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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 [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - 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, [...]
📅 - 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 [...]
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 [...]
📅 - D-Wave Powers U.S. Defense with Davidson Quantum Partnership - D-Wave, a pioneer in quantum computing systems, software, and services, has achieved a significant milestone in national defense technology with the activation of its Advantage2 quantum computer at Davidson Technologies' headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama.
D-Wave's quantum system is now operational and marks one of the most advanced real-world deployments of quantum computing within the U.S. government's defense ecosystem.
The Advantage2 platform represents D-Wave's next generation of quantum annealing technology - a form of quantum computation designed for solving large-scale optimization and decision problems at unprecedented speed. The system will support sensitive defense and [...]
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