Data Center News

Iberia Airlines Migrates to AWS

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...

Digital Edge Partners with B.Grimm for Thai Data Centers

Thailand / Prathet Thai

APAC data center firm Digital Edge this week announced a strategic joint venture with Thai energy firm, B.Grimm Power (BGRIM), to develop hyperscale and AI-ready data center campuses across Thailand.“Thailand stands out as one of Asia’s most compelling digital growth markets,” said John Freema...

Amazon to Invest $10bn in North Carolina

Amazon AWS

Amazon has revealed plans to invest $10 billion for the expansion of its data center infrastructure in North Carolina which will be used to support the company's cloud and AI services, and is expected to bring 500 full time jobs to the region.“Artificial intelligence is changing the way we wor...

Texas Critical Data Centers signs MoU for AI Data Center

Texas

Texas Critical Data Centers (TCDC) has entered a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with PowerForward Energy to supply onsite generation at its proposed 250MW AI data center in Ector County, Texas.The MoU will set the parameters for a power supply agreement between the companies, wh...

GridFree AI raises $5m for Off-Grid Data Center Deployment

United States

GridFree AI, an infrastructure startup backed by Montauk Climate, has raised $5 million in seed funding as it looks to streamline and accelerate data center deployment using its Power Foundry platform, which integrates power generation, battery storage, and cooling into a modular, grid-indepen...

FlexGen, Rosendin to Develop Utility-Scale BESS Solution

United States

FlexGen Power Systems and Rosendin have partnered on the development of a utility-scale Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) designed to replace traditional UPS infrastructure in data centers. The partnership will combine FlexGen’s energy management software and BESS technology with Rosendin’s...

Brookfield Plans $10bn Investment on a Swedish AI Data Center

Sweden

Brookfield Asset Management plans to spend up to 95 billion kronor ($9.9 billion) on an AI data center in Strängnäs, Sweden. The investment more than doubles a planned 300MW facility to 750MW, with the company planning to purchase 350,000 sqm of additional land in Strängnäs to support the larg...

Siemens Launches Prefabricated Data Center Module

United States

Siemens Smart Infrastructure, Cadolto Datacenter, and Legrand Data Center Solutions announced this week that they are jointly unveiling a new turnkey modular Edge data center. The companies are offering customizable, prefabricated modules that can be tailored to unique operational needs and de...

Vertiv Unveils Liquid Cooling CDUs for AI data centers

United States

Vertiv has launched three new coolant distribution units (CDUs) for liquid cooled data centers as it is expanding its CoolChip CDU range with the addition of the CoolChip CDU 70, CoolChip CDU 100, CoolChip CDU 600 models.“As workloads continue to drive higher rack densities and cooling demands...

AWS' Quantum General Manager Joins Google

Amazon AWS

The general manager of quantum technologies at Amazon Web Services Simone Severini has left for Google after spending more than six years at the cloud giant, which is developing its own quantum computers along with offering other companies' systems on its Braket service. He is also a professor...

CyrusOne, E.ON Partner on 61MW Onsite Power System

CyrusOne

CyrusOne has partnered with European energy company E.ON to develop an on-site gas-fired power system at Cyrus’ FRA7 data center in Frankfurt, Germany. This agreement will see E.ON construct the IQ Energy Center, which is expected to have a capacity of 61MW at full buildout. According to Matt ...

Singaporean Science and Tech Agency Signs MoU with Google Cloud

Google

Singapore's Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Google Cloud to use the latter's computing and AI solutions. Under the MoU, use the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) Air Gapped offering. The MoU will see HTX and Google work together on...

Vena Launches AI-ready Data Center Subsidiary

Singapore

Singaporean infrastructure developer Vena Global has launched a new subsidiary focused on the development of AI-ready data center infrastructure across the Asia-Pacific region, with plans to create a digital infrastructure developer that is highly integrated with low-carbon energy development....

Thylander Plans 100MW Data Center in Esbjerg

Denmark

Danish real estate firm Thylander revealed plans for a “fully Danish developed, operated, and owned hyperscale data center" on LinkedIn. The 100MW facility in Esbjerg is set to launch in 2026 with an initial 10-20MW, and will have expansion potential to 200MW. Thylander said it is working with...

Greykite to Redevelop Logistics Site as Data Center in Poland

Poland

UK-based investment firm Greykite is converting a former logistics site in Warsaw, Poland, into a data center. The firm alongside White Star Real Estate announced the signing of a long-term lease with a “global leader in data center solutions” at its Digital Ursus site in the Polish capital.Gr...

Heron Power Raises $38m to Fast-track Grid Hardware

United States

US power electronics developer Heron Power has closed a Series A funding round, successfully raising $38 million. Following the Series A round, Heron has now raised a total of $43 million. The funding will support the commercialization of its Heron Link product, which aims to replace legacy tr...

Bell Canada Plans AI 'Data Center Supercluster'

British Columbia

Canadian telecoms operator Bell Canada has launched 'Bell AI Fabric,' a plan to help build AI data centers across the country, starting with six data centers in British Columbia, supported by 500MW of hydroelectric power. The very first facility is set to come online this June, operated by AI ...

Microsoft Launches Cloud Region in Malaysia

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has launched its first cloud region in Malaysia, comprising three availability zones. The region is described by Microsoft as "AI-ready" and will provide Malaysian organisations with Microsoft cloud services offering in-country data residency.YB Gobind Singh Deo, Malaysia’s Minister ...

APL Plans 100MW Data Center Campus in Finland

Finland

International private equity firm APL Group (also known as Asia Pacific Land) this week announced the development of a hyperscale data center campus in Varkaus, in the province of Eastern Finland.The data center will be built on a 28-hectare site and has a planned capacity of up to 100MW. The ...

IQM Installs Quantum Computer at Politecnico di Torino Data Center

IQM Quantum Computers has brought its first quantum computer in Italy online.The 5-qubit IQM Spark system has been installed in the Turin data center belonging to Politecnico di Torino (PoliTo), Italy’s oldest technical university.IQM’s Spark quantum machines have been specifically tailored fo...