Global spending on cloud infrastructure services, according to Canalys (now part of Omdia) estimates, reached US$90.9 billion in Q1 2025, marking a 21% year-on-year increase. Enterprises have recognized that deploying AI applications requires renewed emphasis on cloud migration. Large-scale investment in both cloud and AI infrastructure remains a defining theme of the market in 2025. Meanwh...
Schneider Electric has announced a partnership with NVIDIA to accelerate the development and deployment of sustainable, AI-ready infrastructure, known as “AI factories.” Both companies are advancing research and development (R&D) initiatives in cooling, power, building management, and control systems for both digital and physical AI data centers. Leveraging its expertise in AI-ready infrastruc...
Vertiv has announced that Mike Giresi has joined the company on June 30, 2025 as global Chief Information Officer (CIO), leading company initiatives in AI adoption across the business, cybersecurity, product security, and digital enabled productivity and customer experience. “Strong digital and IT vision and execution are central to our strategy to continue to lead the industry and constantl...
El Capitan, deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, maintained its position as the world’s fastest supercomputer, posting a 1.742 exaflops High Performance Linpack (HPL) score. Built by HPE, this exascale system continues to deliver increased performance using AMD Instinct MI300A APUs, combining CPU and GPU compute in a single package to power massive AI and scientific workloads. The i...
Schneider Electric has announced new data center solutions specifically engineered to meet the intensive demands of next-generation AI cluster architectures. Evolving its EcoStruxure Data Center Solutions portfolio, Schneider Electric introduced a Prefabricated Modular EcoStruxure Pod Data Center solution that consolidates infrastructure for liquid cooling, high-power busway and high-density NetSh...
Accenture has expanded its AI Refinery platform for Europe with new sovereign and agentic capabilities to help European organizations maintain control over critical data and apply innovative AI solutions. “AI provides a unique opportunity for Europe to reinvent its economy, drive productivity, resilience and competitiveness, and support its future growth,” said Mauro Macchi, Accenture’s CEO for Eu...
Khazna Data Centers (Khazna) has announced it is collaborating with NVIDIA to build AI factories in the MEA region. Following the high-profile visit of U.S. President Donald Trump to the UAE, and the announcement of a planned 5GW UAE-US AI campus, the collaboration is another example of the deepening ties between the region and U.S. technology leaders in shaping the future of AI and digital infras...
Cisco has unveiled groundbreaking innovations to simplify, secure, and future-proof data centers, empowering organizations to scale their AI ambitions with confidence. Cisco’s leadership in hyperscale and AI infrastructure-as-a-service markets demonstrates the foundational role that secure, resilient networking plays in today’s data center architecture. In Q3 FY25, Cisco notably surpassed its annu...
IBM has unveiled its path to build the world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer, setting the stage for practical and scalable quantum computing. Delivered by 2029, IBM Quantum Starling will be built in a new IBM Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New York and is expected to perform 20,000 times more operations than today’s quantum computers. To represent the computa...
Amazon has announced plans to invest at least $20 billion in Pennsylvania to expand our data center infrastructure to support artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing technologies. This landmark investment is expected to create at least 1,250 new high-skilled jobs while supporting thousands of other jobs in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center supply chain. The new high-skilled jobs w...
As part of the collaboration, Alibaba Group will leverage SAP Cloud ERP Private for its enterprise infrastructure, as well as a joint go-to-market strategy aimed at delivering accelerated value for customers worldwide. Alibaba, the Chinese multinational technology company focused on e-commerce and cloud computing, will leverage SAP Business Suite for faster maintenance, smooth upgrades and easier ...
Digital Edge (Singapore) Holdings Pte. Ltd. (“Digital Edge”), a leading pan-Asian data center platform , has announced a strategic joint venture with B.Grimm Power Public Company Limited (“B.Grimm Power”), one of Thailand’s foremost energy producers. The partnership aims to develop next-generation hyperscale and AI-ready data center campuses across Thailand to meet surging digital infrastructure d...