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News - Business Operations, Charlotte Trueman, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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SpaceXAI launching two additional data center campuses in Mississippi to further expand Colossus 2
Sites, dubbed Gun Range and Spam, will both be operational by end of the year, Musk claimed
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FuriosaAI raises $620m at a post-money valuation of approximately $2.9bn
South Korean chip startup said funds will help accelerate development of its third-generation AI inference chip
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Intel says Israel fab explosion will cost company $600m in losses, as Q3 ‘26 revenue hits $16.5bn
Intel Foundry operating losses down QoQ, with chipmaker claiming 14A customer announcements are coming soon
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Neocloud General Compute raises $100m in Series A funding round
Round provides startup with post-money valuation of $800m
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Broadcom organizes $63bn deal with Bank of America, Blackstone, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley to fund Anthropic chip purchases
Project North Star will finance the purchase of Broadcom-developed Google TPUs
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Nvidia to invest $3bn in Meta’s $97.5bn equity offering, as social media giant plans to deploy more Nvidia hardware
Agreement centers around Meta’s Muse AI agents
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Intel acquires quantum software firm Classiq for $2.2bn
Acquisition of Israeli quantum firm will allow Intel to become a “full-stack quantum solutions provider,” chipmaker said
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Vertical Semiconductor awarded $73m in CHIPS Act funding to support vGaN transistor development
The agreement will see the Department of Commerce take a minority stake in the company
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Former OpenAI head of data centers joins Nvidia to help lead DSX Platform team
Chris Malone announced new role two months after OpenAI departure was reported
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Nvidia launches DSX POD, claims the Vera-Rubin reference architecture will make AI data centers more water and energy efficient
Details released at GTC Berlin event, taking place this week
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AI chip startup Tenstorrent raises $1.5bn at $6.2bn valuation
Funding will support ongoing development of company’s Galaxy servers
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Optical switching startup Salience Labs raises $125m with AMD and Intel participating in round
Series B raise will support continued development and deployment of optical circuit switching technology
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Two workers killed, third injured, in explosion at Intel’s Kiryat Gat fab in Israel
Company says it is cooperating with authorities on investigation into incident
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City of New York awards NYU $29.2m to establish a Quantum Fabrication Facility
QFab will offer quantum chip manufacturing and testing capabilities, alongside workforce training programs
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GlobalFoundries to build and operate two new chip fabs in NY as part of $21bn US-Japan deal
First facility is expected to be operational in 2029
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Photonic quantum startup Quanfluence raises $10m for full-stack architecture development
Bengaluru-based company is designing and developing its own photonic quantum hardware
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Oratomic raises $775m for development of fault-tolerant quantum computer
Pasadena-based startup emerged from stealth in March 2026
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Report: Nvidia plans to invest in inference chip startup d-Matrix
Follows reports that company was seeking to raise additional funds, targeting $5bn valuation
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PsiQuantum receives $150m conditional loan commitment from US gov’t to expand manufacturing and prototyping efforts
Funding will support ongoing expansion of company’s California factory
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GlobalFoundries signs $2bn, five-year deal with TSMC for production of advanced packaging components
GF’s Malta, NY, fab will become first US source for supply of silicon interposers
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Oracle, Broadcom, and SpaceX looking to secure ten of billions in financing to support AI compute purchases – report
Broadcom is seeking $50bn, while SpaceX is looking to secure $40bn
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Wolfspeed receives $1.5bn conditional loan commitment from US gov’t to boost domestic SiC and GaN production
Financing will also help advance a number of DoD initiatives
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D-Wave partners with University of Arkansas for research into supply chain-based quantum applications
Quantum firm will work with the university’s Supply Chain Management Research Center on the project
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Optical interconnect startup CScale emerges from stealth following investment from Nvidia and Intel
Californian startup raised $145m in Series C funding round
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SiMa.ai raises $150m at $1.45bn valuation for development of physical AI hardware
Investors include Dell Technologies, J.P. Morgan, and the State of Michigan
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AMD acquires AI research firm World Labs in all-stock deal worth $8.2bn
World Labs’ CEO will join chip giant as EVP and chief scientist
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DensityAI: Chip startup founded by former Tesla Dojo execs valued at $10bn – report
Company has raised “hundreds of millions” for development of chip with 3D DRAM stacking, report claims
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Oracle issues force majeure notice to Blue Owl following series of setbacks at Project Jupiter data center campus – report
The 2.5GW site in New Mexico is set to come online in 2028