{"id":1010166,"date":"2026-05-27T08:57:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010166"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:29:23","slug":"i-squared-bets-on-ai-inference-with-225-million-data-centre-buy-from-cogent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/27\/i-squared-bets-on-ai-inference-with-225-million-data-centre-buy-from-cogent\/","title":{"rendered":"I Squared bets on AI inference with $225 million data centre buy from Cogent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investment manager I Squared Capital on Tuesday said that it has bought 10 data centre facilities from Cogent Fiber for $225 million in cash, marking its latest bet on AI infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>I Squared said it plans to use the assets \u200cas \u2060a &#8220;seed&#8221; for \u2060a new US data centre operating platform, committing a further $1 \u200bbillion for upgrades, expansions and acquisitions. <\/p>\n<p>The deal, spanning nine locations, underscores the shift from large, centralised data centres used for model training to those deployed closer to end-users for AI inference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investment manager I Squared Capital on Tuesday said that it has bought 10 data centre facilities from Cogent Fiber for $225 million in cash, marking its latest bet on AI infrastructure. I Squared said it plans to use the assets \u200cas \u2060a &#8220;seed&#8221; for \u2060a new US data centre operating platform, committing a further $1 \u200bbillion for upgrades, expansions and acquisitions. The deal, spanning nine locations, underscores the shift from large, centralised data centres used for model training to those deployed closer to end-users for AI inference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010189,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010166\/revisions\/1010189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}