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Hurricane Electric Adds Paducah, KY PoP at Quad State Internet - 📅 Jul 2, 2025 - Over 15 million end consumers across a 225-mile radius, including markets in and around St. Louis, MO, Indianapolis, IN, Chicago, IL, and Nashville, TN, can now access the internet directly thanks to Quad State Internet PAH1. Additionally, the facility offers colocation, wavelength access, and dark fiber to companies and organizations.

Hurricane Electric's first facility in Kentucky is this PoP. It will give next-generation IP connectivity services to businesses in the greater Paducah area with better fault tolerance, load balancing, and congestion control.

Hurricane Electric President Mike Leber expressed his excitement about the opportunity to increase access in Kentucky and the [...]

RETN Boosts Italian Network with Milan–Padua High-Speed Fiber Route - 📅 Jul 2, 2025 - Global network services provider RETN has unveiled a new fiber optic route connecting Milan and Padua, strengthening its national infrastructure and enhancing low-latency connectivity as part of its broader expansion strategy in Italy.

The newly launched 360-kilometer line integrates into RETN's 140,000-kilometer global network and is engineered for performance. According to the company, the Milan to Ponte San Pietro (Bergamo) segment is now the shortest and most optimized link available on the market—a key advantage for latency-sensitive sectors such as financial services.

The route is anchored by key Points of Presence at Milan's Caldera Campus and Padua's VSIX internet exchange, with [...]

Emerald AI Raises $24.5M to Power Grid-Responsive AI Data Centers - 📅 Jul 2, 2025 - Emerald AI, a new player in the intersection of artificial intelligence and energy infrastructure, has officially launched with $24.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by Radical Ventures and included NVentures, the venture capital arm of NVIDIA, alongside AMPLO, CRV, and Neotribe.

The launch is backed by high-profile individual investors such as Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, and AI pioneer Professor Fei-Fei Li.

Emerald AI enters the market at a pivotal time when the energy demands of AI-driven data centers are increasing at an unprecedented rate. According to projections, new data [...]

Gcore Powers Dune: Awakening’s LATAM Launch for Funcom - 📅 Jul 2, 2025 - Funcom's latest multiplayer survival game, Dune: Awakening, is enjoying a robust global rollout thanks in part to its technical partnership with edge infrastructure provider Gcore. The collaboration between the Norway-based game studio and the Luxembourg-headquartered technology firm is particularly notable in the Latin American (LATAM) region, where infrastructure limitations have historically hindered premium online gaming experiences.

Gcore, known for its edge AI, cloud, network, and cybersecurity solutions, has provided the foundational infrastructure for the LATAM deployment of Dune: Awakening. The game, which launched to impressive fanfare, quickly topped Steam's bestseller chart [...]

AWS Direct Connect Now Live at Digital Realty Athens Campus - 📅 Jul 1, 2025 - Amazon Web Services (AWS) has selected Digital Realty's Athens data center campus as the newest location for AWS Direct Connect, marking a significant step in enhancing cloud access in Southeast Europe. The addition of the on-ramp at Digital Realty's ATH3 facility enables enterprises in the region to establish low-latency, secure, and private connections to AWS's Mediterranean Region, bypassing the public internet entirely.

Digital Realty, a global provider of carrier-neutral data centers and interconnection solutions, is expanding its AWS connectivity footprint as demand grows for hybrid IT architectures. The Athens deployment joins 17 other AWS Direct Connect locations on Digital [...]

Direct-to-Chip Cooling Rises with Data Center Power Demands - 📅 Jul 1, 2025 - As data centers around the world adapt to the growing demands of artificial intelligence, edge computing, and environmental sustainability, direct-to-chip cooling is rapidly emerging as a critical enabler of next-generation digital infrastructure.

According to a new industry forecast covering the period from 2024 to 2031, the global direct-to-chip cooling market is set to grow from USD 1.24 billion to USD 2.13 billion, representing a robust compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.5%.

This projected expansion reflects the increasing importance of precision thermal management in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. With data-intensive workloads proliferating, traditional [...]

EdgeMode, BlackBerry AIF Form $140M AI Data Center Venture - 📅 Jul 1, 2025 - EdgeMode, a next-generation data infrastructure company focused on high-performance computing (HPC), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with BlackBerry AIF (BAIF), laying the foundation for a major merger aimed at accelerating the rollout of AI-ready data centers across Europe. The agreement marks a significant strategic move as both companies position themselves at the forefront of the rapidly expanding AI infrastructure sector.

The proposed transaction will see EdgeMode acquire 100% of BAIF's issued share capital. In return, BAIF shareholders will receive equity in EdgeMode, ultimately controlling 50% of the merged company. The combination of both firms' assets is expected [...]

Oracle Secures $30B Cloud Deal to Boost AI Infrastructure - 📅 Jul 1, 2025 - Oracle is intensifying its challenge to cloud market leaders by securing a landmark cloud services agreement projected to generate $30 billion in annual revenue starting in fiscal year 2028. The announcement marks a significant step in Oracle's broader effort to strengthen its position in AI-driven infrastructure and narrow the gap with dominant hyperscalers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

While Oracle did not disclose the client tied to the $30 billion commitment, analysts suggest it could be a hyperscale customer in the Asia-Pacific region - possibly ByteDance, OpenAI, or another organization of similar scale. If realized, this single [...]

PoliCloud Raises €7.5M for Sovereign Decentralized Cloud Expansion - 📅 Jul 1, 2025 - French decentralized cloud computing startup PoliCloud has raised €7.5 million in a seed funding round led by Global Ventures, marking a significant step forward in the firm's ambition to provide secure, sovereign cloud infrastructure alternatives to traditional hyperscale providers.

The Cannes-based company, founded in 2025 by entrepreneur David Gurlé, is positioning itself as a disruptor in the increasingly critical domain of edge computing and data sovereignty.

PoliCloud leverages custom-designed hardware and distributed computing software to operate micro data centers across local geographies, enabling organizations to access high-performance computing and encrypted storage without [...]

Hyperscalers to Hold 61% of Global Data Center Capacity by 2030 - 📅 Jun 30, 2025 - The global data center landscape is undergoing a significant transformation, with hyperscale operators rapidly consolidating their dominance in terms of capacity. According to the latest data from Synergy Research Group, hyperscale firms now control 44% of total global data center capacity, up from just over a third six years ago.

This shift marks a fundamental reconfiguration of the digital infrastructure landscape, with major implications for enterprises, colocation providers, and hardware vendors alike.

As of the end of Q1 2025, Synergy reports that 1,189 large-scale data centers are operated by hyperscale companies - massive cloud and internet firms that include global leaders in [...]