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Design & Build
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Civo fires starting gun on 40-site UK AI infrastructure push
When open in 2027, the 8MW Hertfordshire facility will herald the rollout of a national distributed edge network.
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Oracle Invokes Force Majeure on $165B Blue Owl Jupiter Data Center project
New Mexico AI Campus Hits Regulatory Wall Oracle Corp has sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl Capital, the developer behind Project Jupiter, it’s 2.45-gigawatt data center campus under construction in New Mexico, according to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter. The move is designed to let Oracle delay lease payments, not…
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The Hardware Integration War — Why Vertiv is Consolidating the AI Factory
The scaling bottleneck for artificial intelligence has officially left the chip lab and entered the physical world. Vertiv’s rapid string of acquisitions and high-capacity NVIDIA certifications reveal an industry-wide truth: the future of hyperscale compute belongs to those who control the physical mechanics of power and fluid
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Submer and Edgecore Networks accelerate Integrated AI Architecture
he Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) region is emerging as a primary growth hub for next-generation AI infrastructure. To overcome regional grid constraints, extreme ambient temperatures, and severe water scarcity, Edgecore Networks and Submer have partnered to deliver pre-engineered, fluid immersion-cooled AI data center reference designs optimized for high-performance computing in harsh environments.
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ABB Bets on Direct Current to Break the AI Power Wall
The AI power race is shifting from generation to the final hundred metres of the data centre. ABB’s new Infinitus direct current architecture aims to rewrite the white space by bypassing legacy alternating current infrastructure entirely to reclaim crucial compute capacity.
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GridLock: Why Hyperscalers Are Buying Their Own Substations
While tech giants pour billions into advanced AI chips, their multi-gigawatt growth roadmaps are stalling at the local power grid. To survive the infrastructure crunch, cloud operators are transforming into heavy industrial procurement giants buying up transformer supply lines and building their own utility-scale substations.
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Alibaba’s New Chip Lands Days Before Trump and Xi Meet — is that a Coincidence?
Alibaba unveiled the Zhenwu M890, its most powerful in-house AI chip yet, alongside a roadmap to match Nvidia’s annual upgrade cadence timed to land just ahead of a Trump-Xi summit.
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AI Data Center Debt Just Got More Expensive — Meta’s Own Bond Sale Proves It
Bloomberg reports AI data center debt yields are climbing across the market, with Meta’s $12.5 billion El Paso bond offering pricing at a materially higher risk premium than a nearly identical deal from a year earlier
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Nordic AI Campus Moves From Paper to Steel
3E Network’s Finnish subsidiary, Aurora Core Technology, entered active construction on a green-powered AI data center project this week — a milestone increasingly hard to reach given how many announced campuses stall at the permitting stage
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Cornelis Networks to Build Fabric that Keeps GPUs From Sitting Idle
Cornelis Networks raised $205 million and unveiled Active Compute Fabric, a scale-up interconnect built on open UALink and ESUN standards a direct challenge to Nvidia’s grip on GPU-to-GPU networking