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Vantage Invests $2B to Build Hyperscale Data Center Campus in Virginia
📅 - Vantage Data Centers has announced a $2 billion investment to build a 192-megawatt hyperscale data center campus in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The development, known as VA4, marks the company's fourth campus in the Commonwealth and expands its total Virginia capacity to 782MW - a combined investment now nearing $8 billion across the state.
Situated in Stafford County, roughly an hour south of Vantage's existing campuses in Loudoun County's Data Center Alley, the new VA4 site will span 82 acres and feature three data centers totaling nearly 929,000 square feet. The project reflects the growing trend of hyperscale operators moving beyond Northern Virginia's dense, power-constrained corridors [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Fortinet Unveils Secure AI Data Center Solution for Scalable Protection - As a global leader in cybersecurity and network convergence, Fortinet's new system delivers advanced AI threat prevention with ultra-low latency while reducing power consumption by up to 69% compared to traditional approaches. The platform is engineered to secure every layer of the AI stack - from core data center infrastructure to applications and large language models (LLMs)
This announcement included the release of the FortiGate 3800G, a high-performance data center firewall from Fortinet that provides the scalability, throughput, and power efficiency needed for AI applications. The newest addition to the Fortinet data center firewall line, the 3800G is powered by NP7 and SP5 ASICs and [...]
84 providers were assessed using ClusterMAXTM 2.0 based on ten important factors, such as networking, storage, orchestration, and security. The quality of Gcore's AI-ready cloud architecture and high-performance GPU network across edge, hybrid, and sovereign deployments was validated by its Silver rating.
"Gcore's platform is robust and among the best purely self-service offerings for Kubernetes," SemiAnalysis noted. With PCI DSS certification and a global datacenter footprint, the console has all the enterprise perks. [...]
📅 - Megaport Buys Latitude.sh to Add Compute Services to Its NaaS - Megaport, a leading Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider, has announced its agreement to acquire Latitude.sh, a global Compute-as-a-Service (CaaS) company specializing in high-performance CPU and GPU infrastructure. The move will establish a fully integrated platform that combines private, high-speed networking with on-demand compute power - a convergence that aims to redefine how enterprises deploy, scale, and connect workloads worldwide.
While financial details were not disclosed, the deal represents a strategic alignment between network automation and high-performance computing. Upon completion, Megaport's global connectivity fabric will merge with Latitude.sh's rapidly scalable [...]
📅 - Anthropic to Invest $50 Billion in U.S. AI Data Centers - AI research company Anthropic has announced a sweeping $50 billion investment to build a new generation of AI data centers across the United States, beginning with large-scale facilities in New York and Texas. The project, developed in partnership with cloud infrastructure provider Fluidstack, marks one of the largest private infrastructure commitments in the emerging AI economy.
The facilities are designed to align with the U.S. AI Action Plan, a federal initiative aimed at bolstering domestic innovation, securing AI supply chains, and maintaining U.S. leadership in advanced computing. The significant investment by Anthropic comes amid a surge of large-scale data center spending by [...]
📅 - Flex Deploys Advanced Liquid Cooling System at Equinix Facility - At the Equinix Co-Innovation Facility (CIF) in Ashburn, Virginia, global manufacturing and technology solutions leader Flex has unveiled a next-generation rack-level liquid cooling system designed to address the surging power and thermal demands of AI and high-performance computing (HPC).
The installation marks a major step in Flex's collaboration with Equinix to develop and validate advanced cooling technologies for high-density workloads. The new system integrates JetCool's direct liquid cooling (DLC) technology - a Flex subsidiary known for its precision-engineered microconvective cooling systems - with Open Compute Project (OCP) ORv3 rack architecture.
Flex manufactures every [...]
📅 - 74% of IT Leaders Plan Budget Increases, Seek MSP Support in 2026 - 74% of IT leaders anticipate budget increases in 2026, according to statistics from the ‘2026 Data Infrastructure Survey Report' released by DataStrike, a pioneer in data infrastructure managed services. More than half, however, claim they still lack the internal resources necessary to spur innovation or swiftly resolve problems.
However, 60% of businesses now use MSPs to handle their data infrastructure, which is more than twice as many as DataStrike's ‘2025 Data Infrastructure Survey Report,' highlighting an increasing reliance on outside knowledge as teams deal with technical debt and modernization.
While cloud adoption has become commonplace, many organizations are struggling with [...]
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