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Armada Raises $230M to Industrialize U.S. AI Infrastructure
📅 - Armada raised $230 million at a $2 billion pre-money valuation and signed Johnson Controls to help build Galleon Forge One, a U.S. manufacturing site for modular AI data centers. The company is framing the deal as a way to accelerate deployment of the U.S. AI stack as customer demand rises across defense, energy, telecom and enterprise markets.
The financing was oversubscribed, co-led by Overmatch, BlackRock and 8090 Industries, and brings Armada's total funding to nearly half a billion dollars. Johnson Controls is not only part of the commercial agreement. It is also investing. That makes the announcement more than another AI infrastructure funding round, though there are plenty of [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - NVIDIA’s Record Quarter Shows AI’s Infrastructure Problem - NVIDIA's latest quarter confirms the AI infrastructure boom is still running hotter than almost any prior enterprise technology cycle, with revenue hitting $81.6 billion and data center sales reaching $75.2 billion. The harder question now is whether customers, power grids, suppliers, regulators and investors can absorb the scale NVIDIA says is only really beginning from here onward.
The numbers are almost difficult to compare with the usual semiconductor cycle. First quarter revenue rose 85% from a year earlier and 20% from the prior quarter. Data center revenue, now effectively the company's operating center of gravity, climbed 92% year over year. Under the old reporting format, compute [...]
📅 - DataBank Names Kevin Ooley CEO as Martynek Steps Up - DataBank will name President and CFO Kevin Ooley as its next chief executive, replacing Raul Martynek in January 2027 after a decade that transformed the company from a regional colocation operator into one of the largest privately held data center platforms in the United States through acquisitions and large-scale expansion.
Leadership changes in digital infrastructure companies often signal turbulence. Or private equity impatience. Or missed numbers hidden beneath carefully worded statements.
This one feels different.
DataBank is changing CEOs after years of unusually aggressive growth, during a period when the economics of data centers have become larger, riskier, and considerably [...]
📅 - Digital Realty Opens Barcelona Data Center Hub - Digital Realty has opened its first Barcelona data center, adding a new Mediterranean interconnection point as operators race to capture growing traffic flows between Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and transatlantic markets while enterprises increasingly seek lower-latency infrastructure closer to expanding AI and cloud workloads.
Barcelona's data center ambitions have moved unusually fast.
For years, Madrid absorbed most of Spain's digital infrastructure investment while Marseille dominated Mediterranean subsea cable gravity. Barcelona existed more as an emerging possibility - strategically located, politically complicated at times, but increasingly difficult for network [...]
Softaculous has introduced “Code with AI,” a new AI-powered development environment built directly into hosting control panels, allowing developers and businesses to manage, build, and improve websites without relying on disconnected third-party AI tools.
The platform integrates persistent AI workspaces directly into live hosting environments, enabling developers to work inside their actual projects rather than switching between terminals, editors, and external AI platforms.
Unlike traditional AI coding assistants that primarily generate snippets of code,
📅 - Netskope Integrates Claude Compliance API for AI Security - Netskope is tying its cloud security platform more tightly to Anthropic's Claude Enterprise, integrating with the Claude Compliance API to give customers visibility into AI usage, content movement, identities, API keys and policy violations. The move reflects a broader enterprise problem: AI adoption has outrun the controls many security teams were built to enforce internally.
The announcement is not just another connector in a security product catalog. It lands as companies are trying to convert generative AI from sanctioned experiment into operating infrastructure. Claude, according to Netskope's own AI Index, moved from 56.2% enterprise adoption in April 2025 to 94.9% in April 2026. [...]
📅 - OVHcloud Restructures Sales to Chase Sovereign AI Demand - OVHcloud is reorganizing its European commercial operation to chase demand for sovereign cloud, regulated AI and defense workloads, naming Bruno Ronsse chief revenue officer for corporate business and building country teams across key markets. The structure is due to be fully operational on September 1, 2026, with partners given a larger role in strategic accounts across Europe.
The move says something about where the European cloud market is headed. Not just more compute. More control. More procurement politics. More public-sector sensitivity around where data sits, who operates the infrastructure, and how AI systems are governed once they move beyond pilots.
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