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Data Centers News 28 September 2025 - 20 October 2025

APLD Stock Skyrockets on AI Data-Center Boom – What’s Driving the Rally?

APLD Stock Skyrockets on AI Data-Center Boom – What’s Driving the Rally?

Massive Stock Rally on AI Infrastructure News Applied Digital’s stock has been on a tear in 2025, driven by the broader AI data-center boom. In late September and early October, the shares tripled from the high teens to nearly $30 as the market digested a series of AI-related announcements ts2.tech ts2.tech. On Oct. 10, 2025 (Friday after earnings), APLD stock soared 26% intraday reuters.com – adding roughly $2 billion to its market value – as investors cheered its better-than-expected quarterly report and the hype around AI applications like ChatGPT. Reuters noted that “growing demand for AI services such as ChatGPT has
20 October 2025
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Digi Power X (DGXX) Stock Soars on AI Data Center Breakthrough and Crypto Gains

Digi Power X (DGXX) Stock Soars on AI Data Center Breakthrough and Crypto Gains

Price/Performance: As of Oct. 17, 2025 Digi Power X (NASDAQ: DGXX) was trading near $3.85 stocktitan.net, up roughly 10% over the prior week amid renewed investor interest timothysykes.com stockstotrade.com. – Recent News: The company’s ARMS 200 modular AI data center has just earned ANSI/TIA‑942 Tier III certification nasdaq.com, making it one of only a few such certified AI-ready modules worldwide. The first ARMS 200 pod is slated for delivery in Alabama by Nov. 2025 (with commissioning in Dec. 2025) nasdaq.com. Digi Power X has also deepened its partnership with Supermicro, integrating AI-optimized rack systems into its ARMS platforms nasdaq.com globenewswire.com. – Financials:
20 October 2025
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BlackRock & Nvidia’s $40 Billion AI Data Center Deal – Inside the Mega-Bet Powering the AI Boom

BlackRock & Nvidia’s $40 Billion AI Data Center Deal – Inside the Mega-Bet Powering the AI Boom

BlackRock & Nvidia Lead a $40 Billion Bet on AI Infrastructure In a blockbuster deal underscoring the value of AI infrastructure, BlackRock and Nvidia are spearheading a consortium to buy Aligned Data Centers for approximately $40 billion investing.com. The acquisition, announced Wednesday, will transfer Aligned from its current owner (Macquarie Asset Management and partners) to a new powerhouse partnership of tech and investment firms. BlackRock – the world’s largest asset manager – joined forces with semiconductor leader Nvidia and others to form the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Partnership (AIP), which will wholly acquire Aligned pending regulatory approvals by the first half of 2026
15 October 2025
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AI Data Center Goldmine or Bubble? Credo (CRDO) Stock’s Wild Ride Amid New Deals and Big Hype

AI Data Center Goldmine or Bubble? Credo (CRDO) Stock’s Wild Ride Amid New Deals and Big Hype

CRDO Stock on a Roller Coaster Ride Credo’s stock has been on a tear – and a turbulent one. Shares have gained over 1,300% since the company’s January 2022 IPO nasdaq.com, vastly outperforming the broader market on excitement around its AI data-center niche. But that stellar run now comes with gut-churning swings. Just in the past few trading days, CRDO went from a steep drop to a euphoric jump and back again. After tumbling ~8% last Friday to $138.83 amid a tech sell-off stockinvest.us, Credo rebounded 7.97% on Monday (Oct. 13) to close near $150 stockinvest.us. The rally was apparently
14 October 2025
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Nvidia-Backed AI Data-Center Stock APLD Rockets on $11B Deal – Too Late to Buy?

Nvidia-Backed AI Data-Center Stock APLD Rockets on $11B Deal – Too Late to Buy?

Business & Market Context Applied Digital (APLD) started as a crypto-hosting company but has aggressively pivoted into AI and cloud infrastructure. Its flagship “Polaris Forge” projects in North Dakota are purpose-built AI data-center campuses: ultra-efficient facilities cooled by closed-loop liquid systems (Design PUE ~1.18) and powered by abundant local hydro power. These campuses will serve “hyper-scale” AI workloads, primarily training large language models and other machine learning tasks. As Motley Fool explained, APLD “designs, builds, and operates high-performance, sustainably engineered data centers and colocation services for artificial intelligence, cloud, networking, and blockchain workloads.” nasdaq.com. In practice, the company is effectively
13 October 2025
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Data Center Boom Ignites PPL Corp (PPL) Stock Surge – Analysts Weigh In

Data Center Boom Ignites PPL Corp (PPL) Stock Surge – Analysts Weigh In

Recent News and Developments Stock Performance & Valuation PPL shares have risen steadily in 2025. After trading near $31 in early 2024, PPL climbed above $37 by Oct 2025 marketbeat.com. Key metrics (Oct 2025) include a P/E of ~27–28, a PEG ratio ~2.6, and a beta ~0.66 marketbeat.com. Its 50-day moving average (~$36.38) sits just below price, and the 200-day (~$35.39) confirms an uptrend marketbeat.com. The 52-week range is $31.22–$37.81 marketbeat.com. The stock’s valuation looks moderate among utilities. Analysts’ consensus price target (~$37.40 marketbeat.com to $38.8 nasdaq.com) implies only low single-digit upside, reflecting cautious optimism. TS2.tech notes PPL’s financial profile
12 October 2025
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AI Data-Center Gold Rush: Applied Digital Rockets on $11B Contracts and Blows Past Q1 Forecasts

AI Data-Center Gold Rush: Applied Digital Rockets on $11B Contracts and Blows Past Q1 Forecasts

Overview: Dallas-based Applied Digital (NASDAQ: APLD) designs and operates high-performance data centers and cloud colocation – recently pivoting from crypto-mining hosting to AI and HPC (high-performance computing) workloads ts2.tech. Its flagship Polaris Forge campus in North Dakota was even named “Best Data Center in the Americas 2025” by Datacloud ts2.tech. In an AI-driven cloud boom, demand for such specialized capacity is running far ahead of supply, giving APLD a unique niche reuters.com ts2.tech. Q1 Results (Aug 31, 2025): Applied Digital’s Q1 (fiscal) was nothing short of a breakout quarter. Revenues jumped 84% YoY to $64.2 million stocktitan.net, thanks largely to tenant
10 October 2025
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Dell’s AI Server Boom Doubles Growth Forecasts – Is a Data Center Glut Looming?

Dell’s AI Server Boom Doubles Growth Forecasts – Is a Data Center Glut Looming?

Dell Bets Big on AI – Doubling Growth Targets Dell’s announcement on October 7, 2025 marked a turning point for the company’s trajectory. At an analyst meeting that day, the tech giant dramatically raised its long-term financial forecasts, effectively doubling the pace at which it expects to expand in coming years ts2.tech. Management now projects high-single-digit percentage revenue growth (7–9% annually) and at least mid-teens earnings growth through 2029 reuters.com ts2.tech – a remarkable upgrade from the prior “GDP-plus” style targets (~3–4% revenue and ~8% EPS growth). The bold new goals signal far greater confidence in future demand, driven almost
8 October 2025
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AAOI Soars in the Race for the AI‑Powered 800 Gbit Data Center: Can Applied Optoelectronics Keep Up?

AAOI Soars in the Race for the AI‑Powered 800 Gbit Data Center: Can Applied Optoelectronics Keep Up?

Stock Performance & Technical Picture Applied Optoelectronics’ share price has been on a roller‑coaster ride in 2025. After rocketing from below US$10 early in the year to a high above US$44.50, the stock pulled back to the US$27–33 range by early October. The company’s beta of 2.91 and a one‑year return of 115.6 %, far exceeding the 17.3 % return of the S&P 500, underline both the stock’s explosive gains and elevated volatility finance.yahoo.com. Five‑year returns, however, are a more modest 195.7 % versus the index’s 100.8 % finance.yahoo.com, reflecting earlier under‑performance. Technical indicators reveal a mixed picture. AOI trades above its 50‑day and 200‑day moving
6 October 2025
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AI Capex Boom at the Crossroads: Are the Hyperscalers Running into Trouble?

AI Capex Boom at the Crossroads: Are the Hyperscalers Running into Trouble?

Report The Seventh Inning of the AI Capex Boom The gen‑AI capex boom has been one of the most powerful drivers of the post‑pandemic bull market. Hyperscale cloud providers—Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta and newer players such as CoreWeave—have poured hundreds of billions of dollars into data centres, GPUs and networking equipment to support explosive demand for generative‑AI workloads. This spending has turned AI into what one blogger called “the thing that is eating the economy,” with some analyses showing AI investment adding more to U.S. GDP than consumer spending awealthofcommonsense.com. Yet Morgan Stanley believes this party is maturing. In a note
2 October 2025
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Rick Perry’s $15B Data Center Dream Goes Public in AI Gold Rush

Rick Perry’s $15B Data Center Dream Goes Public in AI Gold Rush

The AI Data Center Gold Rush As artificial intelligence usage explodes, so do the needs for massive data centers and the electricity to run them. Modern AI workloads (think training large language models) consume enormous power, straining local grids. Indeed, global data-center electricity use – about 1.5% of today’s power – is projected to double by 2030 driven by AI demand nature.com. This creates a premium for companies that can offer co-located compute and guaranteed power. New “AI factories” are on the rise: big tech firms and startups alike are building hyperscale facilities and even investing in their own power plants (for example,
1 October 2025
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Exposing AI Bias: 10 Powerful Ways to Fight Algorithmic Discrimination

AI Megatrends 2025: The Next Wave Is Here—Why Data‑Center Power, AI Agents & Edge Devices Could Reshape Markets (and Portfolios) Now

Key facts (what changed this week) The three AI megatrends shaping the next phase 1) Hyperscale compute + energy: AI “super‑factories” What’s happening. Frontier models, agents and video‑native AI are pushing demand from chips to power, cooling, memory and networking. The Stargate program alone is racing toward multi‑gigawatt campuses; Nvidia committed up to $100B in supply/investment to OpenAI, underscoring how intertwined vendors and model labs have become. Reuters+1 Power & water constraints. PJM’s service area is straining under data‑center load, prompting demand‑response pacts (e.g., Google) and federal fast‑track permitting for plants and transmission. Expect siting to follow available gigawatts and
28 September 2025
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