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atNorth Plans €2B Salo Data Center With 75MW First Phase, 230MW Path
October 05, 2026
Posted by: Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
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Toronto
Crypto firm Hive Digital this week announced the signing of a purchase and sale agreement to acquire a facility with 7.2MW of installed capacity. Hive said the acquisition will support the development of a “sovereign Canadian AI ecosystem” through its wholly owned subsidiary, Buzz High Perform...
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United States
Cloud infrastructure provider Vultr has secured $329 million in credit financing to help further expand its AI infrastructure and cloud computing platform. The financing is made up of a $255 million syndicated credit facility, including a $35 million uncommitted accordion, and $74 million of r...
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United States
Utilidata has raised $60.3 million in Series C funding to scale its energy infrastructure AI platform, Karman, developed in partnership with Nvidia. The platform provides real-time visibility, identifies and manages distributed energy resources, enhances resiliency, and offsets the need for fu...
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United States
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has expanded its portfolio of Nvidia AI computing solutions, including the launch of the next generation of HPE's Private Cloud AI, and plans to work with KDDI on a new GB200 NVL72 system.HPE's Private Cloud AI is described as an "integrated turnkey AI factory ...
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Kakao Corp.
South Korean Internet firm Kakao is to build a data center in Namyangju, a city in the nation's Gyeonggi province. The KRW 600 billion ($442.3m) investment will see the company develop a 92,000 sqm (990,280 sq ft) AI-focused facility. Work is set to start next year, targeting a 2029 completion...
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Americas
Firebird, an AI cloud company, and the Armenian government this week announced plans to launch a 100MW AI data center in 2026 equipped with “thousands” of Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. The company said the project will funded via a $500 million public-private partnership with the Armenian government....
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Brazil / Brasil
Bitcoin-focused data center firm Enegix Global has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with local authorities in the Brazilian state of Piauí to build a 100MW data center. The planned facility is expected to cost up to $120 million and will run on idle state grid energy, with a project ...
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Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud has confirmed that a second data center will launch in South Korea by the end of this month (June 2025), noting that the expansion of its infrastructure is due to growing demand in the country for its cloud computing and AI services from local businesses."In line with the rapid a...
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Oracle
Oracle and Google Cloud are now offering Oracle Database@Google Cloud to customers in Japan for the first time. This multi-cloud offering allows customers to run Oracle databases and applications – such as transaction processing for order management, data warehousing and analytics for supply c...
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Sweden
Language AI company DeepL has deployed an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD with GB200 NVL72 systems at EcoDataCenter's Falun, Sweden, facility. DeepL will use the GB200 NVL72 systems to train its models, noting in a LinkedIn post that the system is powerful enough that it can translate the "entire web" in ...
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Sweden
US data center firm EdgeMode has announced the acquisition of Synthesis Analytics Production Ltd. (SAPL), in a $1.75 million deal that sees EdgeMode take charge of a 95MW power purchase agreement, a long-term lease on an in-development 20MW high-performance computing data center, and freehold ...
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Crusoe
Data center and AI cloud firm Crusoe has announced a strategic partnership with Polar to establish its first data center in mainland Europe. Crusoe has signed a contract for a 12MW facility located in Norway, which will host Crusoe Cloud, the company’s GPU cloud services.“Partnering with Polar...
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Russia / Россия
Rostelecom's subsidiary RTK-TsOD has launched a data center in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia as well as a new mobile data processing offering for customers. RTK-TsOD is Rostelecom's IT service provider subsidiary, and the Nizhny Novgorod DC is its first data center owned and operated by...
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NEXTDC
Australian data center firm NextDC this week announced a AU$2 billion (US$1.29bn) commitment to develop M4 Melbourne — a new campus at 127 Todd Road in Port Melbourne. The company said the site will host an AI Factory: a liquid-cooled facility engineered for sovereign AI. NextDC said the facto...
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Amazon AWS
The US' Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for an AI-driven troubleshooting and reliability system at LLNL's National Ignition Facility (NIF). While AI is already used to manage the data generated by those experiences and to improve predi...
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United States
Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to launch a second cloud region for federal customers' secret-classified workloads by the end of this year. This region will enable federal customers with "secret-level" workloads to be deployed in multiple regions, thus improving resiliency and speed.“The launc...
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CyrusOne
US operator CyrusOne this week announced its sixth campus in the UK, LON6. Located in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, the new site is set to deliver 90MW of IT capacity across 30,000 square meters (322,917 sq ft) of technical space. The campus will feature four two-story and two single-story data...
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Mexico City / Ciudad de México
Edgenet has launched in Mexico with aims to deploy a network of 30 Edge data centers across the country. Last week, the company announced the launch of Mayia, the first artificial intelligence (AI) center with the "Made in Mexico" designation, awarded by the Ministry of Economy.“Basically, our...
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Amazon AWS
Iberia Airlines has decommissioned its data centers and has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider, and in a multi-year transformation project, has successfully migrated to the cloud. The airline is now using AWS services, including Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Dyn...
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France
Data center developer CloudHQ has launched a new campus in Paris, France. The company aims to build two data center buildings, each comprising 53,000 sqm (570,000 sqft) and 24 data halls, within Essonne’s Leonardo da Vinci business park. The facility’s waste heat will be connected to Corbeil-E...
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