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The delivery of computing, storage and software as on-demand services over the internet, sold by providers to enterprise and consumer customers.
ECIPE says the EU's Cloud and AI Development Act could cost €115bn over a decade, six times the Commission's €18bn upper estimate. CCIA Europe, whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, funded it. Buyers can test its software re-architecting line against their own estate without accepting the total.
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Yandex lost one of its five data centers on Thursday after a reported Ukrainian drone strike on Sasovo in Russia's Ryazan region. Running workloads moved to its other sites, but the company warned that creating new cloud resources may be limited.
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Amazon Web Services shipped four AI-agent infrastructure launches in 19 days, among them a managed agent service built with OpenAI. Most are previews or free code, so what customers will pay for the agent layer is still unknown.
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Anthropic committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai for CPU capacity, on terms that tie payments to delivery and include termination provisions. Akamai expects to spend about $5.5 billion building that capacity before full run-rate revenue arrives at the end of 2028.
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Meta rose about 13% and Microsoft more than 4% in a week that took the 10-year Treasury yield past 5.2% and October Fed hike odds to 66%. Both moved on their own company news, and at 23 times forward earnings Meta now yields less than the Treasury.
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Capital spending of $9.98bn in one quarter bought 45% AI cloud growth, a 12% segment margin and a $6.58bn free cash outflow. The trade is now explicit in the accounts.
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Almost all of Oracle's near-30% revenue growth came from the single segment that rents AI servers. The buildout behind it runs on debt, and the backlog it feeds is nearly half one customer's contract.
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Cloud infrastructure revenue more than doubled to $7.4bn and the contracted backlog reached $664bn, while the $28.5bn Oracle put into capacity in three months turned a record $23.1bn of operating cash flow into free cash flow of negative $5.4bn.
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