Qatar's Ooredoo Group is leading an $800 million investment as founding shareholder with a 49% stake in Zankore, a dedicated AI compute and neocloud platform launched by Indonesia's Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison in partnership with Nokia and Nvidia, targeting 1 GW of AI infrastructure capacity to serve the Asia-Pacific region.
AI company Anthropic has secured a six-year, $10 billion computing capacity contract with Volta Infra Holdings, a cloud infrastructure startup less than a year old that is backed by Nvidia and supported by a $1.3 billion JPMorgan credit facility. The deal will utilize a Norwegian data center powered by hydroelectric energy and equipped with Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips.
AMD unveiled its EPYC 9006 Series server processors at Advancing AI 2026, featuring up to 256 cores and 512 threads across SP7 and SP8 platforms. Major server manufacturers including ASUS, MSI, and Ace Computers announced systems based on the new chips, targeting agentic AI, cloud computing, HPC, and enterprise workloads.
Alphabet increased its full-year capex estimate to $195-205 billion, up from previous guidance, as it invests heavily in AI infrastructure. The company's cash flow turned negative despite strong cloud revenue growth, with investors expressing concern over mounting AI expenses.
OpenAI announced it will acquire Ona, a company specializing in secure cloud execution and orchestration technology, to integrate its capabilities into OpenAI's Codex ecosystem, which serves more than 5 million users.
