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One of the Largest Planned Data Centers Died on a Notice Technicality
QTS has abandoned the 2,100-acre Prince William Digital Gateway, one of the largest data center campuses ever planned, after courts voided its rezoning.
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You Don’t Own Your .io or .ai. You Rent a Country’s Politics.
A ccTLD is a trusteeship, not property. Building a brand on .io, .ai, or .ly rents a foreign government's diplomatic status. The unpriced risk, explained.
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AI Agents Now Run Hosting Operations, Not Just Content. Pressable’s June Update Is the Tell.
Pressable's June MCP update lets AI agents run backups, SSL, WP-CLI and bulk operations across WordPress hosting, moving agents from content into infrastructure.
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The Hosting Industry Runs on Subscription Billing. Visa Made That More Expensive.
A quarter into Visa's April 2026 VAMP change, the "excessive disputes" threshold now sits at 150bps, a live margin cost for hosting's renewal model.
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AI Website Builders Are Now Part of Provisioning. A GoDaddy Outage Just Showed Why.
A minor GoDaddy Airo site-creation incident shows AI builders are now part of onboarding and provisioning, not just marketing.
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Hostinger’s Kodee: 91% VPS Resolution, 69% Reality. Here Is What the Data Actually Shows.
Hostinger gave its AI agent Kodee terminal access to customer VPS. Retention rose from 66% to 70%, and only 7% of conversations need a human.
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AI Was Supposed to Kill the Website. Bluehost Data Says the Opposite.
Bluehost's AI Confidence report: 34% of SMBs say their website matters more since AI, not less. Only 13% optimize for AI search.
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FERC Orders Six Grid Operators to Fix the Data-Center Queue
FERC gave six US grid operators 60 days to fix large-load interconnection; the queue, not the GPU, is the binding constraint on compute.
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The Affiliate Funnel Built Modern Hosting. AI Search Is Dismantling It.
The review-site funnel that built Bluehost and Hostinger is collapsing under AI search. What the affiliate breakdown means for hosting CAC.
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The File Nobody Watches: llms.txt Is the Hosting Industry’s Newest Attack Surface
Anyone can slip a fake support line or rogue download into a hosting firm's llms.txt, and AI agents repeat it as fact. Nothing on the domain is watching.
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