Bharti Airtel to increase stake in Airtel Africa through share swap
Will see the Indian telecoms giant increase stake to 79%
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The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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Alibaba Cloud needs 10x its 2022 compute capacity, says CEO Eddie Wu
While Tencent Cloud struggles to generate an ROI from GPUs
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Goldman Sachs acquires Canadian data center firm QScale
Company sold after strategic review earlier this year
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Moody’s: Hyperscaler capex forecasts marked up by $85bn, to close in on $1trn by 2027
Capex to reach $785bn in 2026, according to Moody’s forecasts
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Cerebras prices its IPO at $185 a share, expects to raise $5.5bn from sale
Share price above the expected range
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Fractile raises $220m to accelerate development of AI inference chips
Series B round was co-led by Accel, Factorial Funds, and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund
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Investment firm Snowhawk closes first digital opportunities fund
Secures $1.3 billion in commitments to Fund I and co-investments
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FCC approves EchoStar's $40bn spectrum sales to AT&T, SpaceX
The regulator says the sales will boost competition while enhancing D2D rollout
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Texan startup Casimir raises $12m to support development of quantum vacuum energy chip
MicroSparc chip generates “continuous electrical power” by harvesting energy from quantum vacuum fields
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H2CHP raises £1.5m to fund low-carbon generators for data centers
Brings the total raised since inception to £3.5m
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Telenor splits ownership structure of IoT unit Connexion
Mats Lundquist will continue as CEO of Telenor Connexion
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Canadian quantum startup Photonic Inc. closes $200m funding round at $2bn valuation
Extended round brings total raised by the company to more than $350m
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Xavier Niel sells off 6% stake in Belgian telco Proximus
After a failed bid to launch a takeover
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Supercapacitor co. Skeleton Technologies raises €33m as it targets 2027 IPO
Power technology firm welcomes new investors
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Satellite firm Aetherflux rebrands to Cowboy Space Corporation, raises $275m Series B
Robinhood luminary pursues vertical orbital data center/rocket empire, quintuples its Series-A
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John Malone offers to buy out GCI Liberty's proposed 6% stake in Liberty Latin America
Just days after GCI Liberty had announced it would buy a six percent stake in Liberty Latin America
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Aussie investment firm Alceon launches data center fund, invests in Insite DC
Insite targeting sites in Sydney and Melbourne
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Amazon acquires leased data center in Virginia for $65 million
Company buys site from Menlo Equities
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VoltaGrid raises $1bn from Blackstone and Halliburton to expand power system offering for data centers
Acquires manufacturing partner Propell
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Fermi's ousted CEO fights for return, company claims he is "attempting to fill the board with his acolytes to force a sale"
Toby Neugebauer remains the largest shareholder, but has lost the support of the second largest shareholder in messy spat
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Quantum computing startup FrostByte raises €1.3 million for cryogenic CMOS tech
TU Delft spin-out raises pre-seed money
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AiOnX secures hyperscale tenant for Irish data center campus outside Dublin
Tenant likely Amazon, first phase due to launch later this year
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ABB invests $200m to expand medium-voltage manufacturing across Europe to support data center growth
Aims to strengthen supply for utility, industrial, and data center customers
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GCI Liberty snaps up 6% stake in Liberty Latin America for $107m
As GCI Liberty changes name to Liberty Capital Corporation
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K-drama and K-pop focused holding firm looks to sell off legacy assets, pivot to AI and data centers
Company partners with asset manager IGIS for AI efforts, after previous pivot to Bitcoin
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Nscale secures $790m in financing for Norway data center project
Funding comes with an additional $790m uncommitted accordion feature for further expansion
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Anthropic signs $1.8bn cloud contract with Akamai - report
Akamai announced major contract last week
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Iren acquires Spanish data center developer Nostrum
Busy week for the former crypto company