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HPE is making its pitch for the AI infrastructure race with a new generation of ProLiant servers designed specifically for the demands of machine learning workloads. The move signals that traditional enterprise hardware makers are repositioning themselves fast, betting that companies want familiar vendors handling unfamiliar computational loads.
Shifting to a quieter but persistent privacy concern, a developer has published a detailed look at how browser fingerprinting has effectively replaced cookies as the tracking method of choice across the web. Unlike cookies, fingerprints cannot be cleared, and most users have no practical way to detect or block them. It is a reminder that the privacy battles of the last decade may have been fought on the wrong front.
And on the environmental cost of all that compute, the Guardian is reporting that Google temporarily halted construction of a data center in Finland after regulators found the company had cleared forested land without completing the required environmental impact assessment. It is a striking illustration of the tension between the tech industry's urgent infrastructure buildout and the ecological commitments those same companies routinely make in their sustainability reports.
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