News•Feb 10, 2026
Matia Raises $21M to Help Enterprises Consolidate Their Data Management Operations
Matia announced a $21 million Series A round, led by Red Dot Capital, bringing its total funding above $31 million. The startup offers a unified DataOps platform on AWS that merges ETL, reverse‑ETL, observability and catalog functions into a single interface. It can replicate data in real time from over 100 sources to warehouses like Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery, cutting pipeline sync times up to eightfold and reducing total cost of ownership by roughly 78 %. Matia will use the capital to launch an AI‑powered data engineer that automates pipeline creation and anomaly detection.
By SiliconANGLE
News•Feb 10, 2026
Nebius Agrees to Buy AI Agent Search Company Tavily for $275 Million
Nebius Group NV, the cloud‑computing spin‑off from Yandex, announced a $275 million acquisition of Tavily, a specialist in AI‑agent search technology. Tavily’s software equips autonomous agents with real‑time data retrieval for tasks such as software development and financial trading. The deal...
By Bloomberg – Technology (sitewide)
News•Feb 10, 2026
Most Engagement Data Is Compromised and That’s a Major Security Problem
Most digital engagement metrics are being polluted by bots, synthetic traffic, and identity spoofing, turning them from reliable signals into attack surfaces. Datavault AI is addressing this by building a verification‑first platform that authenticates human actions at the point of...
By HackRead
News•Feb 10, 2026
Simplyblock Provides Postgres Git-Style Branching
Simplyblock unveiled Vela, a platform that delivers instant PostgreSQL branches using copy‑on‑write technology on its high‑performance block storage. The solution eliminates traditional snapshot‑restore cycles, offering developers rapid, cost‑effective cloning without data duplication. Vela is cloud‑agnostic, Kubernetes‑native, and supports NVMe/TCP and...
By Blocks & Files
News•Feb 10, 2026
Former Sugar Refinery Near Caen, France, Could Become AI Data Center
A former 33‑hectare sugar refinery near Caen is slated for acquisition by Brown Fields, which plans to transform the derelict site into an AI data center. The project, estimated at €15‑€20 million, benefits from an existing 220 kV power line and a...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 10, 2026
Ark Data Centres' Campus Extension Approved by Local Authorities in Wiltshire, UK
Ark Data Centres received conditional approval to build an 18‑meter‑tall, 27,350 sqm data centre on Westwell Roads in Corsham, Wiltshire, after an 18‑month planning saga. The new facility will be the seventh Ark campus at the Spring Park site, joining five existing...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 10, 2026
Energy Vault Partners with Peak Energy to Develop Energy Storage Architecture for AI Data Centers
Energy Vault has entered a strategic partnership with Peak Energy to create a dedicated energy‑storage architecture for AI‑focused data centers. The solution merges Peak’s sodium‑ion battery technology with Energy Vault’s Vault OS software and system design. A supply agreement secures 1.5 GWh...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 10, 2026
Telstra to Cut More than 200 Jobs Amid AI Push
Telstra will cut more than 200 jobs at its AI joint venture with Accenture, moving some functions to India. The AU$700 million partnership, 60% owned by Accenture and 40% by Telstra, is intended to accelerate the carrier’s data and AI roadmap....
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 10, 2026
IBM Refreshes FlashSystem Lineup with Faster 5600, 7600, and 9600 Arrays
IBM announced a refresh of its FlashSystem all‑flash storage family, introducing the 5600, 7600 and 9600 models that replace the 5300, 7300 and 9500 generations. The new arrays feature Gen 5 FlashCore Modules with up to 105.6 TB per drive and a...
By Blocks & Files
News•Feb 10, 2026
Fermi America Receives First Natural Gas Turbines for up to 11GW Data Center Campus in Amarillo, Texas
Fermi America has taken delivery of six Siemens SGT‑800 natural‑gas turbines, each rated 50‑62 MW, marking the first power‑generation equipment for its proposed up‑to‑11 GW data‑center campus in Amarillo, Texas. The turbines will supply roughly one‑third of the first gigawatt of electricity...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 10, 2026
Immersion Cooling Firm Submer Partners with Indian Real Estate Developer Anant Raj for Data Center Venture
Submer, a Spain‑based immersion‑cooling specialist, announced a partnership with Anant Raj Cloud, the data‑center arm of Indian real‑estate developer Anant Raj, to build AI‑ready data centers across India. The firms signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will be exchanged at the India AI...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 10, 2026
Synergy: Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Spend Jumps $12bn in Q4 2025
Enterprise cloud infrastructure spending surged by $12 billion in Q4 2025, marking a 30 percent year‑on‑year increase and the ninth straight quarter of accelerating growth. Total cloud‑related revenue for 2025 reached $419 billion, with $119.1 billion generated in the final quarter alone. Generative AI was...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 10, 2026
Viettel Deploys Nvidia DGX B200 System at Hoa Lac High Tech Park in Hanoi
Vietnam’s military‑backed telecom operator Viettel has commissioned an Nvidia DGX B200 system at its Hoa Lac High Tech Park data centre in Hanoi. The air‑cooled rack‑mounted platform houses eight B200 Tensor Core GPUs and dual Intel Xeon CPUs, delivering petaflop‑scale performance. Viettel’s...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 10, 2026
FCC Seeks Comment on SpaceX's Million Orbital Data Center Plan
The Federal Communications Commission has opened a public comment period on SpaceX’s proposal to launch a constellation of one million data‑center satellites. SpaceX argues that, once its reusable Starship is operational, the fleet could deliver 100 gigawatts of AI compute power...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 10, 2026
Octopus Invests €40M in Metiundo for Energy Data Tech
Octopus Energy Generation has led a €40 million funding round for German‑based Metiundo, a digital metering and data platform for buildings. The capital will be used to scale installation teams, broaden the sensor network and accelerate software development for solar, battery...
By Ventureburn
News•Feb 10, 2026
Sponsored: The Evolving AI Data Center: Options Multiply, Constraints Grow, and Infrastructure Planning Is Even More Critical
AI data centers are no longer monolithic; diverse models, accelerators, and cooling methods force operators to tailor connectivity. Optical links have become a strategic pillar, matching power and cooling in importance, especially as rack density and fault domains grow. Multi‑terabit...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 10, 2026
G42 Expands Global AI Ambitions with Sovereign Cloud Partnership in Vietnam
Abu Dhabi‑based G42 has inked a Framework Cooperation Agreement with Vietnam’s FPT Corporation and Viet Thai Group to build sovereign AI and hyperscale cloud infrastructure. The deal, backed by up to $1 bn in consumption commitments, will see three new datacenters...
By Computer Weekly – Latest IT news
News•Feb 10, 2026
Ahmed Gouda: Monitoring Query Plans with Pgwatch and Pg_stat_plans
The PostgreSQL ecosystem now includes the pg_stat_plans extension, which aggregates statistics at the query‑plan level rather than the raw SQL text. The article demonstrates how to combine pg_stat_plans with the pgwatch monitoring framework by defining a custom metric that pulls...
By Planet PostgreSQL (aggregator)
News•Feb 10, 2026
Coupang Obstructed Korean Probe Into Data Breach, Ministry Says
Coupang, South Korea’s largest e‑commerce platform, obstructed a government investigation into a massive data breach by deleting access logs and other evidence. The Ministry of Science and ICT reports that a former staff engineer exfiltrated 25.6 terabytes of personal information, affecting...
By Bloomberg – Technology (sitewide)
News•Feb 10, 2026
Inside Godrej Enterprises Group’s Push to Become an Intelligence-First Enterprise
Godrej Enterprises Group, led by Chief Digital and Information Officer Vijay Balakrishnan, is shifting to an intelligence‑first enterprise by building a unified AI backbone called Amethyst. The conglomerate has earmarked more than ₹1,200 crore over the next three to five years...
By ET EnterpriseAI (Economic Times India)
News•Feb 9, 2026
Memory Chip Crunch Ripples Through Markets, With Worse to Come
Memory chip prices have surged sharply over recent months, creating a stark divide between winners and losers in the equity market. Device manufacturers such as Nintendo, major PC brands, and Apple suppliers are seeing share declines as cost pressures erode...
By Bloomberg – Technology (sitewide)
News•Feb 9, 2026
Intel Has Abandoned Its Controversial "On Demand" Processor Technology
Intel has announced that it will no longer pursue its Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) initiative, popularly known as “On Demand.” The technology, unveiled in 2021, promised to let OEMs unlock or lock specific CPU capabilities based on a customer’s price...
By TechSpot (sitewide)
News•Feb 9, 2026
AWS Networking Boss Talks Roadmap, Hollow Core Fiber, and Data Center Future
Amazon Web Services announced a $200 billion capital‑expenditure plan through 2026, with networking as a primary focus to support its AI push. The company is trialing hollow‑core fiber in a handful of locations to extend latency‑critical inter‑zone links, while a newly...
By Data Center Knowledge
News•Feb 9, 2026
Fractile Expansion Demonstrates UK Growth Opportunity
UK chip startup Fractile announced a £100 million expansion across its Bristol and London sites, creating a national industrial hardware engineering hub and adding 40 new roles to its 70‑person team. The company claims its in‑memory compute architecture can run AI...
By Computer Weekly – Latest IT news
News•Feb 9, 2026
Harvey Reportedly Raising at $11B Valuation Just Months After It Hit $8B
Harvey, the legal‑AI startup, is reportedly negotiating a $200 million raise that would push its valuation to $11 billion, led by Sequoia and Singapore’s GIC. This follows a rapid funding series: a $300 million Series D at $3 billion, a $300 million Series E at $5 billion, and...
By TechCrunch
News•Feb 9, 2026
Oracle Shares Surge as Big Tech Spending Eases Software Worries
Oracle Corp.’s shares jumped up to 12% on Monday, marking the stock’s strongest intraday gain since September 10. The rally was sparked by news that U.S. tech giants, led by Amazon’s $200 billion capex commitment for data centers and chips, are accelerating...
By Bloomberg – Technology (sitewide)
News•Feb 9, 2026
CyrusOne Partners with Constellation for 760MW Data Center Campus in Texas
CyrusOne announced a 760 MW data‑center campus in Freestone County, Texas, partnering with Constellation’s Calpine unit. The project secures two 380 MW power agreements—Phase I and Phase II—leveraging the adjacent natural‑gas Freestone Energy Center. Construction is underway with an expected operational date in Q4 2026....
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 9, 2026
Deutsche Telekom Launches Nvidia AI Factory Data Center in Munich's Tucherpark
Deutsche Telekom has opened an Nvidia‑powered AI factory at the Polarise data centre in Munich’s Tucherpark, installing roughly 10,000 Blackwell GPUs including DGX B200 and RTX PRO systems. The facility, branded the Industrial AI Cloud, underpins the ‘Germany Stack’ – a sovereign...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 9, 2026
Meta Purchases Additional 1,400 Acres for Hyperion Mega-Data Center Expansion
Meta has acquired an extra 1,400 acres adjacent to its Hyperion data‑center campus in Louisiana, expanding the footprint of a project originally planned on 2,250 acres. The Hyperion complex is designed to deliver 2 GW of compute power, with the potential...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 9, 2026
Intersect Power Files to Develop Data Center in Texas
Intersect Power, a clean‑energy firm being acquired by Alphabet, has filed a Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation application to build a 761,000‑square‑foot data center near Miami, Texas. The Project Pumpkin 2A development will cost roughly $400 million and is scheduled for...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 9, 2026
Pulsant Launches £10m Expansion of Milton Keynes Data Center
Edge provider Pulsant has completed a £10 million expansion of its Milton Keynes data centre, adding a 1.2 MW data hall optimized for high‑density AI workloads. The new facility is part of the company’s platformEDGE network, which now spans 14 edge sites...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 9, 2026
The Cost of Caution: Why Oversizing in Data Center Design Is Breaking the Bank
The article warns that excessive caution in data‑center design leads to chronic oversizing. Studies show many facilities operate at only 20‑60% of installed capacity, inflating capital, energy and maintenance costs by up to 30%. Oversized power, cooling and backup systems...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 9, 2026
Supercapacitor Developer Skeleton Opens First US Engineering Facility in Houston, Texas
Estonian supercapacitor maker Skeleton Technologies opened its first U.S. engineering facility in Houston, Texas, to support AI data‑center customers. The graphene‑based devices can smooth power spikes and claim up to 45% energy savings for high‑performance computing workloads. Skeleton already has...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 9, 2026
Aerospike 8.1.1 Introduces New Native Dynamic Data Masking for PII Protection and Regulatory Compliance
Aerospike released version 8.1.1, introducing native Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) for its high‑performance NoSQL database. The feature lets administrators define masking rules that hide personally identifiable information at the database layer, automatically applying to all users and machines except those...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 9, 2026
EV Batteries Age Twice as Fast with Ultra-Fast Charging
Geotab’s telematics analysis of 22,700 EVs shows ultra‑fast charging above 100 kW roughly doubles battery degradation, reaching about 2.5 % capacity loss per year versus 1.2‑1.5 % with slower Level 2 charging. The effect intensifies when more than 12 % of sessions use high‑power chargers,...
By TechSpot (sitewide)
News•Feb 9, 2026
Johnson Controls Launches New Chillers, Carrier Launches CRAH
Johnson Controls unveiled the York YDAM air‑cooled magnetic‑bearing centrifugal chiller, delivering 3.5 MW of cooling and capable of operating with 45 °C warm‑water. The company also previewed the two‑stage YK‑HT economizer that can produce 44 °F chilled water and 140 °F hot water simultaneously....
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 9, 2026
AtNorth Files to Expand Planned Data Center Campus in Kouvola, Finland
Nordic data‑center operator atNorth has filed a permit request to add three new buildings to its FIN04 campus in Kouvola, Finland. The expansion would raise the site’s planned capacity to 430 MW across a 45‑hectare footprint, up from the original 60 MW...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 9, 2026
VMware Exiteeers Targeted by Alibaba’s NexaVM
Swiss‑based NexaVM, backed by Alibaba, delivers an all‑in‑one VMware replacement aimed at mid‑market cloud service providers, sovereign‑cloud operators, and hardware‑agnostic OEMs. The platform bundles a production‑grade KVM hypervisor, Ceph‑based hyper‑converged storage, integrated Kubernetes‑as‑a‑Service, and multi‑tenant management under a subscription licence....
By Blocks & Files
News•Feb 9, 2026
Global AI Set to Develop Data Center Outside Denver, Colorado
Global AI, in partnership with Saudi AI firm Humain, is converting a former Kodak‑Carestream site near Windsor, Colorado into a high‑density AI data center. After purchasing 438 acres for $15.6 million, the company plans to launch an 18‑24 MW facility by the...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 9, 2026
IBM Announces Global RFP Process for AI-Driven Solutions Shaping the Future of Work and Education
IBM has issued a global request for proposals for the next cohort of its Impact Accelerator, targeting AI-driven solutions in education and workforce development. The program invites nonprofits, government entities, and academic institutions to develop tools that bridge the widening...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 9, 2026
Red Hat and NVIDIA Expand Partnership to Align on Next-Gen AI Infrastructure
Red Hat announced an expanded partnership with NVIDIA, introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA—a specialized RHEL edition tuned for the NVIDIA Rubin platform. The collaboration delivers Day 0 support for the Vera CPU, Rubin GPUs and BlueField‑4 DPU across Red...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 9, 2026
Corning and Meta Form Multiyear Partnership for up to $6 Billion to Accelerate U.S. Data Center Buildout
Corning and Meta have signed a multiyear agreement worth up to $6 billion to accelerate the construction of advanced data centers in the United States. Under the deal, Corning will provide Meta with its latest optical fiber, cable and connectivity solutions...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 9, 2026
Vantage Denied Permission for Data Center Outside Frankfurt
US‑based Vantage Data Centers was denied permission by the Groß‑Gerau city council to build a 174 MW, €2.5 billion data‑center campus on a 14‑hectare site outside Frankfurt. The council voted 18‑14 against contract negotiations, citing concerns over limited job creation, visual impact,...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 9, 2026
Singtel's Nxera Opens Singapore Data Center
Singapore telecom giant Singtel’s data‑centre arm Nxera has opened DC Tuas, an 120,000‑sq‑ft, eight‑storey facility delivering 58 MW of power, the highest‑capacity data centre in the city‑state. More than 90% of its multi‑tenant capacity was pre‑leased, and the site features advanced...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 9, 2026
Top 7 Embedded Analytics Benefits for Business Growth
Embedded analytics moves data insights from isolated dashboards into the applications where decisions happen, cutting context‑switching delays. By delivering real‑time metrics within workflows, it accelerates decision cycles, boosts operational efficiency, and encourages higher user adoption. The approach also fuels customer...
By Datafloq
News•Feb 9, 2026
Global Chip Sales Are on Track to Hit $1 Trillion Thanks to AI
Global semiconductor revenue is projected to breach the $1 trillion mark, propelled by explosive AI demand. The Semiconductor Industry Association reported $791.7 billion in sales for 2025, a 25.6% year‑over‑year increase. Tech giants are pouring capital into AI‑focused data‑center infrastructure, accelerating the...
By TechSpot (sitewide)
News•Feb 9, 2026
From Penetration to Inclusion: How CRC Credit Bureau Is Re-Engineering Nigeria’s Credit Ecosystem
Nigeria’s credit penetration has topped 40%, signaling a rapid shift toward broader financial inclusion. CRC Credit Bureau, the country’s largest licensed bureau, has built the most comprehensive credit data ecosystem by pulling information from banks, fintechs, utilities, telcos, and digital...
By CFI.co (Capital Finance International)
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News•Feb 9, 2026
[Industry News] Yodo1 Unveils IPVerse to Eliminate High-Stakes Guesswork in Global Game Licensing
Yodo1 Games has launched IPVerse, a free data‑intelligence platform that consolidates global IP and licensing information for in‑game collaborations. The service draws from over 80,000 events, 20,000 brands and 15,000 games, offering AI‑driven matching, popularity indices and regional insights, including...
By MCV/Develop
News•Feb 9, 2026
UAE’s TII Challenges Big Tech Dominance with Open Source Falcon AI Models
The United Arab Emirates’ Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has released its Falcon family of large language models as open‑source, positioning the nation as a challenger to big‑tech AI dominance. Falcon models emphasize efficiency, with the 7‑billion‑parameter H1R delivering high‑performance reasoning...
By Computer Weekly – Latest IT news
News•Feb 9, 2026
Regina Obe: PostGIS Patch Releases
The PostGIS development team announced a series of bug‑fix patch releases covering versions 3.2 through 3.6, while designating 3.0.12 and 3.1.13 as end‑of‑life. New patches include 3.6.2, 3.5.5, 3.4.5, 3.3.9 and 3.2.9, each addressing stability and security issues. Users still...
By Planet PostgreSQL (aggregator)