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Nokia Boosts US R&D with $4B Plan and Joins Open Compute Project
📅 - Nokia is expanding its presence in the United States with one of its most significant investment commitments in decades, announcing a $4 billion plan to boost domestic R&D and manufacturing for AI-driven networking technologies. In parallel with the U.S. investment announcement, Nokia revealed it has joined the Open Compute Project at the Platinum membership tier.
The planned investments, made in coordination with the Trump administration, signals the company's intent to play a central role in strengthening U.S.-based innovation across mobile, fixed access, IP, optical, and data center networking systems. At the same time, Nokia has elevated its industry collaboration by joining the Open [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - OVHcloud Launches 3-AZ Berlin Region to Boost EU Cloud Resilience - OVHcloud has expanded its European footprint with the launch of a new three-Availability Zone cloud region in Berlin, reinforcing Germany's position as a strategic hub for sovereign and resilient cloud infrastructure. The move makes Berlin the company's third European region built on a 3-AZ architecture, following earlier deployments in Paris and Milan.
It also signals the acceleration of OVHcloud's long-term plan to provide European public institutions and highly regulated industries with cloud capacity designed for autonomy, compliance, and high availability.
For OVHcloud, headquartered in France and among the world's largest cloud providers by footprint, the Berlin region is part of a [...]
📅 - Cologix’s MTL8 Among Canada’s First Colocation Sites with LEED Gold - Setting a new standard for sustainable colocation in North America, MTL8 is among the first colocation data centers in Canada to receive this esteemed green building distinction, showcasing Cologix's dedication to high-performance AI technology and environmental responsibility.
MTL8's accomplishments in important sustainability domains, such as energy efficiency, water conservation, materials utilization, and environmental impact reduction, are acknowledged by LEED Gold certification, one of the highest levels possible under the internationally acclaimed LEED framework. The accreditation, which was created by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and validated in Canada by the Canada [...]
📅 - OpenHands Raises $18.8M to Scale Enterprise Cloud Coding Agents - OpenHands, a rapidly growing open platform for cloud-based coding agents, has raised an $18.8 million Series A to accelerate its push toward enterprise-scale autonomous software development. The round was led by Madrona, with participation from Menlo Ventures, Obvious Ventures, Fujitsu Ventures, and Alumni Ventures.
The company also announced a strategic collaboration with AMD, signaling a move to optimize agent performance across open, enterprise-controlled environments rather than proprietary SaaS tools.
The investment highlights a rising demand for automation tools that go beyond IDE-based assistants and traditional AI code copilots. While many agentic development tools tie customers [...]
📅 - Cloudflare Buys Replicate to Build Unified Global AI Dev Platform - Cloudflare is expanding its role in the rapidly accelerating AI infrastructure market with an agreement to acquire Replicate, a developer-focused platform known for simplifying the deployment and operation of machine-learning models. The agreement would greatly advance Cloudflare's objective of establishing its Workers platform as a universal environment for creating full-stack AI apps without having developers to oversee underlying GPU technology.
Replicate has grown quickly by offering one of the industry's largest AI model catalogs - more than 50,000 production-ready models - along with tools that allow developers to run, fine-tune, and experiment with cutting-edge systems without [...]
📅 - OptiCool Teams with Intelisys to Broaden Two-Phase Cooling Adoption - OptiCool Technologies has taken a significant step in expanding its market reach by partnering with Intelisys, a ScanSource company and one of the largest technology services distributors in North America. The agreement brings OptiCool's two-phase liquid cooling systems into Intelisys' U.S. ecosystem of telecom agents, managed service providers, value-added resellers, and IT solution providers.
It would accelerate access to advanced cooling technologies as data centers confront unprecedented thermal pressures from AI and GPU-intensive workloads.
The collaboration strengthens OptiCool's channel-first strategy at a moment when operators are contending with rising rack densities, [...]
📅 - NetActuate Expands in Colombia with New Bogotá, Barranquilla PoPs - NetActuate is expanding its Latin American footprint with the launch of two new points of presence in Bogotá and Barranquilla, strengthening its position in one of South America's fastest-rising digital infrastructure markets. The company said the new sites will help enterprises and service providers deliver lower-latency services not only across Colombia but throughout the region, supporting growing demand for international connectivity, cloud access, and edge-optimized workloads.
The expansion arrives as Colombia gains global visibility as a connectivity hub. The country now hosts the highest number of subsea cable landings in Latin America and relies heavily on international traffic [...]