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Před devíti lety se Polsko rozhodlo, že chce být středoevropskou Dubají, a tamní vláda proto schválila ambiciózní plán výstavby nového obřího letiště na půli cesty mezi Varšavou a Lodží. Port Polska, jak se celý projekt nového národního dopravního hubu jmenuje, počítá také se stavbou ...

Over the weekend, security researcher Abdelhamid Naceri (also known as Nightmare Eclipse) released another Microsoft Defender zero-day exploit that blocks antivirus updates. [...]

A malicious npm package named "indexed-btree" has been observed hiding its malicious behavior within application code rather than using lifecycle scripts, indicating that threat actors are likely shifting tactics in response to recent security controls. "Indexed-btree is a malicious npm package mimicking the legit sorted-btree package, an ordinary B-tree/indexing utility," Checkmarx said. "Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

HDMI 2.2 se začíná pomalu přesouvat z technické specifikace do skutečných obchodů. První certifikované kabely Ultra96se už začínají prodávat prodeje a zvládnou přenos až 96 Gb/s, tedy dvojnásobek proti současnému HDMI 2.1.

​Attackers are now actively exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in Zyxel GS1900 series switches, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). [...]

Umělá inteligence se během několika let stala běžnou součástí školního života. Jak se mění role učitelů, proč už nestačí studentům AI zakazovat a jak děti naučit, aby chatbotům bezmezně nevěřily? A nahradí AI jednou kantory?

Vůbec poprvé AMD dosáhla hodnotou (vyjádřenou jako tržní kapitalizace) $1 bilion, což znamená, že její celková hodnota na burze překonává ARM, Dell a MediaTek. Dohromady…

The threat actor known as SideCopy has been observed using spear-phishing lures to target academic institutions in India, expanding their strategic focus beyond government entities. "SideCopy campaign operations typically initiate through spear-phishing campaigns that leverage the abuse of mshta.exe to execute malicious scripts and circumvent standard security protocols," Trellix researchers Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

V Rusku proběhly volby do Státní dumy a prezident Putin odevzdal hlas online. • Podle zveřejněného videa použil počítač s neaktivovanými Windows 10. • Microsoft v zemi své produkty neprodává už čtyři roky.

Malware already running on a Mac can quietly take over Meta's Muse assistant and use the broad access its owner granted the app, security researcher Patrick Wardle has shown in a proof-of-concept released on September 21. It works by changing a hidden setting so that when the user taps the microphone and dictates a prompt, the words go to the attacker instead of Meta. The flaw is in Swati Khandelwalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

The state of California has joined the growing number of governments and communities at all levels across the US taking proactive, even preemptive, measures to keep data center development under control.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed what he called the “most comprehensive data center laws in the nation” on Monday. While the seven bills don’t block data center development, they do reinforce requirements for reporting data centers’ energy and water use, and ensuring they pay their fair share of utility costs.

Other states — and even local community groups — have been taking more direct action. At least 45 projects worth an estimated $68 billion were blocked or delayed in the US in the second quarter, according to research by Data Center Watch. There are now 843 identified opposition groups in the US, and 49 states are scrutinizing data center development, it said.

Project disruption remains at an “elevated level” and opposition has become “more local and project-specific,” targeting permitting, infrastructure, and individual policy decisions, according to Data Center Watch.

Some communities are getting ahead of development by preemptively mandating data center development moratoriums, even before developers have filed permit applications or expressed any interest at all.

Data centers no longer ‘invisible infrastructure’

“The growing pushback is not surprising,” said Abbas Jaffery, principal advisory director at Info-Tech Research Group. “The conversation around data centers has shifted from a routine IT capacity decision to a complex energy, community, and economic issue.”

Anti data center sentiment is higher than it’s ever been, as AI gobbles up more and more resources and requires never-before-seen magnitudes of data.

State-by-state legislative activity is accelerating in response, with 30 state governments adopting or introducing legislation, resolutions, and executive actions targeting siting, cost-sharing, and electricity and water constraints, Data Center Watch reported.

Further, regulatory scrutiny is increasing across 49 states, and communities are clamoring for local, state, and national politicians to respond to data centers already in development.

California is a case in point; Newsom has just signed seven bills addressing data center costs, disclosures, and infrastructure. Operators will be required to pay their “fair share” for updates to the state’s electricity grid, comply with California energy procurement requirements, and bring on new clean energy supply.

Data center companies will also need to provide information on water use, supply, efficiency, and drought planning, and pay for any required infrastructure upgrades. Additionally, data centers will be ineligible for blanket environmental exemptions; they must demonstrate that their projects meet state energy, water, and fuel consumption standards prior to approval.

“As the innovation economy continues to grow, data centers are being presented as a solution, but with little thought or oversight of what that means for nearby communities,” Newsom said in Monday’s announcement. The goal of the bills is to protect communities from “shouldering the cost as industry reaps massive profits.”

Other regulatory initiatives can be found across much of the country: Independent electricity marketplace Electric Choice tracks 321 moratoriums and restrictions across 32 states, with pending legislation in 17 states. Just last week, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger unveiled a Data Center Accountability Framework, while in July, New York Governor Kathy Hochul placed a temporary moratorium on hyperscale data centers in her state.

“Data centers are no longer invisible infrastructure,” said Justin St-Maurice, technical counselor at Info-Tech Research Group. “They are being built in communities, where residents can directly experience the noise, energy demands, and other consequences.”

Enterprises must take a new approach

While some concerns may be more legitimate than others, all require a stronger understanding and partnership between builders and communities, noted Matt Kimball, VP and principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy.

“Dismissing fears around water consumption, for example, by showing a spreadsheet at a local planning committee meeting, doesn’t resolve concerns for a community that is already suspicious,” he said.

Community opposition “is real, and it’s everywhere,” and the new strategic pillar for data center builders and operators is social outreach, Kimball noted. Those proposing data centers must be able to provide credible answers about usage and community impacts, listen to concerns, and commit to transparency.

Most enterprises aren’t building gigawatt campuses, he pointed out, but they are paying the price downstream in colocation availability, lead times, pricing, and other factors. Predictability is the big question, supply is already tight, and every delayed project removes capacity factored into forecasts.

“IT leaders should treat power and space as a strategic constraint rather than a facilities line item,” he said.

This means extending planning horizons and committing to colocated capacity earlier on. Ask operators where their sites actually are in the permitting and entitlement process, not just their roadmap, Kimball advised. Also, he said, “squeeze every bit of productivity out of the footprint you already own.” For instance, older servers consolidated onto current-generation platforms can free up rack space and power for AI projects without “a single extra square foot of data center space required.”

Buyers should also be deliberate about workload placement and underlying infrastructure. What can sit in the cloud and what needs to be closer to the premises? What kind of inference is running? “Not every workload requires the latest and greatest GPU cluster,” Kimball said; in fact, some don’t require a GPU at all.

He pointed to companies like Furiosa AI that are building more efficient hardware expansion cards, while CPUs like Intel’s Xeon feature on-chip accelerators that can efficiently handle inference workloads. Nvidia, for its part, is claiming its latest technology advancements can provide up to 40% more GPU capacity.

He noted that other interesting technologies to watch are two-phased cooling, and heat recapture and reuse. For instance, at one data center in Switzerland, generated heat is repurposed to heat nearby homes.

‘Radical optimization’ the way forward

Info-Tech’s St-Maurice agreed that IT leaders cannot assume they can rely indefinitely on public cloud capacity at a predictable cost. Some organizations are reconsidering their compute strategies as token costs rise, repurposing internal data centers, running open-weight models, and using a tiered approach combining local, enterprise, private cloud, and public cloud resources.

“The goal is to direct each workload to the most cost-effective environment and gain more control over operating costs,” he said. While regulations will likely lead to innovation, more space, cooling, and power alone will not solve the problem.

The more sustainable path is “radical optimization,” St-Maurice said: Reducing energy cost per token and using compute more efficiently.

Indeed, when considering new data centers, enterprise leaders must ask whether the supporting power, cooling, water, and grid infrastructure actually exist, in what timeline, and at what cost, Info-Tech’s Jaffery advised.

“Organizations that integrate physical grid and power constraints into their IT architecture early will maintain speed to market,” he said, “while those that treat power as an afterthought will face costly deployment delays.”

This article first appeared on Network World.

A new flaw in WordPress core let an anonymous visitor leave a comment that planted a hidden script on the page. If a logged-in administrator later opened that page, the script could run code on the site's server. WordPress fixed the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-93485 and called "Comment2Shell," on September 17 in version 7.1.1 and told site owners to update right away. There isSwati Khandelwalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

V červnu Ukrajina provedla první dokumentovaný výsadek robotů v dějinách válečnictví a o pár měsíců později vojenští blogeři referují o další metě. Kdesi ve vlnách Černého moře se utkaly dva dronové čluny. Shora vše sledovaly UAV. Ukrajinské námořnictvo tvrdí, že jeden z jeho hladinových robotů ...

Po delší době přichází pozitivní zpráva ze světa polovodičové výroby. Wafer na procesu TSMC A14 může být jen o ~20 % dražší než na procesu TSMC N2, což by se obešlo bez zdražení v přepočtu na čip…

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a now-patched security flaw impacting Zyxel GS1900 series switches to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-7273 (CVSS score: 8.8), is a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that could result in arbitrary operating Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

CISA has added CVE-2025-39964, a flaw in the Linux kernel’s built-in cryptography interface, to its list of vulnerabilities being used in real attacks.

Security researchers have shown how hidden instructions in an AWS AgentCore support ticket could push an AI agent into running commands as root and exposing a service credential.

The crun container runtime has changed how GPU-enabled workloads launch a key graphics helper.