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This week's IT funding roundup covers five deals, with Oracle's $20 billion in common stock and senior notes leading a slate that spans AI inference, data center growth, satellite ground networking and data security.

Across all of them, the operational question is the same: whether new capital produces capacity and controls that customers can actually depend on, rather than just a bigger balance sheet.

Get the full breakdown of each deal and what it signals for enterprise buyers: buff.ly/Rmf8R0M

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OpenAI is overhauling its community outreach after 40 of 41 local data center referendums were rejected and voters in Texas, Georgia and Ohio elected governors who ran on construction moratoriums, dropping NDAs with municipal officials and promising public review of development blueprints.

The company's chief global affairs officer dismissed the "black boxes in a pasture" characterization and pointed to a southern Ohio project supporting 2,500 long-term jobs averaging $80,000, while a Meta executive told the Wall Street Journal that building in the U.S. is set to become increasingly difficult.

Here's the full story on the domestic and global pushback, and what the industry now has to prove: buff.ly/5SqZ3Q8

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Snowflake has unveiled Business Ontology, a data governance tool that gives AI agents access to approved business definitions so they stop interpreting the same metric three different ways across departments.

It runs alongside Cortex Sense and Semantic Views as a three-layer context system meant to cut the error rate from conflicting definitions, though keeping those definitions accurate as products, pricing and reporting practices change will be the ongoing test.

See how the pieces fit together and where maturity at scale still has to be proven: buff.ly/R9OJ5hj

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Argonne National Laboratory has expanded its AI inference service with new systems including Tara, built on 672 compute nodes and 2,688 NVIDIA GH200 Superchips with roughly 100 times the GPU memory previously available, as the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission aims to have about 100,000 persistent agents running across DOE infrastructure by 2029.

Each state-of-the-art agent can consume roughly 15 million tokens daily, which means supporting them at that scale takes vast computing resources to host them and separate inference capacity for every model they call.

Read more about the agenda for SC26 and what autonomous agents accessing instruments and supercomputers will demand: buff.ly/ATs30eS

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Flexera found organizations had already repatriated about 21% of their cloud workloads, but overall public cloud spending kept growing because new workloads moving in outpaced those moving out, and only about 7% of organizations planned to repatriate an entire workload.

That is the shape of the trend, less a reversal than a placement decision, where the steady, predictable, tightly regulated workloads often need control rather than elasticity.

Explore the cost, performance, security, lock-in and skills reasons behind it, and why the right workload moving back on-premises is a deliberate architectural choice: buff.ly/05PczAv

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