📅 - Groq has raised $350 million in a Series A round led by Disruptive, with planned participation from NVIDIA, valuing the AI infrastructure company at $3.5 billion. The financing follows $650 million raised in June and will fund expansion of Groq's inference footprint, including plans to grow capacity from 54 megawatts to more than 200 megawatts in 2027.
The numbers put Groq firmly into infrastructure territory rather than simply software economics. It currently operates 13 data centers across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific, serving more than six million developers alongside Fortune 500 companies and thousands of AI-native businesses. The new capital is intended [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Fortinet Acquires Virtue AI to Expand Enterprise AI Security - Fortinet has acquired AI security startup Virtue AI, adding runtime protection, automated validation, agent governance, red teaming, and multimodal guardrails to its security portfolio. The deal extends Fortinet's coverage beyond networks, endpoints, clouds, and applications into models, prompts, tools, and autonomous agents, as enterprises confront a widening AI attack surface and growing compliance pressure in production environments.
Financial terms were not disclosed, and Fortinet said the consideration is immaterial to its business. The strategic value is easier to see. Enterprise security architectures were built around users, applications, devices, traffic, and infrastructure. AI [...]
📅 - Xpander Raises $7.5M to Expand Enterprise AI Agents Platform - Xpander has raised $7.5 million in seed funding to expand an enterprise AI platform designed to let companies build, deploy, and govern agents across models, clouds, and frameworks. The San Francisco startup is also introducing Omni, an AI agent aimed at accelerating production deployments, as enterprises struggle to move beyond pilots without adding infrastructure or governance headaches.
Pico Venture Partners led the round, with Emerge Ventures, Samsung Next, and SeedIL participating. The capital gives Xpander more room to chase a market crowded with startups, cloud providers, model companies, orchestration vendors, and security specialists all trying to become part of the enterprise [...]
📅 - WhiteFiber Plans 200 MW North Carolina Data Center Expansion - AI infrastructure solutions provider WhiteFiber has agreed to buy two industrial properties in Yadkin County, North Carolina, for $60 million, with plans to convert them into data center campuses targeting AI and high-performance computing demand. The sites could provide at least 60 MW initially and potentially about 200 MW over time, with first service targeted for the third quarter of 2027.
The acquisition, being made through wholly owned subsidiary Enovum Data Centers, gives WhiteFiber a relatively direct route to expanding capacity without beginning from bare land. NC-2 and NC-3, as the planned campuses are being called, sit roughly 55 miles from the company's existing NC-1 site in [...]
📅 - Equinix Signs Fourth Singapore Solar PPA With Flo Energy - Equinix has signed its fourth renewable power agreement in Singapore in two years, securing at least 11.5 MWp of rooftop solar capacity from Flo Energy with an option to expand to 50 MWp. The deal deepens Equinix's local renewable supply as Singapore's data center market confronts tight land, grid capacity, and rising electricity demand from AI infrastructure.
For Equinix, the agreement is less about one solar contract than the problem of expanding digital infrastructure in a city state where power has become a strategic constraint. The company expects its Singapore renewable energy portfolio to reach 215 MWp by 2028, with its agreements collectively generating about 250,000 MWh [...]
📅 - OVHcloud Raises Dedicated Server Prices as AI Drives DDR5 Costs Sixfold - OVHcloud is raising prices across parts of its dedicated server portfolio after the cost of DDR5 memory it buys increased sixfold in a year, a surge the French cloud provider attributes largely to AI demand. New orders are already affected, while existing customers on recent server generations will face higher renewal prices from October 1, 2026, too.
The increases are unusually large in places. New memory options are rising by a median 127%, while storage options increase by a median 89%. Individual RAM upgrades range from 68% to 652% higher, according to OVHcloud. Some complete server configurations are also moving sharply. Its Game Gen 2026 GAME-1 server, for example, has doubled from [...]
📅 - Flexential Lands $800M for 130 MW U.S. Data Center Expansion - Flexential has secured an $800 million credit facility to finance more than 130 MW of new data center capacity across four U.S. markets, expanding projects in Atlanta, Portland and Denver. The debt package was oversubscribed and increased from an initial $500 million target, underscoring continued lender appetite for digital infrastructure despite sectorwide construction, power and financing pressures.
The financing gives Flexential a committed pool of capital for projects moving from planning through construction, rather than forcing the operator to arrange separate funding as each development advances. That matters in a data center market where customers increasingly expect capacity [...]
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