Pins matching date:2025-10-27

Miami-Dade's first bus rapid transit service runs 20 miles along US-1 from Dadeland South to Florida City on a rebuilt dedicated busway protected by gate arms and prioritised at rush hour, calling at 14 new BRT stations with air-conditioned waiting areas. The county calls it the longest all-electric BRT service in the nation, paid for with $100 million each from its half-penny transportation surtax, the Florida Department of Transportation and the Federal Transit Administration.

Saudi AI company HUMAIN became the first customer for Qualcomm's data-centre chips, targeting 200 megawatts of AI200 and AI250 racks from 2026 to sell AI inference services in the Kingdom and worldwide.

MiniMax open-sources M2, a 230B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 10B active parameters built for coding and agentic work, priced at $0.30 per million input tokens and ranked first among open-weight models on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index at launch.

Applied Digital reported 250 MW of operational critical IT capacity at Polaris Forge 1 in Ellendale on October 2, 2026. The full contracted deployment is 400 MW; the first 50 MW phase reached service on October 27, 2025.

M!LK achieved the #2 music ranking of 2026 on Japan's Billboard Japan Hot 100 Year-End. Billboard Japan's 2026 half-year Hot 100 (24 Nov 2025 to 24 May 2026) ranks M!LK's Suki Sugite Metsu second; year-to-date ranking, not a final year-end chart.

Qualcomm entered the data-center AI market with the AI200 and AI250 accelerator cards and liquid-cooled racks, with 768 GB of memory per card, due in 2026 and 2027; its stock jumped 11% that day.

Former Lion chief executive Sam Fischer takes over as CEO and managing director of Penfolds owner Treasury Wine Estates on 27 October 2025, succeeding Tim Ford after five years in the role.

Province Group affiliate Newport Equities won a unanimous 5-0 Powhatan County rezoning on 27 October 2025 that expands its Powhatan Technology Park to about 181 acres and 2 million sq ft; county documents put full build-out at 300-400 MW and JLL cites an initial 365 MW from Dominion Energy. No cost has been published.

San José’s October 2025 staff memorandum includes Prologis’s conceptual Building D: a phase-two, two-story 421,100 sqft data center with 99 MW utility power and 72 MW IT load. It is a concept at the Zanker Road / Highway 237 campus, not an operating building.

A 25-year Google agreement supports the proposed 615 MW restoration, targeted for full operation in the first quarter of 2029.