Google is reportedly in early discussions with Elon Musk’s SpaceX about launching a rocket deal to support data centres in Earth orbit, according to The Wall Street Journal. The proposal would shift some cloud infrastructure from ground-based sites to space, aligning with Google’s growing space ambitions and potentially reshaping latency, scale, and security assumptions.
After an AWS outage, Elon Musk posted on X that it was “pretty weird” the disruption caused Signal to fail. He criticized Signal’s reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure and used the moment to promote X Chat. The incident has reignited debate over whether key communications services should depend on big cloud providers.
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Reliance Brookfield is set to open a new data centre next week, intensifying competition in India’s rapidly expanding market. The sector is projected to grow about 40% annually and attract roughly USD 5 billion in investments by 2025, as Reliance enters a field already heating up with Adani Group and Bharti Airtel pushing capacity.
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