WIOCC Group has secured $65 million in new debt financing to fuel its expansion of digital infrastructure across Africa. The sustainability-linked funding comes from a consortium including the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Proparco. This follows a similar $41.9 million loan package the
A new player is entering the crowded APAC data center scene. Gibo Holdings, an AI content platform, is planning a major 30MW AI data center cluster in Malaysia, with ambitions to scale it massively.
A major European cloud trade group is taking the EU to court over its approval of the VMware-Broadcom merger. They argue regulators ignored explicit financial incentives for Broadcom to raise prices, which it has since done.
Latin American data center provider Kio Networks has launched a new 12MW facility in Querétaro, Mexico. The QRO2 data center expands the company’s local capacity to nearly 19MW, creating a high-density hub for the region.
Argo Infrastructure Partners has acquired the equity of most minority shareholders in TierPoint, further consolidating its control. This marks Argo’s third major investment since 2020, bringing its total commitment to the data center operator to over $700 million.
Oracle’s shares tumbled over 10% after missing revenue forecasts, even as its AI cloud business soared 68%. In other news, police data shows Snapchat is the most common platform for child exploitation offences, and McDonald’s Netherlands pulled a generative AI ad following online criticism.
Microsoft is committing a massive $17.5 billion to build AI infrastructure in India over four years starting in 2026. This follows a $3 billion pledge earlier this year and comes as Google and AWS also pour billions into the country. It’s a clear signal of the global AI arms race shifting into high
A new whitepaper details a live deployment of RiT Tech’s XpedITe TenantBridge at a global financial institution’s Equinix site. The platform unifies power, cooling, and environmental telemetry for colocation tenants, aiming to cut risk and cost.
A new startup called Internet Backyard just landed $4.5 million to tackle a messy problem: the billing chaos in data centers and GPU provisioning. Its platform, gnomos, aims to automate the entire order-to-cash process. The backing from big names like Equinix’s founder suggests this is a pain point
NTT has secured 130MW of capacity leases with unnamed hyperscale cloud providers across four US markets. Simultaneously, it launched a new 100MW campus in Bengaluru, India, part of a massive $10 billion global investment push through 2027.
