AI Infrastructure & Data Centers

Global – November 10, 2026 -- CIQ told delegates at AI Infrastructure Field Day that roughly 9,000 GPU nodes cost about $15.6 million in GPU hours for every 30 days they sat idle, according to a CIQ calculation based on one customer's deployment. The company used the figure to argue for building AI infrastructure from independent, replaceable layers instead of buying a single-vendor stack.

CIQ says AI stack layers change on one-to-three-month cycles

CIQ's presenter said every layer of the AI stack is changing at once, with some layers turning over every one to three months and hardware revised within a year. In the customer example, GPUs arrived before the rest of the data center was ready. Teams under production pressure often request a complete AI factory from one vendor, which commits them to that vendor's fixed view of the stack at one point in time.

Global – November 10, 2026 -- CIQ says Rocky Linux from CIQ Pro AI (RLC Pro AI) deploys a GPU node in 3 minutes 44 seconds on the happy path and delivered 18% more model-loading throughput than Ubuntu 24.04 with the HWE kernel. The company presented the results at AI Infrastructure Field Day.

RLC Pro AI ships CUDA, NVIDIA drivers and tested frameworks inside the OS

The Enterprise Linux distribution bundles CUDA, the NVIDIA drivers, and frameworks such as PyTorch and Ollama, all tested together. On other distributions, CIQ says, a new GPU node means finding the right driver, compiling kernel modules, adjusting boot parameters and rebooting before a matching framework can be installed.

Global – November 10, 2026 -- CIQ's Fuzzball orchestration software lets operators describe an HPC or AI job in one YAML file and run it across five cloud platforms and on-premises clusters, so a new workload type no longer requires a separate stack, according to a session at AI Infrastructure Field Day.

One YAML file defines compute, containers, data and job order

A Fuzzball workflow specifies the compute each job needs, the container images it runs, the data it uses and the sequence of jobs. A training job can request GPUs, and a serving job can depend on it. Deployment targets are AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, CoreWeave and Azure, alongside on-premises clusters. Where an operator runs more than one cluster, Fuzzball places each job by cost, performance and data locality.

Anchorage – November 10, 2026 -- Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy has launched InvestNorth, a state-sponsored infrastructure financing platform built on Plural's AssetOS, alongside a new state entity, Alaska Data Corporation LLC (AKDC), to attract data center investment to the state.

AKDC will use state capital alongside private developers to site data centers

AKDC is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA). It will work with digital infrastructure developers to site distributed data centers in communities across Alaska. Its stated aim is to keep the value of the buildout in the state. Digital infrastructure is the first target industry, funded from capital the state has set aside for technology projects statewide.

Seoul – November 10, 2026 -- MOVIN, a LiDAR-based 3D motion data AI company backed by NAVER D2SF, has raised KRW 10 billion in a Series A round to expand from markerless motion capture into motion data infrastructure for physical AI.

IMM Investment led the round, with participation from Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) and Voyager Ventures. Existing investors Atinum Investment, NAVER D2SF and Schmidt made follow-on investments. It is NAVER D2SF's third consecutive investment in the company, after a 2023 seed round and a 2025 pre-Series A round. That pre-Series A raised KRW 4 billion.

Las Vegas – November 10, 2026 -- Hyperscale Data (NYSE American: GPUS) plans an exchange offer for up to 192,307,692 Class A common shares at an implied $0.26 per share, an 82% premium to the November 6 close of $0.1429.

Each 100 common shares convert into $2.00 in cash and one 12% preferred share

Holders can tender blocks of 100 shares for one unit. Each unit consists of $2.00 in cash and one preferred share with a $24.00 stated value. The preferred stock carries an annual dividend of 12.00%.

The offer requires holders to tender at least 100 million common shares.

Hyperscale Data targets a November 17 launch and a NYSE American listing for the preferred

The AI data center operator expects to launch the offer around November 17, 2026. Launch remains subject to board approval, regulatory approval and customary closing conditions. Terms will be set out in an Offer to Exchange filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

MESA – November 10, 2026 -- XNRGY Climate Systems shipped nearly 115 XNChillers and 500 airside units in October, delivering more than 350 MW of cooling capacity to North American customers in a single month.

October output equals nearly 100,000 tons of refrigeration

The company described the result as a record. The shipments add up to nearly 100,000 tons of refrigeration and more than 70 million cubic feet per minute (CFM) of air-handling capacity. The equipment is designed for high-density AI data centers and hyperscale facilities.

Sacramento – November 10, 2026 -- NSF International has registered Infinium EDGE ETV100 Immersion Fluid in Category HT1 for heat transfer applications with possible incidental food contact, and certified it PFAS-Free under NSF Certification Guideline 537, Infinium announced.

NSF applies food-plant heat transfer standards to a data center fluid

ETV100 now meets the same NSF requirements applied to heat transfer fluids used in food and beverage processing plants. To earn HT1 status, NSF reviews a fluid's formulation and labeling against U.S. FDA regulations (21 CFR).

ETV100 runs Infinium Edge's single-phase immersion cooling systems, including Vector ONE modules deployed through the EdgeSites program. EdgeSites converts existing powered commercial and industrial buildings into AI data centers that use zero freshwater for cooling.

Ho Chi Minh City – November 08, 2026 -- Stavian Chemical has been ranked in the Fortune Southeast Asia 500 for a second consecutive year, while parent Stavian Group used the inaugural Fortune SEA500 Summit 2026 to argue that infrastructure will determine who captures AI-driven growth in the region.

Stavian High Tech Infrastructure chairman outlines four conditions for AI growth

Le Dang Dung, Chairman of Stavian High Tech Infrastructure, spoke on the panel "Building the AI Growth Engine." He said the success of the AI economy depends not only on technological advancement but on four infrastructure-related foundations: digital connectivity, energy resilience, investment capacity and talent development.

Stavian Group participated as a Partner of the summit, held in Ho Chi Minh City under the theme "New Horizons, Enduring Growth." Policymakers, investors and business leaders from across Southeast Asia attended.

Redwood City – November 06, 2026 -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) has opened SG6, its sixth International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Singapore, with an initial investment of approximately $290 million. The first phase delivers 8 MW of capacity and roughly 1,550 cabinets, and full build-out will reach up to 20 MW of IT capacity.

SG6 targets high-density GPU deployments with liquid cooling

The facility is designed for AI, high-performance computing and data-intensive workloads. It uses proprietary cooling systems and liquid-cooling capabilities built to accommodate power-intensive GPU infrastructure.

SG6 is among the first data centers developed under Singapore's Data Centre Call for Application framework. It adds to Equinix's global footprint of more than 280 data centers.