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Upscale AI Lands $200M to Build Scale-Up Networks for AI Systems
📅 - Upscale AI has secured a major early-stage funding round as investors continue to bet on networking as one of the most critical constraints in scaling artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company announced it has raised $200 million in Series A financing.
The size and speed of the raise reflect a growing consensus across the AI infrastructure ecosystem that traditional data center networking is increasingly ill-suited to modern AI workloads.
The funding round was led by Tiger Global, Premji Invest, and Xora Innovation, with additional participation from Maverick Silicon, StepStone Group, Mayfield, Prosperity7 Ventures, Intel Capital, and Qualcomm Ventures. Including earlier [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Champions League Night Drives Record Global Internet Traffic - Global Internet traffic reached new highs in 2025 as streaming, AI workloads, and live events continued to reshape digital infrastructure demand. Data from DE-CIX shows record volumes across its global Internet Exchange platforms, peaking on 9 December 2025 during a busy UEFA Champions League matchday that drove unprecedented real-time traffic.
The most intense moment of the year occurred on 9 December 2025, a date that coincided with a particularly busy UEFA Champions League matchday featuring high-profile fixtures involving clubs such as FC Barcelona, Inter Milan, Liverpool FC, and Eintracht Frankfurt. At 20:11 CET, global throughput across DE-CIX platforms peaked at 26.99 terabits per [...]
📅 - PacketFabric, Massed Compute launch integrated GPUaaS model - PacketFabric and Massed Compute have unveiled what they describe as the industry's first fully integrated combination of GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) and Network-as-a-Service (NaaS), targeting enterprises seeking to operationalize artificial intelligence workloads without the traditional friction of piecing together infrastructure components.
The joint offering brings together on-demand GPU compute with programmable, high-performance networking in a single, production-ready platform designed to accelerate the path from AI experimentation to deployment.
Both PacketFabric and Massed Compute are portfolio companies of Digital Alpha, highlighting investor interest in infrastructure models that [...]
📅 - Switch Expands Las Vegas Footprint With $85M Land Acquisition - Switch has taken another step in expanding its data center footprint with the acquisition of a large parcel of land in Apex Industrial Park, an expansive but sparsely developed area in North Las Vegas. Property records show that the Las Vegas–based data center operator paid approximately $85.5 million for about 176 acres, with the transaction closing last month.
The acquisition adds to growing indications that Apex could emerge as a new hub for large-scale digital infrastructure in the region.
The land acquisition by Switch comes at a time when demand for data center capacity continues to surge, driven by cloud computing, artificial intelligence workloads, and the broader digitization of [...]
📅 - Data Centers Capture One-Fifth of Global Investment in 2025 - Global capital is flowing decisively toward data centers as AI and digital demand accelerate. New UN Trade and Development data shows data center projects accounted for nearly one-fifth of global greenfield foreign direct investment in 2025, underscoring their growing influence on where and how money is being deployed worldwide.
According to preliminary figures released on January 20, announced foreign direct investment into data center projects is expected to exceed $270 billion for the year. This surge means data centers represented close to one-fifth of the total value of all greenfield investments globally, placing the sector among the largest recipients of newly built, company-owned [...]
📅 - Schneider Electric Debuts 2.5MW CDU for AI Data Centers - Motivair by Schneider Electric has unveiled a new high-capacity coolant distribution unit aimed squarely at the growing demands of AI-driven data center infrastructure. The launch of the 2.5-megawatt MCDU-70 marks a significant step in liquid cooling technology as operators confront unprecedented heat densities driven by next-generation GPUs and large-scale AI deployments.
As AI factories and high-performance computing environments scale toward gigawatt-class power consumption, traditional air-cooling methods are increasingly unable to cope. GPUs used for AI training and inference can generate between 20 and 50 times more heat than conventional CPUs, pushing rack densities toward levels [...]
📅 - Railway Raises $100M as AI Strains Traditional Cloud - Startup Railway has raised $100 million in a Series B funding round as artificial intelligence accelerates software development and exposes growing limitations in traditional cloud infrastructure. The round was led by TQ Ventures, with participation from FPV Ventures, Redpoint, and Unusual Ventures, bringing Railway's total funding to a level that reflects increasing investor interest in alternatives to hyperscale cloud platforms.
The financing arrives at a pivotal moment for cloud computing. As AI tools dramatically increase the speed at which software is written, tested, and deployed, many development teams are struggling with cloud environments originally designed for slower, manually [...]
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