AI Infrastructure & Data Centers

Dubai – October 29, 2026 -- Flytxt's agentic AI platform Niya-X has won a bronze Stevie Award in the "Best AI-Powered Product" category at the 23rd International Business Awards (IBAs), the company announced. The 2026 IBAs drew more than 3,400 nominations from 82 countries and territories, with winners scored by over 200 business professionals across specialized judging committees during an independent evaluation process in June and July.

Dubai – September 12, 2026 -- Flytxt's agentic AI platform Niya-X has won a Bronze Stevie Award in the "Best AI-based Solution" category at the 23rd annual International Business Awards (IBA), selected from over 3,400 entries submitted by organizations across 82 countries and territories.

Niya-X positions itself as an "AI Expertforce" beyond copilots and task-based agents

Flytxt describes Niya-X as moving past AI copilots that assist users and task-focused agents that automate work. The platform deploys domain-specialized AI experts designed to understand enterprise goals, formulate strategies, make decisions, coordinate actions and continuously learn from outcomes.

Dubai – September 12, 2026 -- Flytxt has won a Bronze Stevie Award in the "Best AI-driven Product" category at the 23rd Annual International Business Awards for its agentic AI platform Niya-X.

Niya-X moves beyond task automation to autonomous decision-making

Unlike AI co-pilots that assist humans or task-oriented agents that automate workflows, Niya-X deploys domain-specific "AI Experts" capable of understanding business goals, formulating strategies, making decisions, coordinating actions and learning continuously from outcomes. The platform relies on causal learning and counterfactual modeling to simulate and evaluate alternative market scenarios before selecting the course of action most likely to achieve a desired result, while operating within defined corporate governance and data-privacy constraints.

CLEVELAND – October 29, 2026 -- Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine will join a DCD Connect Virginia 2026 panel on November 4 to press for tighter alignment between data center construction and operations, after YOTTA 2026 discussions showed developers shifting from single buildings to full-campus power, cooling and water systems.

YOTTA 2026 participants flag megawatt capacity as the measure of project scale

Discussions at YOTTA 2026 centered on the growing adoption of modular construction and on critical specification decisions being made before projects reach the bid stage. Participants also named megawatt-related power capacity as a defining yardstick of project size, which raises the weight of power delivery, cooling systems and water resources.

San Francisco – October 29, 2026 -- Plato, a startup that builds simulated workplaces for training AI models, raised a $16 million Series A round led by Nava Ventures, lifting its total funding to $19 million.

Gradient Ventures, Transpose Platform and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman also participated. Gradient Ventures had led the company's earlier seed round. Nava Ventures founder Freddie Martignetti joins Plato's board.

Simulations let AI labs train models without touching live systems

Plato targets the shift from AI that answers questions to AI that takes action. Training models directly in live software carries real risk: a model learning to place an order could spend actual money, and one practicing an administrative task could alter real records. Plato recreates these workflows in simulations that can be reset and reused.

SINGAPORE – October 29, 2026 -- OneQode has signed an agreement with AdaniConneX for 14 MW of data center capacity in Siruseri Sipcot, Chennai, with talks continuing on an expansion of up to 114 MW that the company says could generate more than US$6 billion in GPU-as-a-service total contract value.

The deal is OneQode's first major AI infrastructure deployment in India. The Chennai site will host large-scale AI training and inference, enterprise AI and sovereign AI workloads, and forms part of OneQode's Asia-Pacific buildout alongside its deployment in Thailand.

NEW YORK – October 29, 2026 -- Lektra, Inc. began taking orders for EdgeStart, a self-contained 8-GPU NVIDIA server cabinet priced from $310,197, under a model in which the company pays building owners 80 percent of the revenue from AI computing sold on their premises.

Lektra installs the cabinet, operates it remotely and sells its capacity to AI customers for inference and other GPU workloads through Lektra Cloud. Targets include commercial and industrial building owners, solar and storage sites, and energy developers that have underused space and existing solar arrays or batteries.

Two EdgeStart models carry installed prices of $310,197 and $840,951

The EdgeStart RTX uses eight NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs and draws about 7 kW at peak. Lektra estimates owner earnings of about $9,700 a month in the first year.

Las Vegas – October 29, 2026 -- Oracle said new NVMe block-storage attachment options across Oracle Acceleron bare metal and VM shapes improve performance by up to 3x, as it expanded its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) networking suite for AI workloads at Oracle AI World.

Oracle extends NVMe block storage and RDMA connectivity to more AI workloads

The NVMe options target AI, database and other data-intensive workloads. Separately, Oracle Acceleron High-Performance Fabric adds RDMA connectivity on OCI front-end compute, aimed at inference, storage and HPC deployments.

Oracle Collective Communications Library reroutes traffic across the backend Multiplanar Network when links fail

The library spreads collective traffic across OCI's backend Multiplanar Network and steers it toward healthier paths. Oracle says workloads recover instantaneously when links, ports or NICs fail.

Columbus – October 29, 2026 -- Vertiv Holdings Co. (NYSE: VRT) has introduced Vertiv SmartIT, a factory-validated AI infrastructure platform built on NVIDIA MGX and OCP ORV3 architectures, available now for global deployments.

The solution integrates rack infrastructure, DC power conversion and distribution, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, in-rack cooling distribution and monitoring. Vertiv validates these systems before shipment, which limits on-site commissioning to connections with facility power and cooling. It was previously deployed with NVIDIA to support the NVIDIA DGX GB300.

SmartIT supports four NVIDIA systems from single-rack to multi-rack scale

The platform supports NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, Vera Rubin NVL72, DGX Rubin NVL8 and HGX Rubin NVL8. Customers can expand from one rack to several without redesign between phases. Target buyers are enterprises, research institutions and colocation providers.

Riverside, Calif. – October 28, 2026 -- EDGE Sound Research has raised an additional $2 million led by Stormbreaker Ventures, bringing its total funding to $9 million as it extends sensor technology proven in live sports into physical AI, robotics and autonomous systems.

Fresh capital funds sports deployments and a push into physical AI

The company will use the money to continue deployments with live sports broadcasters, leagues and venues. It will also expand its proprietary multimodal sensor data and develop applications for robotics, autonomous systems and intelligent environments.