PsiQuantum Secures $1B to Build Fault-Tolerant Million-Qubit Computers
📅 - Quantum computing start-up PsiQuantum has secured $1 billion in fresh funding to accelerate its ambitious plan to build the world's first utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers. The Series E round, announced this week, values the company at $7 billion and represents one of the largest single investments to date in quantum technology.
PsiQuantum says the capital will be used to establish sites in Brisbane, Australia, and Chicago, where large-scale systems can be deployed and validated, while advancing the performance of its quantum photonic chips and its error-corrected architecture.
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📅 - Digital Realty Opens Innovation Lab for AI and Hybrid Cloud Testing - Digital Realty, one of the world's largest providers of cloud- and carrier-neutral data centers, has unveiled a new initiative designed to help enterprises experiment with artificial intelligence (AI) and hybrid cloud infrastructure in real-world conditions before going to market.
The company this week announced the launch of the Digital Realty Innovation Lab (DRIL), a dedicated environment within its Northern Virginia campus where partners and customers can test high-density workloads, validate AI deployments, and refine hybrid strategies without risking disruption to production systems.
The facility, situated in a live colocation data center, enables enterprises to bring their own [...]
📅 - IDC: Global Semiconductor Revenue to Hit $800B in 2025 on AI Demand - The global semiconductor industry is heading into another record year, with revenue projected to hit $800 billion in 2025, according to new data from International Data Corporation (IDC). That figure represents a 17.6% increase from the $680 billion forecast for 2024, itself a year of strong recovery with 22.4% growth after a period of contraction.
IDC attributes the expansion primarily to data center demand, particularly the surge in AI infrastructure, accelerated computing, and networking technologies.
The compute segment of the semiconductor market is expected to grow 36% year-over-year to $349 billion in 2025, driven by hyperscale AI workloads. IDC projects this segment to sustain a [...]
📅 - Supermicro Rolls Out NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra Systems for AI Factories - Supermicro has begun the global rollout of its NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra solutions, marking a significant milestone in the company's long-standing collaboration with NVIDIA. The announcement centers on the broad availability of Plug-and-Play (PnP)-ready NVIDIA HGX B300 systems and GB300 NVL72 racks, pre-engineered and validated at system, rack, and even full data center scale.
These turnkey solutions are targeted at enterprises building the next generation of AI factories, where massive computational performance and efficiency are critical to training, inference, and deployment of advanced artificial intelligence models.
Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro, highlighted the [...]
📅 - Rad Web Hosting Now Offering VPS Hosting in France - This expansion brings powerful, secure, and scalable VPS hosting closer to European clients, reinforcing the company's mission to deliver reliable cloud solutions worldwide.
The new France-based VPS hosting option offers businesses, developers, and entrepreneurs across Europe improved speed, lower latency, and compliance with regional data privacy standards. By adding this European data center location, Rad Web Hosting strengthens its global footprint and gives clients greater control over where their data is hosted. Meeting Growing Demand in Europe Over the past decade, Rad Web Hosting has built a reputation for delivering high-performance hosting backed by expert support. The move into [...]
📅 - EcoDataCenter Secures Additional EUR 600M Financing - EcoDataCenter has secured an additional EUR 600 million in debt financing from Deutsche Bank Private Credit and Infrastructure, marking another milestone in the company's push to expand its high-performance data center footprint across Europe.
The Swedish operator, which positions itself at the intersection of AI infrastructure and sustainable digital services, plans to channel the new capital into the ongoing development of its campuses in Falun and Borlänge. The move comes as demand for advanced computing capacity continues to surge, particularly for AI-driven workloads.
EcoDataCenter has Chief executive Peter Michelson described AI infrastructure as a "new base industry," underlining [...]
📅 - NVIDIA Secures $6.3B CoreWeave Deal to Lock Cloud Capacity - NVIDIA has reinforced its position in the global AI infrastructure market with a $6.3 billion agreement that deepens its partnership with CoreWeave, the New Jersey–based AI data center operator. Announced this week, the deal extends a 2023 contract and guarantees that NVIDIA will pay for any unused cloud capacity at CoreWeave's facilities until April 2032.
Even if CoreWeave cannot sell the excess to customers, NVIDIA will cover the costs, effectively creating a financial safety net.
Reuters reported that the new arrangement extends the original terms by seven years. The announcement immediately boosted CoreWeave's stock significantly, highlighting investor confidence in the company's [...]
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