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Dell Technologies has joined a planned $15 billion AI data center initiative in Japan aimed at supporting large-scale AI workloads by pairing new data facilities with dedicated power supply capacity. The company also introduced rugged laptops with on-device AI features and added security aimed at field and mission-critical use cases. Dell's participation plugs directly into its existing hardware, software and support services business, tying its gear more tightly to power-hungry enterprise workloads and edge environments. The move fits a narrative centered on converting a US$95b AI backlog and a large pipeline into deployed systems, while the rugged laptops push AI closer to field workers in sectors such as public safety and energy. Dell still relies heavily on hardware in segments where HP and Lenovo also compete on price and features.

Dell Technologies has booked more than $130 billion of AI server orders over the past year and ended its latest quarter with a $95 billion AI backlog, with its AI customer base expanding to more than 6,500 customers. The company says some AI engagements require more than 50 unique designs as customers optimize systems around workload performance, power, cooling and data-center constraints. Dell's stock has risen more than fourfold since the end of February and trades at just 21.3 times forward earnings, with revenue expected to surge 69% this year before growing another 20% next year. Hedge fund sentiment strengthened in the second quarter, as the number of funds in Insider Monkey's database holding the stock rose from 72 to 77 and the value of those positions more than doubled from about $1.7 billion to $3.6 billion. Dell acknowledges component costs are rising, particularly for memory and storage, and that supply remains constrained across much of the AI infrastructure chain.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise received a US$1.2 billion order from Vultr for its new AMD Helios AI servers, marking the first commercial deployment of the Helios racks that combine AMD chips with HPE Networking hardware. The deal is an early revenue milestone for HPE's integrated AI data center platform as Helios moves from launch to customer rollout, and it gives the company a concrete reference customer for model training and inferencing workloads. The US$1.2 billion Vultr order is only one piece of the broader Hewlett Packard Enterprise story, and the company's Helios rollout plugs into its wider role supplying infrastructure for AI workloads at cloud providers and enterprises worldwide. The contract lines up with HPE's existing narrative, which leans on AI infrastructure, Juniper networking and higher margin recurring services as key catalysts. Investors will watch whether HPE converts this first Helios deployment into a visible pipeline of similar rack scale AI deals and repeat orders from Vultr, along with disclosed Helios contract wins and networking order intake linked to AI racks.