1/ Introducing Filecoin Onchain Cloud: an open, verifiable cloud built on content-addressed data, transparent service delivery, and programmable payments.
All onchain. No vendor lock-in.
In May 2026, Google Cloud raised its peering egress rates.
For an enterprise running open-weight inference with 200TB on GCP, the monthly egress penalty jumped to $25,000-$30,000 overnight.
Filecoin pricing doesn't move when one vendor changes its terms.
UK data center grid connection requests now total roughly 50 gigawatts.
The country's entire peak national demand is only around 45 gigawatts. Some facilities face multi-year waits just to connect.
Filecoin providers deploy where power already exists. No queue required.
Electrical equipment is under 10% of a data center's cost, and the single biggest gate on timelines.
Transformers and grid-tie systems decide when a facility goes live, not chip supply.
Filecoin coordinates storage on capacity that's already powered and online.
🧵A law built for app stores got pointed at the cloud
TL;DR: Brussels is testing whether AWS and Azure count as DMA gatekeepers, a law built for app stores, not cloud.
Apple's case shows enforcement runs years. The rules in question already describe how Filecoin works today.
Every fine-tuning run leaves a trace. RLHF logs, checkpoints, alignment records.
AWS's cheapest cold tier stores them for $100-400/month, but retrieval takes hours and costs extra.
Filecoin charges zero egress. The archive is yours on demand, proof intact.
AWS and Azure offer "free" egress, but only to enterprises that fully exit the platform.
Stay multi-cloud, keep any workload behind, and the standard $0.09 per gigabyte transit fee stays active.
Filecoin charges zero egress. No exit interview required.
The European Commission's preliminary finding today:
AWS and Azure should be designated "gatekeepers" under the Digital Markets Act, citing lock-in effects and high switching costs that trap businesses inside one ecosystem.
Filecoin charges zero egress. No gatekeeper required
CoreWeave is collaborating with Conapto to build a new AI data center in Stockholm, powered by renewable energy.
Building one facility next to clean power takes years and significant capital.
Filecoin providers are already deployed wherever that power exists.
Global electricity demand is growing about 3% a year. Data center demand is growing 15 to 20%.
The gap between those two curves is where grid strain comes from.
The Filecoin network is already distributed across independent providers, not concentrated in any single facility.
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📅 Build period ends June 26
Make sure to submit your Filecoin-powered mini app before it's too late!
What you need:
- a working demo or prototype
- real interaction with the Filecoin
Everyone has been counting the chips and the megawatts.
We are now just starting to count the bytes.
AI is about to make the world want to keep everything it ever threw away, and that data has nowhere to go.
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Forrester Q2 2026 report confirms object storage has overtaken file systems as the primary data platform for AI.
NetApp just upgraded its systems for exabyte-scale namespaces.
Filecoin already operates at that scale, built as object storage from the start.