Data Center News

Telstra fined $1.9m following emergency call failure

Australia

Australian mobile network operator Telstra has been fined more than AU$3 million ($1.9m) following its 90-minute Triple Zero outage earlier this year. Thenetwork operator has paid the fine as confirmed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), which said the fine was handed ...

Nexalus partners with liquid cooling technology

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 ...

Microsoft launches New Zealand cloud region

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft, today, has launched its first cloud region in New Zealand located in Aotearoa. This region will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy and use air cooling technology. The company first announced plans to develop a data center region in New Zealand in May 2020, receiving approval...

EchoStar, CWA opposes $4.4bn T-Mobile UScellular deal

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 state...

Doma plans 1.5GW of data centers in Thailand

Thailand / Prathet Thai

Doma Infrastructure Group (DIG), which describes itself as a developer of master-planned data center parks, partnered with Silicon Tech Park (STP), a Thai technology park operator to jointly develop three AI-ready green data center parks in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).Clement Goh, DIG ...

AWS names first customers for New Zealand region

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has named three of its first customers at its upcoming Auckland, New Zealand cloud region. One New Zealand and Vector, amongst others, will use the cloud region, and Datacom will host some of its customers in the region.“We’re really excited about how One NZ will be a...

Microsoft launches New Zealand cloud region

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft, today, has launched its first cloud region in New Zealand located in Aotearoa. This region will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy and use air cooling technology. The company first announced plans to develop a data center region in New Zealand in May 2020, receiving approval...

Energy Vault partners with RSDC for novel battery storage system

Rackspace

Energy Vault has partnered with data center operator RSDC to deliver 2GW/20GWh of primary power to RSDC data centers through its battery energy storage system (BESS). Energy Vault will deploy its B-Nest BESS, a modular multi-story structure designed to house stackable lithium-ion BESS units at...

EuroHPC JU selects seven hosting sites for AI factories

Europe

The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has selected seven sites to host the initiative’s new European AI factories. The factories represent a collaborative effort between 15 member states and two EuroHPC participating states and are the result of a €1.5 billion ($1.6bn) investment, combini...

Google debuts Willow quantum computing chip

Google

Google has announced its latest quantum computing chip, 'Willow,' claiming that the processor performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes, which would otherwise take 1025 years on a conventional supercomputer. Google said that the new chip has 105 qubits, which can retain ...

Prologis sells Chicago warehouse to HMC Capital

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 Capi...

Cloud Capital secures $1.325 billion ABS funding

Data center investment firm Cloud Capital last week announced the successful closing of its $1.325 billion asset-backed securities (ABS) issuance. The proceeds of the transaction will be used to refinance existing debt as well as for general corporate purposes. The notes are backed by four sta...

Google makes Trillium AI accelerators generally available

Google

Google has launched its self-developed Trillium AI accelerators which are designed for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Trillium is Google's sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), described as being Google's "most advanced TPU," capable of achieving a 4.7x increase in peak compu...

Micron to receive $6.2bn in direct CHIPS Act funding

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...

Nscale raises $155m in funding round to finance expansion

Europe

European AI cloud firm Nscale has raised $155 million in a new funding round led by Sandton Capital Partners with participation from Kestrel, Bluesky Asset Management, and Florence Capital and will fuel its growth plans across Europe and North America. Nscale said it is launching a public clou...

Data Journey acquires South Carolina data center site

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 Journ...

HPE walks away from $700m AI hardware deal

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 ...

Indosat to expand 4G and 5G network in Indonesia

Indonesia

Telco Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) has signed a 4G and 5G deal with network vendor Nokia. Nokia will provide its AirScale equipment portfolio including multiband radio technology and high-capacity baseband solutions, plus its FastMile Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) solutions in strategic regio...

Edgnex Data Centers announces new data center in Athens, Greece

Greece

Edgnex has announced plans to develop a 12.5MW data center in Athens, Greece. The Attica facility will be built in a joint venture - dubbed Data In Scale - between Edgnex’s parent company Damac and electricity utility PPC Group.“By leveraging Edgnex’s expertise in delivering reliable and agile...

Legrand acquires Power Bus Way

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 ...