Cybersecurity and content delivery giant Akamai Technologies has captured a major wave of new enterprise clients for Akamai Cloud, driven by surging demand for cost-effective CPU compute, specialized GPU infrastructure, and edge-native AI inference. The influx of corporate adopters highlights a growing shift among enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers and technology developers away from centralized hyper-scaler pricing toward distributed edge cloud architectures.

Finnish environmental authorities have ordered Google to immediately suspend site preparation work on two planned artificial intelligence data centers after the company began clearing vast forested areas without completing mandatory Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs). The enforcement action by the Finnish Licensing and Supervision Agency (LVV) covers development sites in the municipalities of Muhos and Kajaani. Editorial credit: Around the World Photos / Shutterstock The

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced plans to temporarily sever its European Sovereign Cloud from the primary AWS Global Network backbone on October 24, 2026. The planned isolation test aims to provide European regulators and enterprise clients with live technical proof that the newly launched sovereign infrastructure can operate completely independently without dependencies on non-EU systems or control planes. Editorial credit: kovop / Shutterstock During the multi-hour e

Frontier AI lab Anthropic has entered into an $11.6 billion, seven-year agreement with content delivery and cloud computing provider Akamai Technologies. The contract, the largest in Akamai’s history, is designed to scale distributed central processing unit (CPU) capacity for Anthropic’s Claude software ecosystem. Editorial credit: viewimage / Shutterstock The deal includes an expansion clause that could allow Anthropic to commit up to an additional $9 billion, bringing the t

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has issued a critical status update admitting it is unable to restore service or recover data hosted exclusively within its primary Middle East cloud infrastructure. The disclosure follows kinetic missile and drone strikes launched by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) earlier this year, which severely damaged data center facilities across Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. The announcement highlights an unprecedented physical vulnera