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Every Mapletechie story tagged "data centres" — tech news, reviews, and analysis.
- DayOne’s IPO Filing Shows the Cost of Data-Centre Growth
Matthew Leo · October 9, 2026DayOne’s revenue more than tripled in six months, while losses, power costs and debt also climbed. Its IPO filing offers lessons for Canadian projects.
- Bell and Cisco Want to Sell Sovereign AI in Canada
Matthew Leo · October 1, 2026Bell and Cisco plan a Canadian sovereign-AI infrastructure service. The memorandum sets a direction, but not a product, price, customer or launch date.
- US Bill Targets Chinese Parts Inside AI Data Centres
Matthew Leo · September 26, 2026A bipartisan US bill would remove Chinese optical transceivers from sensitive government systems. The hard part is replacing a supply chain built around them.
- Oracle’s Power Warning Puts an AI Data-Centre Deal Under Strain
Matthew Leo · September 26, 2026Oracle invoked a contract provision over possible power delays at Project Jupiter, while saying the site remains on schedule. The financing risk reaches beyond …
- Alberta’s Data-Centre Boom Needs Clear Power Rules
Matthew Leo · September 22, 2026Alberta is attracting major AI data centres. The province still needs clear rules on who pays for power connections, grid upgrades and water use.
- Nscale’s IPO Filing Shows the Gap Between Deals and Revenue
Matthew Leo · September 19, 2026Nscale has more than US$100 billion in contracted value, but its IPO filing shows how far AI infrastructure promises can sit from current revenue.
- The UAE’s 5GW AI Campus Is Learning the Cost of Concentration
Matthew Leo · September 13, 2026The UAE may spread a planned 5-gigawatt AI campus across several sites after regional attacks. Scale now has to coexist with physical resilience.
- AI Data Centres Are Losing the Public Before They Win the Grid
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026Texas’s sharp reversal on AI data centres shows a growing infrastructure backlash over power, water and local costs. Canada should learn from it before the same…
- Nvidia’s $96.2B Quarter Says the AI Buildout Isn’t Slowing
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026Nvidia posted $96.2 billion in quarterly revenue and $89 billion from data centres, while signalling that the global AI infrastructure buildout still has years …
- Nvidia’s Reported 15% Server Hike Exposes AI’s Memory Problem
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026Major Nvidia server customers are reportedly being warned of price increases above 15% as memory costs surge, exposing a wider bottleneck in the AI infrastructu…
- Brazil’s AI Split Offers Canada a Sovereignty Test
Matthew Leo · August 21, 2026Brazil is dividing new AI infrastructure between Chinese and U.S. suppliers. Canada should judge sovereignty by control, switching costs and public value.
- Canadian AI Megaprojects Need Financing Proof
Matthew Leo · August 16, 2026Nvidia reportedly cut the guarantee behind an enormous Ohio data-centre proposal. Canadian governments should separate project announcements from committed mone…
- CoreWeave’s Spending Tests Canada’s AI Sovereignty
Matthew Leo · August 12, 2026CoreWeave plans up to US$39 billion in 2026 capital spending. Its growth makes Canadian AI capacity possible, but also exposes what sovereignty must mean in pra…
- Canada Needs Better Data-Centre Water Disclosure
Matthew Leo · August 6, 2026Data-centre projects increasingly promise efficient cooling without disclosing enough about water sources, peak demand or drought plans. Canada should require t…
- Europe’s AI Factories Show Canada What Scale Looks Like
Matthew Leo · July 31, 2026Europe plans up to seven enormous AI-computing facilities with measurable capacity and deadlines. Canada’s sovereign-compute strategy needs the same specificity…
- Microsoft’s AI Spending “Cut” Is Mostly Accounting
Matthew Leo · July 30, 2026Microsoft reduced its reported 2026 capital-spending outlook, but longer lease accounting—not a retreat from AI infrastructure—explains much of the change.
- Mississauga Could Pause New AI Data Centres
Matthew Leo · July 27, 2026Mississauga will vote on a one-year pause for major data centres while it writes rules for power, water, noise and neighbourhood impacts before approving more p…