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EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure closed $1.5 billion in senior secured term loans for AS01 and AS02 in Sterling, Virginia, two single-tenant facilities totaling 114 MW and 685,000 square feet, with AS01 going live in November 2026 and AS02 in July 2027.

Q4 FY2026 results, announced May 6, 2026: revenue up 20%, license revenue up 29%, and AGI CPU demand running at twice the previously stated level.

Nvidia receives a five-year option on 30 million IREN shares at $70 each while paying IREN $3.4 billion over five years for Blackwell cloud capacity at Childress, Texas.

Six-company collaboration publishes Multipath Reliable Connection 1.0 through the Open Compute Project on May 6 after production use in OpenAI's Blackwell-class supercomputers at Microsoft Fairwater and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Abilene.

Shanghai-based optical computing firm Lightelligence raised about US$306 million on April 28, 2026 in a Hong Kong IPO whose retail tranche was oversubscribed nearly 5,800 times, opening at HK$880 versus an HK$183.20 offer price for a roughly HK$81.5 billion market capitalization at the open.

Beijing-backed Orbital Chenguang secured $8.4 billion in credit lines from twelve Chinese banks to build a gigawatt-scale orbital computing constellation by 2035, opening a state-aligned third front against SpaceX and Blue Origin in the race to put AI compute in orbit.

Meta will deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores to power CPU-intensive agentic AI workloads in a multiyear, multibillion-dollar partnership that AWS describes as one of its largest Graviton commitments to date and that extends Meta's push to diversify beyond Nvidia.

South Korean memory giant reported 37.6 trillion won in operating profit on 52.6 trillion won in revenue, a 405% year-over-year jump and the highest operating margin in its history at 72%, as HBM and high-density server DRAM rode an AI-driven demand wave.

Meta's first Oklahoma data center — a 2-million-square-foot AI facility in East Tulsa — was grandfathered past a city moratorium that paused similar projects, drawing local protests.

At Cloud Next 2026, Google overhauled its AI cloud stack: Vertex AI becomes the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a new Agentic Data Cloud offers cross-cloud data access via Apache Iceberg, and the Virgo Network delivers 47 Pb/s to connect 134,000-chip training clusters.

Amazon's third major Anthropic investment deepens the two companies' infrastructure partnership, with Anthropic pledging over $100 billion in AWS spending over ten years.

MLCommons' April 2026 inference benchmark round adds text-to-video and vision-language tests while NVIDIA posts a 2.7x jump on DeepSeek-R1 through software alone.