#infrastructure
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Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
Switzerland’s parliament voted to repeal the 2011 prohibition on building new nuclear reactors, opening the door for domestic nuclear projects and reshaping the country’s energy strategy.
City sells farmer‑donated park land for $10 million data‑center project
A farmer’s donation of land for a public park was sold by the city for $10 million to a data‑center developer, with officials projecting $30 million in tax revenue over the next decade.
Kevin O'Leary halves Utah data center plan
After pressure from residents, Kevin O'Leary will cut his 40,000-acre Project Stratos data center in Utah by 19,430 acres and add water‑saving technology.
MCP protocol deprecated, migration required now
Quandri announced the immediate deprecation of its MCP protocol, forcing engineers to replace it in production environments. The blog post outlines a migration timeline and warns of service disruption if users do not switch promptly.
Blog migrates from ubuntu 16.04 to freebsd after 10 years
After a decade on Ubuntu 16.04, a blog moves to FreeBSD for stability and security, with the author detailing the technical hurdles and fixes
VoIP retrofits bring pay phones back to rural Vermont
Rural Vermont is reviving pay phones with VoIP technology to close connectivity gaps where traditional infrastructure falls short [IEEE Spectrum].
Panthalassa raises $140M to put AI data centers in the ocean
Oregon-based Panthalassa closes $140M Series B led by Thiel, with Doerr, Benioff, and Levchin on the cap table. The plan: floating compute nodes powered by ocean waves, cooled by ocean water.
Vercel raises Series E at $3B valuation
Vercel closes $250M Series E. Pace of platform consolidation continues — and the IPO clock starts.
Anthropic locks in $200B of Google TPU capacity
Anthropic signs a five-year, $200B compute commitment to Google's TPU fleet. The deal reframes the cost basis of frontier model training — and tightens the cloud-vendor knot.
Cloudflare ships AI agent sandboxes. Edge compute meets agent runtime.
Cloudflare's Agents Week 2026 shipped Sandboxes — persistent isolated environments with shells, filesystems, and background processes that start in milliseconds. Plus 320 PoPs and a unified inference layer for 14+ model providers.
Microsoft's 2026 capex hits $150B. AI infrastructure now dominates the balance sheet.
Microsoft's 2026 capital expenditure runs to roughly $150B, the bulk allocated to AI compute capacity. The number reframes Microsoft as a hyperscaler-first business with software as the monetisation layer.