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Mar, 2026 : Starcloud Raises $170M To Build AI Data Centers in Orbit
📅 - Starcloud has raised $170 million in a Series A at a $1.1 billion valuation, barely 17 months after its Y Combinator debut, to expand orbital AI data centers as terrestrial energy and permitting delays push compute demand beyond what ground-based infrastructure can realistically handle.
That valuation jump is the headline. It's also the easy part.
The harder question is whether putting GPUs in orbit solves anything at scale, or just moves the problem somewhere far more expensive to fix when things break. Because things will break.
Starcloud says it already proved the concept with its first satellite, launched in November 2025, which carried an NVIDIA H100 and ran AI workloads in orbit. [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Mistral AI Secures $830M Debt For Europe AI Data Center - Mistral AI has raised $830 million in debt to fund a new AI data center near Paris, betting heavily on owning its compute stack as European demand for sovereign AI infrastructure accelerates, with the facility set for Bruyères-le-Châtel and expected to come online by mid-2026 as GPU supply tightens and competition intensifies.
This is not a small move. It's the company's first debt financing, and it lands squarely in the most capital-intensive part of the AI race - infrastructure. Models get headlines. Compute pays the bills.
And now Mistral wants both.
The funding, backed by banks including BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, HSBC and MUFG, will bankroll the purchase of 13,800 GPUs from [...]
📅 - Cheap Tokens, Expensive Reality: AI Costs Still Climb - Gartner warns that by 2030, running inference on trillion-parameter AI models will cost over 90% less than in 2025, even as total enterprise spending on generative AI continues rising, driven by heavier workloads and agent-style systems consuming far more tokens per task across production environments than current deployments.
The headline number is seductive. Ninety percent cheaper sounds like a collapse in cost. It isn't. Not in any way that matters to enterprise buyers trying to budget AI at scale.
Because the denominator is moving faster than the numerator.
Gartner's analysts point to advances in silicon, infrastructure efficiency, and model design as the main drivers behind falling [...]
📅 - Euro-Office Takes Aim at Microsoft’s Grip on Europe - A coalition of European tech firms led by IONOS and Nextcloud unveiled Euro-Office in Berlin this week, a sovereign office suite aimed at Microsoft's dominance, with a tech preview already live and a summer release planned, as governments grow uneasy about reliance on US software vendors amid rising geopolitical tension.
The pitch lands with a certain impatience. Europe doesn't want another "alternative" office tool that breaks under pressure. It wants something that works, quietly, reliably, and without constant reminders that it isn't Microsoft. That's a high bar. Most efforts haven't cleared it.
The coalition itself is sprawling - EuroStack, XWiki, OpenProject, Soverin, Abilian, and [...]
📅 - China's DeepSeek Back Online After 13-Hour Outage And Failed Fix - DeepSeek suffered two consecutive outages starting late Sunday in China, leaving its chatbot offline for over 13 hours, the longest disruption since its January 2025 launch, as millions of users across Asia found themselves abruptly cut off from a service many now rely on daily for work, research, and routine tasks.
The incident began at 9:35 p.m. China Standard Time, when DeepSeek reported a bug affecting both web and app chat services. Engineers marked it resolved before midnight. That didn't hold. Less than an hour later, the system failed again.
Fix attempts stretched through the night.
Service wasn't fully restored until 10:33 a.m. Monday. No detailed explanation followed. That [...]
📅 - DigitalOcean Raises $800M Equity To Fund AI Capacity - DigitalOcean has raised roughly $800 million through a follow-on share offering priced at $77 per share, the company said this week, as it moves to pay down debt and expand data center capacity amid rising demand for AI workloads, with proceeds earmarked for infrastructure and balance sheet restructuring.
The company issued just over 10.3 million shares after filing a shelf registration, increasing its share count while bringing in fresh capital. That trade-off is clear. Less debt. More dilution.
Investors don't always like that equation.
But DigitalOcean isn't operating in a comfortable market. Cloud providers, even smaller ones, are being pulled into an expensive race around AI [...]
📅 - BlackRock Backs IQM With €50M Ahead of SPAC Market Test - IQM has secured a €50 million financing package from BlackRock-managed funds, handing the Finnish quantum hardware company fresh capital just before its planned merger with Real Asset Acquisition Corp. in the U.S. The timing matters more than the amount: IQM is trying to prove Europe can fund, build, and list a serious quantum player.
IQM, founded in 2018 and based in Finland, is pitching the deal as fuel for its technology roadmap, research effort, and push into more markets. That is the official line. The more interesting point is that the company locked in new financing before stepping into the glare of public markets through its proposed merger with RAAQ.
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