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ABB Invests $200M in Europe Grid Manufacturing for Data Centers - 📅 - ABB is putting roughly $200 million into European medium-voltage manufacturing as grid operators, industrial groups, and data center developers search for faster access to power distribution equipment. The spending covers new and expanded capacity across six countries, with ABB pointing to electrification, renewable integration, and AI-era data center demand as forces straining already stretched electrical infrastructure supply chains.
The investment is not about another software layer for the grid. It is heavier than that. Switchgear, breakers, relays, vacuum interrupters, grid automation hardware. The pieces that decide whether power can actually move reliably through overloaded [...]
The investment is not about another software layer for the grid. It is heavier than that. Switchgear, breakers, relays, vacuum interrupters, grid automation hardware. The pieces that decide whether power can actually move reliably through overloaded [...]
InMotion Replaces Linux Memory Layer Across Hosting Fleet - 📅 - InMotion Hosting says it has quietly replaced a core Linux memory management component across its shared hosting infrastructure after tracing recurring MySQL instability to a lower-level systems issue affecting database memory behavior. The company deployed Google-developed TCMalloc fleet-wide, reporting sharply lower memory consumption and the apparent elimination of database crashes tied to runaway memory growth on heavily loaded shared hosting servers globally.For years, shared hosting customers experiencing intermittent slowdowns or unexplained outages were often told some variation of the same thing: MySQL was consuming too much memory. Sometimes WordPress plugins were blamed. [...]
Ericsson, KDDI Move Closer to Fully Autonomous Networks - 📅 - Ericsson and KDDI say they have completed a large-scale live network trial in Japan using AI software designed to automatically reduce uplink interference across 4G and 5G infrastructure. The companies tested the system across roughly 2,800 radio cells, reporting measurable uplink performance gains while also using the project to validate software interoperability and higher levels of network automation readiness in production environments.
Mobile operators have spent years automating isolated parts of radio networks. Most of it remained heavily supervised. Engineers still intervened frequently, particularly when optimization software touched live traffic conditions. Ericsson now appears [...]
Mobile operators have spent years automating isolated parts of radio networks. Most of it remained heavily supervised. Engineers still intervened frequently, particularly when optimization software touched live traffic conditions. Ericsson now appears [...]
Nscale Raises $790M for Expanding Norway AI Campus - 📅 - Nscale has lined up $790 million in fresh financing for its AI data center campus in Narvik, Norway, adding another layer to Europe's accelerating scramble for AI compute capacity. The package, backed by a consortium of Nordic and European banks, also includes a further $790 million expansion option tied to an additional 115MW buildout at the same site amid surging infrastructure demand globally.
The Narvik facility is becoming one of the larger AI infrastructure projects underway in Europe, at a time when hyperscalers, sovereign AI initiatives, and GPU cloud providers are all competing for access to power, cooling capacity, and politically stable locations.
Norway keeps appearing in [...]
The Narvik facility is becoming one of the larger AI infrastructure projects underway in Europe, at a time when hyperscalers, sovereign AI initiatives, and GPU cloud providers are all competing for access to power, cooling capacity, and politically stable locations.
Norway keeps appearing in [...]
QTS Founder Starts New AI Infrastructure Company QII - 📅 - Former QTS CEO Chad Williams is returning to the data center market with a new infrastructure company targeting gigawatt-scale AI campuses in emerging regions, signaling how rapidly artificial intelligence is reshaping not only where digital infrastructure gets built, but also how developers increasingly combine compute capacity, industrial power demand, manufacturing operations, and long-term energy planning into single integrated development strategies nationwide today.
The company, called QII - pronounced ‘Q-2' - arrives less than a year after Williams departed QTS, the hyperscale operator acquired by Blackstone in 2021.
It is also notable that the QII logo carries a trademark [...]
The company, called QII - pronounced ‘Q-2' - arrives less than a year after Williams departed QTS, the hyperscale operator acquired by Blackstone in 2021.
It is also notable that the QII logo carries a trademark [...]
Datadog Revenue Climbs 32% As AI Cloud Demand Grows - 📅 - Datadog raised its annual revenue outlook after reporting stronger-than-expected first-quarter growth, underscoring how generative AI adoption and expanding cloud infrastructure are reshaping enterprise spending priorities around observability, cybersecurity, and real-time operational monitoring across increasingly fragmented digital environments where businesses struggle to manage workloads, detect threats, and maintain application performance spanning multiple clouds, edge systems, and distributed networks globally today.
Datadog's quarterly numbers landed at a moment when enterprise infrastructure teams are quietly rewriting operational assumptions around cloud complexity. Revenue [...]
Datadog's quarterly numbers landed at a moment when enterprise infrastructure teams are quietly rewriting operational assumptions around cloud complexity. Revenue [...]
Cloudflare Revenue Jumps 34% As AI Edge Strategy Expands - 📅 - Cloudflare reported sharply higher quarterly revenue alongside a sweeping artificial intelligence restructuring plan, combining strong enterprise demand with a major operational overhaul that reflects how edge infrastructure providers are repositioning themselves for AI-era networking, cybersecurity, and distributed cloud delivery as businesses increasingly seek localized compute capacity, faster inference performance, and integrated traffic management closer to users and enterprise applications worldwide today.Cloudflare entered 2026 with revenue climbing 34% year over year to $639.8 million, a figure that immediately reinforced how strongly enterprise demand for network infrastructure [...]
KKR Taps Ex-AWS CEO For $10B AI Infrastructure Venture - 📅 - Private equity giant KKR is assembling a new artificial intelligence infrastructure company with more than $10 billion already lined up, according to Bloomberg, placing former Amazon Web Services chief Adam Selipsky at the center of one of the industry's largest capital formations tied directly to hyperscale computing demand and the scramble for electricity, networking capacity, and data center construction worldwide.
The company, called Helix Digital Infrastructure, is being designed less like a conventional data center operator and more like an industrial supply chain for the AI era. People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg the business will build, own, and operate infrastructure [...]
The company, called Helix Digital Infrastructure, is being designed less like a conventional data center operator and more like an industrial supply chain for the AI era. People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg the business will build, own, and operate infrastructure [...]
Microsoft Kenya Data Center Plans Stall Amid Payment Fight - 📅 - Microsoft's East Africa cloud expansion has slowed after talks with Kenya's government became tangled in disputes over financial guarantees tied to a planned hyperscale data center project. Bloomberg reported negotiations have dragged on for months, raising uncertainty around the future scale of the facility and exposing how difficult large infrastructure financing remains across emerging cloud markets for global technology providers today.
Microsoft's original pitch sounded straightforward enough. A $1 billion investment alongside UAE artificial intelligence company G42, a new Azure cloud region in East Africa, geothermal-powered operations, and a political rollout timed to coincide with [...]
Microsoft's original pitch sounded straightforward enough. A $1 billion investment alongside UAE artificial intelligence company G42, a new Azure cloud region in East Africa, geothermal-powered operations, and a political rollout timed to coincide with [...]
OVHcloud Opens Auckland Local Zone For Sovereign Cloud - 📅 - French cloud provider OVHcloud has opened its first Asia Pacific Local Zone in Auckland through a partnership with Datacentre220, extending low-latency public cloud services into New Zealand as sovereignty concerns reshape infrastructure decisions. The deployment gives regional organizations local data residency options while reducing latency for workloads previously dependent on Australian or broader international cloud infrastructure and connectivity routes.For OVHcloud, the Auckland launch is less about entering another cloud market and more about positioning itself inside the growing debate around digital sovereignty, data locality, and infrastructure independence.
The company [...]