Huawei unveils Ascend 920 AI chip, will start shipping 910C to Chinese customers from May – report
Chip launch follows additional US export restrictions on Nvidia H20 GPUs to China
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US gov’t imposes restrictions on Nvidia H20s, chipmaker claims will cost it $5.5bn
Follows Nvidia's announcement it plans to produce AI supercomputers in the US
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US Army expands use of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with $222.53m task order
Department of Agriculture also selects Oracle for STRATUS contract
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Belgian Army set to move to the cloud in 2026
Defense Minister seeks partial exit from army data centers
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Democrat senators propose bill to mitigate energy consumption of crypto and AI facilities
Dubbed as the “Clean Cloud Act of 2025”
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UK gov’t announces £121m to further support quantum technologies
Funding package made up of new and previously announced investments
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Trump: Chips tariffs still coming, Chinese electronics still taxed but in a “different Tariff ‘bucket’”
President says there will be some flexibility with semiconductor tariffs
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US gov’t decides not to further restrict Nvidia H20 exports to China, follows Jensen Huang’s visit to Mar-a-Lago
Additional controls were due to come into force this week
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European Commission plans network of AI clusters across continent
Commission also plans to propose Cloud and AI Development Act to triple EU data center capacity
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Musk's DOGE claims savings from moving off of tape storage
But it's not clear what they've actually done
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Now Telecom loses mobile license in the Philippines
Has a fortnight to appeal decision
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Trump backs US coal sector with series of executive orders to meet surge in AI power demand
Will permit the extension of coal plants and direct federal agencies to identify coal resources on federal lands
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Micron to impose tariff surcharge on memory modules and SSDs
Company had previously disclosed plans to pass on tariff-related costs to customers
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UK holds first meeting of new AI Energy Council
Attended by the likes of EDF, Ofgem, Google, and Microsoft
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Serbian gov’t signs contact with Eviden for €50m supercomputer
Will contain 20x more chips than country’s existing Nvidia-based system
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Virginia congressman urges national plan to address data center impact on local communities
Suhas Subramanyam said Virginia should be taken as a “cautionary tale for the rest of the country”
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DARPA announces 15 companies selected for first phase of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative
Program to determine if building a fault-tolerant quantum computer within a decade is possible
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US DOE identifies 16 sites on federal land for "rapid data center construction," including 1GW location
The sites have in-place energy infrastructure and fast-track permitting
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Trump sons' Bitcoin mining business plans to eventually go public
But Eric Trump claims no conflict of interest for American Bitcoin Corp
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OVH and Luxembourg Post to launch sovereign cloud offering
Post’s Deep IT unit to host OVH hardware in its own data centers
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Cerebras and Ranovus receive $45m DARPA contract to “solve” compute bottleneck
Project will see Ranovus’ optical interconnects integrated with Cerebras wafer-sized chips
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IT outage brings down vehicle registration services across Bavaria, Germany
Problems at service provider AKDB
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Westport City Council approves SEALink Networks' cable landing station in Washington state
Cable landing station will be located across 3.5 acres at the Westport Water Plant
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FCC chair could block telco M&As over DEI policies
Brendan Carr also launches investigation into CCP-linked companies on US Covered List
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Officials in Loudoun County, Virginia, axe by-right data centers
Existing applications in the county get grandfathered
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Germany's ITZBund to build data center in Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Germany
Will provide modern IT processes for the federal administration
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Ceramic long-term storage startup Cerabyte secures investment from In-Q-Tel
Follows investment from Pyre Storage and EU
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US Gov't assesses interest in a 500MW+ data center at Air Force Base in Arizona
Proposes 620 acres for commercial data center project