Carney’s Sovereign Wealth Fund
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Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the creation of the country’s first-ever sovereign wealth fund on Monday, called the Canada Strong Fund. Carney pitched the new fund as a way for Canadians to invest in nation-building projects in areas that include energy,
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Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud scales to thousands of nodes with Azure Local
Today, I am pleased to announce that Azure Local now scales to support deployments of up to thousands of servers within a single sovereign environment, allowing organizations to run much larger workloads locally across large-footprint datacenters,
The European Commission has awarded a €180 million contract to four providers—Post Telecom, STACKIT, Scaleway, and Proximus—to provide sovereign cloud services, ensuring EU data remains under European legal and strategic control.
Anticipated Phased Tier IV Development in "Data Center Valley" Planned to Anchor the 2026 Global "Inference Flip"
In April 2026, Bell and Celestica Inc. announced a collaboration to build a Canadian sovereign AI infrastructure stack, combining Bell’s full-stack AI capabilities with Celestica’s traceable, lifecycle-managed hardware and domestic manufacturing for sensitive government and regulated-industry workloads.
SGBs are issued by the RBI and government with a fixed coupon rate of 2.50% on the initial investment value and without any capital gains tax on the maturity of the bonds. That being said, four SGBs are scheduled to mature in 2026.