Oct, 2025 : Oracle Debuts OCI Zettascale10 Cloud AI Supercomputer
📅 - Oracle has unveiled Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Zettascale10, a new generation of AI supercomputing infrastructure that it calls the largest AI supercomputer in the cloud. The system connects hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs across multiple Oracle data centers to create multi-gigawatt superclusters capable of delivering up to 16 zettaFLOPS of peak performance.
OCI Zettascale10 forms the computational foundation of Stargate, the flagship supercluster built in collaboration with OpenAI in Abilene, Texas. The system represents a major leap in cloud-based AI performance, fusing Oracle's next-generation Acceleron RoCE networking architecture with NVIDIA's full-stack AI [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - SHARON AI Advances Sovereign AI in Australia with VAST Data - Australia's SHARON AI has announced a strategic partnership with VAST Data, the company behind the VAST AI Operating System, in a move designed to strengthen sovereign AI infrastructure and bring scalable inference capabilities to enterprise and government sectors. The collaboration aims to accelerate the country's progress toward advanced, locally hosted AI systems capable of handling reasoning, retrieval, and real-time analytics at massive scale.
At the center of the partnership is VAST's InsightEngine, an end-to-end ingestion, embedding, indexing, and retrieval platform built to handle both structured and unstructured data in real time.
The system enables organizations to continuously [...]
📅 - Connectbase Hits 400M Quotes Milestone in Connectivity Commerce - Digital platform for connectivity commerce, Connectbase, has reached a major milestone by processing over 400 million quotes through its Connected World Platform. The achievement underscores the company's growing role as the de facto operating system for digital connectivity transactions, as telecom and infrastructure providers move rapidly toward automation and data-driven decision-making across global networks.
This milestone highlights an accelerating trend in the telecom industry: the shift from traditional, manual quoting and procurement processes to fully digitized, real-time connectivity commerce.
Connectbase's platform serves as a unified digital marketplace where network [...]
📅 - Oracle Launches AmpereOne M A4 Instances for AI Efficiency - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is extending its partnership with chipmaker Ampere by announcing the upcoming launch of its A4 compute instances, powered by AmpereOne M, the latest generation of Arm-based processors. The move positions Oracle as the first major cloud provider to deliver general availability of AmpereOne M-based instances, marking another milestone in the evolution of energy-efficient, high-performance computing for the cloud and AI workloads.
The A4 instances are scheduled for general availability in November 2025, starting in Oracle's Ashburn (IAD), Phoenix (PHX), Frankfurt (FRA), and London (LHR) regions, with further global rollouts to follow. OCI's new offering [...]
📅 - Netherlands Invests €200 Million in Groningen AI Innovation Factory - The Netherlands has announced a €200 million investment to establish a national artificial intelligence (AI) factory in the city of Groningen, marking one of the country's most significant steps toward technological sovereignty and digital resilience. The initiative aims to reduce Europe's dependence on AI innovations from the United States and China by building local expertise, infrastructure, and computing capacity capable of powering next-generation industries.
The AI factory will serve as a high-performance innovation hub where researchers, startups, and public institutions collaborate to develop and deploy advanced AI solutions. Equipped with a supercomputer providing exceptional [...]
📅 - Cellnex Sells French Data Center Business to Vauban for €391M - One of Europe's leading telecommunications infrastructure operators, Cellnex, has agreed to sell its French data center subsidiary, Towerlink France, to Vauban Infrastructure Partners for €391 million. The transaction marks a key step in Cellnex's ongoing effort to streamline its portfolio and refocus on its core business of wireless communications infrastructure.
Towerlink France, founded in 2018, specializes in the development and management of edge data centers located across French urban hubs. These facilities provide low-latency, high-performance connectivity close to end users - a segment increasingly critical to supporting 5G deployment, AI workloads, and the growing volume of [...]
📅 - Broadcom Launches World’s First 800G Ethernet NIC for AI Workloads - Broadcom has unveiled Thor Ultra, a new high-performance Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC) that the company calls the industry's first 800G AI Ethernet NIC, designed specifically for large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) networking. By fully aligning with the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) specification, Thor Ultra sets out to provide an open, high-efficiency alternative to proprietary AI interconnects.
It would enable hyperscalers and enterprises to scale out massive AI clusters with greater flexibility, interoperability, and control.
With AI training workloads growing exponentially, data centers are under mounting pressure to connect thousands - and eventually hundreds of [...]
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