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Equinix this week announced that it will be entering into the Philippines market after purchasing three facilities from Total Information Management, a local technology solutions provider. This deal comprises three carrier-neutral and interconnection-rich data centers with more than 1,000 cabi...

New Zealand data center firm Datagrid has purchased another six hectares of land for expansion on its campus on New Zealand’s South Island. The New Zealand Overseas Investment Office has approved the land acquisition and will allow the project to reach a total area of 49 hectares.Perrine Dhall...

Data center startup Ultrascale Digital Infrastructure (UDI) has revealed that it will be partnering with US food company Cargi for its plant-based immersion cooling fluid known as NatureCool 2000.   Arnold Magcale, founder and CEO of UDI said: “At Ultrascale, we’ve proven that liquid immersion...

Canadian cryptomining firm Hive Digital Technologies this week has announced plans to build a 100MW hydroelectricity-powered cryptomine data center in Paraguay. Hive said it will offer its “expertise in grid balancing and demand response” to support continued industrial development in Paraguay...

UK regulator Ofcom has fined BT Group a fee of £17.5 million ($22.6m) after a technical fault that impacted its ability to handle emergency calls between 06:24 and 16:56 on June 25th, 2023.   Suzanne Cater, Ofcom’s director of enforcement said: "Being able to contact the emergency services can...

GPU-based artificial intelligence (AI) cloud provider Nscale has acquired Kontena, a high-density modular data center and AI data center solutions provider to contribute to the infrastructure backbone for its GPU cloud.  Following this acquisition, Nscale will be able to deploy Kontena's modul...

CyrusOne has broken ground on a data center in Frankfurt, Germany known as FRA7. This data center , is currently being constructed on a 63,000 square meter plot at the Frankfurt Westside regeneration project managed by BEOS AG and Swiss Life Asset Managers and is set to consist of two three-st...

Google has launched an air-gapped version of its Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) hardware for AI which will enable enterprises to use cloud infrastructure for AI workloads in challenging environments outside of Google's data centers. Sachin Gupta, Google Cloud's general manager for infrastructu...

Josh Sheng Chen, co-chairperson and CEO  of Chinese data center firm Vnet (formerly 21Vianet) has withdrawn his offer to acquire all outstanding shares of the company which he made in September 2022. Josh Sheng Chen  said: “I withdrew my privatization proposal as I believe that maintaining Vne...

 Cloud computing provider PeaSoup will be collaborating with Midas Immersion Cooling, colocation provider Centersquare, and coolant supplier Castrol for high-performance computing in cloud with reduced energy usage.  Martin Bradburn, CEO of PeaSoup: "PeaSoup has always been at the forefront of...

 Nasdaq-listed tech giant, Yandex which was formerly referred to as “Russia’s Google,”  have been renamed as Nebius Group and pivoted to focus on AI following the company's agreement to sell its Russian operations to local management and investment firms.  The company said: “In addition to exp...

 Hyperscale networking firm Arrcus has raised $30 million in an investment round with investments from Nvidia and Hitachi Ventures amongst others.  "We are thrilled to welcome Nvidia as our latest investor and look forward to building on our collaboration. Arrcus’ leading networking software c...

Power grid optimization specialist Heimdall Power has raised $25 million in a Series B funding round to scale up production of its “Magic Ball” sensors which it claims can help grid operators access up to 40 percent of additional transmission capacity in existing power lines. These neuron sens...