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Hosting Is the Next Layer AI Will Transform – Vito Peleg, CEO of Atarim
Vito Peleg of Atarim on why he reads AI as the biggest opportunity hosting has had in fifteen years, how today's vibe coders mirror the server-in-the-bedroom generation that built today's hosting market, and why reactive agencies feel like a tax while proactive ones win.
Hetzner Has Now Raised Prices Three Times in 2026. This One Is Different.
Hetzner announced its third price move of 2026 on May 27, effective June 15. New orders only, portfolio standardised into -1/-2/-3 tiers, and a new Limited tier introduces hardware segmentation as a structural market shift. Other European hosts will face pressure to follow.
Cloudflare Called It AI Restructuring. Every Hosting Company Faces the Same Decision.
Cloudflare cut 1,100 employees (20% of headcount) on a $639.8M record revenue day and used a "builders, sellers, measurers" framework that maps directly onto hosting operations. Billing, support triage, and compliance are where AI closed the gap. The advantage goes to who acts first.
WordCamp Europe 2026: A Hosting Industry Guide to the Schedule
WordCamp Europe 2026 opens June 4 in Kraków with Contributor Day plus two conference days. The Inside WordPress 7.0 panel anchors Friday. Hosting-specific sessions cover stress testing, secure hosting, DDoS, and CERN's 800-site migration. Over a dozen hosting companies sponsor.
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Industry reports
Up to Half of US Data Centers Planned for 2026 Will Not Be Built on Time. Chinese Electrical Equipment Is the Constraint No One Planned For.
The AI deployment cycle runs 12 to 18 months. The transformer procurement cycle now runs 2.5 to 5 years. A campus announced in 2025 cannot be operational in 2026 or 2027 unless its transformers were on order before the announcement. Wood Mackenzie projects a 30 percent supply deficit for power transformers this year, with demand in 2026 running 21 percent above 2024 levels.
Mergers and acquisitions
$2.5 Billion Later, PDG Targets 1 GW in India. The Hosting Market Will Feel It.
PDG's latest acquisition of 210 MW across Mumbai and Hyderabad nearly doubles its planned India capacity and brings its total commitment to $2.5 billion since 2022. The business case rests on hyperscaler demand absorbing 1 GW of AI-ready wholesale capacity, and the hosting companies positioned for that outcome are the ones already in managed cloud and migration services, not shared hosting.