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KONST says it raised $30 million for AI data-center expansion in Asia

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ADATA Technology led the round, according to KONST, whose plans connect infrastructure construction with metered compute access and enterprise usage controls.

KONST said on Oct. 9, 2026, that it had raised $30 million in Series B funding led by ADATA Technology to expand its AI data-center buildout across Asia. The Taipei-headquartered compute operator also named M Mobility and Pegatron Venture Capital among the investors.

The funding is intended to advance what KONST calls its “Token Factory” strategy: treating computing equipment as the machinery and AI tokens as the output. Its pitch spans more than construction, linking the physical infrastructure to cloud billing and software that controls how employees use AI models.

At the customer-facing end, KONST says Horizon AI's (k) ATP Token manages model permissions, usage quotas and charges. The platform organizes access by organization, workspace, project and key, with request logs and budget warnings. For enterprises already using it at scale, the company says models on the platform can fall under one contract and invoice—not separate agreements with each model provider.

Behind those controls sit two other parts of the offering. Glows.ai sells access to smaller units of cluster capacity with per-second billing, according to KONST. Konstra AI handles the physical work, from selecting sites and installing electrical and environmental systems to tuning GPU clusters and maintaining operations. The company says the new money will expand that build capacity across Asia.

The release leaves the scale of that expansion unspecified: it gives no site locations, capacity figures or construction schedule. KONST also says Horizon AI has completed deployments for several enterprises and institutions, but identifies none. The funding and deployment claims come from the company's announcement.

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