Modal triples valuation in a week while data center owners raise nothing
YvesMulkers · x · 2026-10-18
Modal, a cloud compute platform billing by the second, tripled its valuation this week — while the firms that actually own the data center buildings raised nothing, highlighting a capital divide between asset-light platform layers and heavy infrastructure owners in the AI compute market.
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