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Equinix announced this week that it signed a ten-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure solar energy in Portugal Sonnedix’s first Portuguese solar PV project, the 149MW Sonnedix Douro. Axel Thiemann, CEO of Sonnedix, said, “We are very pleased to be extending our relationship with Equi...

Russian ISP Tattelcom has launched a new data center facility in Kazan, in central Russia. The telco mentioned that this new 3,000 square meter facility will potentially host 400 racks and offer a 1.8MW capacity. The two phases of construction is scheduled to be completed by 2026. General dire...

European data center operator KevlinX has appointed Eric Boonstra as CEO. Boonstra joins KevlinX in his new role from Iron Mountain where he was in charge of managing the business for five years.  Boonstra said, “There is a huge opportunity for a well-funded and experienced team to build out a...

Startup Quantum computing startup Extropic which was founded last year by former members of Alphabet’s quantum computing research team has raised $14.1 million in seed funding to build physics-based AI computers.  The company plans to build computers that allow generative AI to scale in an eff...

Telco Orange recently unveiled a new data center in Gaborone, Botswana. The company posted on LinkedIn, “Hello from the new Orange Data Center at the Botswana Digital & Innovation Hub! This is the first Tier III data center in Botswana and third in Southern Africa.” According to ITWeb Afri...

Data center and digital infrastructure power and cooling company Vertiv recently purchased liquid cooling business CoolTera. Vertiv is now in charge of the provider of coolant distribution infrastructure, including certain contracts, patents, trademarks, and intellectual property from an affil...

Malaysian telco Axiata Group Berhad  announced last week that it has entered into an unconditional sale and purchase agreement with Spectrlite UK Limited for the sale of Reynolds Holding Limited, which owns approximately 80 percent equity stake in Ncell Axiata Limited. The company mentioned th...

New Saudi firm DataVolt has revealed plans for a new data center campus in Uzbekistan and has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Digital Technologies, the Ministry of Energy, and the Ministry of Investment, Industry, and Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan, to deve...

Ardent Data Centers recently revealed its plans to acquire three data centers as part of a €110 million investment plan. The company mentioned it has successfully agreed letters of intent with two sites in the US and is the preferred bidder on a third in the UK. Once all three sites are acquir...

New data center firm Evroc announced last week that it has signed an agreement with Arlandastad Group to select Stockholm as the location for its first facility and build it in 2024. The company also mentioned that it plans to invest €600 million in the project, which is one of ten it intends ...

Jakarta-based PT Dayamitra Telekomunikasi Tbk (Mitratel)  revealed last week that it recently acquired 803 towers from infrastructure operator PT Gametraco Tunggal for around $113 million.  The Telkom Indonesia subsidiary noted that this acquisition includes 1.327 tenants, confirming that 562 ...

Green Mountain has completed the data center building at the OSL2-Hamar campus in Norway, which it claims is Europe’s largest data center run on renewable energy and has officially handed it over to TikTok. The social media company is now in charge of delivering, installing, and testing server...

UK and Nordic provider Verne Global has added liquid cooling to its underground Finnish data center campus in conjunction with Dell and Intel. Verne is now offering direct liquid cooling (DLC) for systems installed in the Rock data center, which occupies ex-military tunnels in the bedrock at P...

CyrusOne has just launched its fifth data center in Frankfurt, FRA5  located in Hanau, 25km east of Frankfurt's city center. This new campus, spanning 18,000 square meters across two buildings will offer 54MW of IT capacity. The launch ceremony hosted by Carsten Schneider was attended by Lord ...

The Sines data center campus in Portugal involved in the Portuguese government corruption scandal is reported to have also destroyed natural habitats protected by Portuguese and European legislation. A report by the INCF revealed Start Campus built its first data center on the site in Sines on...

Kao Data recently completed work on its second data center in Harlow, UK and has noted that the facility is now ready for operations. According to a LinkedIn post shared by the company on November 28, the KLON-02  is a 10MW data center that has been designed and built "to the highest standards...

Intel's new Gaudi3 AI accelerator is set to have two-phase liquid cooling developed in partnership with Vertiv. The systems will have a pumped two-phase (P2P) cooling system designed to remove up to 160kW of heat, using water from 17°C up to 45°C (62.6°F to 113°F). An alternative for air-coole...

DigitalBridge has closed its digital infrastructure credit fund, DigitalBridge Credit (DBC), after raising $1.1 billion. This fund will be used to support the growth of companies within the digital infrastructure sector. Investors, including pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth...

Meta has finally launched its 2.3 million square feet DeKalb, Illinois, data center three years after construction began. According to the company, this construction took over $1 billion to complete and required 1,200 skilled workers. This site is expected to provide over 200 operational jobs ...

Telefónica has revealed to the labor union representatives that it plans to cut jobs in Spain, according to the UGT union. The company did not specify how many jobs it intends to cut. However, the Spanish newspaper Cinco Dias reports that there could be as many as 3,000 jobs. The company is cu...