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Some WordPress veterans and the Linux Foundation start FAIR, a federated update network to decentralize WordPress infrastructure and boost supply chain security (Chris Stokel-Walker/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91347003/wordp

WordPress veterans launch FAIR project to tackle security and control concerns
Backed by the Linux Foundation, the new federated update network aims to decentralize WordPress infrastructure, strengthen supply chain security, and restore trust amid growing tensions with Automattic.

It's not hyperbole to say that what we in the Fediverse are doing to build decentralized social media is important for the future of liberal democracy.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/05/take-back-our-digital-infrastructure-to-save-democracy/

🪧 Opposition to energy transition projects driven by local concerns rather than right-wing populism, finds study
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-opposition-energy-transition-driven-local.html

Opposition to energy transition projects driven by local concerns rather than right-wing populism, finds study
Proposals for new wind power infrastructure frequently face opposition in affected communities. While right-wing populists are often among the opponents, the question remains: are they actually driving these protests?

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

For some reason Terry Gilliam's Brazil comes to mind. Little did I know in 1985 this was where we were heading.
#dystopian, with damaged #social_infrastructure added to #ICE and

For some reason Terry Gilliam's Brazil comes to mind. Little did I know in 1985 this was where we were heading.
#dystopian, with damaged #social_infrastructure added to #ICE and

Last week, GÉANT joined #CoRDI2025 in Aachen 🇩🇪 with 600 participants from the research & infrastructure community.
Our CCO Cathrin Stöver gave a keynote on why GÉANT and our German NREN member @… — together with Europe’s NRENs — are indispensable for scientific le…

return to office full-time every politician says, doing nothing about the transit infrastructure crumbling around us.

🐚 The Colorado River is officially contaminated with invasive zebra mussels: Can the state stop the spread?
https://www.denverpost.com/2025/07/20/colorado-river-zebra-mussels-invasive-species/

The Colorado River is officially contaminated with invasive zebra mussels. Can the state stop the spread?
The Colorado River from Glenwood Springs to the Utah border is now considered positive for zebra mussels, an invasive species known to devastate ecosystems and clog critical infrastructure.

At the White House dinner, Zuckerberg said Meta plans to spend "something like at least $600B" through 2028 on data centers and other infrastructure in the US (Kalley Huang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/meta…

Meta Plans to Spend $600 Billion Through 2028 in the U.S., Zuckerberg Says
Meta Platforms plans to spend “something like at least $600 billion” through 2028 on data centers and other infrastructure in the U.S., Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday at a dinner with President Donald Trump and other technology executives. In July, Meta estimated its capital expenditures in 2025 would be between $66 billion and $72 billion, up at least 68% from its capital

The new @… recommendations for making network tariffs future-proof and reducing energy system costs are here, and they're good. I think this section of the document provides a good summary. More granular time- and location-based signals to adjust and shift energy use.

Survey for the management of undersea asset geodata.
https://ukhodigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/08/04/furthering-collaboration-on-uk-sub-surface-infrastructure-data/

Furthering collaboration on UK subsea infrastructure data – UK Hydrographic Office
News and updates from the UKHO

I typically bike on roads, or paved bike paths. I know everyone talks about "gravel bikes" and I didn't get it... I rode on gravel the other day (it's been a few decades since I last did) and I was like "This is terrible" and then I saw this today:
"The popularity of gravel is a result of failure in bicycle infrastructure and traffic laws"
I mean... I agree?

looking to score the domain http://browzone.com (it was part of some old infrastructure I’m recreating) but it’s currently for sale exclusively through GoDaddy for about 7 billion dollars. anyone know how to avoid paying the scam price and getting the domain for an actual decent price instead? @…

Ransomware Group Anubis has leaked what they extracted from Disneyland Paris
#ransomware

Ransomware.live 👀
Ransomware.live tracks ransomware groups and their activity. It was created by Julien Mousqueton, a security researcher. The website provides information on the groups' infrastructure, victims, and payment demands. It also includes a live map that shows the latest ransomware attacks.

Updating #infrastructure straight from the #hammock. #yoloOps

GÉANT’s GN4-3N project is a finalist in the European Digital Connectivity Awards 2025 🎉
We’re honoured to be nominated in the “Cross-border and international connectivity” category, recognising the GN4-3N project’s role in building a more inclusive, resilient, and future-proof network infrastructure for the European #Research &

As everyone, the #FSF infrastructure is suffering because of 'AI' crawlers:
«Our infrastructure has been under attack since August 2024. Large Language Model (LLM) web crawlers have been a significant source of the attacks»
«the server behind the Free Software Directory, has been under attack since June 18. This likely is an LLM scraper designed to specifically target Media Wiki sites with a botnet. This attack is very active and now partially mitigated.»
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots

Looks like EU funding of #FLOSS will continue: "Open digital infrastructure, from search and identity to cloud and software governance, is now a strategic European priority."

NGI Forum 2025 marks a strategic shift from Next Generation Internet toward the Open Internet Stack
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) Forum 2025, the flagship event of the European Commission’s NGI initiative, took place in Brussels on 19-20 June, with over 200 on-site participants and many more via web stream. The Forum focused on accelerating the shift from research and experimentation to the deployment of sovereign, open digital infrastructures.

Responding to the growing demand from organisations worldwide to reduce their dependency on US cloud providers, German software giant SAP has announced plans to invest more than €20 billion over the next decade in sovereign cloud infrastructure, research and development and personnel.

SAP promises €20bn+ to expand its sovereign cloud services
Responding to the growing demand from organisations worldwide to reduce their dependency on US cloud providers, German software giant SAP has announced plans to invest ...

The scale of investment and the involvement of governments means ROI must be found (or rather created) now, by any means necessary! Demand already is being forcefully created to justify these expenditures. Business models, regulations and policies/politics are pivoted in lockstep. Aside from all the conceptual, ethical and environmental issues of LLMs and their required infrastructure, these shifts are already also impacting chip/hardware production pipelines and start spelling the end of pe…

samim (@samim@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6m, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/ The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone* As a % of GDP, spending on AI infra has already exceeded spending on telecom and internet infrastructure from the dot-com boom—and it’s still growing. This spending is so big it’s acting as a sort of privat…

ServeTheHome backs off from deploying Arm-based storage servers in favour of AMD.
TL;DR: Hardware isn't available enough, not enough options and Proxmox wasn't easily available. It's still just for the hyperscalers.
https://www.servethehome.com/deploying-amd

On growth.
The UK is still fixed in a view that in order to reduce debt, take care of an aging and medicated population and provide as high a standard of living as possible and the Govt to get re-elected.
But that is neither true nor practical. The only things that would stimulate the UK economy are a generationally large investment in infrastructure (both physical and electronic) or a similar size war.
HS2 shows we can't do the former and we're scaled for police act…

It's time to slowly start moving my projects off the LLM Torment Nexus, formerly known as #GitHub. Projects related to #Gentoo will move to our own infrastructure, with GitHub mirrors / contribution channels for the time being. In the future, I will probably be replacing them with #Codeberg mirors / contribution channels.
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/cpuid2cpuflags.git

Investigating Document Type, Language, Publication Year, and Author Count Discrepancies Between OpenAlex and Web of Science
#OpenAccess

Investigating Document Type, Language, Publication Year, and Author Count Discrepancies Between OpenAlex and Web of Science
Bibliometrics, whether used for research or research evaluation, relies on large multidisciplinary databases of research outputs and citation indices. The Web of Science (WoS) was the main supporting infrastructure of the field for more than 30 years until several new competitors emerged. OpenAlex, a bibliographic database launched in 2022, has distinguished itself for its openness and extensive coverage. While OpenAlex may reduce or eliminate barriers to accessing bibliometric data, one of the…

Ouch, very familiar:
> I maintain the project alone, as over the years the community has not expressed a need for more active participation. This is typical for infrastructure-level solutions that users don’t interact with directly.
From https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/27/pop

Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev
updated: Fast-glob is widely used in government, security lab says

Uneven Lives VIII 👁️
不工整人生 VII 👁️
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ERA 100, expired 1994
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

"The Scale of Russian Sabotage Operations Against Europe’s Critical Infrastructure" by IISS.
https://www.iiss.org/research-paper/2025/08/the-scale-of-russian--sabotage-operations--against-europes-critic…

The Scale of Russian Sabotage Operations Against Europe’s Critical Infrastructure
This IISS paper assesses Russia’s unconventional war on Europe, focusing on sabotage of critical infrastructure, from military sites and energy grids to communications and undersea cables, testing the resilience of European governments and societies and challenging NATO/EU deterrence.

Two related news stories that hint of the destruction of US assets and infrastructure that are critical to the safety of all of us:
"Severe weather hits the US hard as key forecast offices reel from Trump cuts"
"Trump delays plan to cut satellite data access crucial to hurricane forecasting"

How could that not have been true?
I mean, it’s a game-focused OS by a game infrastructure specialist. https://ioc.exchange/@percepticon/114780114362950481

My latest for The Register, on the multi-decade challenge of improving security in the core of the Internet https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/27/systems_approach_securing_internet_infrastructure/?td=rt-3a

BGP’s security problems are notorious. Attempts to fix that are a work in progress
Systems Approach: Securing internet infrastructure remains a challenging endeavour

It's official! I'm speaking again at the International PHP Conference in Munich! 🎉
My talks:
"Content Management in the Age of AI: A Headless Approach" - How Headless CMS and AI are shaping the future of content
"Digital Souvereignity: Where to Put My Kubernetes?" - Practical experience with K8s on European infrastructure
Also looking forward to @…

Microsoft's Q4 earnings show its non-AI "core infrastructure business" is booming, with consumer productivity software revenue up 20%, its best uptick in years (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

"Battery cost is no longer the primary barrier to widespread maritime electrification. The critical bottleneck now shifts to shore-side infrastructure. Ports will need to rapidly scale up high-capacity charging stations, deploy substantial renewable energy generation resources, and potentially develop battery-swapping facilities to meet the surge in electricity demand from ships at berth."
#EVship

I like Cory's thread. Just like with bikes, fighting systemic issues requires personal choices AND mass mobilization. Personal choices, like getting a cargo bike* instead of an SUV to transport your kids around, help normalize it and influence others (who see you riding with your kid and realize that they can do that too). And then organizing, getting all of your neighbors together to push for safe bike infrastructure, which is particularly effective at the local level.

Germany now officially in direct conflict with Russia.
In the Netherlands, we have a double-failed government, clinging on with 21% support in parliament, and elections still two months away. Some time in 2026, we may hear more
https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/115117300…

NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@noelreports@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated that Russia is attempting to destabilize Germany, including targeting its infrastructure, and therefore Berlin is in direct conflict with Moscow.

For people hosting their own email infrastructure:
What kind of anti-spam measures do you use? (Comment if you use something else)
:BoostOK: Boost for more reach!

🌍🛰️ How NRENs & RRENs are powering Earth Observation (EO) research
In May, GÉANT and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) hosted the second infoshare on the critical role that NRENs & RRENs play in enabling EO research.
This session focused on the GEO Infrastructure strategy, highlighted inspiring user cases from partners such as EUMETSAT, and showcased the role of NRENs in supporting EO research, including stories from CSC and ASNET-AM.
👉 Read more:

Brazil: Protect the mangroves and tropical forests of Tauš-Mirim! https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1305/brazil-protect-the-mangroves-and-tropical-forests-of-taua-mirim

#petition Brazil: Protect the mangroves and tropical forests of Tauá-Mirim!
The people of the Tauá-Mirim region in the Amazon are urgently calling on the Brazilian government to protect their land. The rivers, mangroves and tropical forests south of São Luís in the state of Maranhão are threatened by infrastructure, industrial, and agricultural projects. Please support our petition.

Debunking myths about Scotland's wind energy production and high energy bills - understanding the importance of modernizing grid infrastructure for long-term affordability and reliability. #climatechange #climatesolutions

Community calls out misguided theory about electricity supply: 'You simply aren't understanding'
Scotland once again finds itself at the heart of a spirited online debate over its wind energy.

Running Critical National Infrastructure as a business has proven a recipe for failure
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/running-critical-national-infrastructure-as-a-business-has-proven-a-recipe-for-failure…

Running Critical National Infrastructure as a business has proven a recipe for failure
Using a business model of cost-cutting and even increasing profit margins does not work for public services, and should not happen

Etherealize, which develops products and infrastructure for financial institutions on Ethereum, raised $40M in a round co‑led by Electric Capital and Paradigm (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/09/03/etherealize-vi…

Exclusive: Etherealize raises $40 million to expand Wall Street’s use of Ethereum
Electric Capital and Paradigm led the round, which builds on an earlier grant from Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation.

#Intel has cancelled its plans to build #chip fabs in Europe, plus cuts in the US. For Magdeburg in east Germany, once the biggest new site to be build, this is no small matter.
I am preparing a project on the stranded industrial infrastructure in Magdeburg. From delay to pause to cancel, now wha…

In her #CORDI2025 keynote, Rosie Hicks from the Australian Research Data Commons is introducing The Future of Digital Research Infrastructure in Australia, starting with an icebreaker question: What do a mouldy lemon and a data repository have in common...?
https://

so why on earth were CNCF/K8s kicked off Slack's enterprise plan, anyway?
cost? how much can it cost to store a bunch of chat messages for two moderately popular OSS groups, ten dollars a day? all of the capital cost has been paid at this point, it's just the marginal one at question, which cannot be high unless Slack's infrastructure is dramatically worse than any reason could allow
the amount of goodwill they know they'll lose can't possibly compensate the c…

Finished my review and configuration guide of the Lilygo T-Deck Plus Meshtastic / LoRa radio. (This time with specs!)
All-in-all it's an interesting device, though the lack of a functional bluetooth radio while it's active is a real limiting factor in my use case, (as a personal radio that I can also use to remote admin other radios).
Anyway, see the full article if you're interested in more details; boosts/shares/comments are always welcome!

Review of Lilygo T-Deck Plus w/ Meshtastic
The Meshtastic project aims at offering text communication and low-bandwidth data across long distances without relying on any centralized third parties or corporate infrastructure, but most devices require a cell phone or laptop to actually interact with that network. The Lilygo T-Deck resolves this by offering an all-in-one product with a LoRa radio, GPS, and most importantly a full color touch screen and full QWERTY keyboard.

Nancy Mace boasts about securing $195M in infrastructure funds. She voted against the law that made it possible | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/nancy-mace-south-carolina-infrastructure-funds-b2811351.html

#Telegram, the #FSB, and the Man in the Middle
#Investigation
The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence…

Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle
The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.

https://techiegamers.com/texas-data-centers-quietly-draining-water/

A deep dive into Oracle's data center strategy and its emergence as an AI computing powerhouse, amid questions about the sustainability of the GPU business (SemiAnalysis)
https://semianalysis.com/2025/06/30/how-oracle-is-winning-the-ai-compute-…

How Oracle Is Winning the AI Compute Market
Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure business is firing on all cylinders and is greatly outpacing expectations. All eyes are on the high-profile Stargate JV and the massive Abilene, Texas datacenter…

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

I tried taking a new route to pick up my kid from camp (there's new bike infrastructure to check out). It was a bust, as half of it is under construction; the normal roads, not the bike infra.
On one of the residential roads where the top surface had been ground off for repaving, I got honked at & close-passed _twice_ by some asshole. The third time I caught up with him at a light, I screamed "yo wtf is wrong with you?". He rolled down his window and yelled, "fuc…

Utila, which is building an "operating system for stablecoins", raised a $22M Series A extension led by Red Dot, taking its total funding to $51M (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/369185/utila-trip…

Housing Price commentary - recognizing that housing costs are a function of many variables, and merely changing zoning may not reduce costs.:
https://www.planningreport.com/2025/07/22/dear-atlantic-stop-publishing-propaganda-housing…

Housing Price commentary - recognizing that housing costs are a function of many variables, and merely changing zoning may not reduce costs.:
https://www.planningreport.com/2025/07/22/dear-atlantic-stop-publishing-propaganda-housing…

«5% of our systems is infrastructure as code. 95% is infrastructure as Powerpoint»
I've seen too much of that 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXPpkzdS-q4

At this point, I would like to thank the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure and PKP PLK company for repeatedly delaying the electrification of railway line 203 on the Krzyż — Piła segment. As a result of this kind of good maintenance, during today's closing of the traffic on line 354 near Budzyń, PKP InterCity trains (with electric locomotives) needed to take a (longer) detour through Bydgoszcz, and therefore they did not cause any delays on lines 203 and 351. Thanks to that, I was able to easily catch my 10-minute change, and the whole ordeal only cost me 30 minutes total.
#rail

TIL Viet Nam is aiming to switch off IPv4 in favour of IPv6 by 2032. Which means that software and systems deployed *today* need to consider network environments where IPv4 is unavailable.
https://blog.apnic.net/2025/08/27/modernizing-viet-nam…

Modernizing Viet Nam’s Internet: Infrastructure, security, action | APNIC Blog
From routing security to nationwide IPv6-only, see how coordinated operations are building the future of Viet Nam’s Internet.

Nice,
"Europe Launches Its First Federated AI Factory Based on a Sovereign Multi-Cloud Infrastructure"
#ai #cloud #eu

One of the many interesting pages in the Future Energy Scenarios 2025, published today by NESO (🇬🇧 National Energy System Operator).
It focuses on the why, how and what of demand side flexibility.
Key: reward consumers, build trust, automate and smart tariffs.
EV smart charging gateway to more residential flex.
#EV

£100Bn or £20?
How much would water nationalisation cost initially?
If the companies are allowed to go bankrupt then the latter.
Of course then there will be more costs of investing properly in decent water infrastructure, water conservation and waste reduction and management.
But the public are being asked to pay for that, and profits and bonuses now.
Labour’s arguments on #WaterNationalisation

Labour’s arguments on water nationalisation reveal their total economic incompetence
This exchange took place in The Commons yesterday as Clive Lewis MP asked Steve Reed MP, the Environment Secretary, about nationalisation of the water industry: Clive Lewis (Norwich South) (Lab) I am afraid that the report feels like a missed opportunity for the Government to show the public whose side they are on....

NYC-based Carbyne, which offers cloud-based tools for emergency services, raised $100M from AT&T Ventures, Axon Enterprises, Cox Enterprises, and others (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/skhy4rdvgg

Carbyne raises $100 million to modernize emergency call infrastructure
With deployment in 23 U.S. states, the company is reshaping the way dispatchers respond to crisis situations.

de Tocqueville’s forgotten solution to America’s democratic crisis
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5360902-civic-infrastructure-democracy/

AI infrastructure company fal, which runs audio, video, and image models on behalf of enterprises, raised a $125M Series C led by Meritech at a $1.5B valuation (Anna Tong/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-infras

🌎 🌍 New agreement between GÉANT and EXA Infrastructure to deliver terabit expansion of R&E connectivity between #Europe and #NorthAmerica.
This strategic investment, procured under the GN5-IC1 project and planned in coordination with our community, with ESnet and with the ANA collaboration, …

GÉANT and EXA Infrastructure announce IRU agreement for terabit expansion of transatlantic R&E connectivity between Europe and North America | GÉANT CONNECT Online
GÉANT and digital infrastructure provider EXA Infrastructure are excited to announce the signature of an historical long-term agreement to deliver a major expansion of the transatlantic connectivity dedicated to Research and Education (R&E) collaboration between Europe and North America. Procured under GN5-IC1, the ambitious project planning and implementing GÉANT’s intercontinental connectivity investments, the new Indefeasible

Experts detail how the Trump administration has seriously weakened the public-private partnerships that protect US critical infrastructure from cyberattacks (Eric Geller/Cybersecurity Dive)
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/n…

‘Suspended animation’: US government upheaval has frayed partnerships with critical infrastructure
Recent federal cuts, reorganizations and other disruptions have alarmed industry leaders, who say the government is a less reliable partner even as cyber threats increase.

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

How AI has transformed data center design, with concerns about overspending on AI infrastructure, sparked by DeepSeek, fading amid the ongoing building frenzy (Financial Times)
https://ig.ft.com/ai-data-centres/

Inside the relentless race for AI capacity
The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed

The European Commission has published new requirements for EV charging points. These requirements will make hardware more expensive and add to the complexity of the already opaque pricing landscape for public EV charging. They also lack a focus on true interoperability from a user's perspective.

The delegated act amending the European Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) has now been officially published by the European Commission and will apply from 8 January 2026 onwards. | Jaap Burger
The delegated act amending the European Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) has now been officially published by the European Commission and will apply from 8 January 2026 onwards. From this date onwards, all newly installed public EV charging stations will be required to support the outdated EN ISO 15118-2 standard, without specifying the functionality. From January 2027 onwards, all new public and private EV charging points will be required to support EN ISO 15118-20, again wit…

Sources: CapitalG and Nvidia are in talks to invest in Vast Data, which could value the AI infrastructure provider at ~$30B, up from $9.1B in 2023 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/alphabets-capitalg-nvidia-…

[Part 2] The GÉANT (GN5-2) Above-the-Net Services Incubator is proud to award 4 projects set to advance digital services for European R&E 🎉
The awarded initiatives address service development priorities across three areas of strategic importance for the GÉANT community: Digital Research Environment (DRE), Object Storage Infrastructure, Data Movement Infrastructure.
👏 Big congratulations to the organisations leading these initiatives.
➡️ Meet the awarded projects:

Israel-based Teramount, which develops fiber-to-chip interconnect tools for AI infrastructure chips, raised a $50M Series A led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/h10z44udxg

Teramount raises $50M to supercharge AI chips with light
Israeli startup’s optical tech promises 100x data speeds and 70% power savings. 

Google plans to invest an additional $9B in Virginia through 2026 to boost its cloud and AI infrastructure, including a new data center in Chesterfield County (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Google to Invest Additional $9 Billion in Virginia Data Centers
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is investing an additional $9 billion in Virginia through 2026 to enhance cloud and AI infrastructure across the state, marking the latest in a series of big tech investments in US data centers.

Reliance launches a subsidiary called Reliance Intelligence, aiming to create national-scale AI infrastructure in India, in partnership with Google and Meta (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/billionaire-ambani-taps…

Billionaire Ambani taps Google, Meta to build India's AI backbone | TechCrunch
Reliance is launching a new subsidiary to drive India's AI ambitions, including a pending partnership with OpenAI.

M0, which develops stablecoin infrastructure to boost interoperability and liquidity, raised a $40M Series B led by Polychain and Ribbit Capital (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/08/28/m0-series-b-40-million-polychain-ribbi…

Exclusive: Crypto startup M0 raises $40 million to build out stablecoin network
Polychain and Ribbit Capital led the round, with participation from existing investors like Pantera and Bain Capital Crypto.

E2B, formerly FoundryLabs, which is developing an open-source, sandboxed cloud infrastructure for AI agents, raised a $21M Series A led by Insight Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/28/e2

E2B shares its vision of sandboxed, cloud environments for every AI agent after raising $21M in funding - SiliconANGLE
E2B shares its vision of sandboxed, cloud environments for every AI agent after raising $21M in funding - SiliconANGLE

NPCI, which runs India's digital payments network UPI, has started making its infrastructure available to banks to deliver short-term loans to small businesses (Financial Times)

Bengaluru, home to about 33% of India's 1,800 GCCs and key to the $300B tech industry, struggles as its infrastructure lags behind rapid tech sector growth (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c3ff0433-1736-4146-ab6b-cf9344108d54

The unsustainable boom in India’s Silicon Valley
Over the past two decades, Bengaluru has seen explosive growth in its tech sector. But the city’s infrastructure is not keeping up with the expansion

Sources: KKR is in talks to buy ST Telemedia Global Data Centres in a deal that could value the Asian digital infrastructure provider at more than $5B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-26/kkr-said-in-ta…

KKR Said in Talks to Buy Data-Center Firm STT GDC in $5b Deal
KKR & Co. is in talks to buy ST Telemedia Global Data Centres in a deal that could value the Asian digital infrastructure provider at more than $5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 56% YoY to $46.74B, above $46.06B est., Data Center revenue up 56% to $41.1B, and approves an additional $60B in share buybacks (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q2-2026.html

Nvidia beats on top and bottom lines. Here's why the stock is falling
Nvidia said sales growth this quarter will remain above 50%, signaling to Wall Street that demand for AI infrastructure shows no sign of fading.

AI infrastructure provider Crusoe acquires Israeli startup Atero, whose tech optimizes GPUs for AI workloads, in a cash and stock deal estimated at ~$150M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkdw11antlx

Rising AI unicorn Crusoe buys one-year-old Israeli startup Atero in $150M deal
The US AI infrastructure company is acquiring the GPU management firm in a cash-and-stock deal. 25 Atero employees will become the company’s development center in Israel. 

Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity end a 2022 project offering free cybersecurity tools to critical infrastructure sectors at risk from Russian attacks (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/…

Cyber firms sunset free services meant to counter Russia-linked hacking threats
The 2022 initiative by Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity provided cybersecurity support to critical infrastructure sectors seen as potential targets of Russia-linked attacks.

Medallion, which automates healthcare back-office operations and compliance, raised $43M at a valuation of around $440M, bringing its total raised to $130M (Medallion)
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-r…

Medallion Raises $43 Million to Expand AI Infrastructure and Launch the First National Credentialing Clearinghouse
/PRNewswire/ -- Medallion, the leader in AI-powered provider network infrastructure, today announced it has raised $43 million in new funding. Acrew Capital...

The White House unveils the AI Action Plan, seeking to assert US dominance over China, including proposals to ease permitting for AI infrastructure projects (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-23/whit…

NetBox Labs, whose open-source tools help manage networks and are used by CoreWeave, ARM, Cisco, JP Morgan, and Riot Games, raised a $35M Series B (Marcus Schuler/implicator.ai)
https://www.implicator.ai/netbox-labs-secures-35-milli…

NetBox Labs Raises $35M Series B as AI Drives Network Demand
NetBox Labs raised $35M as companies scramble to manage complex networks. The AI boom creates massive infrastructure demand, and legacy tools can't keep up. The open-source platform now serves Fortune 500 firms.

New York-based Talos, which develops digital asset trading infrastructure, says it acquired blockchain data provider Coin Metrics, a source says for over $100M (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/07/16/talos-crypto…

Exclusive: Crypto infrastructure giant Talos acquires Coin Metrics for more than $100 million
The deal is the latest in a flurry of M&A activity in the crypto sector.

Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics, which makes robots to inspect infrastructure, raised a $125M Series D at a $1.25B valuation, up from $633M in December 2023 (Ian Thomas/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/gecko-robotics-…

Gecko Robotics raises $125 million in deal valuing critical infrastructure startup over $1 billion
Gecko Robotics, which uses robots and AI to inspect and monitor critical infrastructure, has raised a $125 million, bringing its valuation to $1.25 billion.

The UK plans to ban public sector and key infrastructure orgs from paying ransoms to ransomware attackers, require others to notify the UK if they plan to pay (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…

Sources: the US State Department has effectively dismantled its three-year-old Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, firing between nine and 11 staffers (Eric Geller/Cybersecurity Dive)
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/state-depart…

State Department cyber diplomacy firings and changes threaten U.S. defenses
Departures and restructuring will make it harder for the agency to pursue global policies that strengthen its own critical infrastructure, experts said.

Germany-based Q.ANT, which is developing energy-efficient photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, raised a €62M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/07/17/qant-raises-eur62m-to-transform-the…

Q.ANT raises €62M to transform the future of computing with photonic processing
Germany-based Q.ANT, a pioneer in photonic processing, has secured €62 million Series A financing round to accelerate the commercialisation of its energy-efficient photonic processors for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC).  As AI infrastructure scales globally, traditional chip technology (CMOS) reaches its physical limits, performance stagnates, and electricity demand is reaching untenable levels. According to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA…

Sources: Meta has poached Frank Chu, an Apple exec who led AI teams focused on cloud infrastructure, training and search, despite Meta's plans to slow hiring (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

London-based Noah, which is developing API-focused stablecoin infrastructure to enable real-time cross-border payments, raised a $22M seed led by LocalGlobe (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/10/noah-thijn-lamers-stable…

Exclusive: Stablecoin startup Noah raises $22 million, adds Adyen vet as cofounder
“I feel like I have the energy of [when I was] 25,” said Thijn Lamers, who is 66 years old.

Austin-based Autonomize AI, which develops AI agents for automating administrative workflows in healthcare and life sciences, raised a $28M Series A (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2025/06/12/autonomize-ai-raise…

Exclusive: Autonomize AI gets $28M for health agents
It's the latest sign of investor appetite for infrastructure-layer AI in health care.

Berlin-based Payrails, whose platform helps enterprises accept payments, issue payouts, and more, raised a $32M Series A, taking its total funding to $52.8M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/12/payrails-ra

Payrails raises $32M Series A to boost payment performance for global enterprises
A global payment software company Payrails, has raised $32 million in Series A funding to further its mission of enabling enterprises to take control of their payment operations.  Founded by former fintech leaders from Delivery Hero, Payrails’ founding team brings deep experience building global, scalable financial infrastructure. With the continued backing of leading technology investors, Payrails is strengthening its position as a category-defining payment platform for large enterprises. …

An interview with Sam Altman on spending billions on AI infrastructure, wanting Chrome if it's really selling, AI models saturating the chat use case, and more (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/15/sam-altman-gpt5-launch-chatgpt-future
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Sam Altman: Never mind the launch mess — full speed ahead
After the GPT-5 furor, the OpenAI CEO is more determined than ever to build big and spend trillions.

Sources: Meta plans its fourth AI restructuring in six months, dividing Superintelligence Labs into TBD Lab, a product team, an infrastructure team, and FAIR (Kalley Huang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-plans-fourth…

Meta Plans Fourth Restructuring of AI Efforts in Six Months
Meta Platforms is planning the fourth restructuring of its artificial intelligence efforts in six months, according to three people familiar with the matter. Meta’s new AI organization, Meta Superintelligence Labs, is expected to be divided into four groups: a new lab that has been going by TBD ...

AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously, raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and others (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/10/2025/co…

Construction tech startup AIM raises $50M to fuel expansion
The firm that retrofits heavy equipment into autonomous machines, backed by Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst, can help fill the construction industry’s huge labor gap and growing infrastructure demand.

Sources: Zerohash, which provides crypto and stablecoin infrastructure, is raising ~$100M at a ~$1B valuation, up from $340M when it raised a Series D in 2022 (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/07/11/

Exclusive: Crypto and stablecoin infrastructure startup zerohash to raise $100 million at almost $1 billion valuation
The company is the latest beneficiary of venture capital’s booming interest in stablecoins.

The US NSF and Nvidia partner to fund the Open Multimodal Infrastructure to Accelerate Science project, led by Ai2; NSF is contributing $75M and Nvidia $77M (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/14/nsf-nvidi…

NSF and Nvidia partner develop fully open AI models to lead US science innovation - SiliconANGLE
NSF and Nvidia partner develop fully open AI models to lead US science innovation - SiliconANGLE

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns the UK lacks the digital infrastructure needed to capitalize on AI despite "incredible" research talent, as PM Starmer pledges £1B (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cc04adfb-81b2-477f-b85c-ce042e8f83a8…

Nvidia chief says UK lacks digital infrastructure as Keir Starmer pledges £1bn for AI
Jensen Huang seeks ‘sovereign’ artificial intelligence deals that diversify US chip giant’s business away from Big Tech groups