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Top 5 Tech Trends to Watch in 2026 Show AI Driving Transformation
📅 - Capgemini has published its TechnoVision Top 5 Tech Trends to Watch in 2026, signaling which emerging technologies the firm believes will hit a decisive maturity point next year. While artificial intelligence continues to dominate enterprise roadmaps, Capgemini warns that 2026 will represent a turning point: AI will move out of the pilot phase and into the core of software architecture, cloud infrastructure, and operational systems.
Rather than treating AI as a bolt-on feature, organizations are expected to weave it deeply into business processes, data foundations, and platform design. The trends point to a broader shift in the enterprise agenda, where long-term resilience and measurable [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Equinix to Build €1.5B Data Center in Netherlands to Boost AI Capacity - Equinix is preparing to build one of the Netherlands' most significant new digital infrastructure projects with a €1.5 billion data center planned for the Flevokust Haven business park in Lelystad. The company expects the facility to support data workloads for roughly 100 organizations across government, healthcare, enterprise IT, and AI development.
An additional €5.5 billion in partner funding is tied to the broader project ecosystem, underscoring the scale of private-sector investment flowing into regional digital infrastructure.
A defining feature of the development is its power strategy. Despite requiring approximately 150 megawatts of electricity annually, Equinix says the new [...]
📅 - AMS-IX Exits U.S., Refocuses Global Interconnection Strategy - AMS-IX, one of the world's largest Internet Exchange operators, will discontinue its U.S. presence and close its Points-of-Presence in Chicago and the Bay Area by March 5, 2026. The decision marks a significant pivot in the organization's global connectivity strategy, signaling a move away from the highly competitive and mature U.S. interconnection market toward regions where the company believes it can deliver greater impact.
The internet exchange operator entered the U.S. in 2013 with the goal of introducing the European-style open and neutral interconnection model to American carriers, cloud providers and content networks. More than a decade later, AMS-IX says its contribution to the [...]
📅 - ABB Invests in OctaiPipe to Accelerate AI-Optimized Data Center Cooling - ABB has made a strategic investment in UK-based OctaiPipe, an AI specialist focused on optimizing data center cooling. The move underscores ABB's push into energy-efficient digital infrastructure as global data center power use climbs to record levels and operators face mounting pressure to cut emissions, manage rising costs, and comply with stricter regulations ahead.
The investment, made through ABB Motion Ventures, gives ABB a minority stake in OctaiPipe; financial terms were not disclosed and the agreement remains subject to customary closing conditions.
The collaboration arrives as global data center capacity is projected to grow between 19 and 22 percent annually through 2030, [...]
📅 - AOI Lands First Hyperscale Order for 800G Data Center Optics - Applied Optoelectronics (AOI), a U.S.-based supplier of optical and hybrid fiber-coax networking components for hyperscale cloud and broadband networks, has secured its first volume purchase order for 800-gigabit data center transceivers from a major hyperscale operator.
The order marks a significant commercial milestone in AOI's effort to position itself as a high-capacity supplier for next-generation AI data center infrastructure, where demand for high-bandwidth optics is accelerating rapidly.
The company said the new order aligns with internal production targets and supports its ambition to expand automated, high-volume manufacturing of 800G modules. AOI founder and CEO Dr. Thompson [...]
📅 - Redswitches Taps Asimo Networks to Power Dutch Expansion Strategy - Redswitches from Australia has selected Dutch connectivity specialist Asimo Networks to support its expansion into the Netherlands, marking a significant step in the bare-metal provider's global infrastructure strategy. The partnership enables Redswitches to establish a fully redundant, multi-PoP network environment designed to deliver greater autonomy, scalability, and resilience for its European operations.
The new deployment gives Redswitches full control over routing and traffic engineering through the use of its own autonomous system number (ASN), reducing dependency on external connectivity providers as demand for low-latency, high-performance compute continues to accelerate. [...]
📅 - Boom, Crusoe Forge AI Power Deal as Boom Secures $300M Round - Boom Supersonic is moving beyond aviation and into the booming AI infrastructure market. The company revealed more than $1.25 billion in backlog for its new Superpower natural-gas turbine - designed to power energy-hungry AI data centers - and named Crusoe as its launch customer. The announcement comes as Boom closes a fresh $300 million funding round.
Superpower is a 42-megawatt natural-gas turbine designed to supply high-density, reliable power to large-scale AI data centers. The turbine leverages the same high-temperature, high-performance core engineering that underpins Symphony, the bespoke engine being developed for Boom's Overture supersonic airliner.