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Umbrella term for the data centers, power, cooling, and semiconductor/memory supply chains that support large-scale AI computing workloads.
Applied Digital holds about $36 billion of contracted AI hosting revenue and plans to bring over 600 MW online in the next 12 months. On Crypto Briefing's figures that is about $25.5 million per leased megawatt, and the company is still booking a GAAP loss while it builds.
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Penguin Solutions grew fourth-quarter sales 68% to $567 million, against 26% for the full fiscal year, on a 158% jump in memory revenue. Its $2.43 billion fiscal 2027 guide asks for little more than that quarter's pace repeated four times.
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Toshiba is spending about 60 billion yen to double its AI data-center hard-drive capacity by March 2028, its first major HDD investment in about five years. Its target of a 30% share of the market by storage capacity, roughly triple today's, depends on denser drives as well as new lines.
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Micron's fiscal fourth-quarter revenue reached $54.23 billion, up from $11.32 billion a year earlier, on demand for memory in AI data centers. Guidance of about $61.5 billion for the next quarter makes memory pricing a cost that teams building AI hardware should plan for through 2027.
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Six Samsung affiliates will put $1 billion into Helix, KKR's AI data center and power company. Four of the five business lines Samsung tied to the deal are data center construction, operations, cooling and backup power, so the stake is also a bid for Helix's orders.
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BrightRay signed a framework deal to supply prefab modules for a 40MW, five-story AI data center in Macau due in Q3 2027. The deal does not oblige anyone to buy a module yet, so tenants looking for dense AI racks there should treat that date as a target.
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A hyperscaler that tested hollow-core fiber between two data centres has come back with a follow-on order worth nearly twice the round the company just closed.
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The chipmaker has taken a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, reportedly several hundred million dollars, and its reference design now enters at land assembly.
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Record data center revenue of $75.2 billion and a 25-fold dividend increase sit next to a second-quarter guide implying 11.5 percent sequential growth, against 20 percent just delivered.
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Starman Optical is paying $285 million of cash and clearing $92 million of debt for 90 percent of a Nasdaq listing, which prices GoPro standalone near $317 million and leaves the retained tenth resting on transceiver numbers nobody has published.
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The optical interconnect startup is now past a billion dollars in outside funding, with Nvidia, AMD and MediaTek on the cap table since March, and its chief executive says everything has to be qualified for volume production by the end of 2027.
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A loan quoted below par is the only continuously updated figure anyone has on Oracle's quarter-built New Mexico AI campus, and whether it prices the buildings or the tenant's rating decides how much a stall report matters.
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The Nasdaq's 2.26% record close ran on Meta's Muse agent and the chipmakers it is supposed to sell more of. The commitments behind AMD's first $1 trillion valuation come from Microsoft and Anthropic.
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Vaughn Crowe has been underwriting manufacturing since 2020 and closed an $80 million second fund last year. The deals list on the same Fortune page totalled $545 million, and $395 million of that went to AI data-center work.
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Nvidia's Vera Rubin lineup sells a CPU, an inference part and storage and networking racks around the Rubin GPU, so a custom accelerator bids on one line of five while the efficiency argument moves to the data path.
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Hyperscalers absorb about two-thirds of AI outlay, so rack-scale kit is now packaged for sovereign clouds, neoclouds and enterprises that cannot staff a GPU fabric team.
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Seoul plans to park above-trend tax revenue in a Future Response Fund for AI and advanced industry, estimated at a minimum of 100 trillion won next year, with 20% reallocation latitude.
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