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Vantage Data Centers Completes Industry’s First Euro-Based Data Center Asset-Backed Securitization (ABS) with €640M Transaction
ncremental green financing will drive continued, sustainable developments across the refinanced portfolio
DENVER, USA and LUXEMBOURG (June 9, 2025) – Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data center campuses, today announced it has raised €640 million in securitized term notes, marking the first-ever euro-based securitization of data center assets in Continental Europe. The transaction includes an additional €80 million in unfunded Variable Funding Notes. The Class A-2 Notes are rated A-, and the Class B Notes are rated BBB- by Standard & Poor’s and Scope Ratings. This transaction follows Vantage’s success last year with the first-ever EMEA data center ABS completed in British pound sterling.
Read full press release: https://vantage-dc.com/news/vantage-data-centers-completes-industrys-first-euro-based-data-center-asset-backed-securitization-abs-with-e640m-transaction/
Vantage Data Centers Secures $5B in Incremental Green Loan Financings to Support Demand for North America Platform
$2.25B construction loan for Ohio campus and $2.75B corporate facility upsize underpin rapid growth fueled by cloud and AI requirements
DENVER (June 3, 2025) – Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data center campuses, today announced it has secured $5 billion in incremental green loan financings to meet continued demand. The capital includes a $2.25 billion financing to fully fund construction of the company’s New Albany, Ohio, campus and a $2.75 billion upsizing of an existing $3 billion 2024 borrowing base loan. These transactions combined give Vantage a total of $8 billion for the ongoing expansion of its North America platform.
Read full press release: https://vantage-dc.com/news/vantage-data-centers-secures-5b-in-incremental-green-loan-financings-to-support-demand-for-north-america-platform/
Vantage Data Centers Names Ophir Rahmani Chief Operating Officer, North America
Industry veteran to lead operations strategy amid rapid growth
DENVER (May 29, 2025) – Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data center campuses, today announced the appointment of Ophir Rahmani as chief operating officer for North America. In his new role, Rahmani will spearhead operations, leading the teams responsible for delivering technical solutions, reliability and customer experience across the company’s rapidly expanding fleet of cloud and AI data centers in the United States and Canada.
Read full press release: https://vantage-dc.com/news/vantage-data-centers-names-ophir-rahmani-chief-operating-officer-north-america/
Federated Wireless Achieves 100 Percent CBRS Uptime: Zero Outages, Zero Interference in 2024 and into 2025
Milestone Validates CBRS as a Telco-Grade Wireless Option, Driving Confidence in Shared Spectrum at Scale
ARLINGTON, VA., May 15, 2025 – Federated Wireless, the global leader in spectrum management and shared spectrum services, has achieved a major milestone in CBRS network reliability, delivering 100% spectrum availability and interference-free operation in 2024 through March of 2025. This industry-first achievement marks a turning point for shared spectrum, demonstrating the feasibility of CBRS as a robust, scalable, and interference-free connectivity solution for enterprises, service providers, and operators nationwide.
Read full press release: https://www.federatedwireless.com/news/federated-wireless-achieves-100-percent-cbrs-uptime-zero-outages-zero-interference-in-2024-and-into-2025/
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Deploys Outdoor Wi-Fi 6E at Notre Dame Stadium and Pilots Private 5G for Connectivity Everywhere with HPE Aruba Networking
HOUSTON – April 30, 2025 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has deployed a Wi-Fi 6E solution from HPE Aruba Networking at Notre Dame Stadium, the 80,000-seat iconic home of the University of Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish football team, making it the first higher education stadium to deploy the Federal Communications Commission’s newly-approved 6 GHz spectrum outdoors. The multi-phase wireless-first initiative, which is bringing Wi-Fi 6E to indoor and outdoor spaces institution-wide, also includes a private 5G (P5G) pilot in conjunction with the Notre Dame Wireless Institute to explore opportunities for improving cellular experiences across campus for users and devices.
Read full press release: https://www.federatedwireless.com/news/hewlett-packard-enterprise-deploys-outdoor-wi-fi-6e-at-notre-dame-stadium-and-pilots-private-5g-for-connectivity-everywhere-with-hpe-aruba-networking/
Fortanix Previewing Armet AI at the RSA Conference 2025, Delivering Comprehensive Data and Model Security Across the AI Lifecycle
RSA Attendees to Get an Exclusive First Look at the New Standard for Managing Data Exposure in GenAI Applications for Enterprises
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 23, 2025
Fortanix® Inc., a global leader in data-first cybersecurity and a Confidential Computing pioneer, today announced its plans to publicly preview Fortanix Armet AI at the RSA Conference 2025 in San Francisco. The solution addresses a critical enterprise concern: the risk of exposing highly sensitive data when using off-the-shelf AI tools.
Read full press release: https://www.fortanix.com/company/pr/2025/04/fortanix-at-rsa-2025-to-deliver-data-and-model-security-across-ai-lifecycle
Unleashing the Next Frontier of Enterprise AI: Introducing ModelMesh™ Dock & InterLock and Our A2A Partnership With GooglePublished - 9 April 2025
9 April 2025
Today marks an exciting milestone in Articul8’s journey to accelerate Generative AI adoption in the enterprise. We’re proud to unveil ModelMesh™ Dock & InterLock -- powerful new features that supercharge connectivity and interoperability across our platform -- and announce our collaboration as a launch partner for Google’s groundbreaking Agent-to-Agent (A2A) interoperability protocol.
At Articul8, we’ve always envisioned ModelMesh™ as an autonomous ‘Agent-of-Agents,’ purpose-built to intelligently manage a diverse system of models deployed as decision and action nodes. It intelligently coordinates specialized and general-purpose models, dynamically orchestrating their interactions in real-time to optimize resource usage and deliver precise, contextually relevant outcomes tailored for enterprises.
Read full article: https://articul8.ai/news/unleashing-the-next-frontier-of-enterprise-ai-introducing-model-mesh-dock-and-inter-lock-and-our-a2-a-partnership-with-google
Unleashing the Next Frontier of Enterprise AI: Introducing ModelMesh™ Dock & InterLock and Our A2A Partnership With Google
9 April 2025
Today marks an exciting milestone in Articul8’s journey to accelerate Generative AI adoption in the enterprise. We’re proud to unveil ModelMesh™ Dock & InterLock -- powerful new features that supercharge connectivity and interoperability across our platform -- and announce our collaboration as a launch partner for Google’s groundbreaking Agent-to-Agent (A2A) interoperability protocol.
Read full press release: https://www.articul8.ai/news/unleashing-the-next-frontier-of-enterprise-ai-introducing-model-mesh-dock-and-inter-lock-and-our-a2-a-partnership-with-google
Fortanix Armet AI Enables Enterprises to Create Secure and Compliant Custom GenAI Applications to Mitigate Data Exposure Risk
Built on Intel Confidential Computing and Intel Tiber Trust Authority, Armet AI Provides End-to-End Data and AI Pipeline Security
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 7, 2025
Fortanix® Inc., a leader in data-first cybersecurity and a Confidential Computing pioneer, today announced the public preview of Fortanix Armet AI. Today, it’s imperative for organizations to take advantage of generative AI (GenAI) technology, but most organizations don't view off-the-shelf solutions as a viable option due to the risk of security failures that expose sensitive data and intellectual property, malicious tampering that undermines AI trustworthiness, and limited datasets that produce inaccurate outputs. Do-it-yourself solutions can also be complex, costly, and resource-intensive—on average it can take more than 8.5 months for an enterprise to build a GenAI solution, with upfront costs reaching as high as $20 million, according to Gartner®.
Read full press release: https://www.fortanix.com/company/pr/2025/04/fortanix-armet-ai-enables-enterprises-to-create-secure-and-compliant-custom-gen-ai-applications-to-mitigate-data-exposure-risk
Vantage Data Centers Launches Inaugural Safety Summit for Industry Leaders, Safety Professionals and Key Stakeholders
DENVER (March 27, 2025) – Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data center campuses, today announced its first-ever safety summit designed to bring together industry leaders, safety professionals and key stakeholders to discuss best practices, innovations and strategies for an elite safety culture.
Read full press release: https://vantage-dc.com/news/vantage-data-centers-launches-inaugural-safety-summit-for-industry-leaders-safety-professionals-and-key-stakeholders/
EPRI Launches Open Power AI Consortium to Transform the Future of Energy, with NVIDIA and Articul8 Accelerating AI Adoption
20 March 2025
The power and utilities sector keeps the lights on for the world’s populations and industries. As the global energy landscape evolves, so must the tools it relies on.
To advance the next generation of electricity generation and distribution, many of the industry’s members are joining forces through the creation of the Open Power AI Consortium. The consortium includes energy companies, technology companies and researchers developing AI applications to tackle domain-specific challenges, such as adapting to an increased deployment of distributed energy resources and significant load growth on electric grids.
Read full article: https://articul8.ai/news/epri-launches-open-power-ai-consortium-to-transform-the-future-of-energy-with-nvidia-and-articul8-accelerating-ai-adoption
Vantage Data Centers Invests $500 Million CAD to Drive Economic Growth, Sustainability and Innovation in Quebec
Incremental investment brings cumulative total to $2.5 billion CAD to fuel cutting-edge technology, job opportunities and environmental advancements in the Quebec region
DENVER, USA and QUEBEC CITY, CANADA (Feb. 27, 2025) – Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data center campuses, announced today a $500 million CAD (more than $350 million USD) investment to further expand its footprint in Canada. The investment will fuel the development of QC24, the fourth and final facility on the company’s growing Quebec City campus. QC24 will deliver an additional 32MW of IT capacity, bringing the four-data-center campus to a total of 86MW, strengthening the Capitale-Nationale region’s digital infrastructure and supporting its rapidly growing economy.
Read full press release: https://vantage-dc.com/news/vantage-data-centers-invests-500-million-cad-to-drive-economic-growth-sustainability-and-innovation-in-quebec/
Fortanix Enhances Data-First Security Platform to Secure Against Escalating AI and Quantum Computing Threats
New discover, assess, and remediate capabilities include the latest NIST quantum-resistant algorithms as promoted by the National Security Agency (NSA) to enhance data encryption and key management
SANTA CLARA, Calif.,, February 25, 2025
Fortanix, Inc., the leader in data-first cybersecurity and a Confidential Computing pioneer, today announced new capabilities to its data encryption and key management platform. Even as organizations struggle to manage the rising costs and complexity of data security, advances in AI and quantum computing will render current protections obsolete. Quantum computers will be able to break most widely used public key cryptographic algorithms, putting long-term sensitive data at risk, and recent innovations in the field signal it could happen sooner than expected—customer information, PII, employee records, proprietary company and product details—is vulnerable. For example, encrypted data is being stolen today with the intent to decrypt it in the future, once quantum computing becomes available.
Read full press release: https://www.fortanix.com/company/pr/2025/02/fortanix-enhances-data-first-security-platform-to-secure-against-escalating-ai-and-quantum-computing-threats
Fortanix Releases 2025 GenAI Data Security Report: Majority of Enterprises Under Pressure to Deploy AI Solutions, Escalating Data Security Risks
Survey of 1,000 Executives Reveals 97% of Companies Block or Restrict GenAI Usage, Yet 64% Respondents Access AI Tools via Personal Email
SANTA CLARA, Calif., February 17, 2025
Fortanix, Inc., the leader in data-first cybersecurity and a Confidential Computing pioneer, today announced its 2025 State of Data Security in GenAI Report, which reveals key insights around GenAI usage, organizational deployment plans, and data security risks. Of those surveyed, 97% said their company plans to either buy or build a GenAI solution to automate business processes or create new revenue streams. At the same time, 87% of security executives reported a breach in the past 12 months. Organizations must ultimately secure data across multiple owners, applications, environments, and geographies. While encryption is the last line of defense, and a compliance and regulatory necessity, traditional security tools are outdated, designed for a world that no longer exists.
Read full press release: https://www.fortanix.com/company/pr/2025/02/fortanix-releases-2025-genai-data-security-report
Vantage Data Centers and VoltaGrid Establish Partnership to Deploy More Than One Gigawatt of Power Generation
Industry-leading partnership enables Vantage to meet growing customer demand at scale across power-constrained markets in North America
DENVER (Feb. 11, 2025) – Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data center campuses, and VoltaGrid, an innovator in advanced microgrid power generation, today announce a groundbreaking partnership aimed at delivering rapid, scalable energy solutions in markets where grid power is constrained. This collaboration will set a new benchmark for speed, reliability and energy access, meeting the growing demand for data center energy solutions driven by hyperscalers and large cloud providers without putting additional cost or strain on grid systems.
Read full press release: https://vantage-dc.com/news/vantage-data-centers-and-voltagrid-establish-partnership-to-deploy-more-than-one-gigawatt-of-power-generation/
Vantage Data Centers’ Growth Continued in 2024 Driven by AI and Cloud Adoption; Secured a Record $13 Billion in Incremental Funding
Company expanded global footprint, entering two new markets, breaking ground on six campuses and opening 11 facilities
DENVER (Jan. 30, 2025) – Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data center campuses, today announced a continued run of significant growth in 2024 driven by the surging demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI). The company secured more than $13 billion in debt and equity investments across new and existing investors, supporting the addition of multiple new markets and expansions in key existing markets.
Read full press release: https://vantage-dc.com/news/vantage-data-centers-growth-continued-in-2024-driven-by-ai-and-cloud-adoption-secured-a-record-13-billion-in-incremental-funding/
The 10 Defense Tech Startups to Watch in 2025
With hypersonic planes and sprawling drone factories, startups from Anduril to Astranis are poised to change the nature of war.
10 of the defense tech startups to watch this year include:
COMPANY: Firefly Aerospace
VALUATION: $2 billion
CEO: Jason Kim
INDUSTRY: Space vehicles
HEADQUARTERS: Cedar Park, Texas
Firefly, the maker of lunar landers and orbital vehicles, is set to make its first moon landing this month carrying NASA supplies — one of dozens of missions the company has planned for this year. The startup sells its technology to both businesses and the government, and has a growing defense operation. This fall, Firefly raised $175 million in fresh funding, and won approval to use its Elytra spacecraft to launch and maneuver military satellites.
Read full article: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-tech-defense-startups-to-watch/
Federated Wireless Secures Sole Source Sustainment Contract for First DoD 5G ATO Program of Record
First Commercial Deployment of Advanced Private 5G Network for USMC LOGCOM Logistics Base, in Collaboration with JMA Wireless, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Shared Spectrum, Aligns with the Department of Defense’s Vision for Next-Generation Connectivity
ARLINGTON, Va, January 14 — Federated Wireless, a leader in private wireless network solutions, today announced a significant milestone in defense logistics. Its innovative private 5G networking technology is now under a 42-month sustainment contract valued at over $6 million with the Marine Corps Logistics Command (LOGCOM) at the Albany, Georgia, logistics hub. Developed in collaboration with leading technology partners including JMA, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Shared Spectrum, this deployment represents the Department of Defense’s (DoD) first commercial 5G private network.
Read full press release: https://www.federatedwireless.com/news/federated-wireless-secures-sole-source-sustainment-contract-for-first-dod-5g-ota-program-of-record/
Fortanix Ranked Number 167 Fastest-Growing Company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ for Future-Proofing Data Security Against AI and Post-Quantum Data Exposure Threats
Company registers 706.8% Revenue Growth over 3 years, as Traditional Perimeter-Based Security Solutions Repeatedly Prove to be Inadequate for Securing Data From Hackers
SANTA CLARA, Calif., November 20, 2024
Fortanix® Inc., a leader in data-first cybersecurity and pioneer of Confidential Computing, today announced it ranked No. 167 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech companies in North America, now in its 30th year. Fortanix grew 706.8% from 2020 to 2023.
Read full press release: https://www.fortanix.com/company/pr/2024/11/fortanix-ranked-167-fastest-growing-company-on-the-deloitte-technology-fast-500
Fortanix Integration with AWS Nitro Enclaves Improves Application Performance Without Adding Data Exposure Risk
Data Security Manager (DSM) Accelerator on AWS Nitro Enclaves Boosts Application Performance while Ensuring Highest Degree of Security
SANTA CLARA, Calif., November 18, 2024
Fortanix, Inc., a leader in data-first cybersecurity and pioneer of Confidential Computing, today announced a new integration between Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM) Accelerator and AWS Nitro Enclaves that significantly improves app performance without increasing data exposure risk. Available now, this integration ensures the highest degree of data security with Confidential Computing. A similar integration with Intel SGX will be released in early 2025.
Read full press release: https://www.fortanix.com/company/pr/2024/11/fortanix-integration-with-aws-nitro-improves-application-performance-without-adding-data-exposure-risk