London-based AI data center firm Nscale has announced it has raised the largest Series B in UK and European history, at USD $1.1 billion. The financing was led by Aker ASA, with continued support from existing shareholders, including Sandton Capital, and participation from Blue Owl Managed Funds, Dell, Fidelity Management & Research Company, G Squared, […]
Western Digital confirms its participation at GITEX Global 2025, taking place October 13–17, 2025 at Dubai World Trade Centre to highlight AI-ready storage platforms and high-capacity enterprise HDDs designed to power data-intensive AI storage pipelines at scale.
OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank are announcing five new U.S. AI data center sites under Stargate, OpenAI’s overarching AI infrastructure platform. The combined capacity from these five new sites—along with our flagship site in Abilene, Texas, and ongoing projects with CoreWeave—brings Stargate to nearly 7 gigawatts of planned capacity and over $400 billion in investment over […]
A new report released at Climate Week NYC by Ramboll lays out a strategic roadmap to address the negative environmental impact of data centres. The report offers tangible ways to reduce negative impacts related to carbon emissions, water, biodiversity and material use. ‘Developing sustainable data centres: A strategic roadmap to achieve net zero carbon and […]
The Singaporean asset management firm Keppel has acquired a data center outside Tokyo. Its data center arm, Keppel DC REIT, has taken a 100 percent stake in the five-storey Tokyo Data Centre 3 for JPY 82.1 billion ($555 million). Tokyo Data Centre 3 is fully contracted to a leading global hyperscaler for 15 years with […]
Ciena has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Nubis Communications, a privately-held company headquartered in New Providence, New Jersey. The addition of Nubis, which specializes in high-performance, ultra-compact, low-power optical and electrical interconnects tailored to support AI workloads, will expand Ciena’s portfolio and add critical talent to address a wider […]
SoftBank has announced that it is collaborating with Meta, IPS Inc., TM Technology Services Sdn. Bhd., and PT XLSmart Telecom Sejahtera Tbk to develop a new international submarine cable system, “Candle”, that will connect Japan and Singapore. NEC Corporation has been contracted as the system supplier. Candle is an approximately 8,000 km submarine cable system […]
AVEVA has announced its participation at the Schneider Electric Innovation Summit 2025, taking place on 24–25 September at the Hilton Riyadh Hotel & Residences. The company will showcase its unique industrial intelligence solutions including AVEVA Unified Operations Center, CONNECT, AVEVA Operations Control and AVEVA PI System. At the event, AVEVA will focus on its partnership with […]
OpenAI and NVIDIA have announced a letter of intent for a strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure to train and run its next generation of models on the path to deploying superintelligence. To support this deployment including data center and power capacity, NVIDIA intends to […]
Alex Bouzari, CEO of DDN, says the Middle East is fast becoming a global leader in AI-driven data centers, fueled by bold investments in sovereign cloud, smart cities, and platforms like DDN’s Infinia.
