December 20, 2024 North America
Serverfarm has increased its North American credit facility to $1.637 billion. Led by TD Securities, the increased credit facility has added seven new lenders for a total of 19.“Following our recent 500MW+ Houston announcement, we’re delighted to have access to additional capital to support...
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December 20, 2024 Philadelphia
Philadelphia-based investment manager CenterSquare has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against data center firm Centersquare. The lawsuit, filed on August 24, includes allegations of cybersquatting, or using a domain name too similar to a protected trademark with the intent to profit from...
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December 20, 2024 Montana
NorthWestern Energy has signed an energy supply agreement with Atlas Power Group to power its flagship data center in Butte, Montana. The new supply agreement will see NorthWestern supply Atlas with 75MW of power beginning in 2026, with a further 75MW expected in the next three to five...
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December 20, 2024 Texas
Duos Technologies is set to develop a high-density data center campus at Pampa Energy Center (PEC).The company will develop data centers supported by up to 500MW of self-generated natural gas power and supplemented by up to 200MW of wind turbine generation and alternative fuel services.“The US...
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December 19, 2024 United States
CTIA president and CEO Meredith Attwell Baker has confirmed she will retire from the CTIA next year at the end of her contract. In the departure announcement last week, CTIA chair and CEO of Carolina West Wireless Slayton Stewart noted that Baker's biggest contribution during her tenure was the...
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December 18, 2024 United States
Bitcoin miner and clean energy infrastructure developer Digihost Technology and Nano Nuclear have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to deploy a 60MW microreactor at Digihost’s New York power plant. They will collaborate on designing, constructing, testing, and commissioning a...
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December 18, 2024 United States
GMI Cloud and Vast Data are teaming up on an artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure offering, combining Vast Data's AI data platform with GMI Cloud's AI cloud solution to develop scalable AI infrastructure. The GMI Cloud built on the Vast Data Platform will support Magnum IO GPUDirect...
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December 17, 2024 United States
Crusoe Energy has closed its Series D funding round with $600 million. The round valued Crusoe at $2.8 billion, less than the $3 billion the company originally aimed for. The investment was led by venture capital firm Founders Fund, and others including Fidelity, Long Journey Ventures, the United...
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December 17, 2024 Illinois
The Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s (MISO) board has approved a $21.9 billion long-range transmission plan. The new transmission lines will span 1,800 miles and include some that will connect directly to PJM Interconnection’s 765kV system in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. “The main thing...
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December 17, 2024 United States
Verizon has deployed Ener.co’s retrofit cooling solution in 36 of its US data centers. Ener.co said the project has saved Verizon annual electricity savings of 7,700,000 kWh and has reduced annual greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 1,700 tonnes.“Data centers are proliferating across the US...
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December 16, 2024 United States
The US government’s National Science Foundation (NSF) is investigating the possibility of building a cable connecting the largest US Antarctic Program research facility, McMurdo Station, with either New Zealand or Australia.The main scope of the installation “is to provide advanced high-speed,...
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December 13, 2024 United States
Nexalus has teamed up with HPE in a partnership will see Nexalus deploy its liquid cooling technology - which it claims can recycle excess heat - into three of HPE’s server models, which it says offer enhanced thermal performance and reduced energy consumption.Kenneth O’Mahony, co-founder and CEO...
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December 13, 2024 United States
EchoStar and Communications Workers of America (CWA) have stepped up their opposition to T-Mobile's proposed $4.4 billion deal to acquire significant assets from regional carrier UScellular. In a filing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week, Dish Network owner EchoStar stated...
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December 12, 2024 Chicago
Prologis has sold a data center development in Chicago, Illinois to HMC Capital. The industrial real estate giant said the warehouse is held in the US Logistics Fund, a Prologis co-investment vehicle focused on premier logistics real estate, including higher and better-use conversions.HMC Capital...
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December 11, 2024 United States
The Department of Commerce has reached a binding agreement with Micron to award the company $6.165 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act. In a statement, the department confirmed the funding will be used to support the construction of three new memory chip fabs: two in Clay,...
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December 10, 2024 South Carolina
Cryptocurrency and power generation company Greenidge Generation has agreed to sell its 152-acre Spartanburg, South Carolina property to Data Journey for $12.1 million in cash and an 8 percent profit participation interest in a planned data center on the site. Greenidge will support Data Journey...
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December 09, 2024 United States
HPE revealed it walked away from a $700 million AI hardware deal over concerns about the customer. CEO Anthonio Neri told analysts on the enterprise IT vendor’s most recent earnings call that the company chose to “de-book” the order for an unnamed client because it considered it too risky.“We...
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December 06, 2024 United States
Senator Joni Ernst has told the US Department for Government Efficiency (DOGE) to shut down the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. DOGE was formed by Trump as part of his campaign plans to significantly slash federal spending and is not actually a federal...
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December 06, 2024 Canada
Legrand has acquired Power Bus Way, a specialist in Cable Bus power busbars, primarily for data centers. The company employs more than 120 people and generates an annual revenue of around €70 million ($73.5m), mainly in the United States and Canada.Benoît Coquart, CEO of Legrand, said: "Today we...
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December 06, 2024 Americas
Samsung has partnered with Liberty Puerto Rico to test the vendor's Open RAN virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) and radios in Liberty's mobile network in Puerto Rico. As a result, Liberty is the first carrier in Puerto Rico and Latin America to introduce 5G vRAN and Open RAN technologies....
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