Capacity As Japan AI Demand Rises

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Alibaba Cloud Adds Tokyo Capacity As Japan AI Demand Rises

Alibaba Cloud has opened its fifth data center in Japan and made Model Studio available in the country. The expansion gives Japanese enterprises local access to Qwen3.7-Plus, AI-native database services and a larger regional cloud footprint.

#cloud data centers #AI infrastructure #Japan cloud

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Policloud’s AI Cloud Deal Puts GPUs On Renewable Sites

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Policloud’s AI Cloud Deal Puts GPUs On Renewable Sites

Policloud has secured a €580 million framework contract with CloudGrid Energy to deploy 280 modular units, 29,000 GPUs and 35MW of compute capacity across 16 European sites by the end of 2027.

#cloud data centers #sovereign AI #AI cloud

June 19, 2026Read More →

Northslope Picks Abu Dhabi For Its Gulf AI Buildout

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Northslope Picks Abu Dhabi For Its Gulf AI Buildout

Northslope has opened its first Gulf office in Abu Dhabi after building a six-engineer UAE team. The move puts the former Palantir-linked AI software company closer to regional customers in logistics, asset management, energy, manufacturing and aerospace.

#ai #enterprise AI #Gulf technology

June 18, 2026Read More →

Adobe Puts AI Assistants Inside Creative Cloud. The Test Is Control.

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Adobe Puts AI Assistants Inside Creative Cloud. The Test Is Control.

Adobe is rolling out AI assistants in public beta for Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign and Frame.io. The launch pushes conversational editing into major creative tools, but adoption will depend on whether professionals trust the assistants with real project work.

#ai #creative software #Adobe

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SK hynix Ships HBM4E Samples. AI Memory Buyers Still Need Volume Proof.

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SK hynix Ships HBM4E Samples. AI Memory Buyers Still Need Volume Proof.

SK hynix has sent 12-layer HBM4E samples to major customers, citing 16Gbps per pin speed and a 48GB stack. The announcement moves the AI memory race from specification claims toward customer qualification and production timing.

#chips semiconductors #AI memory #HBM4E

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Data Centers Have A Climate-Risk Problem. The Map Is Uneven.

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Data Centers Have A Climate-Risk Problem. The Map Is Uneven.

A First Street study puts 79% of global data center capacity at elevated risk from acute climate hazards. The findings make resilience, power access and water systems part of the AI infrastructure buildout test.

#cloud data centers #data centers #climate risk

June 18, 2026Read More →

UAE Sets A Social Media Age Gate. Enforcement Is The Hard Part.

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UAE Sets A Social Media Age Gate. Enforcement Is The Hard Part.

The UAE Cabinet has barred children under 15 from social media accounts and full platform features. The rule puts age verification, child privacy, parental controls and platform compliance on a 12-month operating clock.

#cybersecurity #digital policy #child online safety

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GitHub And Google Back ARD As AI Agents Search For Tools

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GitHub And Google Back ARD As AI Agents Search For Tools

GitHub, Google, Microsoft and other companies are backing Agentic Resource Discovery, a specification meant to help AI agents find, verify and connect to tools, skills, MCP servers and other resources without hard-coded integrations.

#ai #AI agents #developer tools

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Andhra Pradesh And IBM Put Quantum AI On A 380-Cell Test

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Andhra Pradesh And IBM Put Quantum AI On A 380-Cell Test

Andhra Pradesh will launch the Amaravati Quantum & AI Innovation Center with IBM on June 18. The programme links industry problems, academic teams and IBM technical support through 380 Quantum Innovation Cells and more than 3,000 professors and students.

#ai #quantum computing #deep tech

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Lunit Wins A Six-Hospital Test For Public Medical AI In Korea

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Lunit Wins A Six-Hospital Test For Public Medical AI In Korea

Lunit will supply AI image-analysis systems to six regional hospitals under a Ministry of Health and Welfare project. The 14.2 billion won programme targets public medical capacity outside the Seoul metropolitan area, with chest X-ray, mammography and DBT tools in scope.

#ai #medical AI #AI imaging

June 18, 2026Read More →