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Databricks Raises $5B as AI Growth Tops 80%, Valuation Hits $190B
📅 - Databricks has raised $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation after its second-quarter revenue run-rate passed $7 billion, up more than 80% year over year. The private data and AI software company is using the new capital to deepen its database, agent and model-governance portfolio, while investors assign a sharply higher value to continued enterprise AI spending.
The valuation is the eye-catching number, but the more useful signal for enterprise technology buyers is where Databricks says the growth is occurring. Its Lakehouse data warehousing business has moved beyond a $1.5 billion revenue run-rate, up more than 100% year over year, while Lakebase, its serverless PostgreSQL database, has [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Anthropic Eyes $6 Billion Acquisition of AI Startup Decart - Anthropic is discussing a roughly $6 billion acquisition of Israeli AI startup Decart AI, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the private negotiations. The proposed deal, not yet finalized, would be Anthropic's largest known acquisition and could give the Claude developer software designed to extract more performance from expensive AI chips as computing demand rises across infrastructure.
The talks put a large price on something increasingly scarce in artificial intelligence: compute efficiency. Anthropic has committed tens of billions of dollars to data center capacity and costly accelerators while Claude usage expands, leaving infrastructure economics as much a constraint on [...]
📅 - How to Get Higher Network Availability Across Data Centers, Clouds, WANs - Enterprise network resilience is increasingly constrained by dependencies that sit below the services companies think they have made redundant. Buying two circuits, deploying two routers, or connecting to two cloud locations can still leave a critical application exposed to one fiber route, building entrance, interconnection facility, power system, or routing error. For infrastructure teams, high availability now depends less on counting backups than on proving failure-domain separation end to end.
That distinction matters as enterprise traffic spreads across private data centers, colocation sites, public clouds, SaaS platforms, and edge locations. The network is no longer simply a path [...]
📅 - New Subsea Cable Opens Syria Route to European Networks - Syria has signed a construction agreement for a new 240-kilometer subsea cable to Cyprus, advancing a rare international infrastructure project as the country rebuilds connectivity after years of isolation. UGARIT 2 is designed to launch with 31 Tbps of capacity, linking Tartous directly into European networks, while replacing an aging cable system dating from 1995 in service.
The construction and maintenance agreement brings together the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment, Cyprus Telecommunications Authority and U.S.-based UNIFI Communications. The planned system would contain 24 fiber pairs and, according to the consortium, eventually support up to 370 Tbps. Ready for Service is [...]
📅 - Ryanair Signs Five-Year Google Cloud and Enterprise AI Contract - Ryanair has signed a five-year agreement with Google Cloud to deploy cloud, collaboration and generative AI technology across 35,000 employees, adding a second hyperscaler to its technology stack. The airline plans to use Gemini Enterprise for operational decision-making and crew logistics while presenting the expanded dual-cloud architecture as additional protection against infrastructure disruption and concentration risk.
The agreement is more interesting for its architecture than its AI branding. Ryanair already has a long-term relationship with Amazon Web Services, retaining AWS cloud and AI technologies including Bedrock and AgentCore. Google Cloud now joins that environment rather [...]
📅 - NVIDIA and Nokia Back Indosat's Indonesian AI Factory Platform - Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison has launched Zankore, an AI infrastructure platform backed by Ooredoo Group and built with NVIDIA and Nokia, targeting one gigawatt of NVIDIA DSX AI Factory capacity. The first 200 megawatts are scheduled for the first half of 2027, positioning Indonesia as the initial market for a broader Asia-Pacific compute buildout for regional enterprise workloads.
The number that matters first is not one gigawatt. It is 200 megawatts. That is the capacity Zankore says it expects to deliver during the first half of 2027, using NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems. The much larger figure describes where the platform intends to go rather than what customers can buy today.
Still, 200 MW [...]
📅 - Malaysia Turns Palm Oil Into Data Center Cooling Fluid - Malaysia's palm oil research agency is positioning a palm-derived immersion fluid as a possible answer to the water and power demands of expanding data center infrastructure. Sawit EcoTherm replaces evaporative cooling with direct liquid immersion, targeting AI systems whose rising rack densities are forcing operators to reconsider how facilities remove heat from increasingly power-hungry computing equipment safely.
The Malaysian Palm Oil Board, or MPOB, developed the dielectric fluid using locally sourced palm-derived ingredients. Its argument is partly technical and partly national resource policy. Malaysia is attracting substantial data center development, while conventional cooling [...]
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