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The UK Home Office has inked a £54 million deal with Oracle for cloud infrastructure and platform services, reinforcing its role in the government’s shared services overhaul. The five-year contract builds on the department’s earlier migration to Oracle Fusion, aligning with the wider “Synergy Program” aimed at unifying ERP and HR systems across key departments. The move underscores Whitehall’s long-term commitment to Oracle’s cloud framework.

Liquid Web has completed the full integration of Nexcess, marking the end of the latter’s independent brand after more than two decades in web hosting. Acquired in early 2024, Nexcess’ managed WordPress, WooCommerce, and Magento solutions now operate entirely under the Liquid Web name. The move streamlines services and reflects Liquid Web’s broader rebranding push, positioning the company as a unified provider across hosting and AI-ready infrastructure.

DreamHost has received certification from the Secure Hosting Alliance (SHA), joining a select group of providers recognized for meeting the industry’s highest security and reliability standards. As a founding contributor to the SHA framework, DreamHost helped define the practices now shaping global secure hosting norms. The certification underscores the company’s long-standing commitment to safeguarding customer data through transparent and accountable operations.

Related Digital has started construction on a $1.2 billion data center campus in Cheyenne, Wyoming, set to support CoreWeave’s expanding AI infrastructure. Spanning 115 acres, the site will deliver up to 302MW of capacity, with CoreWeave leasing 88MW under a long-term deal. Phase I, expected by 2026, will create hundreds of jobs and generate an estimated $250 million in local tax revenue over 15 years.

SoftBank Corp has joined forces with Oracle to launch a sovereign cloud service in Japan, dubbed “Cloud PF Type A.” Built on Oracle Alloy and hosted in SoftBank’s domestic data centers, the platform will debut in eastern Japan in April 2026, followed by a western rollout later that year. The service will integrate high-performance GPUs and generative AI capabilities to meet Japan’s growing digital sovereignty and data compliance needs.

OpenAI is exploring plans to establish or partner on data center infrastructure in Canada as part of its global “Stargate” expansion. The move, discussed with federal AI minister Evan Soloman and industry leaders, could strengthen Canada’s ambitions for sovereign AI capabilities. Similar to its initiatives in Germany and Norway, OpenAI may invest, lease, or co-develop local compute capacity to support national and enterprise AI growth.