HPE’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks has cleared its biggest US antitrust hurdle after a federal judge approved the Justice Department settlement and rejected a challenge from twelve states and the District of Columbia.
The approval requires HPE to divest its
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- This week’s IT funding deals concentrated on the control and deployment layers around production AI, with Databricks raising $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation and River AI pulling in $1.1 billion for private model infrastructure. The rounds also extended into defensive
- DC Blox is suing Nashville in federal court over a data center moratorium and new rules that stalled its planned 23-acre project next to the Nashville Zoo, claiming the site had vested rights before the city changed its regulations. The suit alleges due process and equal
- Data center developers have now requested more than 1,000 gigawatts of power across the US, but Wood Mackenzie estimates only about 28% of those projects will ever receive committed electricity. Duplicate applications and speculative demand are forcing utilities and grid
- Big Tech's climate pledges are colliding with AI's power bill. Five stories this week tell one story: the grid can't keep up, and the industry is quietly rewriting the rules. 🧵

