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Cisco Unveils Unified Edge Platform for Agentic AI Workloads - 📅 - By supplying the fundamental infrastructure required to handle both traditional and AI workloads, this is essential to bringing the AI vision to life.

Cisco claims that infrastructure limitations are causing more than half of today's AI pilots to stop, underscoring the urgent need for a new decentralized network design. 75% of enterprise data is expected to be generated and processed this year, making the edge the next frontier of artificial intelligence. Traditional data centers find it difficult to meet the demands of AI as workloads accelerate from centralized model training to real-time inference. With agentic AI inquiries producing up to 25 times as much network traffic as a [...]
Stream Data Centers Acquired by Apollo to Drive Hyperscale Growth - 📅 - The previously disclosed acquisition of a majority stake in Stream Data Centers, a top developer and operator of hyperscale data center campuses across the US, has been finalized by investor Apollo Funds. Principal Asset Management is using a Principal-managed fund to purchase a minority stake in SDC as part of the deal. The management group of SDC will keep a minority ownership and continue to run the business.

SDC, a crucial operational platform in Apollo's ecosystem, is well-positioned to scale development throughout its platform and carry out a 4+ gigawatt pipeline that serves the most advanced technology and artificial intelligence infrastructure users worldwide. For major [...]
Eaton Acquires Boyd Thermal for $9.5B to Boost AI Data Center Cooling - 📅 - Eaton, the U.S.-based intelligent power management company, has announced a major acquisition deal to purchase the Boyd Thermal division of Boyd Corporation from Goldman Sachs Asset Management for $9.5 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2026 pending regulatory approval.

This marks one of Eaton's largest deals to date and underscores the growing convergence between power management and thermal technologies in an era of surging global data center demand.

Boyd Thermal is a leading provider of advanced thermal management systems and ruggedized cooling solutions for data centers, aerospace, industrial, and defense applications. The division, headquartered [...]
Global Colocation Market to Skyrocket Past $330B by 2035 - 📅 - The global data center colocation market is entering a decade of unprecedented growth, driven by accelerating digital transformation, the rise of artificial intelligence, and mounting regulatory pressure for data sovereignty. According to new analysis from DC Market Insights, the market was valued at just under $32 billion in 2020 and is projected to reach $74.4 billion by 2025, before expanding more than fourfold to an estimated $332 billion by 2035.

The report identifies colocation as one of the most strategically important sectors underpinning the global digital economy, serving as the physical foundation for cloud computing, AI, edge applications, and the increasingly data-driven [...]
CrowdStrike Warns of Rising Cyber Threats Across Europe in 2025 - 📅 - CrowdStrike has published its 2025 European Threat Landscape Report, painting a stark picture of an increasingly aggressive and complex cyber environment across Europe. According to the CrowdStrike report, European organizations accounted for nearly 22 percent of all global ransomware and extortion victims over the past year, placing the continent second only to North America in total incidents.

The findings highlight the accelerating speed of attacks, the convergence of cybercrime and state-sponsored activity, and the growing commercialization of hacking tools and services across underground networks.

CrowdStrike's intelligence teams, which monitor over 265 named adversary groups [...]
The Hidden Price of Public Cloud Downtime: Every Minute Matters - 📅 - Millions of businesses worldwide rely on hyperscale cloud platforms to maintain the smooth operation of their systems, from e-commerce and finance to healthcare and government services. However, it is a dangerous misconception to believe that public cloud architecture ensures continuous availability. Outages can cause significant operational, financial, and reputational harm, and they do.

Downtime comes at a shocking cost. Even a single minute of interruption can cost big businesses thousands of dollars. The number might be in the millions each hour in sectors like banking, retail, or logistics. Only the obvious effects, such as lost transactions, idle workers, and interrupted activities, [...]
The Hidden Price of Public Cloud Downtime: Every Minute Matters - 📅 - Millions of businesses worldwide rely on hyperscale cloud platforms to maintain the smooth operation of their systems, from e-commerce and finance to healthcare and government services. However, it is a dangerous misconception to believe that public cloud architecture ensures continuous availability. Outages can cause significant operational, financial, and reputational harm, and they do.

Downtime comes at a shocking cost. Even a single minute of interruption can cost big businesses thousands of dollars. The number might be in the millions each hour in sectors like banking, retail, or logistics. Only the obvious effects, such as lost transactions, idle workers, and interrupted activities, [...]
CleanSpark Partners with Submer to Build Sustainable AI Data Centers - 📅 - CleanSpark, a U.S.-based Bitcoin miner and data center developer, has named Submer, a European leader in modular and liquid-cooled data center technology, as its first strategic partner for the company's expanding portfolio of AI-focused infrastructure projects across North America.

The partnership aims to combine CleanSpark's large-scale energy and site development capabilities with Submer's high-efficiency cooling and modular deployment systems to create a new class of sustainable, high-performance AI data centers.

The collaboration represents an early-stage framework agreement under which both companies will explore joint opportunities in AI infrastructure development. CleanSpark will [...]
VAST Data and Nscale Partner to Build Global AI Cloud Fabric - 📅 - VAST Data, the U.S.-based developer of the VAST AI Operating System, has entered a strategic partnership with European AI infrastructure company Nscale to build what both firms describe as one of the most advanced distributed AI cloud fabrics in the world.

The collaboration aims to integrate VAST's data management platform into Nscale's rapidly expanding GPU-powered cloud ecosystem, enabling enterprises to train, fine-tune, and deploy large-scale AI models across continents with improved speed, efficiency, and reliability.

The announcement comes as Nscale accelerates its growth across Europe and North America, with plans to scale its infrastructure to more than 300,000 NVIDIA Grace [...]
Equinix Expands Global Data Center Capacity Amid Strong Q3 Growth - 📅 - Data center services company Equinix reported strong third-quarter results for 2025, reflecting sustained growth in demand for cloud, AI, and interconnection capacity worldwide. The California-based company said it achieved record bookings and steady revenue growth while expanding capacity across key global metro markets.

It would underscore Equinix's continuing appetite for data processing and storage in an increasingly AI-driven economy.

The company's revenue for the quarter ending September 30, 2025, reached $2.316 billion, up 5% from the same period a year earlier. Operating income rose 12% to $474 million, representing a 20% margin. Equinix CEO Adaire Fox-Martin described the [...]