Multiple states are repealing or modifying sales tax exemptions, and it could cause the cost of data centers to skyrocket.
Amazon isn’t slowing down on data center spending — but investors don’t seem to mind.
Amazon’s GM of gaming thinks the rising cost of consoles and PC components could push more hardcore gamers towards cloud streaming.

Windows 10 21H2 and earlier is no longer being supported for OneDrive – 22H2 continues to get support until October 2028.
An Amazon AWS billing system accidentally told some customers they owed billions of dollars, but a fix is on the way.
Previous reports that an Oracle-Microsoft deal had fallen apart were “inaccurate” but the deal’s state remains unconfirmed.
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The European Commission is pushing for less reliance on US hyperscalers, and European cloud companies, NGOs, and lawmakers are backing the move.
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If Meta has surplus compute, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he wouldn’t rule out selling this under a potential cloud business.
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Think one GPU is very much like another? Think again. It turns out that there’s surprising variability in the performance delivered by chips of the same model. That can make getting your money’s worth by renting time on a GPU from a cloud provider a r…

In late-stage testing of a distributed AI platform, engineers sometimes encounter a perplexing situation: every monitoring dashboard reads “healthy,” yet users report that the system’s decisions are slowly becoming wrong.Engineers are trained to recog…