Google's final report on the October 20 europe-west2 outage says a misconfigured controller kept backup generators from starting after a utility feed failed, cutting power to a London zone.
TrendForce says optical fiber spot prices are 2.8 to five times 2025 levels as AI data center demand creates a 180 million fiber-kilometer shortfall that could last until at least 2028.
Microsoft's third-generation in-house AI accelerator is built for inference and slated for production in 2027, with the company claiming 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems.
