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Legrand Acquires Girtz as US Data Center Power Demand Rises
📅 - Legrand has acquired Girtz Industries, a U.S. maker of customized modular power integration systems, as data center operators look for faster ways to add backup and behind-the-meter power. The Indiana company brings roughly 300 employees and nearly $80 million in annual revenue to Legrand's expanding data center and energy transition portfolio in the United States.
The deal is small by hyperscale standards. Still, it points at a very real pressure point in the market.
Power architecture is becoming one of the defining constraints for data center development. Not just utility-scale power procurement. The on-site layer matters too: generators, modular electrical rooms, testing, [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Nokia Brings Agentic AI to IP Network Operations Platform - Nokia is adding an agentic AI framework to its Network Services Platform, giving telecom operators a controlled way to test AI-driven operations in live IP networks. The framework, due commercially by the end of 2026, starts with troubleshooting and is built around trusted network data, operator policies, and explainable actions rather than free-running automation claims.
The announcement lands in a market that wants autonomous networks but does not quite trust them yet. Not at scale. Not when a bad decision can break enterprise services, mobile backhaul, cloud connectivity, or wholesale IP routes across several domains.
Telecom operators already use automation. They also already [...]
📅 - QumulusAI Lands $124M for Blackwell AI Inference Cloud Deals - QumulusAI says it has signed more than $124 million in three-year GPU-as-a-service subscriptions, a midmarket AI infrastructure win tied to 1,280 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. The contracts, including nearly $21.9 million upfront, put fresh numbers around a less glamorous but increasingly decisive market: production inference, where cost per request matters as much as raw accelerator access globally now.
The company named Hyperbolic as one of the customers. The second was described only as another leading AI inference platform. That is not unusual in this part of the infrastructure market. It is also inconvenient, because customer concentration and contract quality matter when the assets [...]
📅 - US Data Center Tax Breaks At Risk as AI Strains Grids, Budgets - US State tax breaks that helped turn data centers into one of America's hottest infrastructure categories are coming under pressure as lawmakers question whether subsidies built for early cloud projects still make sense in an AI market consuming more power, land, water, and political goodwill than many communities expected when those incentives were written into law during cloud cycles.
The fight is no longer limited to one angry county board meeting or one proposed transmission corridor. It has moved into state budgets.
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has moved to halt data center tax breaks. Minnesota ended incentives last year. Washington State is set to let its program expire on July [...]
📅 - OpenText Invests €105M in Ireland to Expand AI Cloud in Europe - OpenText will invest €105 million in Ireland and create 400 jobs in Cork and Galway, expanding European work on agentic AI, cybersecurity, sovereign cloud and digital operations. The Canadian enterprise software group is using Ireland as a larger EMEA base as regulated customers demand more local control over AI systems, data governance and cloud resilience requirements now.
The investment is being supported by the Irish government through IDA Ireland. OpenText says it is the largest single investment in Ireland by a technology company headquartered in Canada. That is a useful diplomatic line. The more material question is why a data management and enterprise software company wants more [...]
📅 - AMD Commits £2B to UK AI Research and Innovation - AMD plans to invest up to £2 billion in the United Kingdom over five years, putting fresh corporate weight behind Britain's effort to secure more AI compute for research, public-sector innovation and sovereign infrastructure. The commitment spans universities, supercomputing projects and experimental inference networking, but the harder test is whether promised capacity becomes usable AI infrastructure at scale.
The announcement came at London Tech Week, with AMD chief executive Lisa Su tying the investment to the UK's AI strategy and its ambition to expand access to advanced computing. Government ministers welcomed the figure. They would. A £2 billion headline from a major chipmaker is [...]
📅 - AWS Brings AI Agent Into Cloud Cost Control Workflows - AWS is putting its FinOps Agent into public preview, adding an agentic AI layer that investigates cloud cost anomalies and answers engineers' spending questions inside Slack and Jira. The move reflects a shift in cloud financial management from monthly dashboard reviews toward continuous, event-driven cost control tied directly to engineering workflows across AWS accounts and workloads today.
The product is aimed at a familiar problem. Cloud bills still arrive faster than many organizations can explain them. Finance teams see the number. Engineers own the systems that created it. FinOps teams sit in between, trying to translate cost spikes into something actionable before the next review [...]