DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Investment / M&A / Financing
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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NxN enters Portugal with 1MW data center and plans to invest €100m
The company has finalized the acquisition a data center in Évora
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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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BrightRay plans 40MW data center in Macau
Company set to sell majority stake to BUUU
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DataBank acquires leased data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from Mapletree Industrial Trust
DataBank exercises option to buy facility after ten years of leasing
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Hypertec CEO: We are "absolutely considering" taking data center firm 5C public
5C set to complete next $5-6bn financing round first
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Bain interested in buying Edged US - report
Investment could add to holdings in DC Blox
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Eaton to acquire COL Group
Industrial firm buys Italian switchgear maker for €810m
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Amazon to acquire two data centers in Hong Kong
Cloud company buys leased facility from landlord
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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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Poste Italiane snaps up 85% stake in Telecom Italia
As Poste Italiane grows stake by 65.7 percent
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Samsung invests $1bn into KKR's Helix data center platform
Helix to “leverage Samsung’s capabilities” in construction, energy, and cooling
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Lefdal Mine acquires data center development site in Norway
Company looks to expand with second site in Vestland County
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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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Telefónica considers Venezuela exit in next year - report
An exit could come in the next 12 months, but won't be rushed
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Virtus secures £2.45bn in financing for data center build-out
Funds to fuel projects in the UK and mainland Europe
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Pat Gelsinger-backed optical startup raises $27.5m to scale VCSELs for AI links
PicoJool eyes staff growth and low-power micro laser modules
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Akamai signs $11.6bn compute deal with Anthropic
AI firm to lease capacity from cloud and Edge company to support CPU workloads
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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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Keppel, StarHub confirm talks over M1 deal in Singapore
Will the talks lead to consolidation in the market?
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SFR workers in France strike over proposed takeover
Thousands of the company's employees have taken industrial action amid uncertainty over job security
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DOE unveils $1.9bn in funding for 31 grid upgrade projects to speed data center connections
Expected to unlock 23GW of additional capacity on the grid
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Tower Semiconductor to establish large-scale optical chip hub as part of $4bn Japanese investment pledge
CEO provides further details regarding expansion plans announced earlier this year
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Microsoft to invest $10bn into Gulf states by 2030
Earmarked for investments across the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait
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Nexstrom raises $12m for post-silicon chip wafers
Singapore-based startup has developed a platform for growing 12-inch single-crystal 2D semiconductor materials
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Airspan snaps up fixed wireless assets from stricken broadband firm Cambium
Company says more than 135 Cambium employees will join its team
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Lithography firm Morphotonics targets data center optical component market after raising €40m
Company’s technology currently used to manufacture displays for AR glasses
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Generac signs $8bn back up generator deal with Amazon
Initial deliveries over next two years will total $2.4bn
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PGIM sells data center development site in Munich
Buyer unnamed