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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.
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📅 - 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. [...]
📅 - 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 [...]
📅 - 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 [...]
📅 - Munters Scores $90M+ U.S. Cooling Order as AI Demand Grows - Munters' data center cooling business has secured a major foothold in the U.S. colocation market with a new order valued at approximately 840 million SEK (over $90 million). The Swedish climate-control company announced that its Data Center Technologies (DCT) division will supply a suite of high-efficiency chillers and related services to a new, unnamed data center customer in the United States.
Deliveries are scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2026 and extend through the first quarter of 2027, with production handled at the company's recently expanded facility in Virginia.
The agreement, which will be booked in Munters' order intake for the fourth quarter of 2025, includes [...]
📅 - Kevlinx Data Centers Activates AI-Ready Brussels Facility - Kevlinx Data Centers, a newly established European data center operator specializing in high-density and AI-optimized digital infrastructure, has brought its 32MW flagship BRU01 facility in Brussels fully online, marking a significant expansion of next-generation data center capacity in one of Europe's most strategically important markets.
The company - backed by Macquarie Capital as lead investor and with Flemish investment company PMV and infrastructure fund EPICo² as majority investors - is positioning itself to support enterprises accelerating AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and mission-critical workloads amid rising demands for sovereign, sustainable infrastructure across [...]
📅 - Antin Buys NorthC to Expand European Data Center Portfolio - Antin Infrastructure Partners is set to make one of Europe's most significant data center acquisitions of the year, announcing that it will acquire NorthC Datacenters, a fast-growing enterprise colocation platform operating across the Netherlands, Germany, and Switzerland.
The deal, conducted through Antin's €10.2 billion Flagship Fund V, positions the private equity firm to deepen its footprint in digital infrastructure amid accelerating demand for high-quality colocation capacity and AI-ready facilities.
NorthC, headquartered in Amsterdam, has grown into one of Northwest Europe's most prominent regional colocation providers since its formation in 2019 through the merger of two Dutch [...]