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October 05, 2026
Posted by: Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
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The Abu Dhabi government is partnering with Microsoft and Core42 for AI infrastructure and a sovereign cloud offering in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Both companies aim to establish a sovereign cloud computing environment capable of processing more than 11 million digital interactions daily...
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Core Capital Investments has launched an AI cloud platform dubbed Cartagon.ai with an initial funding of more than €30 million ($32.7m). The AI platform will be part of Cartagon, a cloud and IT service provider in Spain and Portugal and "managed vehicle" of Core Capital Partners“Cartagon.ai re...
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Cathedra Bitcoin, a Vancouver-based developer and operator of crypto mining and data center infrastructure, has announced the sale of a 60MW Bitcoin mining facility in North Dakota to an unnamed third-party Bitcoin miner for a fee of $21 million. The company intends to use the funds to “develo...
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Optical interconnect company Celestial AI has closed a $250 million Series C1 funding round which was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and saw participation from existing investors AMD Ventures and Koch Disruptive Technologies, and new investors BlackRock, Maverick Silicon, an...
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The University of Virginia is looking to get a new data center which would be used for research purpose. If approved, the data center would have an initial 4MW of IT capacity and see $72 million of investment. This could be expanded to 16MW in the future.According to the university's vice pres...
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Modular data center firm Ecoblox and chip designer Tenstorrent have signed an agreement to help expand their AI and high performance computing (HPC) offerings in the Middle East and Africa. Both companies will work together to bring AI and HPC compute capacity to the Middle East/Africa region,...
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Digital Realty this week announced it would host a quantum system for SURF at the AMS17 facility in Amsterdam’s Science Park. The quantum computer will be deployed by SURF directly next to its existing national supercomputer, Snellius."We’re excited to partner with SURF to bring this pioneerin...
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OpenAI has agreed an $11.9 billion deal to buy services from CoreWeave, which will see it take an equity stake in the AI cloud provider. This deal comes just before CoreWeave’s stock market debut, which is expected to happen in the next few weeks via an IPO. It will see OpenAI receive CoreWeav...
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xAI has bought a 1 million sq ft (92,905 sqm) site for a new data center in Memphis, as Elon Musk’s startup looks to expand its Colossus supercomputer. The company has purchased three parcels of land at 5400 Tulane Road, Whitehaven, through an affiliate company CTC Properties. It acquired an e...
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Saigon Asset Management (SAM) has announced plans for the SAM DigitalHub, outside of Hanoi, Vietnam. The campus is located at the Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP), a joint venture between Vietnam’s Becamex IDC Corporation and a Singaporean consortium led by Sembcorp Development. “The t...
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Microsoft has committed to investing ZAR 5.4 billion ($298.6m) in cloud and AI infrastructure in South Africa by 2027. Microsoft has already invested ZAR 20.4 billion in infrastructure in South Africa over the past three years to establish data centers in Johannesburg and Cape Town.South Afric...
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AI infrastructure company Nebius has announced plans to build a 300MW data center in New Jersey. The facility will be completed in phases, with the first due to be delivered by summer 2025.In a statement, Nebius said the new Icelandic deployment would be powered by geothermal energy to reduce ...
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Microsoft announced a strategic partnership with the Government of Kuwait on March 6, that will see it develop an "AI powered" Azure region in the country. The cloud region will offer "advanced infrastructure" and is hoped to attract global businesses and researchers, and to help accelerate di...
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NTT Data has signed a partnership with the Holy See (Vatican) to support its activities in Japan. Both companies will be expanding their existing relationship to "identify opportunities for future collaboration.""NTT Data is our technology partner in Japan. We appreciate their support for our ...
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Continent 8 Technologies, a global managed hosting and cloud provider focused on iGaming and online sports betting sectors, has launched a new data center in Missouri in preparation for the opening of Missouri's regulated online sports betting market, which is scheduled for December 1, 2025.Mi...
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Crypto firm DMG Blockchain Solutions Inc. this week announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with an undisclosed counterparty to purchase the infrastructure for 10MW worth of prefabricated air-cooled data centers for its deployment of generative AI facilities.Upon execution ...
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Saudi-based data center developer DataVolt is to build a facility in Riyadh. The company and the Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones (MODON) have agreed on land lease terms for the development of an AI-ready data center in Riyadh.“We are providing mission-critical digita...
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French cloud computing provider Sesterce is investing €450 million ($471.85m) into developing an AI data center set to be located in the Rovaltain business park in Valence Romans Agglo, and will house 40,000 GPUs for the training and deployment of AI. Works will commence in September 2025 with...
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Jet.AI, a company that develops AI solutions for the aviation industry, is selling its aviation business and pivoting to developing data centers. The company is in the process of planning a 50MW facility around Las Vegas for its debut project. FlyExclusive will acquire the business in conjunct...
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Bitfarms last week announced it had tapped Appleby Strategy Group (ASG) and World Wide Technology (WWT), to conduct a comprehensive feasibility analysis on all its North American sites and advise on its global HPC/AI strategy. According to the company, ASG and WWT are evaluating Bitfarms’ ener...
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