Twenty-eight startups and software vendors are already using Nvidia-based infrastructure provided by Indosat to build solutions for various sectors
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National AI effort – Indosat, Cisco, and Nvidia are backing Indonesia’s AI Center of Excellence, focused on local innovation, infrastructure and skills...
Editor’s note: I’m in the habit of bookmarking on LinkedIn and X (and in actual books, magazines, movies, newspapers, and records) things I think are insightful and interesting. What I’m not in the habit of doing is ever revisiting those insightful, interesting bits of...
According to Dell’Oro, early use cases of AI RAN will center on Distributed RAN, single-purpose deployments and 5G networks
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AI RAN momentum – AI-driven RAN solutions will account for nearly one-third of the RAN market by 2029, focusing initially on...
Agentic AI success in telecom depends on the availability of meticulously curated, multi-domain data derived from network transactions and interactions
Agentic AI tops many telecom providers’ strategic objectives for 2025. Recognizing its potential, some providers are already investing in AI agents to enhance customer care....
LG plans to drive growth by expanding its industrial and commercial B2B revenue — including from AI data center cooling
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LG targets AI-era HVAC – LG Electronics plans to become a global HVAC leader by 2030, driven by growing demand for...
As demand for AI infra skyrockets, three new developments highlight the challenges and shifts ahead. In the U.S., the Department of Energy is sounding the alarm: Data centers are pushing the power grid to its limits and planned renewable projects won’t be enough to...
Top US cloud service providers continue to lead growth in the AI server market, according to TrendForce
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AI momentum – Global AI server shipments are projected to rise 24.3% in 2025, slightly below forecasts due to U.S. export restrictions and...
To manage the rising power demands of AI, ZTE has integrated a number energy-saving cooling technologies in the new 'AIDC' solution
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Dual-mode – Each container module handles both general-purpose and AI computing with air or liquid cooling, offering flexibility for...
As AI workloads explode, so does the demand for next-gen infrastructure. In the first quarter of 2025, global spending on physical data center infrastructure surged 17% year-over-year, according to a recent report by Dell’Oro Group. Hyperscalers and colocation providers are racing to deploy high-density...
Neoclouds aim to bridge a gap between centralized hyperscale clouds and highly distributed telecom networks
As telecom operators face mounting infrastructure demands — from AI workloads to cloud-native 5G networks — the industry is entering a new era of cloud strategy. At the center of...
LG Uplus, LG Electronics and LG CNS are testing AI and digital twin technology to improve cooling efficiency at LG Uplus data centers
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Group pilot – LG Uplus, LG Electronics and LG CNS are testing AI and digital twin technology to...
Through the acquisition, CoreWeave will own approximately 1.3 GW of gross power across Core Scientific's national data center footprint
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Mega deal – CoreWeave is to acquire Core Scientific in an all-stock deal, gaining control of 1.3 GW of power capacity...
New micro data center facilities will rely on locally developed AI chips to provide low-latency AI services to SMEs, hospitals, and public institutions in South Korea.
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Local chips – the initiative supports the construction of regional edge data centers using...
1Finity consolidates Fujitsu’s global network-related organizations under one entity
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Global focus – Fujitsu has launched 1Finity as a standalone network communications subsidiary, aiming to boost autonomy and global competitiveness in optical and wireless network solutions.
Accelerating delivery of agile solutions –...
Ooredoo said the AI cloud platform will be run by local data center company Syntys, which was spun out of Ooredoo in March of this year
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Sovereign AI cloud goes live – Ooredoo launched Qatar’s advanced sovereign AI cloud service, powered...
In Google's 10th annual report, the company said it reduced emissions even as its data center electricity consumption rose by 27% in one year
'Tis the season for environmental sustainability reports, it seems, with the GSMA recently releasing its Mobile Net Zero report on telecom...
OpenAI revealed as the source of a newly signed $30 billion a year cloud contract for Oracle
Multiple news outlets have confirmed that the eye-popping, $30 billion-a-year contract that Oracle revealed earlier this week is with artificial intelligence company OpenAI.
It was already known that the...
The report also noted that 85% of current operational capacity in APAC is colocation-based—significantly higher than in the Americas (60%) and EMEA (75%).
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Asia Pacific will lead in colo – Cushman & Wakefield projects APAC will surpass the U.S. with 23.9...
Emerald AI is responding to an increasingly urgent issue: the rising power demand from AI data centers is outpacing the capabilities of current grid infrastructure
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Software turns AI data centers into grid assets – Emerald AI’s Conductor software adjusts compute workloads...
Arista said the acquisition will better prepare it for next-generation SD-WAN demands as AI-driven data center traffic reshapes WAN requirements
Arista Networks has agreed to acquire VMware’s former VeloCloud Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technology from Broadcom, expanding its portfolio beyond traditional data center and...
During its global summit, Alibaba Cloud also launched its first AI Global Competency Center (AIGCC) in Singapore
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AI center opens in Singapore – Alibaba Cloud launched its first AI Global Competency Center, aimed at supporting 5,000 businesses and training 100,000 developers...
EdgeMode said it expects the transaction to position the company for growth in the AI infrastructure field, leveraging its access to investment capital, M&A strategy and BAIF’s development pipeline
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Merger targets 4.4 GW pipeline – EdgeMode and BAIF will form a...
Oracle revealed news of another huge cloud contract, on top of accelerating growth
Oracle has signed a cloud services contract worth $30 billion a year which will start hitting its books in fiscal year 2028, according to a company filing.
In a fair disclosure filing...
The unique demands and power density ofAI factories require new approaches to cooling and power delivery
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Purpose-built AI cooling deployed – BASX developed a custom, zero-water chiller system for Applied Digital’s Polaris Forge 1 data center in North Dakota, optimized for...
