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May, 2026 : KKR Taps Ex-AWS CEO For $10B AI Infrastructure Venture
📅 - Private equity giant KKR is assembling a new artificial intelligence infrastructure company with more than $10 billion already lined up, according to Bloomberg, placing former Amazon Web Services chief Adam Selipsky at the center of one of the industry's largest capital formations tied directly to hyperscale computing demand and the scramble for electricity, networking capacity, and data center construction worldwide.
The company, called Helix Digital Infrastructure, is being designed less like a conventional data center operator and more like an industrial supply chain for the AI era. People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg the business will build, own, and operate infrastructure [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Microsoft Kenya Data Center Plans Stall Amid Payment Fight - Microsoft's East Africa cloud expansion has slowed after talks with Kenya's government became tangled in disputes over financial guarantees tied to a planned hyperscale data center project. Bloomberg reported negotiations have dragged on for months, raising uncertainty around the future scale of the facility and exposing how difficult large infrastructure financing remains across emerging cloud markets for global technology providers today.
Microsoft's original pitch sounded straightforward enough. A $1 billion investment alongside UAE artificial intelligence company G42, a new Azure cloud region in East Africa, geothermal-powered operations, and a political rollout timed to coincide with [...]
📅 - OVHcloud Opens Auckland Local Zone For Sovereign Cloud - French cloud provider OVHcloud has opened its first Asia Pacific Local Zone in Auckland through a partnership with Datacentre220, extending low-latency public cloud services into New Zealand as sovereignty concerns reshape infrastructure decisions. The deployment gives regional organizations local data residency options while reducing latency for workloads previously dependent on Australian or broader international cloud infrastructure and connectivity routes.
For OVHcloud, the Auckland launch is less about entering another cloud market and more about positioning itself inside the growing debate around digital sovereignty, data locality, and infrastructure independence.
The company [...]
📅 - VMware Customers Discover No Easy Exit Strategy - VMware customers weighing an exit are running into a harder reality: the VMware replacement market is fragmented, migration risk is high, and no obvious successor has emerged. In a recent r/vmware discussion on Reddit, administrators compared moves to Hyper-V, Proxmox, Nutanix, OpenShift Virtualization, XCP-ng, CloudStack, KVM, and other stacks - with licensing, storage, support, and skills shaping most decisions.
The Reddit poll was not scientific. It had 57 upvotes and 180 comments. Still, it captured something vendors keep trying to simplify and buyers keep discovering the hard way: replacing VMware is not mainly about choosing a hypervisor.
It is about recreating years of operational [...]
📅 - Cloudflare Revenue Jumps 34% As AI Edge Strategy Expands - Cloudflare reported sharply higher quarterly revenue alongside a sweeping artificial intelligence restructuring plan, combining strong enterprise demand with a major operational overhaul that reflects how edge infrastructure providers are repositioning themselves for AI-era networking, cybersecurity, and distributed cloud delivery as businesses increasingly seek localized compute capacity, faster inference performance, and integrated traffic management closer to users and enterprise applications worldwide today.
Cloudflare entered 2026 with revenue climbing 34% year over year to $639.8 million, a figure that immediately reinforced how strongly enterprise demand for network infrastructure [...]
📅 - Datadog Revenue Climbs 32% As AI Cloud Demand Grows - Datadog raised its annual revenue outlook after reporting stronger-than-expected first-quarter growth, underscoring how generative AI adoption and expanding cloud infrastructure are reshaping enterprise spending priorities around observability, cybersecurity, and real-time operational monitoring across increasingly fragmented digital environments where businesses struggle to manage workloads, detect threats, and maintain application performance spanning multiple clouds, edge systems, and distributed networks globally today.
Datadog's quarterly numbers landed at a moment when enterprise infrastructure teams are quietly rewriting operational assumptions around cloud complexity. Revenue [...]
📅 - QTS Founder Starts New AI Infrastructure Company QII - Former QTS CEO Chad Williams is returning to the data center market with a new infrastructure company targeting gigawatt-scale AI campuses in emerging regions, signaling how rapidly artificial intelligence is reshaping not only where digital infrastructure gets built, but also how developers increasingly combine compute capacity, industrial power demand, manufacturing operations, and long-term energy planning into single integrated development strategies nationwide today.
The company, called QII - pronounced ‘Q-2' - arrives less than a year after Williams departed QTS, the hyperscale operator acquired by Blackstone in 2021. It is also notable that the QII logo carries a trademark [...]
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