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500MW data center proposed in Lapland, Finland

A 500MW data center could be coming to Lapland in northern Finland. As reported by local press, including Yle, FCDC Corp is developing a data center in Rovaniemi, a city in the north of Finland and the regional capital of Lapland. The site, located 10km outside Rovaniemi, could total 180,000 sqm (1.93 million sq ft) […]

NVIDIA to Develop a “Mega AI Factory” In Taiwan With Foxconn, Will Feature Up To 10,000 Blackwell GPUs

NVIDIA has disclosed plans to build one of Taiwan’s biggest AI supercomputers based on the Blackwell architecture, in collaboration with Foxconn. NVIDIA’s Latest “Blackwell” Supercomputer in Taiwan Will Drive the Region’s Innovations, With AI Taking The Charge [Press Release]: NVIDIA and Foxconn Hon Hai Technology Group today announced they are  deepening their longstanding partnership and […]

PDG seals $1.2bn financing for APAC data center expansion

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has secured more than $1 billion in financing to fuel its roll-out. The APAC data center firm recently announced the successful raise of more than $1.2bn in financing to support its continued expansion and development across Asia. The financing comprises​ $800 million in project financing for the development and expansion of […]

Dell Technologies World 2025 – all the news and updates live from Las Vegas

Welcome to ITPro’s coverage of Dell Technologies World 2025, live from the Venetian Convention & Expo Center in Las Vegas. This week, thousands of delegates, made up of Dell Technologies’ partners and customers, have made their way to the Nevada desert to find out what the company has in store for them for the coming […]

Google signs 600MW solar energy deal in South Carolina

Google has signed an energy deal to procure renewable energy credits (RECs) in South Carolina. Renewables developer EnergyRe has signed a renewable energy agreement that allows Google to invest in and purchase RECs from a portfolio of more than 600 MW of new solar and solar with storage projects being developed by EnergyRe in South […]

Qualcomm Teases New Data Center CPUs and AI Inference Accelerators in the Works

Qualcomm Computex 2025 Data Center Teaser Closing out their hour-long, AI-focused Computex keynote, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon ended his presentation with a brief teaser of what’s in store for the server side of Qualcomm’s hardware business. The company has repeatedly dabbled in the server market with products such as their Cloud AI 100 inference accelerators. […]

A spoof antivirus makes Windows Defender disable security scans

This wasn’t an easy feat as Windows has checks to ensure the antivirus is real, involving registry names and signed binaries. The researcher used tools like dnSpy, Process Monitor, and manual inspection to see how legitimate antivirus tools behaved when registering with WSC. “From my last year’s courtesy, I knew that WSC was somehow validating […]

Surging AI adoption rates are creating an unprecedented skills shortage

The rapid explosion of AI has created the UK’s biggest and fastest growing tech skills shortage in more than 15 years, according to new research. Findings from the latest Nash Squared/Harvey Nash Digital Leadership Report shows that nine-in-ten technology leaders across the country are now either piloting AI or investing in development projects. This sharpened […]

Xiaomi’s XRING 01 Finally Gets A Launch Date, With One Teaser Poster Claiming That The In-House SoC Features 19 Billion Transistors And Utilizes The Second-Generation 3nm Process

The custom XRING 01 was previously unveiled by Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun, but the executive did not provide a launch date on that occasion. Thankfully, it did not take a lot of waiting around because the latest teaser poster provides details on that front and mentions some key specifications that we are confident the majority […]

NVIDIA Announces NVLink Fusion: Bringing NVLink to Third-Party CPUs and Accelerators

NVLink Fusion As part of today’s headline Computex keynote, NVIDIA announced a new member in their suite of NVLink interconnect technologies: NVLink Fusion. And this latest entry may be the most interesting yet, as NVIDIA is taking a big step towards opening up the NVLink ecosystem to third-party CPUs and accelerators, releasing IP and hardware […]

Orange names Valérie Cussac as CEO of international wholesale unit

Orange has appointed Valérie Cussac as its new CEO for its Wholesale International unit. Cussac, who has been at Orange for close to 30 years, will take up her new role on August 1 and replace Emmanuel Rochas, who will become CEO of Orange’s TowerCo subsidiary Totem effective from June 1, 2025. Franck Morales, SVP […]

A year later, Apple Vision Pro owners say they regret buying the $3,500 headset

Facepalm: It’s been over a year since Apple launched its Vision Pro, the mixed-reality headset that you might have already forgotten about. Now, many people who paid $3,500 when the device first arrived are experiencing the same emotion: regret. The Wall Street Journal has interviewed some of the Apple Vision Pro’s early adopters, and it […]

Liquid cooling becoming essential as AI servers proliferate

“Facility water loops sometimes have good water quality, sometimes bad,” says My Troung, CTO at ZutaCore, a liquid cooling company. “Sometimes you have organics you don’t want to have inside the technical loop.” So there’s one set of pipes that goes around the data center, collecting the heat from the server racks, and another set […]

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