AI’s Next Wave Is Forcing a Data Center Networking Supercycle
Experts at Cisco Live 2026 warned that AI traffic could triple within three years, making network infrastructure just as critical as GPUs and power in data center planning.
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Cloudflare Builds Meerkat, a Leaderless Global Consensus Service
Cloudflare's research team has developed Meerkat, an experimental distributed consensus service built on the QuePaxa algorithm, designed to eliminate the leader-timeout failures that have caused real incidents across its 330-plus data centers.
How Data Center Brokers Help Match Buyers and Sellers in a Complex Market
Data center brokers fill a critical gap in a fragmented, technically demanding market where standard real estate tools simply do not apply. Here is how they work and why their role is growing.
Cloudflare Signs UK Cyber Resilience Pledge as Threats Surge
Cloudflare has joined the UK government's newly launched Cyber Resilience Pledge as a founding signatory, citing rising DDoS volumes and AI-assisted attacks as reasons the framework matters now.
Why Vendor Trust Beats Vendor Size in Enterprise WordPress Hosting
Brand recognition and infrastructure scale matter, but enterprise hosting decisions should hinge on accountability, response speed, and clear communication when things go wrong.
IBM Brings z17 Mainframes to Standard 19-Inch Racks
IBM has introduced rack-mount and single-frame versions of its z17 and LinuxONE systems, giving enterprises more flexibility as data center space, cooling costs, and AI workloads intensify.
Bot Traffic Now Tops 50% of the Web. What It Means for Your Site
For the first time on record, automated traffic has overtaken human-initiated requests online. The shift has been building for years, and the effects on hosting infrastructure are no longer abstract.
QTS Cancels $30B Data Center Project, Exposing New AI Siting Risks
QTS withdrew its Digital Gateway campus project in Virginia after years of litigation, signaling that permitting certainty and community opposition now rival power availability as make-or-break factors in AI data center development.
Texas Bets $13.8B on 765 kV Grid to Get Ahead of AI Demand
Texas regulators approved the state's first extra-high-voltage transmission backbone in April 2025, building massive grid capacity for AI data centers and other large loads before they even break ground.
Cloudflare Workers Cache Puts a Tiered Cache in Front of Your Worker
Cloudflare has launched Workers Cache, a tiered caching layer that sits in front of Workers and is configured entirely through Wrangler and standard Cache-Control headers, eliminating CPU charges on cache hits.