South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI raised $620 million at a $2.9 billion valuation to scale inference processors built around power efficiency rather than raw compute.
Intel expects about $600M in lost revenue over two quarters from the Kiryat Gat accident, even as data center sales surged and supply stayed tight.
Samsung's third-quarter operating profit hit 107.44 trillion won as hyperscaler AI spending drove memory shortages, lifting chip earnings while squeezing its smartphone unit.
South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI raised $620 million at a $2.9 billion valuation to scale inference processors built around power efficiency rather than raw compute.
PreussenElektra and Nvidia have begun an open-ended review of whether decommissioned German nuclear plant sites could host AI data centers, with no investment decisions made.
Intel plans to acquire Israeli quantum software firm Classiq for $2.2 billion, aiming to pair hardware-agnostic tooling with its own spin-qubit manufacturing process.
EuroHPC JU and GRNET have inaugurated Daedalus, an HPE-built, H200-based system in Lavrion, installed in a converted power station with on-site solar.
Silk Cloud in Georgia and Fuse Energy in the UK have each announced B300-based GPU services, with very different timelines, disclosed scale and routes to securing power.
Google and Voltus will build a 1-gigawatt virtual power plant in the PJM region, expanding a 100 MW deal and paying others to cut demand as data center load grows.
At GTC Berlin, Nvidia pitched prefabricated AI data centers, power and water savings claims, and an agent security architecture, all of which are vendor figures awaiting independent validation.
Analyst forecasts from 650 Group, Dell'Oro and Gartner suggest the open-source network OS is gaining enterprise traction, driven largely by AI data center networking demands.
ASI, formerly Air Space Intelligence, raised $325M at a $3B valuation to extend scenario-simulation AI from aviation and defense deeper into energy grids and logistics.
Nvidia and Dell joined a $200M Series A for doubleAI, whose Maxwell model rewrites program binaries to cut hardware usage, with GPU purchases reportedly planned.
Tenstorrent raised $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation to scale Galaxy server production, fund RISC-V research and grow its workforce, pitching an open full-stack alternative to Nvidia GPUs.
A sponsored DCD opinion argues that unowned operational drift, from airflow gaps to idle servers and stale contracts, erodes efficiency more quietly than capital projects can restore it.
Vinci4D says a physics foundation model on a GPU-native kernel can give engineers solver-grade accuracy without slowing design work. The company has a $250 million Series B to expand.
Mueon, founded by two former Intel engineers, closed a $65M Series A to build Cubelet, a 3D server architecture that stacks compute and memory for AI and hyperscale use.
Australian neocloud Firmus has topped out the first of two 42MW data halls at its Launceston, Tasmania campus, while its Batam, Indonesia site has handed over its first data hall for GPU installation.
French infrastructure firm Sesterce plans a $10 billion AI data center campus on a former paper mill site in Jamsa, Finland, scaling from 200MW to 600MW.
Private equity firm Kohlberg has bought a majority stake in Advanced Industrial Devices, a maker of automation and control systems for data center, water and power infrastructure, from Black Bay Partners.
CoreWeave is partnering with AdaniConneX to build its first data centers in India, starting with 240 megawatts of AI cloud capacity at a Navi Mumbai campus.
Google has agreed to a 20-year nuclear PPA and a 15-year energy deal with Constellation totaling 3.6GW, funding nuclear plant upgrades and grid capacity across the PJM service area.
TeraWulf has secured an additional 500 MW of power for its Muskie Data Campus in eastern Kentucky, doubling contracted capacity to 1 GW and pulling forward delivery of the second phase.
Schneider Electric has signed a definitive agreement to buy industrial software maker PTC in an all-cash deal valuing PTC's equity at about $22.6 billion.
Nordic data center provider atNorth plans a new facility called FIN05 on a 28.6-hectare site in Salo, Finland, with an initial 75MW phase and a path to 230MW.
DayOne and Imari City announced plans for a 200MW data center campus in Saga Prefecture, Japan, expanding the operator's presence beyond Tokyo.
Corgi Insurance has launched a new insurance program covering data centers from construction through operations, including residual value protection for GPU hardware.
Skybox and Prologis have filed plans for an 846,300-square-foot data center that will be the largest building yet at their Hutto, Texas campus.
CX Tech has applied for planning permission for an eight-building, roughly 1GW data center campus on the site of Scotland's former Chapelcross nuclear power station.
JERA, Dell Technologies and Rhaelm Holdings plan to spend $15 billion on an AI data center built inside a Chiba thermal power station near Tokyo.
Enerflex has been awarded a contract to design and build about 450 megawatts of natural gas-fired generators for an unnamed North American data center developer.
Google sent a prototype satellite carrying four TPU chips into orbit aboard a SpaceX rocket, an early test of its longer-term bid to run AI data centers in space.
PJM Interconnection postponed its backstop power auction for data center demand after federal regulators only partly approved the plan, with FERC's chair calling the proposal a last-minute \"mess.\"
Developer Eagle Rock Partners wants to build an 800-acre, $6 billion AI data center campus in Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi, promising 200 permanent jobs while facing resident pushback over water, power and traffic.
Firefly Aerospace has signed Starcloud as a commercial customer to demonstrate data center capabilities in lunar orbit, with an AI computing payload flying aboard Firefly's Elytra spacecraft.
Phaidra will roll out its Prism AI platform across Aligned Data Centers' portfolio to give operations teams real-time facility intelligence and speed up incident response.
Six Samsung affiliates are putting a combined $1 billion into Helix Digital Infrastructure, the KKR-founded company building data centers and power infrastructure for the AI boom.
Israeli tech firm Foresight Autonomous has signed a non-binding term sheet to acquire a 50.01% controlling stake in a company developing two Polish data center projects with combined planned capacity of up to 270 MW.
Schneider Electric introduced what it calls the world's first fully software-defined medium voltage switchgear, already running in a live Equinix colocation data center.
Brightray Veridian has signed a framework agreement to supply prefabricated modules for a planned 40MW AI data center in Coloane, Macao, using a five-storey fully prefabricated design.
The US Department of Energy announced $5.25 billion for 31 transmission projects across 26 states, aiming to unlock 23 gigawatts of grid capacity as AI data centers push against power constraints.
VIRTUS Data Centres has secured a £2.45 billion bank financing package to fund new data centre capacity in the UK and Europe, including a green capex facility.
SoftBank Group issued $11.1 billion in dollar- and euro-denominated bonds, the largest high-yield bond sale on record by an Asia-Pacific issuer, to help fund its mounting investment in OpenAI.
Pacific Power has agreed to make new Oregon data centers cover the full cost of the power plants, batteries, and grid upgrades built to serve them, under the state's new POWER Act.
Zeo Energy and Ewyze have agreed to jointly develop off-grid microgrid power paired with data center infrastructure, aiming to bypass years-long grid interconnection queues.
WhiteFiber launched Continuum, a networking architecture that joins two data centers 83 kilometers apart into a single logical GPU supercluster.
Kodiak Gas Services will supply 76 MW of behind-the-meter natural gas power to a West Texas data center under a six-year agreement, its second long-term contract to power a data center.
Gov. Greg Abbott directed Texas regulators to stop issuing environmental permits for new data centers until state audits of their water and power use are complete.
New Era Energy & Digital signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with a Vistra affiliate to supply up to 207 MW to Phase 1 of its Texas Critical Data Center project in Midland.
ABB unveiled Infinitus, a direct-current power portfolio meant to help data centers keep up with AI chips that draw 1 MW per rack and beyond.
Hitachi and Mission Critical Group have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop power infrastructure solutions aimed at speeding up data center construction.
Russian gas giant Gazprom and cryptocurrency firm Crypto Energy are piloting a modular data center in Siberia, powered behind the meter by gas from a depleted field.
Quantica Infrastructure has started building access roads and a well at its nearly 8-square-mile Big Sky Campus near Broadview, Montana, with well drilling expected as early as the end of September.
Oracle has signed wind energy supply agreements across ten projects in Texas, expected to deliver more than 1.7GW of carbon-free power to support its Abilene data center campus.
AI infrastructure company Crusoe has raised a $3.9 billion Series F round at a $30.9 billion valuation to fund its data center projects and modular \"Spark\" AI factories.
Generac will supply backup generators for Amazon's AI data centers under a $2.4 billion agreement, with further purchases that could total as much as $8 billion and Amazon taking warrants for Generac stock.
Microsoft has applied to the US Army Corps of Engineers to build two data center buildings and an on-site substation on 123 acres in Prince William County, Virginia.
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