On October 1, 2026, John Ousterhout, Stanford professor emeritus, made the case for Homa, a message-based transport protocol whose p99 latency on short messages drops to 92 microseconds against 1.2 milliseconds for TCP over a 100 Gbps link. Evaluate it on the datacenter links where every millisecond idles a GPU, but price the adoption cost before replacing anything.
On September 9, 2026, Google announced €13 billion across 2027-2028 in four Finnish sites — Hamina, Kajaani, Muhos, and Vaala — its largest European investment, backed by nuclear and wind energy contracts. It is a signal about how Europe’s sovereign cloud capacity is concentrating around the Nordics.
Japanese cloud provider Sakura Internet, selected for the country’s Government Cloud program, said on August 19, 2026 that access to its sales management system may affect up to 1,360,563 member accounts. Customers should watch for targeted phishing and rotate credentials, even with no exfiltration confirmed.
