Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
Compass Datacenters $5.5B sale - Digital Bridge and Brookfield bidding (Data Center Dynamics)
Privately held Compass Datacenters is up for sale - and Digital Bridge and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners are bidding in an auction that is expected to end next month.
CoreWeave secures $200 million in funding, potentially billions more from Microsoft
Cloud provider CoreWeave (NVIDIA-backed) which specializes in GPU-accelerated workloads announced an additional $200 million in funding from Magnetar Capital. Also — CNBC reports that Microsoft MSFT has agreed to spend potentially billions of dollars over multiple years on cloud computing infrastructure from CoreWeave. Remember earlier in the year Microsoft made a $10 billion agreement with OpenAI.
NVIDIA NVDA 0.00%↑ (trillion dollar market cap), Computex in Taiwan, Jensen Huang ….. just too much awesomeness this past week. Google the news… but also read this article and watch this video of Jensen’s keynote.
GRC announces HashRaQ MAX immersion cooling for crypto (DCNN magazine)
GRC says the new HashRaQ MAX system features a high-performance cooling distribution unit (CDU) that supports high-density configuration and is capable of cooling 288kW with warm water when outfitted with 48 Bitmain S19 miners.
DOE Announces $46M for Commercial Fusion Energy Development (HPC Wire)
On Friday the U.S. DOE announced it has funded eight companies to advance designs and research and development for fusion power plants. The awardees were Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Focused Energy Inc., Princeton Stellarators Inc., Realta Fusion Inc., Tokamak Energy Inc., Type One Energy Group, Xcimer Energy Inc., and Zap Energy Inc. Less than a month ago Microsoft signed a 50MW power purchase deal with private nuclear fusion company Helion Energy.
Lightmatter raises $145 million to deliver photonic products for AI and HPC workloads (Businesswire)
Having raised a total of over $270 million to date, the Boston-based company will use the funds to deliver a full stack of hardware and software solutions to realize the benefits of photonic compute and interconnect technologies.
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