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Cloud Price Shock: Hetzner Announces Massive Price Hikes Up to 200% Amid Global Hardware Inflation The relentless inflation hitting the global technology hardware sector has officially breached the cloud computing market. Leading European cloud infrastructure provider Hetzner has announced a sweeping price restructure across its virtual private server (VPS) and cloud instances, signaling price hikes ranging from 30% to a staggering 200% , heavily dependent on regional data center deployment. The pricing adjustments vary drastically by tier and geographical location: Entry-Level Instances (Europe): The budget-friendly CX33 instance (4 vCPU cores, 8GB RAM, 80GB SSD storage) deployed in European regions will see its monthly rate climb from €6.49 to €8.49 , marking a baseline 30% increase . High-Tier Instances (United States): Conversely, North American deployments face the heaviest corrections. The compute-heavy CPX51 instance (16 vCPU cores, 32GB RAM, 360GB SSD storage) hosted in U....

Anthropic Scales for the Future: Multi-Gigawatt Google Cloud TPU Deal to Power Next-Gen Claude Models Anthropic has announced a major expansion of its partnership with Google Cloud , securing massive computational capacity to power the development of its next-generation Claude AI models. The agreement centers on the use of Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) , scaling up to a combined power capacity of several gigawatts . This infrastructure boost is designed to meet surging global demand and support the highly anticipated hardware expected to go live by 2027. The Broadcom Connection A key player in this infrastructure play is Broadcom , the primary chip manufacturer for Google’s custom TPUs. Broadcom confirmed its role in this expansion, noting that the total processing power it currently supports for its custom silicon clients has reached approximately 3.5 gigawatts . Explosive Revenue and Enterprise Adoption The scale of this expansion is driven by Anthropic's staggering fin...