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Mistral AI secured $830 million in debt financing to support its initiative to construct 200 megawatts of data center capacity throughout Europe.
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Read at Data Center Knowledge→
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Cloud infrastructure provider Vultr is reportedly seeking a substantial funding injection of at least $1 billion, which could be structured as debt, equity, or a hybrid of both financing sources.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Reports indicate that Starwood is evaluating its strategic options for the European data center firm Echelon, which could command a valuation of approximately €4.5 billion if a sale is executed.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Echelon Data Centres has successfully arranged €1.7 billion in loan financing from Morgan Stanley, with these funds earmarked to support the company's ongoing expansion efforts across Europe.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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Echelon's Dub20 project is set to become the first energy park officially recognized by the government for its commitment to green energy.
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Read at Bisnow→
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LaSalle Investment Management successfully secured $370 million in commitments for its inaugural global fund focused on decarbonization initiatives.
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Read at Bisnow→
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The Army has selected KKR and Carlyle for a $4 billion contract involving the development and operation of data centers situated on United States military bases.
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Read at Bisnow→
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Amazon Web Services has been awarded the contract for the United Kingdom's Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs data center services, succeeding Fujitsu in managing the transition away from three United Kingdom facilities.
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Read at Data Center Dynamics→
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The European Commission has confirmed a security breach of its public web infrastructure where attackers successfully exfiltrated data, issuing a brief notification to affected Union entities without providing extensive details regarding the incident's methodology.
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Read at The Register→
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“Hard Disk Direct canceled my confirmed server RAM order citing "out of stock" — the exact SKU was on their website in stock 6 hours later. Then they repriced it 4x overnight. All documented.”
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A user documents a vendor's alleged bait-and-switch tactic where a confirmed, charged order for server memory was canceled due to a supposed long-term stock shortage, only for the identical item to reappear in stock hours later at a drastically inflated price.
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Read at r/sysadmin→
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“Contractor access keeps getting extended week by week because project managers wait until the last minute”
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An IT staff member describes the frustrating, recurring cycle of being forced to grant last-minute, rolling weekly access extensions to contractors because project managers fail to complete necessary paperwork before automated deprovisioning occurs.
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“How do you discover and manage applications that were never onboarded to your IdP”
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After a security breach highlighted massive blind spots, an organization is struggling to gain visibility and manage lifecycle for dozens of legacy, custom, or vendor applications that bypass their Okta SSO solution, as traditional IGA tools lack the necessary connectors.
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