Crunchbase News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Thats not all The Anthropic news comes just after OpenAI made waves of its own, as the White House announced a new partnership between the ChatGPT developer, SoftBank and Oracle to help build out $100 billion to $500 billion in AI datacenters and infrastructure. The new undertaking has been dubbed the Stargate Project.

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CIO

APRIL 9, 2025

In an era when artificial intelligence (AI) and other resource-intensive technologies demand unprecedented computing power, data centers are starting to buckle, and CIOs are feeling the budget pressure. There are many challenges in managing a traditional data center, starting with the refresh cycle.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Artificial intelligence is an early stage technology and the hype around it is palpable, but IT leaders need to take many challenges into consideration before making major commitments for their enterprises. Analysts at this week’s Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo spent tons of time talking about the impact of AI on IT systems and teams.

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2024

ADIB-Egypt has announced plans to invest 1 billion EGP in technological infrastructure and digital transformation by 2025. The investment in digital infrastructure is not just an extension of these efforts, but a strategic move to drive efficiency, innovation, and customer satisfaction to new heights.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 9, 2025

billion to develop data centers in Spain. In 2023, it partnered with Digital Realty to develop $7 billion in data centers targeting providers of online content, cloud services and artificial intelligence. Last year it was reported the worlds largest asset manager plans to invest $8.2

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CIO

AUGUST 19, 2024

AWS, Microsoft, and Google are going nuclear to build and operate mega data centers better equipped to meet the increasingly hefty demands of generative AI. Earlier this year, AWS paid $650 million to purchase Talen Energy’s Cumulus Data Assets, a 960-megawatt nuclear-powered data center on site at Talen’s Susquehanna, Penn.,

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

By Katerina Stroponiati The artificial intelligence landscape is shifting beneath our feet, and 2025 will bring fundamental changes to how enterprises deploy and optimize AI. Startups are nimble and motivated to find efficient, cost-effective alternatives to fuel their AI infrastructure.

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CIO

JUNE 19, 2024

Data centers are hot, in more ways than one. Not only are enterprises and hyperscalers building or expanding their facilities to accommodate increasing interest in artificial intelligence, but that same AI is gobbling power, and thus creating heat — a lot of it. And that means cooling costs are also growing.

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CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has upped the ante across all tech arenas, including one of the most traditional ones: data centers. Modern data centers are running hotter than ever – not just to manage ever-increasing processing demands, but also rising temperatures as the result of AI workloads, which sees no end in sight.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Earlier this week, life sciences venture firm Dimension Capital announced it had raised a new $500 million second fund just two years after its first to hunt for startups that are using artificial intelligence to develop new medicines. billion through early December, per Crunchbase data.

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

In my role as CTO, I’m often asked how Digital Realty designs our data centers to support new and future workloads, both efficiently and sustainably. Digital Realty first presented publicly on the implications of AI for data centers in 2017, but we were tracking its evolution well before that.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI (genAI) and blockchain are revolutionizing operations. CIOs manage IT infrastructure and foster cross-functional collaboration, driving alignment between technological innovation and sustainability goals.

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CIO

MAY 6, 2024

The Data and Cloud Computing Center is the first center for analyzing and processing big data and artificial intelligence in Egypt and North Africa, saving time, effort and money, thus enhancing new investment opportunities.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Close to a third of all global venture funding went to companies in AI-related fields, making artificial intelligence the leading sector for funding. billion in 2023 Crunchbase data shows. Infrastructure and data provisioning to manage and operate AI grew. Early stage flat Early-stage funding was flat in Q4.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 10, 2025

billion to develop data centers in Spain. In 2023, it partnered with Digital Realty to develop $7 billion in data centers targeting providers of online content, cloud services and artificial intelligence. Last year it was reported the worlds largest asset manager plans to invest $8.2 billion.

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Crunchbase News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As AI technology advances, it’s putting ever-increasing strain on existing data centers and associated power sources. To keep up, we’ll need to build a lot more infrastructure. Participants include Microsoft , Blackrock , Global Infrastructure Partners and United Arab Emirates AI-focused investment fund MGX.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 23, 2025

It was reported MGX a $100 billion artificial intelligence-focused investment vehicle founded by sovereign wealth fund Mubadala and Abu Dhabi-based AI company G42 plans to contribute about $7 billion to the new Stargate Project. In October, MGX participated in the second-largest round of 2024, this time for OpenAI s $6.6

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CIO

MARCH 5, 2024

billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region. Chinese competitor Huawei also has invested $400 million in cloud infrastructure for its services in Saudi Arabia. If I go back three years, there was limited cloud adoption in Arab states,” he said.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Look at any science-fiction vision of our technological future and you’ll find a world dominated by artificial intelligence. All those struggles may be coming to a head soon as we may stand on the precipice of an explosion in robotics and artificial intelligence. This has not come about by accident, either.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

CIOs need to revamp their infrastructure not only to render a tremendous amount of data through a new set of interfaces, but also to handle all the new data produced by gen AI in patterns never seen before. The AI revolution is forcing a modernization of the data center across all industries, says Hardy.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This development is due to traditional IT infrastructures being increasingly unable to meet the ever-demanding requirements of AI. By offering organizations greater control over their data, the Dell AI Factory is a more affordable alternative to public cloud solutions for businesses regardless of their size.

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CIO

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Enterprise infrastructures have expanded far beyond the traditional ones focused on company-owned and -operated data centers. The IT function within organizations has become far more complex in recent years.

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2025

Data sovereignty and local cloud infrastructure will remain priorities, supported by national cloud strategies, particularly in the GCC. How do you foresee artificial intelligence and machine learning evolving in the region in 2025? What specific use cases do you expect to become more widespread?

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Venture money wasnt concentrated in just one sector, as VCs invested in everything from artificial intelligence to biotech to energy. tied) Anthropic , $1B, artificial intelligence: Anthropic, a ChatGPT rival with its AI assistant Claude, is reportedly taking in a fresh $1 billion investment from previous investor Google.

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CIO

MARCH 31, 2025

Sovereign AI refers to a national or regional effort to develop and control artificial intelligence (AI) systems, independent of the large non-EU foreign private tech platforms that currently dominate the field. Ensuring that AI systems are transparent, accountable, and aligned with national laws is a key priority.

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CIO

APRIL 9, 2025

Applications can be connected to powerful artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics cloud services, and, in some cases, putting workloads in the cloud moves them closer to the data they need in order to run, improving performance. Theres no downtime, and all networking and dependencies are retained. Refresh cycle.

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CIO

MAY 5, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI), an increasingly crucial piece of the technology landscape, has arrived. More than 91 percent of businesses surveyed have ongoing — and increasing — investments in artificial intelligence. Artificial Intelligence With it, organizations can accelerate AI advancements.

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CIO

JULY 12, 2022

Enterprises today require the robust networks and infrastructure required to effectively manage and protect an ever-increasing volume of data. Notably, the company offers cloud solutions with built-in security and compliance to the hypervisor for the peace of mind that results when infrastructure is audit-ready at all times.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Surging demand for AI computing power will strain the supply chains for data center chips, personal computers, and smart phones, and, combined with “continued geopolitical tensions and other supply risks, could trigger the next semiconductor shortage,” a report released Tuesday by Bain & Company stated.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In the early 2000s, most business-critical software was hosted on privately run data centers. DevOps fueled this shift to the cloud, as it gave decision-makers a sense of control over business-critical applications hosted outside their own data centers.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 1, 2025

Not surprisingly, artificial intelligence led the way for big funding rounds last month, but that wasnt the only tech that interested investors. Safe Superintelligence , $2B, artificial intelligence: AI research lab Safe Superintelligence snatched its second large raise in fewer than seven months. billion valuation.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Automation, artificial intelligence, and 5G require an open, flexible IT infrastructure. In other words, does your IT infrastructure allow for easy integration of data sources to speed business decision-making? Does it allow for easy application migration to the cloud?

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CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

billion in Germany by the end of 2025 to double the artificial intelligence and cloud capacities of its data centers there. We need a strong digital infrastructure and the right skills. In addition, new infrastructure is planned in the Rhenish mining district in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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CIO

JUNE 15, 2023

Finance is poised to undergo a transformation, as Artificial Intelligence (AI) steps in to make real-time decisions using vast data sets. This vision was outlined by Jason Cao, CEO of Global Digital Finance at Huawei, during Huawei Intelligent Finance Summit 2023. This model treats entire data centres as computers. “We

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) have emerged as key areas of opportunity for innovation and business transformation. The power density requirements for AI and HPC can be 5-10 times higher than other data center use cases. Traditional workloads tend to be in the range of 5-8 kW per rack.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 25, 2024

But the brilliant gleam of that potential is preventing us from clearly seeing a huge concern — we may not have enough electricity to power the growing number of AI-focused data centers. But renewable energy isn’t a great fit for data centers, which need a consistent power source to stay running.

Data Center 113

Data Center Sustainability Data Energy 113

CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

That’s why SaaS giant Salesforce, in migrating its entire data center from CentOS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, has turned to generative AI — not only to help with the migration but to drive the real-time automation of this new infrastructure. This is going to change how infrastructure is managed.”

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