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Juan Pedro TomásPritesh Swamy, head of data center research and advisory for the APAC region at Cushman & Wakefield, told RCRTech that Australia’s operational data center capacity increased 20% between December 2024 and December 2025 In sum – what to know: Pipeline growth – Australia’s data center pipeline grew 72% year-over-year, driven by rising AI and cloud infrastructure demand. Power constraints – …
SK Telecom and SK Innovation signed separate memoranda of understanding with Vietnam’s Nghe An Province and the National Innovation Center (NIC) on potential collaboration across AI data center infrastructure, power supply, and broader AI ecosystem development in Vietnam In sum – what to know: Vietnam expansion – SK Group signed agreements in Vietnam focused on AI data centers, power infrastructure, …
Tito Costa, chief revenue officer at Tecto, told RCRTech that the company’s model combines high-capacity environments for large processing volumes with a distributed infrastructure, closer to users and regional demands In sum – what to know: Enterprise shift – Brazilian companies are driving demand for AI-ready infrastructure beyond hyperscalers. Hybrid architecture – AI Grid and AI Factory combine distributed and …
Susana SchwartzWith grid interconnection delays exceeding three or four years, BESS helps data center builders and operators achieve longer-duration energy management This is part-2 of a 3-part series on Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), in which we talk to Juan González Martínez, former Energy Manager USA for Mexico City-based IGSA Power, and a specialist specializes in providing critical power infrastructure for IT …
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 …
Sulagna Saha The frenzy to adopt AI often overshadows the importance of evolving testing approaches. But autonomy cannot be achieved without rethinking testing Business executives have always been quick to acquire and deploy the latest technologies in the network to make it faster, more performant — and ultimately autonomous. But adoption of AI at a giddy pace has brought up new challenges …
Sulagna Saha Digital twin — a technology that is redefining sectors from manufacturing to telecom and those in between — is at the heart of network assurance As service assurance becomes a critical business differentiator, industries from manufacturing and utility to space research and telecom are all turning to one technology that is reimagining the way we test products and services: Digital …
Sulagna Saha Spirent said the new feature will allow operators to test clusters’ ability to support 5G cloud-native network functions pre-deployment In sum – what to know: A new benchmarking function — Spirent just added an infrastructure benchmarking capability to the larger Landslide test application. Repeatable test workflows — The feature provides test workflows that can be used to benchmark existing and …
Sulagna Saha As networks grow heavier and more complex with addition of AI applications, testing and validation approaches are evolving to keep up Artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded in modern network infrastructures. A roll of new use cases have emerged in the recent years, making room for AI to be implemented at every layer and detail of the network to augment it …
