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The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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AWS capacity "largely" sold out in 2027, Amazon CEO claims
"A good chunk" of 2028 pre-sold, although this doesn't include EC2
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Karman completes power orchestration pilot at NextGen data center in Montreal, Canada
To extend software rollout across NextGen's European operations
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Theft of AI equipment hits $150m in 2026, with fraud responsible for 92% of incidents – report
Reports of stolen data center equipment up 34 percent since 2024, cargo risk management firm Overhaul said
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Generative Bionics plans AI data center and humanoid robotics factory in Italy
Could form first part of physical AI factory network
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SpaceX secures $40bn in debt financing, Elon Musk says
Billionaire neocloud boss also claims neocloud funding sources could be drying up
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Kao Data to host CommonAI's AI Scaling Inference Lab at Harlow data center
Lab to host Nvidia and AMD hardware
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Aleria to deploy Nvidia Blackwell and Vera Rubin GPUs in US and UAE
Neocloud partners with DDN on deployment
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T-Mobile claims world first AI-RAN call with Nokia and Nvidia
The call was completed from a commercial cell site in Bellevue, Washington
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Nvidia in talks to invest in Firmus after failed IPO - report
Could invest hundreds of millions of dollars in neocloud
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Nvidia Vera Rubin infrastructure now generally available on Google Cloud
Accessible via the Google Cloud A5X instances starting next month
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Crusoe signs on for Polar DC's upcoming 40MW data center in Norway
Will be located at Polar's Tørdal campus
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General Compute signs on to purchase Positron AI hardware
Will start with Atlas systems and later adopt Titan
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Vultr to deploy 20MW AMD MI355X cluster in Chennai, India
Says it will be the country's largest AMD Instinct deployment
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OVHcloud has 110MW of data center capacity up for grabs
Company reveals in its annual earnings call that it has capacity available to grow its customer base
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CBRE acquires data center services firm Onnec
Initial purchase price of $610 million
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Anthropic and Nscale in talks for second $45bn deal - report
Companies previously signed $45bn compute agreement in August 2026
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Anthropic named as customer of EverWind's data center project in Nova Scotia
Data center is in pre-construction stages
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Microsoft pulls out of delayed Nscale data center in Loughton, Essex
Would have been Nscale's anchor tenant at the site
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SpaceX’s Starlink encourages every satellite operator to share data with Stargaze platform, for safety
Musk company proposes international cooperation on satellite tracking in a one-way street relationship with SpaceX
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AI cloud Modal raises $750m in Series D funding round
And other neocloud startup news
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Russia could deploy AI data centers in Belarus and Kazakhstan as local capacity struggles
Multiple locations are being considered
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Starling Bank to train transactional foundation model on Civo's UK sovereign cloud platform
Claims to be the first bank to do so
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UK-based AI infrastructure firm Gorilla Technology Group to enter US market with proposed 6MW data center acquisition
Site has the potential to expand to 36MW
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Scaleway plans GPU cluster deployments in Sweden and Copenhagen
Announced during cloud company's AI-Pulse 2026 event
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Legrand to integrate Karman AI platform into data center PDUs and power shelves
First deal following Karman's rebrand
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Naver Cloud and FPT partner on AI buildout in Asia Pacific
Aim to accelerate development and deployment of AI data centers
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US DOE funds 12 projects under Genesis Mission; cloud providers sign up to support effort
AWS and Crusoe among those to offer compute capacity
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Number of data center fires and power failures has doubled since 2024
New data from the Energy Incident Register reveals increasing faults