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NVIDIA Strikes $1.5B Deal to Lease Back 18,000 GPUs From Lambda
📅 - NVIDIA, the dominant force in AI hardware, has entered into a $1.5 billion agreement with cloud services provider Lambda that highlights the extraordinary demand for GPUs and the unconventional ways they are being sourced. According to reports, the deal will see NVIDIA lease back 18,000 of its own GPUs from Lambda over a four-year period, effectively making the chipmaker the cloud firm's largest customer.
The agreement reportedly consists of two components: a four-year lease for 10,000 GPUs valued at approximately $1.3 billion, followed by a $200 million arrangement covering an additional 8,000 processors, believed to be older or less advanced models. The hardware was originally purchased [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - LifeinCloud Grows EU IaaS Footprint With LumaDock And LumaBlast - LifeinCloud is a European IaaS and managed services provider that builds, owns, and operates its infrastructure. Headquarters are in London, with production regions in London and Frankfurt plus an owned and operated data center in Bucharest. The company is organized around a clear premise: measurable performance, provable sovereignty, and support delivered by the same engineers who run the platform. On this foundation sit two focused brands. LumaDock serves developers with fast, transparent VPS. LumaBlast serves gamers and communities with next generation game server hosting. The platform includes cloud servers for general workloads. Footprint, Sovereignty, And Why The Regions [...]
📅 - EchoStar To Sell $17B Spectrum To SpaceX For Starlink Expansion - EchoStar is preparing for one of the most significant spectrum transactions in recent years, announcing that it has reached a definitive agreement with SpaceX to sell its AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses for a package worth about $17 billion.
The deal, which is still subject to regulatory approval, will consist of up to $8.5 billion in cash and an equivalent amount in SpaceX stock, valued at the time of signing. In addition, SpaceX has agreed to fund roughly $2 billion in cash interest payments tied to EchoStar's debt through late 2027, a provision that underscores the scale and strategic nature of the agreement.
The move represents more than just a spectrum transfer. EchoStar and [...]
📅 - Hitachi Invests $1B in U.S. Grid Infrastructure to Power AI Data Centers - Hitachi Energy, a subsidiary of Hitachi, has announced more than $1 billion in new U.S. manufacturing investments to expand the nation's electrical grid infrastructure and meet soaring energy demand from AI-driven data centers. The plan, revealed on September 4, includes $457 million dedicated to building a new power transformer factory in South Boston, Virginia - the largest such facility in the United States.
The broader investment will expand existing Hitachi Energy operations nationwide and create thousands of jobs, bolstering domestic supply chains for critical grid equipment.
The announcement comes as the rapid growth of AI data centers intensifies strain on power networks. [...]
📅 - Varonis Acquires SlashNext to Expand AI-Powered Email Security Capabilities - Varonis Systems has announced the acquisition of SlashNext, an AI-native email security company known for its strong performance in detecting phishing and social engineering attacks. The deal positions Varonis to expand its footprint in the fast-growing email security market, which analysts expect to double in size from $5.2 billion in 2025 to $10.7 billion by 2032, driven largely by the increasing sophistication of AI-powered threats.
SlashNext was founded by Atif Mushtaq, who previously helped design FireEye's core malware sandbox technology. The company has built its security platform on predictive AI models that combine computer vision, natural language processing, and virtual [...]
📅 - DE-CIX Launches AI-Ready Internet Exchange for Global AI Workloads - DE-CIX, one of the world's most prominent Internet Exchange operators, has announced that its global ecosystem of exchanges is now "AI-ready" with the completion of the first phase of its AI Internet Exchange initiative, branded AI-IX. The project marks a strategic step for the Frankfurt-headquartered company as artificial intelligence adoption accelerates and enterprises seek infrastructure designed to support real-time inference and, soon, distributed training.
Phase one of the rollout establishes DE-CIX as a platform capable of handling the requirements of modern AI workloads. More than 50 AI-relevant networks are already connected, ranging from inference-as-a-service and [...]
📅 - DataCrunch Raises €55M to Build Europe’s First AI Cloud Hyperscaler - DataCrunch, a Helsinki-based high-performance AI infrastructure provider, has raised €55 million in Series A funding as it aims to become Europe's first AI cloud hyperscaler and reduce the continent's dependence on US tech giants. With the fresh capital, DataCrunch intends to grow its workforce, expand its infrastructure footprint, and enhance its service offerings.
The round was led by Finnish investors including Tesi, Skaala, and the Varma pension fund, joined by J12 Ventures and several angel investors. Debt financing was provided by Danske Bank, Norion Bank, Local Tapiola, Nordea, and Armada Credit Partners. With this latest raise, DataCrunch has secured €76.5 million in total funding [...]
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