Reassess datacenter commitments and endpoint controls after fresh signals

Developers will get technical support and "meaningful advice" from the Planning Inspectorate before submitting applications, with examinations streamlined for speed and certainty, the ministry says. Datacenters were brought into the NSIP regime earlier this year via the Infrastructure Planning (Business or Commercial Projects) (Amendment) Regulations 2026, meaning many developments can now be approved centrally rather than through local oversight

ON-PREM Overhaul of process could give NIMBYs one year less to complain Reform of the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 aims to cut a year off the approval process for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) in England and Wales – a category that now includes datacenters. The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) confirmed that changes under the Act, taking effect later this month, will scrap the statutory requirement for pre-application consultation on NSIPs

Developers will get technical support and "meaningful advice" from the Planning Inspectorate before submitting applications, with examinations streamlined for speed and certainty, the ministry says

The announcement doesn’t offer any specs but says they “complete the IBM z17 product family. ” IBM asserts that a z17 ME2 packing a single integrated accelerator for AI on an OLTP network “matches the throughput of running inferencing on a compared remote x86 server with 21 cores

The Tuesday announcement mentions bundles called the z17 ME2 and IBM z17 MER, respectively a single-frame and rack-mounted affair

“By 2030, 75 percent of vendors operating in the ‘mainframe exit’ market will either pivot their business models or cease to exist,” Gartner wrote

Approximately half the cost of bringing up the datacenter is attributed to the power, shell, and thermal management systems with the rest being compute and networking

Alongside bagging Amodei and crew as customers, the company announced it was selling its 50

AI + ML Model dev and AGI fearmonger Anthropic signs 20-year lease with TeraWulf In its short life, Anthropic has captured hearts, minds, and wallets – and spooked the US government – but it hasn’t actually turned a profit. That’s not stopping CEO Dario Amodei from signing a two-decade lease with crypto-mining outfit turned AI datacenter operator TeraWulf

It found that the devices of at least 65 people associated with the Catalan separatist movement were infected with Pegasus or Candiru spyware strains between 2017 and 2020, and at least two were infected with both. In 2022, Spain dismissed its national intelligence director, Paz Esteban López, after high-ranking ministers, including Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, were infected with spyware

After Citizen Lab forensically analyzed his device, the research organization revealed on Friday that his iPhone was infected with Pegasus in October 2022 and again in March 2023, when key hearings about the committee's formal recommendations were taking place. "The fact that Stelios Kouloglou's device was infected with an intrusive form of spyware that only governments can procure, while he was actively involved in the parliamentary inquiry committee that was investigating spyware abuse by European countries

The EU has updated the Regulation several times since adopting it in 2021, and has routinely stood by the system, which aims to reduce the risk that cyber-surveillance tools are exported for use in human rights abuses. Critics remain unconvinced that the EU is enforcing the Regulation effectively, believing that the required level of monitoring is not being met, which in turn is allowing spyware to spread