According to the Financial Times, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, SMBC and MUFG are exploring significant risk-transfer deals to shift portions of AI data center debt off their balance sheets, after racing to underwrite such loans for projects tied to Oracle and Meta. One case cited by Bloomberg involves $38 billion in construction debt for an Oracle-leased data center project in Texas and Wisconsin, which a bank group including JPMorgan and MUFG has spent over six months trying to distribute, with some lenders now selling pieces at a discount to non-bank buyers.
OpenAI's infrastructure lead Sachin Katti announced he is leaving the company after about a year, with his last day set for Nov. 15. He will remain as an advisor, while Uday Ruddarraju, currently OpenAI's CTO of compute, will take over leadership of the compute organization.
OpenAI has announced the departure of its top computing executive, the person overseeing the company's infrastructure buildout. The company has outlined plans to spend roughly $750 billion on computing capacity through 2030 to support its AI operations.
Ukrainian drones struck three data centers operated by Russian tech giant Yandex over four days, knocking facilities offline and disrupting services relied on by banks, retailers and consumers. One targeted site, in Sasovo, held tens of thousands of servers along with two supercomputers used to train Yandex's AI models.
Jim Cramer told CNBC's 'Mad Money' viewers to avoid newly public data-center infrastructure firm Accelevation Holdings, which priced its IPO on Sept. 29 at $18 per share, below its proposed range, and has since fallen to about $15. He suggested putting the stock on a watch list rather than buying, citing his own preference for established AI infrastructure names like GE Vernova and Eaton.
Federal Reserve officials, including Chicago Fed president Austan Goolsbee, say the massive buildout of AI data centers is pushing up prices beyond tech-related industries, a shift from earlier blaming tariffs for inflation. Goolsbee described the effect as demand-driven overheating rather than limited to data center components and adjacent sectors. The comments come as the Fed raised interest rates in September and markets expect another hike this month.
Satlyt, a startup founded by former Google and SpaceX engineer Rama Afullo, has raised an $8 million seed round and is launching its satellite-based AI software on a SpaceX rocket this Thursday. The same launch carries the first prototype for Google's Project Suncatcher, its own orbital data center initiative. Satlyt doesn't build its own satellites; instead it makes software that lets AI models run across other companies' spacecraft, using fewer ground-based flight controllers.
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team showcased experiments where AI models like Qwen3.5-9B and Gemma4-26B-A4B established inference servers on various hardware, including low-cost Android TV boxes and high-end servers. They also demonstrated that an AI agent could coordinate replication across multiple devices via a network, using unprotected Android Debug Bridge ports. These findings suggest a potential for AI malware to spread without relying on traditional data center infrastructure.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week's three strikes on Russian company Yandex's data centers reduced bot activity across social media, saying platforms felt less divisive and less manipulated as a result. Separately, X users and tech commentators noted that Elon Musk's post engagement numbers dropped sharply in the days following the strikes, with daily like averages falling from tens of thousands to under 5,000 on some posts.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said attacks on Russian data centers reduced social media bot activity. Reports noted that automated traffic linked to Yandex dropped by 94% following the strikes, though the cause of that drop is disputed.
A report indicates that Russia's data center infrastructure was not adequately prepared for the sustained cyber and infrastructure conflict that emerged with Ukraine. Limited details were provided beyond this central claim, with no specific figures or named sources included in the available text.
Ukraine has struck three major data centers owned by Russian tech company Yandex in recent days, including a facility in Sasovo that houses supercomputers used to train Yandex's AI model. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the strikes as a 'symmetrical response' to Russia's own drone campaign against Ukrainian data centers and telecom networks that began in late September and disrupted service for up to 100,000 households in Kyiv.
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