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Susana SchwartzCBRE is the largest commercial real estate services and investment firm in the world. RCRTV’s AI TechTalk spoke with CBRE’s Pat Lynch, executive managing director for Data Center Solutions, and Gordon Dolven, director of Data Center Research, Americas about CBRE’s recently released “North American Data Center Trends H2 2025.” The report reveals that the North American data center market is experiencing …
Juan Pedro TomásBell framed the investment in the new AIDC as part of a structural shift in infrastructure demand In sum – what to know: Infra-first AI strategy – Bell is focusing on infrastructure, not chips, using a tenant-funded model to avoid hardware risk while targeting stable, infra-like returns. Fully contracted capacity – The 300 MW facility is already backed by long-term …
Cognizant said the platform is part of its wider “AI Builder” strategy, which focuses on enabling enterprises to deploy AI applications In sum – what to know: Enterprise AI platform – Cognizant AI Factory unifies the full AI lifecycle across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, targeting the shift from pilots to production-scale AI. Fractional GPU model – The platform uses Nvidia …
With Nebius deal, Meta is doing whatever it takes to build out or acquire data centers, silicon, and software – both reducing its reliance on other players and diversifying who it relies on for AI infrastructure. Yesterday’s announcement that Meta has entered a five-year deal for up to $27 billion with Dutch neocloud provider Nebius Group helps validate Nebius’s standing as a …
Christian de LooperQualcomm apparently wants to be the next major ASIC builder In sum – what we know: Qualcomm has reportedly agreed to supply ByteDance with millions of custom AI chips for data center workloads, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter. It’s a deal that, if it plays out as described, would mark one of Qualcomm’s first genuine large-scale …
AMD’s 256-core flagship targets agentic AI workloads In sum – what we know: AMD has moved its 6th Gen EPYC “Venice” server CPUs into volume production, marking the transition from engineering samples and pilot runs into scaled manufacturing at TSMC’s 2nm fabs in Taiwan. The chips are built on AMD’s Zen 6 core architecture and TSMC’s N2 2nm-class node, with commercial …
The new Google-Blackstone-powered provider targets 500 MW of capacity by 2027 In sum – what we know: Google and private equity giant Blackstone are teaming up to build a U.S.-based AI cloud provider built around Google’s custom Tensor Processing Units. The new joint venture will sell data center capacity, networking, operations, and TPU compute as a bundled service — effectively a turnkey …
Blaize and Winmate want to bring secure, real-time decision-making to defense and critical infrastructure without cloud reliance In sum – what we know: Edge AI is quickly becoming one of the most contested fronts in the broader AI infrastructure race, and this week brought another notable tie-up. Blaize Holdings and Winmate have announced an updated agreement to jointly develop sovereign, …
Telecom operators must rethink workforce training as networks and customer expectations evolve. Immersive, AI-driven roleplay and realistic practice environments can improve retention, strengthen customer-facing skills, and prepare distributed teams to …
As India accelerates its digital transformation, resilient, intelligent connectivity is becoming essential for global enterprises seeking to scale operations, ensure business continuity, and unlock opportunities across the country’s fast-growing AI, …
The company’s AI Data Center GPU Cloud is intended for customers facing restrictions on transferring data overseas and those seeking infrastructure optimized specifically for the Japanese market In sum – …
Panelists say defense networks must assume day-one attack and lean on civilian infrastructure to stay up The definition of resilience in defense communications is shifting, and so is the way …
