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Five AI Deals in One Day, and Not One Was About GPUs

Published September 30, 20266 min read

Transformers and transmission lines stand beside a data-center hall at dusk. — Power infrastructure has become a central constraint on AI data-center expansion. Illustration: MarketIntelLabs

Samsung announced on September 29, 2026 that six of its affiliates, led by Samsung Electronics with USD 500 million, are investing a combined USD 1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure, the AI infrastructure company KKR launched in June 2026. Helix does not sell chips. It develops hyperscale data centers, baseload and flexible power generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure, and fiber, and its own materials describe power availability as the defining constraint on AI expansion. The same day, Meta signed to lease AI compute from Firmus's Southeast Asia AI factories, a deal that pushes Firmus's total contracted capacity above 900 MW, while Bell Canada and Cisco signed a sover…

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