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) […]
Prime Video sounds the death knell for The Bondsman as Kevin Bacon horror show is canceled after one season

Prime Video has canceled The Bondsman after one season At the time of publishing, the streamer has not released a statement saying why Deadline reported that the series “failed to generate buzz on social media” It’s always disappointing when shows are canceled after one installment, and I’m gutted that Prime Video has decided not to […]
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 […]
Apple could soon let iPhone owners use alternative voice assistants to Siri, but you can call up Gemini or ChatGPT right now with this simple hack

Apple is working on making other voice assistants available in iOS according to a new report The move is expected to be required to conform to European Union regulations You can make your iPhone’s Action Button load up either ChatGPT or Gemini right now According to a new report from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, Apple […]
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 […]
NVIDIA DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation and Other RTX Updates Shown Off for Upcoming and Existing PC Games

Today, at Computex 2025, we learned that NVIDIA DLSS 4 is now available in over 125 games and applications. Following the news, NVIDIA provided more details and trailers about upcoming games and existing PC games that are being updated to include DLSS 4 and other NVIDIA technologies. Let’s start with Portal with RTX, which was […]
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. […]
Valve deckard VR headset described as ‘quite amazing’ but there’s still no word on its launch

Lynx founder described Valve Deckard as “quite amazing” They didn’t share any specific details, but said they share Valve’s suppliers Other leaks have teased an impressive but pricey Quest 3 rival While Google makes a fuss about Android XR, Meta continues its Meta Quest 3 supremacy, and Apple apparently leaks its Vision Pro affordability plans […]
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 […]
Sam Altman defends Trump’s AI chip deals with UAE and Saudi Arabia, calls critics “naïve”

What just happened? Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar AI partnerships between US companies and Gulf nations have been criticized by those who fear it could open a backdoor for China to access restricted chips. But OpenAI CEO Sam Altman doesn’t think so, and has labeled those with such concerns as “naïve.” During his tour of the area […]
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 […]
ASUS Shows Off RTX 5080 Noctua Edition With Triple-Fan Cooler, ROG Astral RTX 5080 DOOM Edition With 666 Units

ASUS displayed two brand-new custom RTX 50 GPUs, the RTX 5080 Noctua Edition & the ROG Astral RTX 5080 DOOM Edition graphics card. ASUS Outs A Brand New Noctua Edition Graphics Card, The RTX 5080 Noctua Edition, With Triple-Fan Cooler & Quad-Slot Design ASUS is known for partnering with Noctua in releasing custom-cooled graphics cards. […]
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 […]
The perception of lifetime VPN deals has changed, but are they really just “a true Ponzi scheme”?

How long would you expect a lifetime VPN subscription to last? Forever, right? The promise of unending online privacy without renewal is tempting, though too often this proves not to be the case. Certainly, it wasn’t for all the VPNSecure customers who purchased one of its lifetime plans in recent years. After a change in […]