Oracle spooks markets with AI binge
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Heavy debts rattle investors already twitchy about runaway AI spending

Oracle has taken a wallop as tech stocks and bonds tank, landing far harder than its Big Tech pals thanks to its colossal borrowing spree to muscle into the AI circus, which has rattled the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street something fierce.

China taps Nvidia kit through a maze of middlemen
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Jakarta’s server farm shows how China still reaches banned silicon.

A Jakarta data centre squeezed between a school and posh flats has become the latest reminder that US export controls leak badly.

Anthropic splashes out on colossal AI kit build
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Claude maker throws silly money at US data centres

Anthropic has decided that the only way to keep its AI toys from coughing is to pour $50 billion into new infrastructure across the US.

Nvidia’s hometown data centres left powerless
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Santa Clara projects sit idle as AI boom slams into an energy wall

Two massive data centre projects in Santa Clara, California, in the heart of Nvidia’s glorious green empire, are sitting empty as the city’s grid buckles under demand from the AI gold rush.

Cloudflare rebuilds its internet engine in Rust
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A 25 per cent performance bump

Interweb bouncer Cloudflare has spent the past year ripping out the guts of its global traffic system and replacing them with something Rusty.