Data Center News

Kairos gets construction permits for Hermes Two Demonstration Plant

Tennessee

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued construction permits to Kairos Power for its Hermes Two Demonstration Plant at the Heritage Center Industrial Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The plant will also host a proposed single 35MW Hermes One Test Reactor, a non-nuclear engineering test...

Civo launches second UK cloud region

United Kingdom

Cloud computing company Civo has launched a second cloud region in the UK with sustainability-focused data centre provider Deep Green, which is also set to launch another data centre that will heat a local swimming pool located at the York Stadium Leisure Complex. Civo's newest cloud region, k...

AWS eyes data center project in Fayette County, Ohio

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is eyeing Fayette County, southern Ohio, as a site for a data center development and is considering a location about 25 miles east of Xenia, 40 miles east of Dayton.“We recently filed documents as part of the process in exploring possible data center locations. This i...

AP&T completes SeaLink South subsea cable

United States

Alaska Power & Telephone Company (AP&T) has completed the SeaLink South subsea cable a year ahead of schedule. AP&T said the project will expand and improve connectivity in Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago region.Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski said: “After hearing from Alaskans, stren...

DirecTV terminates offer to acquire EchoStar

United States

DirecTV has terminated its offer to acquire EchoStar's satellite television business stating its failure to gain approval from Dish bondholders as a reason for termination. The proposed $1 sale to DirecTV would have included the sale of Dish's DBS pay-TV business as well as Dish and Sling TV, ...

Lightmatter extends manufacturing partnerships with GlobalFoundries, ASE, and Amkor

Photonics computing company Lightmatter has announced it's extending its manufacturing partnerships with GlobalFoundries, ASE, and Amkor. Lightmatter’s VP of product, Steve Klinger, said the announcements reinforce the fact that Lightmatter is moving into the next phase of its product developm...

Rakuten to deploy Ampere Arm CPUs across data centers

Japan

Japan's Rakuten Group is set to deploy Ampere hardware across its data centers. The company is expanding its partnership with Ampere Computing to reduce the power consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) computing.Hironori Yoshida, executive officer and vice director of the cloud platform s...

CPP partners with Pacific AMC for South Korea data center

South Korea

Pension fund Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) this week announced a KRW 1 trillion (US$711 million) joint venture with Pacific Asset Management Company (Pacific AMC) to develop carrier-neutral hyperscale data centers in South Korea.“The demand for data centers in Asia Pac...

Boldyn Network and Verizon deploy small cells at Texas

Texas

Boldyn Network has partnered with Verizon Wireless to install millimeter wave 5G small cells at Fort Cavazos US Army base in Texas. The company notes that the small cells will "enhance coverage and speeds" for the more than 60,000 soldiers and family members living on base.“This project is abo...

RWE selects HPE Private Cloud AI for weather modeling

Renewable energy company RWE has selected HPE's private coud AI for weather modeling and will be using HPE's Private Cloud for evaluating, fine-tuning, and inferencing its weather models. “As a leading provider of renewable energy, RWE is at the forefront of balancing the increasing power dema...

Amazon to invest another $4bn in Anthropic

Amazon AWS

Amazon plans to invest $4 billion in Anthropic, following a previous $4bn investment in the generative artificial intelligence startup. The companies said that the startups "will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and deploy its future foundation models," however Anthropic will lik...

RackNerd expands offerings to Dublin, Ireland

Dublin

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider RackNerd has expanded its offering to Dublin, Ireland and will be offering its IaaS from the Digital Realty DU10 data center located in Dublin, Ireland."Our expansion into Dublin represents a strategic response to the growing demand for high-performa...

Michigan extends data center tax breaks

Michigan

Legislators in the Michigan House of Representatives have approved extended tax breaks for data centers in a move aimed at attracting business from the hyperscalers. It was approved 64-45 in a vote led by the Democrats, but with support from many Republican lawmakers.Rep. Joey Andrews, who spo...

France Télévisions selects Thésée Datacenter for cloud migration

France

France Télévisions, Radio France, France Médias Monde, and TV5 Monde have partnered with Thésée Datacenter to assist with their transition to cloud solutions.The migration aims to make the media companies more resilient against the risks of cyber attacks, reduce the environmental impact of bro...

Keppel looks to buy facilities in Singapore

Singapore

Keppel DC REIT this week announced the proposed acquisition of two hyperscale data centers at the Keppel Data Centre Campus in Singapore from a joint venture owned by its parent company.  Keppel will continue to operate and manage the two facilities post-acquisition.The deal would be for S$1.0...

ORNL adds IQM Resonance to its quantum cloud service

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has added IQM Resonance, a quantum cloud service, to its quantum computing user program. Through it's Quantum Computing User Program, academic institutions, researchers, scientists, and developers will be able to access IQM Crystal, a high-fidelity quantum ...

TECfusions secures $300m loan for Virginia data center expansion

Virginia

TECfusions has secured over $300 million to be used for the development and expansion of its Virginia site. In response to “urgent capacity needs” from a key tenant, gradual funding began in January 2024 and has now been solidified in a formal loan agreement, which includes the cumulative moni...

IBM to make AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs available via IBM Cloud

Kyndryl

IBM is planning to make AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs available as a service via IBM Cloud. The GPUs will be rolled out on the platform in the first half of 2025, with the aim of improving the performance and power efficiency of generative AI models and high-performance computing applications.“As e...

Oracle Database@Azure expands footprint

Oracle

Oracle has expanded its Database@Azure footprint to include Brazil South and Italy North regions. Oracle and Microsoft aim to add a further 24 regions by the end of 2025, as well as 11 disaster recovery-only Azure regions.“Oracle Databases running on Exadata have been powering mission-critical...

Nvidia's data center revenue up 112% over last year

Nvidia's data center revenue for the latest quarter was $30.8 billion, up 17 percent from Q2 and up 112 percent from a year ago. “The age of AI is in full steam, propelling a global shift to Nvidia computing,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia.“Demand for Hopper and anticipation for...