Prysmian has signed a €5.5bn, 10-year agreement with Molex, the Koch Industries-owned connector and cable maker, to supply optical cable for use inside AI data centres. Unusually for a supply deal of this size, Molex is putting €550m on the table upfront, a rare piece of cash certainty in a market where most commitments arrive […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
The AI boom runs on chips and electricity. It also runs on glass. Amazon is paying Corning billions of dollars for optical fibre to wire up its rapidly expanding US data centres, the two companies sai [...]
Fujikura, the Tokyo-based fibre-optic cable manufacturer, is raising prices on the cables that connect servers inside AI data centres. CEO Naoki Okada told Bloomberg the company is on track to beat it [...]
While attention fixes on Nvidia and the AI models, the companies quietly wiring the data centres together are booming. Eoptolink, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has filed for a Ho [...]
Nebius Group said on Wednesday that it plans to raise $4.5 billion by selling convertible bonds. It will use the money to build data centres for artificial intelligence. The Amsterdam-based company se [...]
Summary: SoftBank Corp. plans to convert part of the former Sharp LCD factory in Sakai, Osaka into one of Japan’s largest battery production lines for AI data centres, with production expected withi [...]
Uniper, the German energy giant that Berlin rescued from collapse three years ago, is betting its next chapter on the server racks now reshaping Europe’s power market. The utility plans to invest ar [...]
Deutsche Telekom has agreed to buy two of Poland’s best-known fibre businesses, Fiberhost and INEA, from the Australian investment group Macquarie, in a deal worth roughly €1bn and aimed squarely [...]
Higgsfield AI did not exist before March 2025. Fifteen months on, the video startup is in talks to raise money at a $5bn valuation, four times its worth at the start of the year. The company is seekin [...]
Fractile, a British startup building chips for artificial intelligence, is in advanced talks to raise money at a valuation more than six times what it fetched three months ago, Bloomberg reported. The [...]