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Microsoft has pulled out of what the UK government had been calling the country's largest AI data center project. The concern is straightforward: power. The site was originally expected to connect to the grid by twenty twenty seven, but updated estimates pushed that to early twenty thirty. Microsoft had been the only publicly named tenant, and without a reliable power timeline, the economics simply didn't hold.
Across the Channel, French eSports organization Team Vitality is counting its losses after rioters ransacked its Paris headquarters over the weekend. Looters made off with trophies, computer equipment, and reportedly even RAM sticks pulled directly from machines. No staff were harmed, but the attack underscores how physical infrastructure remains deeply vulnerable when civil unrest creates cover for opportunistic crime.
Closer to the enterprise world, Fortanix has announced expanded support for confidential AI workloads running on Kubernetes, using hardware-based trusted execution environments across both confidential CPUs and GPUs. The pitch is that organizations can keep the speed of cloud-native development without surrendering control over sensitive data — a trade-off that matters more as AI processes increasingly touch regulated industries.
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