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DigitalOcean Secures Nine-Figure AI Cloud Commitments - 📅 - DigitalOcean says it has signed multiple nine-figure annual commitments for AI inference and cloud services, sharply expanding contracted revenue while adding 20 megawatts of future data center capacity, as competition increasingly shifts from securing GPUs alone toward locking in long-term infrastructure, software platforms and enterprise AI demand over the next several years globally.The commitments stand out less because of the headline dollar figures than because of what they do to DigitalOcean's forward visibility. The company says remaining performance obligations are expected to climb more than tenfold from the second quarter of fiscal 2025 to more than $800 million. Just as [...]
RETN Moves Half Its IP/MPLS Traffic Onto 400G ZR+ - 📅 - RETN says half of its IP/MPLS traffic now runs over 400G coherent ZR and ZR+ pluggable infrastructure, moving its IP-over-DWDM architecture from network upgrade project into live backbone economics as operators look for denser, lower-power ways to carry traffic across long-haul routes without adding more traditional transport complexity to already stretched infrastructure budgets in Europe and Asia.
For network buyers, this is not just another optical milestone. It suggests coherent pluggables are becoming operational infrastructure, not lab hardware or selective route optimization. RETN deployed hundreds of 400G coherent modules across its Pan-Eurasian backbone in 2025, covering links [...]
For network buyers, this is not just another optical milestone. It suggests coherent pluggables are becoming operational infrastructure, not lab hardware or selective route optimization. RETN deployed hundreds of 400G coherent modules across its Pan-Eurasian backbone in 2025, covering links [...]
Galaxy Delivers First 133MW Phase of Texas AI Data Center to CoreWeave - 📅 - Galaxy Digital has completed the first power phase at its Helios campus in West Texas, handing CoreWeave 133 megawatts of critical IT load under a 15-year lease and turning a former construction-heavy AI infrastructure project into a revenue-generating data center asset as power access becomes the scarce currency of hyperscale computing in America today for AI operators.
The numbers are large, but the sequencing matters more. Galaxy says Phase I delivered about 200 megawatts of gross power, with rent under the CoreWeave lease starting in the second quarter of 2026. That changes Helios from a land-and-power story into an operating asset. Investors tend to value those differently. So do [...]
The numbers are large, but the sequencing matters more. Galaxy says Phase I delivered about 200 megawatts of gross power, with rent under the CoreWeave lease starting in the second quarter of 2026. That changes Helios from a land-and-power story into an operating asset. Investors tend to value those differently. So do [...]
IBM Mainframe Hardware Moves Into Standard Colocation Racks - 📅 - IBM has widened its z17 and LinuxONE 5 portfolio with compact single-frame and rack-mount systems, aiming mainframe-class computing at data centers where floor space, power economics and specialist skills are becoming harder constraints, while giving enterprises a denser path for regulated workloads, AI inferencing, Linux consolidation and post-quantum security without abandoning existing infrastructure models already in place.The new configurations mark a notable change in how IBM wants its highest-end enterprise systems to be bought and installed. For decades, IBM Z meant a certain physical and operational posture: specialized, controlled, expensive, deeply integrated into the core of [...]
Amsterdam Approves Equinix Data Center Despite Power Limits - 📅 - Equinix has secured permission to build a large data center in Amsterdam-Zuidoost, despite the city's freeze on new facilities, with only one of four towers moving ahead as power constraints delay the full project and sharpen questions over grid capacity, drinking water use, housing plans and who gets priority in urban infrastructure through 2036 and possibly beyond.For Amsterdam, this is less a real estate story than an allocation fight. The city wants more homes in Amstel III, an old office and industrial zone being remade into a mixed residential and employment district. Thousands of apartments are planned. At the same time, a major American data center operator has a preexisting path [...]
QTS Drops Virginia Data Center Plan Despite Billions at Stake - 📅 - QTS has abandoned its proposed Digital Gateway data center development in Virginia, ending years of legal battles and community opposition despite securing local approval, in a setback that highlights how land use, permitting and public resistance are becoming as critical to AI infrastructure as power, fiber and available capital for future expansion projects.For years, the Digital Gateway proposal symbolized Virginia's complicated relationship with the industry that helped make the state the world's largest concentration of data centers. Now it represents something else. Even large operators with substantial financial backing are discovering that local acceptance has become another [...]
TeraWulf Signs $19B Anthropic Data Center Lease - 📅 - TeraWulf has signed a 20-year AI infrastructure lease with Anthropic expected to generate roughly $19 billion in contracted revenue while simultaneously selling its majority stake in a Texas joint venture, reshaping the company's capital strategy around wholly owned AI campuses rather than shared developments as infrastructure financing accelerates across hyperscale computing markets and customer demand.
Two announcements arrived together. They are connected.
One secures a long-term tenant with one of the world's highest-profile AI developers. The other exits a project before it reaches full maturity. Together they say something broader about where AI infrastructure economics appear to [...]
Two announcements arrived together. They are connected.
One secures a long-term tenant with one of the world's highest-profile AI developers. The other exits a project before it reaches full maturity. Together they say something broader about where AI infrastructure economics appear to [...]
Vancouver Startup Wafr Raises $100M for AI Data Cooling - 📅 - Vancouver-based startup Wafr Technologies has raised $100 million from private investors to develop cooling technology for AI data centers, as power-hungry compute sites strain electricity grids and water systems, while the company seeks another $200 million from public and private sources to move a thermal battery concept into commercial infrastructure deals with overseas partners already showing interest.
The Canadian company is working on what it describes as a thermal battery. The idea is simple enough to understand and hard enough to prove: store cooling capacity when grid power is cheaper, then release it when demand and pricing rise.
For AI data center operators, that could [...]
The Canadian company is working on what it describes as a thermal battery. The idea is simple enough to understand and hard enough to prove: store cooling capacity when grid power is cheaper, then release it when demand and pricing rise.
For AI data center operators, that could [...]
DianaHost expands hosting portfolio with WordPress, PNR, Ghost CMS and n8n VPS services - 📅 - DianaHost has updated its public hosting portfolio with a broader set of web hosting, cloud, application hosting and server options for businesses, developers, agencies and website owners in Bangladesh and international markets.The current DianaHost service catalog includes BDIX web hosting, premium web hosting, USA shared hosting, corporate hosting, cloud hosting, Windows ASP.NET hosting, WordPress BDIX hosting, PNR hosting for Python, Node.js and Ruby applications, Ghost CMS hosting, ...
SK Telecom Targets 15GW AI Data Center Capacity Across Korea - 📅 - SK Telecom said it will pursue up to 15GW of AI data center capacity in South Korea, starting with Ulsan and expanding across regional clusters, a staggering power target that places the carrier at the center of Korea's attempt to turn energy, memory chips and construction discipline into national AI infrastructure leverage from 2029 onward at scale.
For enterprise buyers, cloud operators and governments watching Asia's infrastructure map, the number is the story and also the problem. Fifteen gigawatts is not an ordinary data center expansion plan. It is power system language. Industrial policy language. It puts SKT's telecom roots in a different category, closer to national [...]
For enterprise buyers, cloud operators and governments watching Asia's infrastructure map, the number is the story and also the problem. Fifteen gigawatts is not an ordinary data center expansion plan. It is power system language. Industrial policy language. It puts SKT's telecom roots in a different category, closer to national [...]