Google Cloud has officially entered the "Agentic Era," rebranding its flagship Vertex AI platform to the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and unveiling eighth-generation TPUs to power a new wave of autonomous business agents. During the Google Cloud Next ‘26 conference in Las Vegas, CEO Thomas Kurian declared that the industry has moved beyond simple chatbots toward "agentic workflows." Editorial credit: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock The three-day event was dominated by t

In a bid to accelerate its "supercluster" AI infrastructure without relying on the strained U.S. electrical grid, Oracle has nearly tripled its fuel cell supply agreement with Bloom Energy to a staggering 2.8 gigawatts (GW). The expanded deal, announced on April 13, 2026, follows a successful pilot where Bloom delivered a fully operational power system to an Oracle site in just 55 days, a timeline traditional utility companies often measure in years. Powering the "AI supercyc

OpenAI has officially suspended its multi-billion-pound Stargate UK data center initiative, dealing a major blow to the British government’s ambitions of becoming a global AI superpower. The decision to "pause" the project, which was slated to bring up to 31,000 GPUs to the North East of England, comes as OpenAI cites an "unfavorable" mix of high industrial power prices and unresolved copyright frameworks. The economic wall: Runaway energy The primary driver for the freeze is

Amazon’s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has suffered a direct hit to its infrastructure in Bahrain following an Iranian missile and drone strike. The attack, which occurred on April 1, 2026, targeted the Batelco headquarters in the Hamala district, a critical facility that houses AWS "ME-SOUTH-1" region infrastructure and Direct Connect nodes. The Bahraini Ministry of Interior confirmed that civil defense teams were deployed to extinguish a large fire at

9. Cloud Last week, Meta Platforms announced it is increasing its investment in its El Paso data center from $1.5 billion to more than $10 billion. The massive expansion aims to transform the site into a 1-gigawatt powerhouse, making it one of the largest AI-optimized facilities in the world. According to the report, the facility will now support over 4,000 construction jobs at its peak and roughly 300 permanent operational roles when it comes online in 2028. However, the six