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Onlive Server has launched its new UK Dedicated Server Hosting, targeting enterprises that run sensitive, performance-heavy operations. The service gives businesses exclusive hardware, customizable Intel and AMD setups, and direct access to low-latency UK data centers with a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Companies can choose from entry-level to high-core systems, ensuring reliability, speed, and data protection for industries where uninterrupted performance remains essential.

Lambda, the Nvidia-powered AI cloud provider, is reportedly preparing for an IPO in the first half of 2026, with Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and Citi advising. The San Francisco firm nearly doubled cloud revenue in early 2025, hitting $250m in the first half, with gross margins at 50 percent. Backed by $1.65bn in funding, Lambda’s move follows rival CoreWeave’s high-profile public listing earlier this year.

Cloudflare has joined the growing list of victims in the Drift-Salesforce breach, confirming that attackers accessed its Salesforce instance between August 12–17. While core infrastructure remained untouched, exposed data included customer contacts, support tickets, and potentially sensitive details like tokens. Cloudflare attributed the attack to threat group GRUB1 and has rotated all credentials as a safeguard. The company warned that the stolen information could fuel targeted attacks against affected organizations.

IBM Cloud will overhaul its free Basic Support tier in January 2026, moving customers to a self-service model. Users will lose the ability to open or escalate technical cases but retain billing help and access to IBM’s AI assistant. While IBM says the change aligns with industry standards, critics note that rivals like AWS, Azure, and Google dominate market share, raising questions over whether IBM is cutting costs—or cutting off smaller customers.

Global data center power use could soar 50% by 2027, fueled largely by AI workloads, Goldman Sachs Research reports. AI’s share of data center energy demand may nearly double, rising to 27%, while traditional workloads decline. Meeting this surge could require $720 billion in new energy infrastructure, with natural gas poised to shoulder most of the load—raising fresh concerns over emissions, grid strain, and whether AI’s boom risks becoming a bubble.

CoreWeave has acquired OpenPipe, a Y Combinator-backed startup known for its open-source agent reinforcement trainer (ART) toolkit. The deal strengthens CoreWeave’s push into reinforcement learning, a key method for fine-tuning AI agents to enterprise-specific tasks. Following earlier acquisitions like Weights & Biases, this move positions CoreWeave to serve both major AI labs and smaller firms needing compute-heavy, tailored AI training at scale.