Space computing startup Starcloud has raised $250 million in a Series A extension funding round, valuing the company at $2.3 billion post-money as it scales infrastructure to build orbital AI data centers. The round was led by investment firm Manhattan West, with Nvidia and Cisco Investments joining as prominent new backers alongside returning venture investors including Benchmark, EQT, Soma, NFX, and 776. Nvidia contributed approximately $25 million directly to the financing

Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed an expanded, long-term strategic collaboration agreement, bringing Oracle AI Database@AWS to 22 global AWS regions across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The geographic rollout, doubling down on their initial partnership launch, is paired with the general availability of new serverless and usage-based database capabilities designed to accelerate enterprise AI adoption and cloud migrations. Editorial credit: Tigarto / Sh

Amazon has acquired a site in Pecos County, West Texas, to fund and build a dedicated 7.65-gigawatt natural gas power plant. Known as GW Ranch, the facility is designed to run completely off-grid to power a massive new artificial intelligence data center campus without relying on the local electrical grid. Editorial credit: ACHPF / Shutterstock Record-Breaking On-Site Generation Permit filings and energy tracking data compiled by market intelligence firm Cleanview reveal the

Dell Technologies has announced deeper integration between its PowerStore storage platform and the Nutanix Cloud Platform, making it easier for organizations to deploy and manage private cloud environments. Editorial credit: Samuel Boivin / Shutterstock The new solution combines Dell's enterprise storage infrastructure with Nutanix's hyperconverged software, enabling businesses to build scalable, high performance private clouds while simplifying deployment and day-to-day oper

Oracle has secured a landmark 10-year enterprise software agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense worth up to $6.99 billion, marking one of the Pentagon's largest software procurement deals in recent years. Editorial credit: Tigarto / Shutterstock The agreement is designed to consolidate thousands of fragmented Oracle software purchases across the U.S. military into a single enterprise-wide contract, reducing costs, strengthening cybersecurity, and accelerating the Defe