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North American IT Distribution Hits Record $24.3B in Q4 2025
📅 - Sales through the IT distribution channel in North America reached a record $24.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025, representing a 6 percent year-over-year increase and the strongest quarterly performance ever recorded for the sector. The strong fourth quarter showing capped a broadly positive year for the North American IT distribution market.
The data, published by IDC in its North America Distribution Tracker powered by the Global Technology Distribution Council, points to a renewed cycle of enterprise infrastructure investment as organizations accelerate modernization initiatives, prepare for AI-driven workloads, and recalibrate long-term IT spending strategies.
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📅 - Lucend Raises $3.3M to Scale Transparent AI for Data Centers in U.S. - Lucend, a data center optimization company formerly known as Coolgradient, has raised $3.3 million in seed funding to expand its Transparent AI platform into the U.S. market, as operators worldwide grapple with rising energy costs, AI-driven capacity demand, and increasing scrutiny over sustainability.
The funding round underscores growing investor confidence in software-led efficiency solutions as data centers shift from a pure uptime focus to a dual mandate of reliability and resource optimization.
The round was led by Remarkable Ventures Climate, with participation from Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Fund, New Climate Ventures, Avesta, Stepchange, and continued backing from 4impact [...]
📅 - SpaceX Acquires xAI, Targeting Space-Based AI Data Centers - SpaceX has acquired Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, a move announced Monday that reshapes the private technology landscape and positions the combined entity as the world's most valuable private corporation. The deal, disclosed via a statement published on SpaceX's website, brings together Musk's rocket company and his fast-growing but capital-intensive AI venture.
Bloomberg News, which first reported the finalized merger, estimates the combined valuation at approximately $1.25 trillion. The acquisition comes amid growing global concerns over the sustainability, power consumption, and scalability of terrestrial AI infrastructure.
In his public message, Musk framed the [...]
📅 - Micron Breaks Ground on $24B Singapore NAND Fab - Micron Technology has broken ground on a major new wafer fabrication facility in Singapore, marking one of the company's largest long-term manufacturing investments to date. The Micron project represents a planned investment of approximately US$24 billion over the next decade and reflects the accelerating demand for advanced memory technologies driven by AI and data-centric workloads.
Construction of the facility has officially begun in Singapore's north, where Micron already operates a significant manufacturing and R&D footprint. Once completed, the new fab will ultimately provide around 700,000 square feet of cleanroom space and is designed as Singapore's first double-story wafer [...]
📅 - Johnson Controls Launches Thermal Guides for AI Data Centers - As demand for high-density compute infrastructure accelerates globally, Johnson Controls has introduced a new series of thermal management reference design guides aimed at supporting the next generation of gigawatt-scale AI data centers.
The company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, announced that the Reference Design Guide Series for 1-gigawatt AI data centers is intended to help operators and developers design facilities capable of handling extreme thermal loads while meeting rising expectations for energy efficiency, water conservation, and long-term scalability.
As artificial intelligence workloads continue to grow in size and complexity, data center infrastructure is being [...]
