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 identified as the primary catalyst, accounting for 34 percent of Q4 growth, while Amazon retained the largest market share at 28 percent. Google and Microsoft posted faster growth, together holding 35 percent of the market.
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Lumen Slashes Debt, Downplays AI Bubble Concerns
Lumen Technologies sold its consumer‑focused fiber business to AT&T for $5.75 billion, using $4.8 billion of the proceeds to retire its super‑priority bonds and cut total debt to just under $13 billion. The divestiture eliminates more than $1 billion of annual capex, allowing the...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
