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WIOCC Group has secured $300 million in new investment from Africa Finance
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LITEON Technology is making a $176 million strategic move into one of AI infrastructure’s increasingly critical layers: liquid cooling. The
EdgeConneX has joined Singapore’s Sustainable Tropical Data Centre Testbed Phase 2.0 as a top-tier anchor partner, bringing its engineering expertise
NVIDIA is positioning itself as a much larger financial stakeholder in SoftBank-backed SB Energy, with its total commitment set to
California-based Cowboy Space is taking a step toward manufacturing hardware for its orbital AI infrastructure. The company has leased a
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52% of UK IT leaders cite rising power costs as top data centre concern. As rack densities rise from 8kW
Not owning GPUs has become the default, deliberate strategy for building an AI company — not a compromise founders accept
The AI compute race has a new bottleneck — and it isn’t GPUs. Nvidia will sell as many Blackwell racks
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Acquisition of EPC Power – 800V power conversion for AI data centres & grid applications
Acquisition of Utility Innovation Group – microgrid controls & behind-the-meter power ($1.45B cash + up to $1.15B earnout)
Six-year AI compute capacity lease, 460MW, Nvidia Vera Rubin chips – “Monarch” campus, West Virginia
Funding round – AI inference chip startup, valuation doubled in under a month to $21B
1.25GW AI data centre power infrastructure agreement – BESS + Caterpillar generators, Texas
“Project Eagle” campus expansion – 6 additional buildings (10 total), Wharton County, Texas
Singapore Banks Back STT GDC Acquisition Singapore’s three largest local banks are putting substantial financial weight behind one of the
WIOCC Group has secured $300 million in new investment from Africa Finance
TCS-backed HyperVault has secured 264 acres in Hyderabad, Telangana, to develop an
India is positioning its data centre industry for a potential investment wave
HUMAIN and DataVolt are moving a major piece of Saudi Arabia’s AI infrastructure strategy
CoreSite has expanded its Oracle Cloud connectivity footprint with a new OCI FastConnect on-ramp
Yotta Plans a 95,000-GPU AI Deployment Yotta Data Services is preparing a major expansion
OpenAI has secured warrants in power infrastructure company SB Energy valued at roughly $5.5
SLB is moving deeper into the physical infrastructure supporting the artificial intelligence boom with
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ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STTGDC) has completed its acquisition by a consortium led
Blue Owl Capital has committed $2.4 billion to help IREN accelerate its next phase
ESDS Puts AI Infrastructure at IPO Core ESDS Software Solution is taking a distinctly
OnZero Finland is taking a different approach to the growing energy burden of AI
Tersis Technologies has entered a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with Flux Core Data Systems
Reykjavík, Iceland, September 2nd, 2026 – atNorth, the leading Nordic high-density colocation and built-to-suit
Amazon Web Services is extending its physical infrastructure deeper into the Pacific with a
SLB is making one of its clearest moves yet into the data center economy,
Kyocera Ventures, the investment arm of Japan’s Kyocera Corporation, has made a strategic investment
Papua New Guinea has stepped onto the sovereign compute map with the launch of Kumul
A joint research effort out of Germany and Japan has produced a working prototype that
The AI upgrade question is becoming a replacement question A data center can be technically
OpenAI has secured warrants in power infrastructure company SB Energy valued at roughly $5.5 billion,
A compute contract can appear precise while leaving one important question surprisingly open. The buyer
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52% of UK IT leaders cite rising power costs as top data centre concern. As rack densities rise from 8kW
The next phase of data infrastructure will not be defined by how fast we build, but by how intelligently we
A compute contract can appear precise while leaving one important question surprisingly open. The buyer may know which accelerators, storage
LITEON Technology is making a $176 million strategic move into one of AI infrastructure’s increasingly critical layers: liquid cooling. The
Telecommunications infrastructure is entering a different investment cycle. Carrier capital spending and data center networking demand are now moving on
Artificial intelligence (AI) workloads are surging, environmental regulations are changing, and the continued use of traditional diesel backup generators is
A multiyear GPU commitment can look reassuring when an AI team needs predictable access to scarce infrastructure, yet the same
A piece of infrastructure can still operate correctly and become the wrong asset for the facility around it. That distinction
As AI accelerates infrastructure demand, power delivery is becoming the defining constraint of scale. The conversation around data infrastructure is