April 05, 2024 United States
Communications equipment company Casa Systems has agreed to sell multiple assets this week after the company said it has filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. “Like many in our sector, Casa has experienced a significant decline in...
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April 05, 2024 Delaware
Inter-city rail service Amtrak has selected a construction company for its Unified Operations Center (UOC) Facility Project, which will include a data center, in Wilmington, Delaware. “One of our primary goals for the Renaissance Centre building is to create a new Amtrak Unified Operations Center...
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April 04, 2024 Indiana
The South Korean chip manufacturer SK Hynix has confirmed earlier reports about building an advanced chip packaging facility in Indiania as it revealed its plans to invest $3.87 billion in the plant which will produce next-generation high bandwidth memory (HBM), the highest-performing Dynamic...
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April 04, 2024 United States
Valterra Partners-owned colocation firm ColoHouse has acquired Hivelocity, a bare metal colocation provider in an acquisition which combines ColoHouse’s infrastructure and hosting services with Hivelocity’s bare metal servers, network automation, and virtual private cloud solutions. Jeremy Pease,...
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April 03, 2024 Delaware
Airspan Networks which specializes in developing 5G hardware and software, said it plans to trade its more than $205 million in funded debt for equity and raise up to $95 million in new equity financing and has filed for Chapter 11 protection at a Delaware bankruptcy court. “This support...
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April 03, 2024 United States
The US Air Force has put out a request for proposals (RFP) for 'phase 2' of its enterprise IT service delivery, a contract which is a potential 10-year deal with a $12.5 billion budget and will work towards the Air Force's goals to centralize its many IT modernization efforts. This contract is...
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April 02, 2024 California
Steelmaker Nucor Corporation this week announced that it has acquired Southwest Data Products, Inc. (SWDP), a manufacturer and a data center supplier and launched a new business unit that will help better serve its customers in the data center infrastructure industry. Nucor said SWDP and the...
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March 29, 2024 United States
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week rejected SpaceX’s bid to use the 1.6GHz and 2GHz radio spectrums due to a technicality. SpaceX's satellite division Starlink, had been seeking approval to use up to 7,500 second-generation satellites with spectrum in the 1.6 GHz, 2 GHz, and 2.4...
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March 28, 2024 Virginia
Virginia's Fauquier County has approved zoning changes for Vint Hill relating to the "planned commercial and industrial district" that will limit data centers. These zoning rules will require any buildings or assemblages of buildings of more than 50,000 sq ft (4,645 sqm) to apply for and receive...
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March 28, 2024 Latin America (LATAM)
Internet Vikings is opening its first data center in Latin America to cater to the growing demand for licensed iGaming and sports betting services. The company said it would offer “reliable and secure hosting services that enable operators to develop in this competitive environment.” It added...
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March 27, 2024 United States
Cloud computing startup Hive has completed a Series A round of funding led by SC Ventures, the venture arm of Standard Chartered with $13 million and plans to use this fund to further its plans for a decentralized cloud, using an aggregation of individual devices' unused storage and computing....
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March 25, 2024 United States
Nautilus Data Technologies has launched a new product line known as EcoCore, based on the cooling technology the firm developed for its own data centers. The modular data center design offers 2.5MW of capacity. Nautilus said EcoCore “enhances prefabrication efficiency and streamlines the...
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March 25, 2024 United States
Chiplet interconnect manufacturer Eliyan has closed a $60 million Series B funding round co-led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Tiger Global Management and included participation from existing investors, including Intel Capital, SK Hynix, Cleveland Avenue, and Mesh Ventures. The funding round...
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March 22, 2024 Canada
Canadian telco Rogers Communications has blamed its recent outage on a fiber optic cable cut between Guelph and Brampton after a crash knocked down traffic lights and wires, which happened at Claire Rd W and Gordon St in Guelph. “Customers in parts of Guelph and surrounding areas may be...
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March 21, 2024 United States
Ericsson has launched an entity dedicated to delivering 5G services for multiple agencies in the US federal government. This is in its aim to support state and federal government entities to boost services and natural security, plus US defense modernization programs. “Connecting individuals,...
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March 21, 2024 United States
Schneider Electric and Mainspring Energy have partnered on a fuel-flexible microgrid solution using Schneider's EcoStruxure offering and Mainspring's Linear Generator. The Schneider Electric-Mainspring Microgrid Solution enables customers to power their self-contained electrical network and...
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March 21, 2024 United States
Foundry Technologies, a new cloud platform, launched this week with $80 million of funding gottenfrom a round led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partner. They were joined by other investors including Microsoft's venture capital arm, Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, OpenAI’s Liam...
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March 19, 2024 United States
GPU designer Nvidia announced the computational lithography library this time last year, saying that contract chip manufacturers TSMC and ASML were testing it out, alongside chip design tools company Synopsys. Vivek Singh, Nvidia's VP of advanced technology, said, "A chip is made up of trillions...
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March 18, 2024 Canada
Exaion, an EDF Group subsidiary specializing in the development and operation of ‘eco-responsible digital services platforms,’ recently announced the opening of its data center in Sherbrooke, Canada. This facility called Bellevue, is located in the Humano District project, to which it will...
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March 18, 2024 Arizona
The US government is set to award Intel $8.5 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act as confirmed by the Department of Commerce on Tuesday. Intel is also to get an additional $11bn in low-interest rate loans and a 25 percent investment tax credit on up to $100 billion of Intel’s...
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