Data centres are the hot area du jour, as the AI boom is pushing the need for more computing power up and to the right. And although investors are no stranger to funding the big buildings and servers — private equity, for example, has long backed such infrastructure — it seems that recently more young data centre companies are pitching themselves to VCs.
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