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Alibaba in early talks with Spain

Alibaba has held preliminary talks with Spanish solar producer Solaria about supplying power for a data centre at Puertollano, south of Madrid. Spain is drafting rules that would require data centre operators to be established in the EU and keep all data inside European borders. Alibaba has held talks with a Spanish solar producer that [] This story continues at The Next Web

2 Oct 2026 8:48 pm

Anthropic tells IPO investors US government actions could hit its business

Anthropic has warned that the US governments view of the company could hurt its ties with business customers and partners as well as its government work. The warning is in the AI firms IPO prospectus, which Reuters reportedon Friday after seeing the document. The prospectus has not been made public, and TNW has not seen [] This story continues at The Next Web

2 Oct 2026 7:49 pm

Tencent leases 100,000 AI chips from Oracle in a $7bn deal, FT reports

Tencent has signed a five-year lease to use about 100,000 advanced AI chips from Oracle. People familiar with the matter told the Financial Times about the deal. The chips, which are not available in China, sit in several Oracle data centres in South-East Asia. The deal, signed this year, is worth about $7bn, and Tencent [] This story continues at The Next Web

2 Oct 2026 6:39 pm

Micron sees the memory shortage tightening into 2028 after a record quarter

Micron says the global memory shortage will get tighter over the next two years. The US chipmaker reported record results on Wednesday. Revenue for the quarter to 3 September rose nearly fivefold from a year earlier, to $54.23bn, the company said. Net income reached $37.7bn, up from $3.2bn a year earlier. Gross margin hit 86.8%, [] This story continues at The Next Web

2 Oct 2026 6:13 pm