November 08, 2025 Applied Digital
US energy technology provider Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) has signed an agreement with data center developer Applied Digital to supply it with more than 1GW of natural gas power. The company also expects to sign a long-term parts and services agreement once the plant becomes operational. The...
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October 11, 2025 Finland
Kitee this week announced plans to sign a preliminary property purchase agreement with data center developer Scale42. The deal, to be discussed at a city meeting next week, concerns a 10-hectare plot in the northern part of the Kitee Puhos industrial area.William Tasney, CEO of Scale42, said:...
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September 12, 2025 Finland
Helen, one of Finland's largest energy companies, has announced that it is open to supporting data center operators in joining its “comprehensive energy system” in Helsinki, where facilities can be connected to the city’s advanced district heating and cooling network."The synergy benefits of data...
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September 08, 2025 Finland
Helsinki-based AI cloud company DataCrunch is looking to develop a data center in Akaa, Finland and has purchased 10 hectares of land in the Akaa Point business district for around €600,000 ($698,200). "The scale of the investment is significant and it strengthens our city's tax revenue base,...
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August 19, 2025 Applied Digital
Former cryptomine company turned AI data center firm Applied Digital this week announced plans for Polaris Forge 2, a $3 billion, 280MW campus near Harwood in Cass County. "We believe Polaris Forge 2 represents the next stage in Applied Digital’s rapid growth and our position as a leader in...
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August 15, 2025 Finland
APAC data center firm DayOne this week announced plans to develop a campus in Lahti, some 100km northeast of Helsinki. The €1.2 billion ($1.4bn) project will be located in a former industrial site in Kiveriö. At full build-out, the project could total 128MW IT load."Finland is an ideal strategic...
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August 01, 2025 Applied Digital
CoreWeave has agreed to lease an additional 150MW of data center capacity from Applied Digital. This builds on a previous leasing agreement made in June 2025 for 250MW, netting Applied Digital around $7 billion over the 15-year contract term. This has now been increased to $11bn.“These long-term...
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June 20, 2025 Finland
The Keuruu government last week announced that Suomen Energiainsinöörit Technology Oy plans to build a data center on a 40-hectare site on the western side of the Karjola industrial area. The company aims to develop a 200,000 sqm (2,152,782 sq ft) facility on the site, which is currently owned by...
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June 03, 2025 Applied Digital
Crypto and HPC data center firm Applied Digital has entered into two 15-year lease agreements with CoreWeave to deliver 250MW of IT load to its data center campus in Ellendale, North Dakota. Following terms of the agreement, CoreWeave retains the option to access an additional 150MW of critical...
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May 29, 2025 Finland
International private equity firm APL Group (also known as Asia Pacific Land) this week announced the development of a hyperscale data center campus in Varkaus, in the province of Eastern Finland.The data center will be built on a 28-hectare site and has a planned capacity of up to 100MW. The...
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May 21, 2025 Applied Digital
Applied Digital is looking to develop a multi-billion-dollar data center in Deuel County, South Dakota which could see up to $16 billion in investment and create up to 200 high-paying jobs. In addition, Applied Digital has committed to improving local fiber infrastructure, and to minimize the...
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January 20, 2025 Applied Digital
Investment firm Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) is set to invest $5 billion into Applied, a cryptomining firm pivoting to AI and HPC data centers. Under the deal, MAM will invest up to $900 million in Applied's Ellendale campus in development in North Dakota, and has the right of first refusal...
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November 15, 2024 Finland
Aerospace giant Airbus is aiming to move all of its data-sharing capabilities to a Gaia-X data space. The company announced its plans at the Gaia-X Summit 2024 in Helsinki, Finland, explaining that it hopes to increase transparency with its massive network of suppliers.According to Catherine...
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October 18, 2024 Finland
Finnish oil refining firm Neste Oyj has signed an agreement with European data center firm Verne to supply renewable diesel to power the company's backup generators in Finland. The oil firm will deploy the renewable diesel at all of Verne’s Finnish data centers. Verne currently has three...
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October 09, 2024 Finland
European AI data center developer Nebius has announced plans to triple the capacity of its data center in Mäntsälä, Finland. This expansion will see Nebius place upwards of 60,000 GPUs at the facility, growing its capacity from 25MW to 75MW. This is part of a broader program that will see the...
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September 21, 2024 Finland
IQM Quantum Computers revealed on September 16 thst it has manufactured 30 full-stack quantum computing machines to date at its Espoo, Finland, manufacturing facility. In addition, it has delivered and installed six full-stack quantum computers to customers including the VTT Technical Research...
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March 04, 2024 Finland
Boldyn Networks has completed its acquisition of Cellnex's private network business for an undisclosed sum. This acquisition includes Edzcom, Cellnex’s Finnish subsidiary that specializes in private networks for industrial environments.“By bringing Cellnex's private networks business unit under...
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December 26, 2023 Finland
Finnish vendor Nokia has agreed to sell its device management and service management platform (SMP) businesses to Lumine Group. This deal, valued at €185 million is expected to close in the first quarter of next year, subject to approval. According to Nokia, Lumine "intends to operate DM and SMP...
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July 19, 2023 Finland
Remov has announced it is set to begin work on the construction of a new 7.2MW data center. The facility will be powered entirely by renewable energy, have a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1, an "energy flow ratio" of 1.0, and will recover 96 percent of its waste heat. According to the...
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March 16, 2023 Finland
At the recent Data Center World awards, the LUMI data center was awarded the Green Data Centre of the Year for its sustainability focus. The award was introduced to recognize the efforts made to reduce emissions and demonstrate a life cycle approach of recycling and reuse within the sector. The...
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