KKR and global investment partners launch Helix, a US$ 10 billion AI infrastructure company
KKR, a global investment firm, has launched Helix Digital Infrastructure (Helix), a company focused on developing and financing infrastructure for artificial intelligence data centers and related assets. Helix was launched in partnership with Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), NVIDIA, a multinational technology company, and Vistra, a Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and power generation company, with […]
Nebius to invest £1.7 billion in UK for AI infrastructure expansion
Nebius, an AI cloud company, plans to invest approximately £1.7 billion (US$ 2.3 billion) in new AI infrastructure in the UK by building three new facilities with a combined capacity of 65 MW by 2027. The investment adds domestic computing capacity as the UK government pushes to expand the country’s AI capabilities through its AI […]
STT GDC expands Jakarta AI DC to advance 360MW pipeline
Singapore-headquartered data center platform ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), yesterday announced a major expansion of its Jakarta campus which includes the launch of the 24MW STT Jakarta 2, the topping out of STT Jakarta 3, and the groundbreaking of STT Jakarta 5 and STT Jakarta 6. The latter two facilities are planned to support […]
SK Telecom and NVIDIA to build GW-scale AI infrastructure in South Korea
SK Telecom and NVIDIA have announced plans to build a gigawatt-scale AI Cloud in Korea, with the first AI factory coming online in 2027. This AI Cloud will power training, inference and agentic workloads including sovereign, physical and enterprise AI services for companies and industries across Korea, with the vision to expand to greater Asia […]
IREN targets Bundey transmission hub for 800MW Australian data centre campus
Australian AI cloud provider IREN has announced plans for its first Australian data centre campus, selecting a site at Bundey in South Australia where it has secured an 800MW transmission connection through one of the state’s most significant future energy infrastructure hubs. The company said it has signed a transmission connection agreement supporting a planned […]
WhiteFiber signs US$ 160 million AI compute deal in Paris
WhiteFiber, a vertically integrated Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure solution provider, has signed a five-year agreement to provide AI compute infrastructure to an investment-grade technology customer in the Paris region. The contract is valued at more than US$160 million over five years. According to a press release, the project will use […]
NVIDIA reports record US $81.6 billion in revenue
NVIDIA reported first-quarter results for the period ended April 26, 2026, with revenue of US$ 81.6 billion, up 20 percent from the previous quarter and up 85 percent year over year (YoY). The technology company is also changing its reporting structure to two platforms: Data Center and Edge Computing. Data Center will include Hyperscale and […]
BT and Nscale partner to build sovereign AI DCs with NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure in the UK
British Telecom (BT), the UK’s primary mobile telecommunications service provider, and Nscale, a UK-based artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure company and “neocloud” hyperscaler, plan to develop sovereign AI data centers in the United Kingdom (UK) using NVIDIA full-stack AI infrastructure. The goal is to expand domestic AI computing capacity using trusted national networks so organizations can […]
Mistral raises US$ 830 million in debt financing to fund AI DC in France
Mistral AI, a French generative artificial intelligence (AI) company, has reportedly raised US$ 830 million to buy 13,800 NVIDIA chips for a major data center near Paris. The data center in Bruyeres-le-Chatel is expected to become operational in the second quarter of 2026. According to a report by Reuters, a consortium of seven banks enabled […]
HammerHAI Europe’s new AI supercomputer
The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has signed a contract with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deploy HammerHAI, the first standalone supercomputer under its AI Factories initiative. It will be installed at the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) in Germany to support AI, machine learning, and data science for European research, industry, […]