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Aug, 2026 : Saragon Debuts With $1B Backing, Ten U.S. AI Data Centers
📅 - Saragon has launched as a new U.S. data center operator with ten facilities, 53 megawatts of installed power, and up to $1 billion in backing from I Squared Capital. Built from assets acquired from Cogent Fiber, the company is targeting AI inference, edge colocation, and high-density workloads across nine major metropolitan markets in the United States today.
The starting footprint is meaningful because Saragon is not entering the market with renderings and a multi-year construction promise. It owns ten operating facilities totaling about 259,000 square feet across Chicago, Atlanta, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Baltimore, Houston, Nashville, and Stockton. I Squared acquired those [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Zayo Secures Fiber for 15,000 Miles of AI Network Expansion - Zayo has expanded a long-term fiber supply agreement with Corning, securing a major share of the optical cable needed for a 15,000-mile network expansion through 2030. The deal highlights a less visible constraint on AI infrastructure growth: operators are now locking in physical fiber supply years ahead as data center corridors demand more bandwidth across North America.
The arrangement matters less because Zayo has selected another equipment supplier and more because of what the commitment says about infrastructure planning. Fiber cable, permitting, construction crews and rights-of-way sit well outside the usual discussion around GPUs and megawatts, yet they determine whether new AI [...]
📅 - Cloudera Anywhere Cloud Targets Hybrid AI Across Enterprises - Cloudera has launched Anywhere Cloud, a hybrid data and AI platform designed to run across public clouds, sovereign infrastructure and private data centers while keeping governance under a single control plane. The product targets enterprises trying to operationalize AI without relocating sensitive data, adding modular services, standards-based interoperability and agentic automation across complex widely distributed environments worldwide.
The problem Cloudera is trying to address is familiar. Large companies rarely have their useful data sitting neatly inside one cloud. It is scattered across legacy data centers, multiple hyperscalers, regulated environments, newer sovereign [...]
📅 - Alibaba Cloud Adds Third Korean Data Center for Enterprise AI Workloads - Alibaba Cloud has opened a third data center in South Korea, expanding local capacity as enterprise demand for AI infrastructure, sovereign data handling, and lower-latency cloud services intensifies. The facility adds compute, storage, networking, security, database and container services, while extending Alibaba's broader AI infrastructure buildout across Asia and other international markets for enterprise customers and developers.
The expansion gives Korean organizations another local option for running cloud and AI workloads without sending every transaction across borders. That matters for latency-sensitive applications, disaster recovery designs and workloads subject to tighter data [...]
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