Digi Power X has secured 200 million dollars in debt financing for its Alabama data centre project, the company announced via GlobeNewswire, another mid sized AI power and hosting build funded on contracted capacity rather than speculation.
DayOne has secured 3.67 billion dollars in funding for its Malaysian data centre expansion, according to reports flagged in this morning’s gap check as single sourced; Malaysia’s Johor corridor keeps converting Singapore’s constraints into financed gigawatts.
Bumble has agreed to a 1.3 billion dollar acquisition, reports flagged as single sourced in the gap check said, as the online dating sector consolidates under pressure from falling engagement and AI driven competition.
Disney has offered 20 million dollars for Character.AI’s chatbot technology, according to reports flagged in the gap check, a small price for a scandal scarred asset and a sign of how completely the consumer chatbot land grab has repriced.
GlobalFoundries will build and operate two new chip fabs in New York as part of a 21 billion dollar US-Japan agreement, according to reports flagged in the gap check; the structure, a US foundry expansion inside a bilateral industrial deal, mirrors the SK Hynix licence story published here this morning.
IBM has opened a quantum computing hub in Seoul with Korean partners, and Cisco and the World Bank have launched a digital resilience programme for emerging markets, two reminders that the infrastructure race has a diplomatic layer running beside the commercial one.