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Maine is poised to become the first US state to impose a statewide moratorium on large data center construction after lawmakers passed a bill to that effect. The bill needs to be signed by Governor Janet Mills before it can be enacted. If enacted, the law would bar state and local agencies from issuing permits or approvals for data centers drawing 20 megawatts or more of power until approximately…

Globalstar, a mobile satellite services (MSS) operator in which Apple has a 20% stake , on Tuesday announced a merger agreement with Amazon, which, pending regulatory approval, could soon bring direct to device services (D2D) services to Leo, the latter’s low Earth orbit satellite network. The deal, worth an estimated $11.6 billion, is an indication that the so-called new space race , designed to…

Cisco’s move to buy Galileo and reportedly Astrix Security is less about filling product gaps and more about rearchitecting how AI is governed, secured, and trusted across the enterprise stack. Taken together, these deals signal Cisco’s intent to lead the AI era the way it once led the internet—by making the underlying infrastructure observable, identity-aware, and inherently secure. From AI feat…

Two completely separate reports indicate data center construction is moving toward the center of the country and away from the coasts. The first report comes courtesy of Synergy Research Group , which found the center of gravity for planning and building data centers is shifting away from some of the traditional coastal locations and moving inland, with the availability and cost of power being a …

ThousandEyes, a Cisco company, monitors how ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services are handling any performance challenges and provides Network World with a weekly roundup of events that impact service delivery. Read on to see the latest analysis, and stop back next week for another update on internet and cloud traffic performance. Note: We have archived prior-year outage updates, includ…

Despite widespread adoption of defensive measures, most IT professionals believe their DNS infrastructure is not secure enough. Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) recently published DDI Directions 2026 , a market research report that explores enterprise strategies for DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI). In that report, only 28% of DDI experts said they believe that their DNS infrastru…

Announcements from quantum computing companies continue to shorten the time before we reach Q-day. That’s the day when quantum computers get powerful enough to use for general business applications—or to break existing encryption standards. According to the latest Forrester projection , that is likely to happen by 2030. “The quantum computing industry crossed an inflection point in 2025,” Forrest…

We are now entering the era of fault-tolerant quantum computing. The computers are getting better. The qubits are getting faster and more reliable, and there are more of them. NIST published its list of quantum-safe encryption algorithms, and now enterprises are racing to upgrade their encryption before Q-day, the quantum apocalypse that will make the previous generation of encryption protocols o…

The Linux 7.0 kernel is now out, and it’s one of the most impactful releases in years for networking professionals. The Linux kernel is the core of a Linux operating system distribution. Linux is commonly used as a foundation for operating systems in the cloud and as a base for networking. While the 7.0 designation is a big number, Linux creator Linus Torvalds iterates to major version numbers on…

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) chip business is “on fire,” Trainium offers better price-performance than Nvidia, and customers are so eager for AI compute capacity that they’re looking to buy up all that’s currently available. These are the takeaways shared by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in his eight page letter to shareholders in the tech giant’s 2025 annual report. Jassy’s comments underscore how all-…

Intel and Google have announced a multi-year collaboration agreement that will see Google will continue to deploy Intel Xeon-based platforms for its next generation of AI and cloud infrastructure. These platforms will use Intel’s upcoming Xeon CPUs and custom infrastructure processing units (IPUs) co-designed by Intel and Google. In return, Google will continue co-development of the IPUs (referre…

OpenAI has postponed plans to open one of the data centers central to its Stargate project. It announced its plan to open the data center in the UK with great fanfare last September, when it was regarded as a major boost for the country’s nascent AI industry, as well as proving a step up for OpenAI’s international credentials. At the time, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said, “The UK has been a longs…

Broadcom has announced it will produce future versions of artificial intelligence chips for Google , and separately signed an expanded deal with Anthropic to provide about 3.5 gigawatts worth of computing capacity to the AI startup, drawing on Google’s AI processors. The compute capacity comes courtesy of Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) as well as supplying its own networking components. …

It’s official: Google is the largest single owner of AI compute, and it’s doing it largely without Nvidia. According to new analysis from Epoch AI research institute, more than 60% of global AI compute is owned by US hyperscalers, and Google holds about one quarter of it. And while the search giant relies heavily on its own custom tensor processing units (TPUs), many of its peers are still bound …

Cisco today announced plans to acquire AI observability firm Galileo Technologies. Galileo’s platform provides real-time observability and guardrails for the development of multi-agent systems and has been adopted across the enterprise as the industry standard for instilling trust in AI agents, according to Kamal Hathi, senior vice president and general manager for Cisco’s Splunk division. “Galil…