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Dec, 2025 : Expert Blog: Data Center Infrastructure in 2026
📅 - Author: Baron Fung, Dell'Oro GroupThe development of hyperscale AI infrastructure is about to reach a more developed stage. Hyperscalers are currently focused on effectively scaling AI computation and supporting infrastructure after years of fast regional development motivated by resilience, redundancy, and data sovereignty.
Despite historically high absolute investment levels, the cycle is becoming more and more characterized by execution risk and capital expenditure discipline as we into 2026. Accelerated Servers Drive Most Spending High-end accelerated server purchases increased significantly in 2025 and will be a major source of funding for AI infrastructure throughout 2026. Large AI [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - SK hynix Certifies 256GB DDR5 RDIMM for Intel Xeon 6 - SK hynix has reached a new milestone in enterprise memory by becoming the first semiconductor manufacturer to complete Intel's Data Center Certified process for a 256GB DDR5 RDIMM built on 32Gb die technology. The certification confirms that the high-capacity server memory module is fully validated for use with Intel's latest Xeon 6 processor platform, a combination increasingly targeted at AI-driven and data-intensive workloads in modern data centers.
The newly certified module is based on SK hynix's fifth-generation 10nm-class (1b) DRAM process and represents the industry's first Intel-validated 256GB DDR5 RDIMM using 32Gb dies. Certification was conducted at Intel's Advanced Data [...]
📅 - Lovable Raises $330M to Accelerate AI-Led Software Building - Lovable has raised $330 million in Series B funding at a reported valuation of $6.6 billion, underscoring growing investor confidence in a new class of AI-powered software development platforms designed to dramatically lower the barriers to building digital products.
The funding round was led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures' Anthology fund, with participation from a broad group of strategic and financial investors spanning enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, and venture capital.
New backers include NVentures, the venture arm of NVIDIA, alongside Salesforce Ventures, Databricks Ventures, T.Capital from Deutsche Telekom, Atlassian Ventures, and HubSpot Ventures. They join returning [...]
📅 - Canada Launches Quantum Champions Program to Scale QC - Canada has launched a new national initiative aimed at accelerating the development of fault-tolerant quantum computing, signaling a strategic effort to secure long-term technological sovereignty and curb the outflow of highly specialized talent.
The federal government has introduced Phase 1 of the Canadian Quantum Champions Program (CQCP), committing up to CAD 92 million as part of a broader CAD 334.3 million investment outlined in Budget 2025. The program is designed to help Canada translate its early leadership in quantum research into industrial-scale, commercially viable quantum computing capabilities.
The initiative comes at a time when global competition around quantum [...]
📅 - Netskope Expands in Southeast Asia with Malaysia Data Center - Global cybersecurity firm Netskope is accelerating its push into Southeast Asia as enterprises across the region grapple with tightening data sovereignty rules, rising cyber risk, and the operational realities of cloud-first IT. The U.S.-based cloud security firm launched its first Malaysia data center and expanded in Indonesia, highlighting the growing importance of local infrastructure and expertise.
The new data center, located in Kuala Lumpur, is now part of Netskope's proprietary NewEdge network, a global private infrastructure that underpins the company's secure access service edge, or SASE, platform. With this addition, NewEdge connects more than 120 data centers worldwide, [...]
📅 - Palo Alto, Google Cloud Deepen AI Security Partnership - As enterprises deploy AI across cloud environments, concerns around securing data, models, and infrastructure are drawing increased attention. Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership to address AI and cloud security requirements, combining infrastructure, AI services, and security platforms to support enterprise adoption at scale.
The two companies announced a landmark agreement designed to tightly integrate Palo Alto Networks' AI security platforms with Google Cloud's AI, networking, and infrastructure services. The goal is to give enterprises a secure foundation for building, deploying, and operating AI-driven applications across hybrid and multicloud [...]
📅 - Fortinet, Arista Launch Secure AI Data Center Blueprint - Fortinet and Arista Networks have moved to formalize a joint approach to securing and operating AI-focused data center infrastructure, unveiling a validated Secure AI Data Center solution that has already been deployed by semiconductor company Monolithic Power Systems (MPS).
The announcement reflects growing demand among enterprises for architectures that can support high-density AI workloads while addressing security, performance, and operational complexity at the same time.
As organizations race to deploy large-scale AI training and inference environments, traditional data center designs are struggling to keep pace. AI workloads introduce extreme east-west traffic, ultra-low latency [...]
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