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Doma plans 1.5GW of data centers in Thailand

Doma Infrastructure Group (DIG), which describes itself as a developer of master-planned data center parks, partnered with Silicon Tech Park (STP), a Thai technology park operator to jointly develop three AI-ready green data center parks in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).Clement Goh, DIG CEO, said: “Thailand is a core market for DIG’s Asia Pacific strategy, and our gigawatt plan reflects our commitment to driving transformative projects in the region. Collaborating with STP, a partner...

December 13, 2024

Posted by: Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Thailand / Prathet Thai

ImpactData Partners with Raeden for Greensboro Data Center

Data center developer ImpactData has partnered with Raeden, signing a joint venture (JV) agreement to support the development of a 20MW turnkey colocation data center in Greensboro, North Carolina.“ImpactData’s strong efforts to obtain readily buildable land and near-term deliverable power fro...

February 22, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Bitfarms Explores Pivot to HPC and AI

Bitfarms last week announced it had tapped Appleby Strategy Group (ASG) and World Wide Technology (WWT), to conduct a comprehensive feasibility analysis on all its North American sites and advise on its global HPC/AI strategy. According to the company, ASG and WWT are evaluating Bitfarms’ ener...

February 21, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Avangrid to Build Six New Power Projects

Avangrid, the US arm of Spanish utility Iberdrola, will construct six new power projects with a combined capacity of 800MW to help meet the soaring energy demand of data centers in the US. The six projects are either in construction or are expected to commence construction in the coming months...

February 21, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Tata Power Migrates Workloads to AWS

Indian utility Tata Power has signed an agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to modernize its digital infrastructure and enable intelligent energy management in hopes that it will be able to accelerate India's transition to a greener energy ecosystem.The company said: "By integrating a clo...

February 21, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Iron Mountain Invests in Ooredoo's Data Center Unit

Qatari telco Ooredoo and Iron Mountain have announced a partnership for data center growth across the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. The deal will see Iron Mountain take a minority stake in Ooredoo’s data center company, MENA Digital Hub. “We are delighted to partner with Ooredoo ...

February 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amadeus Renews Cloud Contract with Microsoft

Travel technology company Amadeus has renewed its cloud computing contract with Microsoft. The company has recommitted to its cloud migration strategy and will use Microsoft's cloud and AI technologies. Amadeus has thus far moved more than 50 percent of its applications to the public cloud. Th...

February 13, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CtrlS Completes 125MW Solar Farm to Power Mumbai Campus

Indian data center developer CtrlS Datacenters has completed the construction of a 125MW captive solar farm in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. CtrlS has said that the project will cover 60 percent of the energy requirements at its Mumbai data center campus. The campus currently houses five data ce...

February 10, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon Signs PPA with ERG in Northern Ireland

Amazon has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Italian energy firm ERG Group as a pay-as-produced agreement in which ERG will supply the cloud giant with Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGOs) produced by the Corlacky wind farm. According to ERG, the PPA will deliver ...

February 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon Signs two PPAs in India

Amazon has signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) in India for a combined 199MW across two onshore wind projects. The first PPA was signed with CleanMax, an Asia-focused renewable developer, for energy from a 100MW onshore wind project currently under development in Koppal, Karnataka.Kulde...

February 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Crusoe and Kalina to Develop Natural Gas Powered AI Data Centers in Canada

Artificial intelligence data center developer Crusoe has entered into a multi-year framework agreement with natural gas-fired power provider Kalina Distributed Power (KDP) to develop multiple colocated AI data centers powered by natural gas power plants in Alberta, Canada.Each potential coloca...

February 06, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Orange Romania Signs 10-year vPPA with Engie

Orange Romania has signed a ten-year virtual Power Purchase Agreement (vPPA) with Engie Romania, that will cover 40GWh of Orange Romania's annual electricity requirements which will be delivered from one of Engie’s wind farms in Romania.“This long-term partnership will significantly contribute...

February 05, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon Signs Two PPAs in Japan

Amazon has secured two solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in Japan.In its first deal, Amazon signed a 20-year PPA with EDP Renewables APAC, a subsidiary of EDP-Energias de Portugal, to buy power from a 44MW solar farm in Fukushima. The project includes 63,000 solar panels and is expected t...

January 31, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Group Invests €120m in Four Renewable Projects

Southeastern European telco firm United Group has invested €120 million ($125.1 million) to support the development of three solar power plants and a wind farm in Bulgaria. The projects will have a combined capacity of 124MW.The first solar plant, located near Stara Zagora, reached operational...

January 31, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NREL Launches Geothermal Storage Project

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a federally funded research center, has launched a new project to address the increasing energy consumption of data center cooling. It aims to incorporate geothermal underground thermal energy storage (UTES) technology at data center sites natio...

January 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

STMicroelectronics Signs PPA with TotalEnergies in France

European semiconductor firm STMicroelectronics has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Total Energies. The PPA will power STMicroelectronics sites in France and will be supplied from two recently constructed wind and solar farms with a combined capacity of 75MW."We are delight...

January 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 Lander Delivered to Cape Canaveral

The IM-2 mission lunar lander has been delivered to Cape Canaveral, Florida, currently set to launch on February 26, prepared to carry what could be the first data center on the Moon. Lonestar plans to use the system to see how storage behaves on the Moon's surface, with an eventual aim to use...

January 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Florida

NextEra Partners with GE Vernova on Gas for Data Centers

US energy generator NextEra Energy has partnered with energy equipment manufacturer GE Vernova to develop gas-fired generation to meet the energy demands of data centers and will be taking further steps to restart the idled Duane Arnold Energy Center, a nuclear power plant in Iowa.NextEra CEO ...

January 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Santee Cooper proposes nuclear power station acquisition

Santee Cooper, South Carolina’s state-owned electric and water utility, has launched a Request for Proposals (RFP) to acquire and complete or propose alternatives for two partially constructed generating units at the Virgil C Summer Nuclear Power Station in Fairfield County, South Carolina.The...

January 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Carolina

Susquehanna Nuclear files petition to review FERC order

Susquehanna Nuclear LLC, the owner and operator of the 2.5GW Susquehanna steam electric station, has filed a petition in the Fifth Circuit court seeking a review of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) order rejecting an expanded interconnection service agreement (ISA) at the powe...

January 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Apollo Global Management is acquiring Argo Infrastructure Partners.

Investment giant Apollo Global Management is acquiring Argo Infrastructure Partners in a deal that will add approximately $6 billion of assets to the Apollo infrastructure platform. Argo is the majority owner of US data center firm TierPoint, which operates around 40 facilities across 18 US m...

January 20, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

TierPoint

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