AW Dev Rethought Radar | Nov 16 – 22, 2025

Your 5-minute tech digest — a turbulent internet, big cloud expansions, and Apple making strategic moves in India.

🔭 The Rethought Radar

• Cloudflare Outage Ripples Across the Internet (Nov 18)

  The week’s biggest shockwave came from a major Cloudflare outage that briefly took down portions of the internet — affecting ChatGPT, X, Spotify, Canva, Claude, and dozens more.

  Cloudflare confirmed the issue came from a bot-management subsystem crash triggered by a routine configuration update.

  The outage lasted roughly an hour, but highlighted once again how deeply the global internet relies on a handful of infrastructure companies.

• Google Announces $40 Billion Texas Data Center Expansion (Nov 18)

  In one of its largest infrastructure bets ever, Google committed $40 billion to build three major AI & cloud data centers across Texas.

  The expansion will serve next-gen Gemini AI workloads, cloud demand, and regional enterprise growth.

  Analysts note this as Google’s strongest signal yet toward US-based hyperscale AI infrastructure sovereignty.

• Apple Expands AppleCare+ in India With Theft & Loss Coverage (Nov 18)

  Apple announced upgraded AppleCare+ plans in India, now including Theft & Loss protection for iPhones.

  The coverage is available as:

  • Monthly subscription
  • Annual plan

  • Two-year bundle options

    This is Apple’s latest move to strengthen its India presence, aligning with its growing sales, retail expansion, and ecosystem push in the region.

• SAP & Capgemini Deepen AI Partnership for Europe (Nov 18)

  SAP and Capgemini announced an expanded alliance focused on “Sovereign AI” for Europe, targeting regulated sectors — healthcare, public services, manufacturing, and defense.

  The collaboration aims to help enterprises deploy:

  • EU-compliant AI
  • controlled data environments

  • industry-specific GenAI workflows

    Sovereign AI is emerging as a major 2026 theme as enterprises battle between cloud power and data governance.

🔐 Security & Outages

• Cloudflare’s bot-management crash highlights the fragility of modern web infrastructure.
• Providers across the globe are reviewing configuration-based blast radius controls after repeated multi-region incidents this month.

🏗 Industry Moves

• Google’s $40B Texas investment reignites America’s AI data center race.
• Apple strengthens its India insurance & service ecosystem.
• Europe pushes for sovereign AI as a counterweight to US hyperscalers.

🔭 Trend to Watch — “AI Infrastructure Sovereignty”

• This week makes one thing clear:
  • Countries and enterprises are no longer satisfied with outsourced AI compute.
  • Between Google’s US expansion, SAP’s sovereign stack, and Apple’s regional customization, the trend is unmistakable — AI infrastructure is going local, regulated, and resilient.

✍️ Closing Note

That’s your week, rethought ✨ — outages, billion-dollar infrastructure moves, regional expansions, and Europe’s AI sovereignty push shaping the next frontier.

See you next weekend with fresh signals from the tech cosmos.