Houston, September 1, 2026 — The next bottleneck in artificial intelligence may not be chips. It may be heat. That is the thesis behind SLB’s $4.1 billion acquisition of Kelvion, a global provider of thermal management and heat-exchange technologies. The oilfield-services giant has agreed to acquire Kelvion for approximately $3.4 billion in cash and assume … Read more
In 2020, building a data center cost roughly $7.7 million per megawatt of capacity. By 2026, that global benchmark has climbed to $11.3 million per megawatt — a 47% increase in six years, driven mostly by construction labor, electrical equipment, and land scarcity near power-rich sites. That was already a steep curve. Then artificial intelligence … Read more
New Delhi: NVIDIA has introduced a new revenue-sharing and credit-support business model aimed at expanding access to large-scale AI computing infrastructure for startups, enterprises, AI model developers, research organizations, and regional cloud providers. The initiative reflects the rapidly evolving AI landscape, where demand is shifting from training large language models to running production-scale AI inference … Read more
A new McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report, “Colocation data centers: The infrastructure race behind AI,” lays out a striking number: global data center demand could almost triple between 2025 and 2030 — from about 82 gigawatts (GW) to roughly 220 GW. AI alone is expected to drive nearly 70% of that growth, with AI-related demand … Read more
India wants to be a global data centre superpower, and on paper, the numbers back that ambition. The country’s installed data centre capacity crossed roughly 1,700 MW by the end of 2025, up from just 950 MW in 2024, and cumulative investment commitments in the sector hit $126 billion by the close of the same … Read more
February 2, 2026: A consortium led by KKR is close to finalising a major acquisition of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres in a transaction that could value the company at more than S$13 billion ($10.22 billion), as reported by Reuters, citing a report from The Wall Street Journal. According to the report, KKR is pursuing … Read more
