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The AI Buildout Runs on Power and Cooling. Bitzero Just Deepened Its Bench With Vertiv.

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NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — USA News Group News Commentary – The race to build artificial intelligence has quietly shifted. The scarce resource is no longer just the chips; it is the physical ability to power and cool them, and the companies that can deliver dense, efficient, reliable data-center infrastructure have become the real gatekeepers of the AI buildout. Against that backdrop, Bitzero Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: AIBZ), a builder of sustainable high-performance-compute and AI data-center infrastructure, has announced a collaboration with Vertiv, one of the world’s leaders in critical power and cooling, deepening a supply chain and engineering bench that puts it in conversation with the infrastructure names investors already know, from Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) and Eaton (NYSE: ETN) to Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) and Applied Digital (Nasdaq: APLD).

What Was Announced

Bitzero announced a collaboration with Vertiv, a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, that adds deep expertise in critical power, thermal management, and infrastructure deployment to support the design and delivery of AI, high-performance-compute (HPC), and hyperscale data centers. The relationship expands Bitzero’s access to proven technologies and engineering capabilities intended to help accelerate project execution while supporting the performance, efficiency, and scalability that modern AI workloads demand. Details are available through the company’s newsroom.

The collaboration is not a one-off. Bitzero framed it as the latest addition to a deliberately assembled ecosystem of technical, engineering, and supply-chain providers, following previously announced partnerships. Vertiv’s technologies are expected to serve as a key pillar within Bitzero’s broader execution platform, bringing global expertise in critical power and cooling, including the advanced liquid-cooling design and engineering that high-density AI and HPC environments increasingly require. As compute density rises, integrated, end-to-end infrastructure and modular solutions are becoming central to deploying resilient, scalable, efficient digital infrastructure, and to what the industry now calls reducing time to token, the speed at which a new cluster can go from construction to producing useful AI output.

Both companies framed the relationship around that execution imperative. “Bitzero is intentionally building an ecosystem of leading providers across every critical layer of data center delivery,” said Bitzero Founder & CEO, Mohammed Bakhashwain. “Following our previously announced relationships, Vertiv further enhances our technical depth across critical power, thermal management, and infrastructure solutions, while strengthening our supply chain capabilities as we continue advancing our platform for hyperscale, AI, and HPC applications.”

Vertiv, for its part, tied the collaboration to the broader challenge of scaling AI. “Successfully scaling AI requires more than advanced compute, it requires end-to-end infrastructure capable of supporting increasingly demanding power and thermal profiles,” said Paul Ryan, president for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Vertiv, adding that the company draws on decades of experience in critical digital infrastructure to help organizations deploy the power and cooling systems that underpin AI and HPC environments.

Why a Partner Like Vertiv Matters for a Company This Size

For a small-cap developer, credibility is often the gating factor, and who you build with is a signal in itself. Vertiv is a multi-billion-dollar, globally scaled provider of the exact power-and-cooling systems that AI data centers cannot run without, and its liquid-cooling and critical-power expertise is in acute demand as GPU racks push power densities past what legacy air-cooled facilities were designed to handle. For Bitzero, aligning with that caliber of partner does two things: it strengthens the practical engineering and supply-chain muscle needed to actually build, and it lends third-party validation to a company competing for hyperscale and AI workloads against far larger incumbents.

That is the strategic logic Bitzero has been executing. Rather than trying to own every capability in-house, the company is assembling a network of specialized, industry-leading providers across technical design, project execution, and supply-chain coordination, positioning itself as an integrator that can deliver high-performance compute environments for hyperscale, AI, and other advanced workloads. The Vertiv collaboration deepens the most critical layer of that network, the physical power and cooling on which everything else depends.

The Company Behind the Announcement

Bitzero Holdings is a provider of IT energy infrastructure and high-efficiency power for data centers, focused on data-center development, high-performance compute, and strategic hosting partnerships. The company owns four data-center locations across the North American and Nordic regions, with its Nordic assets powered by clean, low-carbon energy sources, an increasingly relevant feature as AI’s enormous electricity appetite collides with sustainability mandates and grid constraints. That combination, low-carbon power plus a build-out strategy aimed squarely at AI and HPC demand, is the core of the Bitzero thesis.

The company has been active on other fronts as well, recently closing a US$25 million private placement and announcing its intention to prepay a loan, steps that speak to the capital intensity of data-center development and the ongoing work of funding it. Building AI infrastructure is enormously capital-hungry, and for a company of Bitzero’s size, access to capital, power, sites, and now a deepened engineering bench are the ingredients that determine whether an ambitious development strategy becomes operating capacity.

The Infrastructure Names It Now Sits Alongside

The four companies below are referenced solely as market and sector context, span the power, cooling, and data-center-development layers of the AI buildout, and are far larger and more established than Bitzero. They are not peers, competitors, or financial comparables of Bitzero Holdings Inc., and their results are not indicative of Bitzero’s prospects. It is worth noting that the AI-infrastructure and data-center complex has been volatile, with several names selling off sharply over the past month even as underlying demand indicators stayed strong. All figures are approximate and subject to change.

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT)

Vertiv is the collaboration partner itself and the pure-play leader in the power-and-cooling infrastructure that AI data centers depend on, from critical power distribution to advanced liquid cooling. In its second quarter of 2026 the company reported revenue growth of roughly 26% and raised its full-year sales guidance toward US$14 billion on strong data-center demand, though the stock pulled back after quarterly sales came in below the most aggressive expectations. Vertiv is the clearest reference point for the specific capability Bitzero is adding through this collaboration, at global scale.

Eaton (NYSE: ETN)

Eaton is a diversified power-management company that has become a core beneficiary of the AI buildout through its electrical business, and it has expanded into liquid cooling via acquisition. In late July 2026 its shares jumped after it reported record quarterly revenue of about US$8.5 billion, up 21%, and raised full-year guidance, with management citing data centers as the single strongest driver and a large data-center order backlog. Eaton illustrates the power-distribution side of the same infrastructure demand Bitzero is building to serve, on a vastly larger, diversified scale.

Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR)

Digital Realty is one of the largest data-center REITs, operating hyperscale campuses and upgrading sites for higher power density, liquid cooling, and advanced power distribution to serve AI and cloud customers. In 2026 it reported record leasing, a substantial signed-but-not-yet-commenced backlog, and raised its full-year funds-from-operations guidance, drawing analyst upgrades even as investors weighed its leverage and valuation. Digital Realty represents the landlord-and-operator layer of the market, the scaled owner of exactly the kind of AI-ready capacity Bitzero is developing.

Applied Digital (Nasdaq: APLD)

Applied Digital is a data-center developer building and operating facilities for high-performance computing and AI hosting, a business model closely analogous to Bitzero’s own. It recently reported very strong revenue growth driven by AI-hosting demand, though its shares, like those of other build-and-host names, fell sharply over the past month in a broad re-pricing of the AI-infrastructure group before partially rebounding. Applied Digital is the closest listed analogue to Bitzero’s develop-and-host strategy, at a larger and more established stage, and a clear illustration of both the demand and the volatility in that niche.

What to Watch

For Bitzero, the near-term markers are about turning relationships into results. The most important is execution: whether the deepened Vertiv relationship and the broader partner ecosystem translate into faster, more reliable build-out at the company’s sites, and ultimately into contracted AI and HPC capacity. Watch for announcements of additional partnerships, for progress developing and energizing the four data-center locations, for customer or hosting agreements that convert capacity into revenue, and for how the company funds continued development following its recent capital raise.

The backdrop cuts both ways. On the positive side, demand for AI and HPC infrastructure remains enormous, power and cooling are genuine bottlenecks, and Bitzero’s low-carbon Nordic power is a real differentiator in a power-constrained world. On the cautionary side, this is a capital-intensive, competitive, and currently volatile sector; Bitzero is a small-cap company executing an ambitious plan against much larger players, the AI-infrastructure group has re-priced sharply, and success depends on capital, power, sites, customer demand, and execution all coming together. A collaboration with a partner of Vertiv’s stature does not remove those risks, but it strengthens the engineering and supply-chain foundation on which Bitzero’s plan depends, at a moment when the ability to actually build is the industry’s scarcest advantage.

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[1] Bitzero Holdings Inc., “Bitzero Deepens Technical & Supply Chain Capabilities Through Collaboration with Vertiv,” August 4, 2026.

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Altimetrik Accelerates Enterprise AI Transformation with Google Cloud’s Gemini for Healthcare

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BENGALURU, India, Nov. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Altimetrik, an AI engineering company, has launched new industry-specific AI capabilities built on Google Cloud’s Gemini for healthcare to automate complex enterprise workflows. As an integration partner, Altimetrik will help healthcare organizations put agentic AI to work on their most complex operational challenges.

Together, Google Cloud and Altimetrik will put these capabilities to work by integrating AI with existing enterprise data, systems, and workflows for healthcare organizations. Combining Google Cloud’s advanced AI capabilities with Altimetrik’s healthcare domain expertise and enterprise engineering, the collaboration aims to streamline administrative processes, improve access to clinical and operational information, and support more effective care coordination.

Altimetrik will build and deploy these solutions using its ALTi AIOS™ framework, complementing Google Cloud’s technology with workflow orchestration, and governance. The framework incorporates agent permissions, auditability, and human oversight into solution design, enabling healthcare organizations to adopt agentic AI responsibly.

“Pilots are easy. Scaling is the hard part, especially when AI must operate within decades of established systems, data, and processes,” said Raj Sundaresan, CEO of Altimetrik. “In healthcare, AI must earn the trust of the people delivering care. Since joining Google Cloud’s AI-native partner cohort earlier this year, our forward-deployed engineers have been helping organizations move agentic AI from pilot to production through ALTi AIOS™, ensuring every agent is permissioned, auditable, and accountable. Gemini for healthcare provides a powerful foundation for the industry, and we are proud to build on that foundation as a launch partner, while keeping care teams firmly in control.”

“Healthcare organizations need solutions that bridge cutting-edge AI with day-to-day operational realities,” said Satish Thomas, Vice President, Google Cloud. “Our collaboration with Altimetrik brings Gemini directly into mission-critical workflows, helping healthcare leaders to streamline administrative processes, improve coordination, and make data more actionable.”

Altimetrik first partnered with Google Cloud earlier this year when it became a part of the company’s cohort of AI-native partners to scale agentic AI across the global enterprise.

Learn more about how Altimetrik is building governed, agentic solutions that help healthcare teams make more confident decisions.

About Altimetrik

Altimetrik is an AI engineering company helping some of the most revered and iconic enterprises modernize systems, data, and processes at the heart of their business, so they can move faster, operate more efficiently, and innovate continuously. Through ALTi AIOS™, its AI-native operating system, Altimetrik combines the latest AI capabilities with deep engineering expertise to help clients solve complex challenges, accelerate modernization, and deliver measurable outcomes at scale.

Altimetrik’s clients get access to the latest AI innovations while maintaining flexibility to choose the right technologies for their business, through trusted relationships with OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic, Databricks, and major hyperscalers.

A member of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for AI Excellence, the Forum’s global hub for shaping responsible AI, Altimetrik is also recognized in the 2025 Constellation Research ShortList™ for Global AI Services and named a Major Contender in multiple Everest Group PEAK Matrix® assessments, including Software Product Engineering Services (2026), Enterprise Quality Engineering Services (2025), and Digital Engineering Services for BFSI and Life Sciences. Learn more at altimetrik.com.

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20th Global Entrepreneurship Week China 2026 Kicks off in Shanghai

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SHANGHAI, Nov. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On November 10, 20th Global Entrepreneurship Week China 2026 (hereinafter referred to as “Entrepreneurship Week”) kicked off in Shanghai.

Running from November 10 to 14, 2026 for five days, this edition features more than 50 entrepreneurship events, bringing together over 100 distinguished global guests, representatives from nearly 500 cutting-edge tech enterprises and professional investment institutions, and more than 1,500 entrepreneurs.

By focusing on “Learning”, “Showcase”, “Matchmaking” and “Empowerment”, Global Entrepreneurship Week China builds an all-round entrepreneurship support ecosystem and creates an international platform for in-depth exchanges among entrepreneurs.

This year’s event further elevates its international profile. Jonathan Ortmans, Founder and President, Global Entrepreneurship Network, led a delegation of more than 20 international guests, including outstanding entrepreneur representatives and seasoned entrepreneurship mentors from the Republic of Korea, the United States, Chile, Germany, Egypt, New Zealand and other countries, to Global Entrepreneurship Week China, enabling Chinese and foreign entrepreneurs to share valuable experience from diverse entrepreneurial ecosystems with zero distance.

Taking the 20th anniversary as an opportunity, this year’s Entrepreneurship Week further highlights its role in disseminating innovative ideas. It features five themed days tailored to Shanghai’s industrial tracks, catering to the growth needs of entrepreneurs across the full lifecycle. Future Intelligence Day focuses on cutting-edge areas including intelligent computing, general AI, quantum technology and humanoid robots; Future Manufacturing & Materials Day focuses on sectors such as humanoid robots, precision intelligent equipment and flexible manufacturing; Future Energy Day focuses on controllable nuclear fusion, advanced nuclear energy, long-duration energy storage, hydrogen energy, solid-state batteries and other fields; Future Health Day covers tracks of brain-computer interface, cell and gene therapy, biomanufacturing and regenerative medicine; Angel Fund & Future Space Day centers on campus entrepreneurship, early-stage startup pitching, entrepreneurship research, commercial aerospace, low-altitude economy, future mobility and other themes.

More than 50 entrepreneurship activities including startup project pitching, achievement exhibitions, sci-tech innovation community exchanges, and cultural and sports interactions will be held successively on Fuxing Island. These activities build a platform for global entrepreneurs to connect technologies, capital and industrial resources, and the event will run through November 14.

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Dragonpass Acquires iCoupon the Leading Global Voucher Redemption Network to Build International Loyalty-as-a-Service Platform

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Strategic Acquisition Combines Dragonpass’ Loyalty Infrastructure, Powering 35 of the World’s 50 Largest Banks, With iCoupon’s Vouchering Technology Supporting Over One Billion Passengers

SINGAPORE, Nov. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Dragonpass, the global travel and lifestyle benefits platform serving more than 45 million members worldwide, has announced the acquisition of iCoupon, the intelligent digital vouchering technology business whose network spans over 400 airports worldwide. The transaction represents a strategic expansion of Dragonpass’ technology and distribution capabilities, combining established financial services relationships with extensive airline and retail integrations to accelerate its development of a global loyalty-as-a-service platform.

The acquisition follows almost a decade of commercial collaboration between the two businesses, initially focused on delivering digital dining benefits across airports. While Dragonpass has developed its global presence through partnerships with financial institutions, including some of the world’s largest banks and payment networks, iCoupon has built complementary infrastructure connecting 200 airlines, over 400 airports and 4,000 retail units across 56 countries. The combination creates immediate opportunities to expand dining and retail offerings, alongside access to previously untapped solutions and customer segments across both networks.

In the near term, Dragonpass will focus on extending its dining and retail propositions through iCoupon’s established network, while introducing additional Dragonpass services to iCoupon’s airline and airport partners. Longer term, the business will explore how transferable integrations can support a wider lifestyle offering beyond aviation, creating opportunities to deliver relevant benefits across more frequent customer interactions. iCoupon’s existing team will remain in place, with its open-network model continuing to operate, ensuring continuity for existing partners while supporting new opportunities across the combined business.

Dragonpass acquires iCoupon following nearly a decade of collaboration, expanding its financial services, aviation and retail capabilities.iCoupon’s network spans over 200 airlines, 400+ airports and over 4,000 retail units across 56 countries, with support already available to over one billion passengers.iCoupon issued over £100 million in digital vouchers in 2025, demonstrating the scale of its existing distribution and redemption infrastructure.Dragonpass research finds 50% of Britons consider loyalty schemes outdated, while 76% value affordable everyday treats.The deal strengthens dining and retail offerings in the near term, supporting Dragonpass’ wider ambition to build a global loyalty-as-a-service platform

Jane Zhu, CEO & Co-founder at Dragonpass, shares:

“The acquisition of iCoupon represents a significant step in our strategy to build a global loyalty-as-a-service platform. Having worked together for almost a decade, we recognise the strength of its technology and network, and the immediate opportunity to expand our dining and retail offering while exploring applications across new lifestyle markets.

“The future of loyalty lies in connecting customer intelligence with relevant benefits at scale. By bringing together complementary distribution networks and investing in more intelligent engagement technology, we’re building the infrastructure to help our partners deliver greater value to customers, precisely when they need it.”

iCoupon’s technology enables airlines and other partners to distribute vouchers, discounts and customer entitlements through existing identifiers, including boarding passes, barcodes and QR codes. Integrated directly into participating retailers’ point-of-sale systems, its platform supports real-time redemption, transaction tracking and automated reconciliation. Having issued over £100 million in digital vouchers during 2025, including 12 million food and beverage entitlements, iCoupon has expanded into 13 technology modules spanning passenger care, retail and other travel services, providing Dragonpass with additional capabilities and new commercial opportunities.

Richard Bye, CEO and Co-founder at iCoupon, shares:

“For too long, loyalty has been constrained by fragmented ecosystems, disconnected rewards and experiences that often fail to reflect what customers genuinely value. This acquisition is about helping accelerate a shift away from traditional points-based programmes towards real-time, contextual engagement that delivers meaningful benefits exactly when and where they matter most. By combining Dragonpass’ global distribution and customer intelligence capabilities with iCoupon’s powerful airline connected redemption infrastructure, we are creating the foundations for a new generation of loyalty; one that is intelligent, frictionless and seamlessly embedded into the everyday lives of consumers around the world.”

Dragonpass’ nationally representative Comfort Index finds 50% of Brits consider loyalty schemes outdated, revealing the mounting pressure on traditional loyal models to demonstrate value while 48% of Brits are more likely to switch long-term providers due to rising costs, poor support or irrelevant rewards. Meanwhile, 69% say brands that reduce everyday friction are more likely to earn their loyalty. Demand for practical benefits is also growing, with 76% valuing affordable everyday treats, despite 56% worrying about the cost of dining, drinks and experiences.

This expansion forms part of Dragonpass’ broader investment in data orchestration and customer engagement technology. By connecting a wider global benefits supply chain with more intelligent distribution and personalisation capabilities, the company aims to address a longstanding challenge for enterprise loyalty programmes: sourcing relevant benefits across markets and delivering them through a seamless customer experience. Its longer-term strategy is to enable financial institutions, airlines and other partners to move beyond static rewards catalogues, offering benefits aligned with individual customer needs, while strengthening engagement and commercial value across its network.

About Dragonpass

Established in 2005, Dragonpass is a leading global travel and lifestyle platform, providing premium benefits and experiences to more than 45 million members worldwide. Its growing ecosystem spans travel, health and wellness, lifestyle and entertainment, with a global network covering more than 140 countries and regions and partnerships with more than 800 enterprises.

About iCoupon

iCoupon is a market-leading intelligent vouchering company with a global presence, specialising in the provision of digital vouchering services within the aviation industry and beyond. Collaborating with an extensive network of more than 200 airlines, spanning over 400 airports and in excess of 4,000 retail establishments, the company’s aim is to share value and place it where it counts. iCoupon leverages its unique technology to facilitate the seamless distribution of intelligent vouchers by airlines, airports, ground handlers and retailers directly to passenger boarding passes, enhancing the value-sharing experience.

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