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AMS-IX Sets Traffic Records as AI Fuels Internet Growth - 📅 - AMS-IX ended 2025 with record traffic levels on its Amsterdam Internet Exchange, underlining the platform's continued importance as global demand for connectivity accelerates. The Ehandled 35.66 exabytes of data over the year, a 4 percent increase compared to 2024, as businesses and consumers relied more heavily on cloud services, streaming platforms, and AI-driven applications.

December marked the busiest month on record, with 3.21 exabytes of traffic, highlighting steady growth rather than short-term spikes.

The Amsterdam IX platform now connects 902 networks, including global content and technology companies, telecom operators, ISPs, and hundreds of regional and local networks. This [...]
nLighten Expands French Footprint With Paris Acquisition - 📅 - nLighten has expanded its European footprint with the acquisition of a data center facility in Émerainville, in the eastern Paris region, from MSP oXya. The transaction, announced this week in Paris, strengthens nLighten's presence in one of Europe's most strategically important digital infrastructure hubs and reflects growing enterprise demand for regional, sustainable, and AI-ready data center capacity.

The newly acquired Émerainville site becomes nLighten's eighth facility in France and adds to a portfolio of more than 30 data centers across seven European markets. Located in Paris's eastern data center cluster, the facility sits roughly one kilometer from nLighten's existing PAR1 [...]
Study: 70% of Leaders Lose Sleep Over Data Security - 📅 - New research commissioned by Arelion shows corporate data security has overtaken all other priorities for enterprise network leaders as data flows span borders, clouds, and third-party networks. The study finds 70 percent of senior decision-makers in the US, UK, Germany, and France lose sleep over protecting critical data.

The Arelion study indicates that corporate data security has become the dominant concern for enterprise network leaders, with anxiety levels rising as data increasingly moves across borders, clouds, and third-party infrastructures

According to the report, 70 percent of senior decision-makers across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France say concerns [...]
Nautilus Secures Series B to Scale Its AI Liquid Cooling - 📅 - Nautilus Data Technologies has closed a strategic Series B financing round to accelerate the global expansion of its facility-scale liquid cooling platform, a move that reflects intensifying demand for AI-ready data center infrastructure. The company says the investment will also advance its expansion across the United States and Europe, while supporting its pursuit of NVIDIA DA-12515 certification.

The round was led by Pangaea Ventures and will support manufacturing scale-up, order fulfillment, go-to-market expansion, and continued product innovation as data center operators race to deploy higher-density compute environments.

The fresh capital arrives as artificial intelligence and [...]
Serverfarm Secures $3B to Accelerate U.S. Hyperscale AI Campuses - 📅 - Serverfarm has secured a $3.0 billion credit facility to accelerate the development of hyperscale, AI-ready data center campuses across North America, underscoring the growing financial and operational momentum behind next-generation digital infrastructure.

The facility, which closed in December 2025, is backed by a syndicate of 23 institutional lenders and is designed to support rapid construction timelines for large-scale deployments demanded by cloud providers and artificial intelligence innovators.

The financing provides Serverfarm with the capital flexibility to advance multiple high-capacity projects simultaneously, at a time when enterprise and hyperscale customers are competing [...]
OpenNebula Debuts on OVHcloud for Sovereign Cloud - 📅 - OpenNebula Systems and OVHcloud have formalized a collaboration that places European digital sovereignty at the center of enterprise cloud strategy. Through OVHcloud's participation in the Hosted OpenNebula Cloud – Ready Certification Program, organizations can now deploy fully sovereign cloud instances powered by OpenNebula on certified European infrastructure, combining regulatory compliance with enterprise-grade performance.

The move comes as European enterprises and public institutions reassess their dependency on non-European hyperscalers amid tightening data protection requirements and rising geopolitical risk.

OVHcloud operates more than 500,000 servers across 46 data centers on [...]
US Signal Acquires New Data Center in Aurora, Illinois - 📅 - US Signal, a U.S.-based provider of network, data center, and cloud infrastructure, has expanded its national footprint with the acquisition of a new data center facility in Aurora, Illinois. The move, announced this week, underscores the company's ongoing strategy to build a distributed, edge-focused data center platform that brings infrastructure closer to customers while remaining tightly integrated with a national backbone.

The Aurora site would strengthen US Signal's presence in the greater Chicago metropolitan area, one of the largest and most competitive enterprise technology markets in North America, and responds to sustained demand for local colocation, cloud, and connectivity [...]
Managed Hosting Firm 20i Debuts Embedded Hosting Assistant - 📅 - UK-based managed hosting provider 20i has launched Twentie, a new embedded personal assistant designed to support everyday web hosting operations through unlimited, in-platform analytics and reporting. The tool is now available to customers across the 20i platform, which currently hosts more than one million websites for SMEs, digital agencies, and individual users.

Twentie is positioned as an account-aware assistant rather than a standalone productivity tool. By operating directly inside the hosting platform, it has access to live account data, configuration details, and performance metrics. This enables the assistant to generate insights and reports that are specific to a customer's [...]
Abstract Security, Netskope Bring Real-Time Stream Threat Detection - 📅 - Streaming security analytics provider Abstract Security now partners with cloud security firm Netskope to enable joint customers to detect threats directly within live security data streams, reducing reliance on traditional log indexing workflows. The collaboration targets organizations operating cloud-first and hybrid environments that struggle with growing security data volumes, rising storage costs, and delayed threat detection.

The integration focuses on Netskope One telemetry generated across security service edge (SSE) environments. By ingesting high-fidelity Netskope data directly into Abstract Security's streaming-first analytics pipeline, customers can analyze, enrich, and route [...]
Funding Concerns Mount Over Oracle’s AI Data Center Expansion - 📅 - Investment bank TD Cowen has warned that Oracle may need to take drastic steps to address growing concerns around its ability to finance one of the largest data center expansion programs in the technology sector. According to a recent TD Cowen research note, Oracle could seek to ease funding pressure by laying off as many as 30,000 employees and potentially divesting its health technology unit Cerner.

The warning comes as Oracle pushes forward with a massive data center construction program tied to a reported $300 billion, five-year infrastructure commitment to OpenAI, alongside additional builds for Meta and NVIDIA.

TD Cowen estimates Oracle's total infrastructure obligations across [...]