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Officials in suits and safety vests push ceremonial shovels into a mound of dirt at the Piketon, Ohio groundbreaking, with a large US flag, an SB Energy banner and a Caterpillar excavator behind them.
Policy·

Local opposition stalled $130 billion of data centers, and New York froze permits statewide

Gallup puts local opposition at 71%. Hochul's order pauses 50 MW-plus permits for a year, and PJM's last auction billed data centers $6.3 billion.

Rows of server racks in a data center, the kind of estate Tesco is migrating off VMware
Open Source·

40,000 server workloads are leaving VMware. Tesco blames Broadcom's 'abusive' licensing.

Tesco is moving 40,000 workloads off VMware and suing Broadcom for £100M, the loudest signal yet in the post-acquisition exodus toward KVM, Proxmox, and OpenStack.

Diagram-style illustration of microVM browser infrastructure
Web·

A Firecracker microVM cold-starts an isolated browser in under 400ms on EC2

browser-use runs Firecracker microVMs inside ordinary EC2 boxes to spin up isolated browser sandboxes fast. Here's how the sub-second cold start works.

Vasilios Syrakis at his desk next to a whiteboard diagram of an Open Service Broker: Client → FastAPI → SQS → Worker → DynamoDB, with provisioning tasks to Route53, CloudFront, and API calls.
Web·

Atlassian laid off the engineer who built its edge. He published the blueprints.

Vasilios Syrakis spent eight years building Atlassian's Envoy control plane. After the March cuts, he posted a 40-minute walkthrough that hit 1.1M views.

Aerial view of a Meta data center site used by Fortune for AI infrastructure spending coverage
AI·

Hyperscalers are on track to spend $700B on AI infrastructure in 2026

Big-tech AI capex is projected at $700B in 2026, up from $410B in 2025. Microsoft alone guided $190B. Wall Street is split: Meta got punished for the spend, Alphabet rallied.

Meta and Broadcom partnership announcement header showing custom AI silicon
Hardware·

Meta just committed 1 gigawatt of custom AI chips with Broadcom through 2029

Meta and Broadcom expanded their partnership to co-develop four generations of MTIA chips on a 2nm process. Here's what the deal includes and why Nvidia should care.