Dhiraagu has opened its third data center in the Maldives, located in N. Velidhoo. The Tier III facility aims to support local businesses and resorts with improved data hosting capabilities. This expansion comes as the telco positions itself as a key connectivity hub in the region.
Microsoft is making a massive $10 billion bet on AI infrastructure in Portugal. The investment will fuel data center development in Sines through partnerships with Start Campus and Nscale. This comes as Microsoft dramatically increases its data center leasing to handle AI compute demands.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed the company is exploring selling compute capacity directly to other businesses. This move could position OpenAI as a cloud provider competing with tech giants. The strategy might help fund their massive AI infrastructure investments.
VMware’s partner ecosystem is undergoing massive changes under Broadcom’s ownership. The new VCSP program eliminates thousands of partners while focusing exclusively on technical specialists who can drive VMware Cloud Foundation adoption.
Amazon has acquired the Devlin Technology Park site in Prince William County for $700 million. The 270-acre property can support up to 3.5 million square feet of data center space. This represents one of Amazon’s largest recent land acquisitions for its expanding cloud infrastructure.
Snowflake is going after PostgreSQL developers with open source extensions that connect directly to Apache Iceberg tables. The move comes after their $250 million acquisition of Crunchy Data in June. It’s all about making Snowflake more accessible without forcing architectural changes.
One of Microsoft’s highest-ranking channel executives has defected to Google. David Smith managed over $100 billion in partner-driven revenue during his nearly 30-year Microsoft career before making the surprising move.
Google is working on Project Suncatcher, an ambitious plan to deploy AI data centers in space. The company aims to launch prototype satellites with TPUs by early 2027, leveraging constant solar power and optical interconnects. This could solve Earth’s data center energy and location problems.
Snowflake just announced a major platform upgrade that could solve enterprise AI’s biggest bottleneck. Their new Agentic Document Analytics can query and aggregate across thousands of documents simultaneously, moving beyond simple retrieval to actual analysis.
OpenAI just inked a massive $38 billion cloud partnership with AWS that gives them access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs. The seven-year deal comes right after the company restructured and confirmed its $500 billion valuation. This marks a significant expansion of OpenAI’s multi-cloud strat
