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KKR Backs GTR With $1.5B to Scale Europe’s AI Data Centers
📅 - KKR is doubling down on Europe's rapidly expanding data center market with a fresh $1.5 billion equity commitment to Global Technical Realty (GTR), reinforcing investor confidence in platforms designed to support hyperscale cloud and AI-driven workloads. Alongside KKR's expanded backing, Oak Hill Capital is joining the shareholder base with an approximately $400 million commitment, bringing an additional long-term investor focused on digital infrastructure scale and execution.
Founded in 2020 by data center entrepreneur Franek Sodzawiczny together with KKR, Global Technical Realty has quickly positioned itself as a built-to-suit specialist serving hyperscalers, cloud service providers, [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - OVHcloud Posts 6% Q1 Growth, Ramps Up AI Strategy - OVHcloud has opened fiscal year 2026 with steady momentum, reporting first-quarter revenue of €275.3 million and organic growth of 6.0%, reinforcing its position as Europe's largest cloud provider at a time of heightened scrutiny around data sovereignty, cost discipline, and AI infrastructure performance.
The French-headquartered group confirmed all of its full-year FY2026 financial targets, including positive levered free cash flow, signalling confidence in both demand trends and internal execution.
Growth in the quarter was largely driven by Public Cloud services, which expanded 15.8% on a like-for-like basis to €58.2 million, accounting for just over one-fifth of total revenue. The [...]
📅 - D-Wave to Acquire Quantum Circuits in $550M Quantum Deal - The quantum computing sector took a decisive step toward consolidation and technological convergence as D-Wave announced a definitive agreement to acquire Quantum Circuits in a transaction valued at $550 million. The transaction blends $300 million in D-Wave equity with $250 million in cash, underscoring industry pressure to commercialize scalable, fault-tolerant quantum systems for enterprise use.
The transaction brings together two historically distinct approaches to quantum computing. D-Wave has built its reputation as the leading commercial provider of quantum annealing systems, which are already used by customers for optimization and sampling problems. Quantum Circuits, by contrast, [...]
📅 - KAYTUS Completes 100-Cabinet Liquid-Cooled Facility - Up to 80% quicker than conventional deployment models, KAYTUS just finished delivering a 100-cabinet, high-density liquid-cooled AI data center in Europe in just four months. Professional performance testing and tuning resulted in a 20% improvement in overall system performance, allowing for on-site optimization and customisation to launch the firm with stability and high efficiency. In addition to meeting pressing deadlines for AI infrastructure, this expedited and reliable delivery offers a scalable blueprint for the deployment of high-density liquid-cooled clusters throughout Europe.
The client is a European infrastructure unicorn that provides networking, compute, and storage services [...]
📅 - Vertiv Sees AI Redefining Data Center Design and Operations - Global provider of critical digital infrastructure, Vertiv, is positioning artificial intelligence as a catalyst for a fundamental rethinking of how data centers are designed, built, and operated. In a newly released industry analysis, the company argues that AI-driven workloads, combined with mounting pressure on energy availability and deployment speed, are accelerating a shift toward more integrated, intelligent, and self-sufficient data center architectures.
The report, titled Vertiv Frontiers, reflects a broader industry consensus that the traditional assumptions underpinning data center design are being strained by the rapid rise of AI and high-performance computing. According to [...]
📅 - 15 Server Operating Systems to Consider in 2026 - The acceleration of cloud adoption, the operational realities of AI workloads, growing cybersecurity threats, and rising infrastructure costs have all elevated the role of the server OS in business architecture. For B2B technology leaders, choosing the right server operating system can determine not only performance and uptime, but also regulatory compliance, scalability, and long-term cost efficiency.
For B2B technology leaders, the right server operating system underpins performance, security, scalability, and regulatory compliance, while the wrong choice can lock businesses into inflexible architectures for years. So, which platform is best aligned with your business goals? Strategic [...]
📅 - Data Center Liquid Cooling Market Nears $7B by 2029 - As increasing accelerator thermal design power (TDP) and rack densities push air cooling beyond feasible bounds, liquid cooling has evolved from a niche technology to a fundamental necessity for implementing next-generation AI infrastructure.
"Liquid cooling has crossed a critical threshold," stated Dell'Oro Group Research Director Alex Cordovil. "What was formerly thought of as an optional efficiency boost is now a necessary component for extensive AI implementations. Single-phase direct liquid cooling has solidified its position as the predominant architecture for AI clusters, bolstered by hyperscaler experience and accelerating vendor investment, despite the liquid cooling landscape's [...]