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CodeRabbit has raised $143 million in Series C funding at a $1.5 billion valuation as it expands from AI code review into broader software change governance. The company is launching new tools for triage, architectural impact analysis and production security, arguing that AI-generated code is shifting software oversight from planning systems toward pull requests and continuous validation.

Groq has raised $350 million in a Series A round led by Disruptive, with planned participation from NVIDIA, valuing the AI infrastructure company at $3.5 billion. The financing follows $650 million raised in June and will fund expansion of Groq's inference footprint, including plans to grow capacity from 54 megawatts to more than 200 megawatts in 2027. The numbers put Groq firmly into infrastructure territory rather than simply software economics.

OVHcloud is raising prices across parts of its dedicated server portfolio after the cost of DDR5 memory it buys increased sixfold in a year, a surge the French cloud provider attributes largely to AI demand. New orders are already affected, while existing customers on recent server generations will face higher renewal prices from October 1, 2026, too. The increases are unusually large in places. New memory options are rising by a median 127%, while storage options increase by a median 89%.

At DCD Connect APAC in Bali, datacenterHawk’s Donny Gunnady speaks with Luke McKinnon, SVP and Managing Director Asia at NextDC, about how AI inference demand is reshaping data center strategy across the region. McKinnon explains why neo cloud providers are increasingly seeking smaller, fast-deployment capacity blocks of 2.5MW to 20MW, often within just three months - demand that large build-to-suit operators may not prioritize. That creates an opening for colocation providers such as NextDC.

Flexential has secured an $800 million credit facility to finance more than 130 MW of new data center capacity across four U.S. markets, expanding projects in Atlanta, Portland and Denver. The debt package was oversubscribed and increased from an initial $500 million target, underscoring continued lender appetite for digital infrastructure despite sectorwide construction, power and financing pressures.

Equinix has signed its fourth renewable power agreement in Singapore in two years, securing at least 11.5 MWp of rooftop solar capacity from Flo Energy with an option to expand to 50 MWp. The deal deepens Equinix’s local renewable supply as Singapore’s data center market confronts tight land, grid capacity, and rising electricity demand from AI infrastructure.

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Xpander has raised $7.5 million in seed funding to expand an enterprise AI platform designed to let companies build, deploy, and govern agents across models, clouds, and frameworks. The San Francisco startup is also introducing Omni, an AI agent aimed at accelerating production deployments, as enterprises struggle to move beyond pilots without adding infrastructure or governance headaches. Pico Venture Partners led the round, with Emerge Ventures, Samsung Next, and SeedIL participating.

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Fortinet has acquired AI security startup Virtue AI, adding runtime protection, automated validation, agent governance, red teaming, and multimodal guardrails to its security portfolio. The deal extends Fortinet's coverage beyond networks, endpoints, clouds, and applications into models, prompts, tools, and autonomous agents, as enterprises confront a widening AI attack surface and growing compliance pressure in production environments.