Five Minute Briefing - Data Center
February 9, 2026
Five Minute Briefing - Data Center: February 9, 2026. Published in conjunction with SHARE Inc., a bi-weekly report geared to the needs of data center professionals.
News Flashes
Corning Incorporated and Meta Platforms, Inc. are entering a multiyear, up to $6 billion agreement to accelerate the buildout of the most advanced data centers in the United States to support Meta's apps, technologies, and AI ambitions.
IBM announced it's soliciting a global request for proposals (RFP) for the next cohort of the IBM Impact Accelerator focused on AI for transformative education and workforce development. The program invites nonprofits or government organizations, including academic institutions, to collaborate with IBM on developing solutions that help people learn more effectively, navigate career transitions, and access the jobs needed to build economic resilience.
IBM announced it is being selected to support the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. This indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract, with a ceiling of $151 billion, encompasses a broad range of work areas that allow for the rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed and agility.
Red Hat, a leading provider of open source solutions, is expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA to align enterprise open source technologies to enterprise AI evolution and rack-scale AI advances. As the industry moves beyond individual servers toward unified, high-density systems, Red Hat aims to deliver the starting point for this transformation with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA, a specialized edition of the world's leading enterprise Linux platform that is optimized for the NVIDIA Rubin platform and tuned to drive future production on Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat AI, the company said.