February 14, 2024 New Jersey
Via RI Marketplace, Real estate firm Marcus & Millichap is offering 1008 Virgil Avenue in Ridgefield, a former Sungard data center field as up for sale via auction and bidding for this property is set to begin March 25, with $750,000 listed as a starting bid. The listing reads, “The property...
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February 10, 2024 Americas
Satellite operator Viasat is to enter its ViaSat-3 F1 satellite into service next quarter, despite the new machine offering far less bandwidth than planned after a deployment issue. The company plans to make ViaSat-3 F1 the first in a constellation of three geostationary Ka-band communications...
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February 09, 2024 New York State
Aqua Comms has entered an agreement with Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) that for 25 percent of a fiber pair between New York, Dublin, and London. This agreement will last for 15 years and will give ESnet a dedicated 5Tbps data pipe on its AEC-1 subsea cable to accommodate data traffic from those...
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February 08, 2024 Texas
Iris Energy and AI startup Poolside have gotten into an agreement to give the latter cloud access to Nvidia GPUs. According to Iris Energy, the initial contract is three months, with a potential three month extension. Daniel Roberts, co-Founder and co-CEO of Iris Energy, said: “We are pleased to...
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February 07, 2024 United States
Verizon revealed in an announcement this week that it has deployed more than 130,000 Open RAN capable radios. The telco noted that the figure includes the massive MIMO radios as part of the previously announced 15,000 O-RAN compliant virtualized cell sites with O-RAN compliant baseband units in...
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January 18, 2024 United States
Growth equity firm General Atlantic has recently revealed plans to acquire sustainable infrastructure investor Actis. This deal will create an investment platform with about $96 billion in combined assets under management. Company head Torbjorn Caesar, who will continue to run the business, said,...
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January 17, 2024 United States
Cloud provider DigitalOcean which is dedicated to small-to-medium businesses and startups, has added to its GPU-accelerated cloud computing platform with Nvidia chips. With this new upgrade, DigitalOcean's ability to offer cloud-based artificial intelligence, machine learning applications, and...
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January 17, 2024 United States
Seagate Technology recently announced that it will be shipping 30TB hard drives based on its heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology. The company expects to conclude full production by the end of March as hyperscale customers already have evaluation units and are planning to adopt it...
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January 16, 2024 United States
Investment fund Stonepeak has invested $200 million into Guam telecoms firm TeleGuam Holdings (GTA). Huntsman Family Investments and its affiliates (HFI) will continue to be the majority owner of GTA and operate the company which will divert the investment into developing additional cable landing...
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January 10, 2024 United States
Alphabet quantum spinout Sandbox AQ has acquired quantum and computational chemistry startup Good Chemistry. Neither of the companies disclosed the terms of this acquisition. However, the Wall Street Journal reported that the deal is worth $75 million and comprises of cash and stock. SandboxAQ...
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January 09, 2024 Tierpoint Fort Worth
US colocation provider TierPoint this week announced that it has acquired a multi-megawatt data center in Fort Worth, Texas. This data center located at 13701 Independence Parkway is the company’s third in the Dallas-Forth Worth area. The colocation provider noted that this facility sitting on 13...
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January 08, 2024 Americas
Stack Infrastructure recently announced that it is expanding its AI data center capabilities with high-density racks to help support the growing requirements of machine learning workloads. Matt VanderZanden, chief operating officer of Stack Americas said, “Stack was built for the world’s largest...
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January 06, 2024 United States
Analog machine learning chip developer Aspinity has announced Richard Hegberg as its new CEO to replace the company’s co-founder Tom Doyle, who has held the position of CEO for the previous seven years. Doyle will, however, remain as a board member and will become the company’s chief operating...
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January 06, 2024 United States
Microcontroller manufacturer Microchip Technology is set to receive $162 million in funding from the US CHIPS and Science Act to support an increase in the company’s production of microcontroller units (MCUs) and other technology in the country. Ganesh Moorthy, President and CEO of Microchip,...
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January 05, 2024 West Virginia
West Virginia's Raleigh County Commission has indefinitely suspended a data center proposal for a new facility, which was to be developed between Flat Top Road and Joe Cooper Farm Road in Shady Spring. This development is now no longer under consideration with the County for lack of information....
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January 04, 2024 Iowa
Wells Fargo recently sold 7001 Westown Parkway and 1725 68th Street, which had been listed on its site for a combined $16.5 million, to commercial and residential brokerage WB Realty Co. A JLL sales brochure described the property as offering 36,230 square meters of office space, along with an...
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January 03, 2024 Arkansas
Social media firm Meta has signed a 330MW solar Environmental Attributes Purchase Agreement (EAPA) with Adapture Renewables in Arkansas and Illinois. Following this agreement, Meta will buy solar energy from three of Adapture Renewables' solar projects that are currently under development in the...
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January 03, 2024 Virginia
A group of residents in Prince William County, Virginia recently sued the Board of County Supervisors through their formed non-profit "Devlin Defend Corporation” over a data center development. The residents submitted this lawsuit on December 28, hoping to stop the development of a nine-building...
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January 03, 2024 United States
MIPS, a company focused on the development of high-performance RISC-V compute IP recently announced that two former SiFive executives have joined its executive leadership team. Drew Barbier has joined as VP of products and Brad Burgess has been named chief architect. Sameer Wasson, CEO of MIPS...
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December 28, 2023 Minnesota
The Rosemount City Council has voted unanimously in favor of the Meta data center development in Minnesota. Following this vote, the facility will be developed on part of the University of Minnesota's UMore Park. The approved plan d will see a 750,000 sq ft (69,670 sqm) data center campus be...
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