Data Center News

US DOE launches HPC research program

United States

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has announced a new $23 million research and development program led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The  initiative will see a team led by ORNL source R&D proposals across the areas of hardware, software, and critical technolo...

Oracle and AWS partner for Oracle Database@AWS

Amazon AWS

Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are launching Oracle Cloud offerings on Amazon's cloud platform. This solution enables customers to access Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure and Oracle Exadata Database Service within AWS. It will also allow customers to connect their e...

Beyond.pl to expand Poznan campus capacity

Poland

Polish data center operator Beyond.pl has announced plans to expand its Poznan campus to offer 150MW of IT capacity, almost doubling its current capacity with stands at 86MW. The existing facility on the campus, dubbed Data Center 2, has a target capacity of 42MW. The company is now set to bui...

Exa Infrastructure to acquire Bulgarian telco GCN

EXA Infrastructure

Exa Infrastructure has announced its plans to acquire Bulgarian telco Global Communication Net AD (GCN). Exa Infrastructure did not disclose terms of the deal, but the company did state it expects the deal to conclude the during the fourth quarter of this year."The GCN network consists of over...

EE becomes the third carrier of 5G Standalone network in UK

United Kingdom

EE has launched its 5G Standalone (5G SA) network in the UK, becoming the third carrier in the country to launch 5G SA, following Vodafone and Virgin Media O2.However, EE is the first to charge a premium for its 5G SA service.“Today, EE is launching UK firsts in network capabilities designed t...

Seagate expands its Lyve Cloud Object Storage offering with new regions

Seagate Technology has expanded its Lyve Cloud Object Storage offering and added new regions in Europe and Japan. Melyssa Banda, VP of enterprise systems and solutions at Seagate said that the new features and expanded regional coverage will help customers build out their regional presence and...

Philippines officials to convert dormant nuclear power plant into data center

Philippines officials  are making plans to convert Bataan Nuclear Power Plant [BNPP], the country's only nuclear power station into a data centre. Construction began on the plant in 1976 and was completed in the mid-1980s despite delays and ballooning costs. However, it was never fuelled or ac...

Liberty Latin America acquires mobile spectrum from EchoStar

Puerto Rico

Liberty Latin America (LLA) has acquired spectrum assets from EchoStar in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.The acquisition also includes close to 85,000 pre-paid mobile subscribers, confirmed LLA in a statement.LLA will pay $255 million for the assets, to be paid across four installments,...

T-Mobile to get exclusive access to Starlink for one year

SpaceX founder Elon Musk confirmed this week that its satellite broadband subsidiary Starlink will provide mobile phone Internet in the US exclusively to T-Mobile for just one year. After that,the service will be opened up to other mobile carriers, he added in a post on X (formerly Twitter) ea...

ACCC approves Optus-TPG network sharing agreement

Australia

Australian regulator ACCC has approved the proposed regional network-sharing agreement struck by Optus and TPG Telecom, enabling the telcos to create a regional Multi-Operator Core Network (MOCN), which will last for 11 years.  ACCC said it would not oppose the plans in a statement yesterday. ...

PowerHouse acquires land in North Carolina for new data center

PowerHouse Data Centers

 PowerHouse Data Centers's alongside real estate investment management firm Town Lane this week announced the completed purchase of 122 acres in Charlotte via a joint venture partnership between both companies. The site is intended for a five-building, 2.5 million square feet (232,255 sqm) dat...

1547 CSR and Harrison Street acquire carrier hotel in Indiana

Indiana

 Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) and Harrison Street announced the acquisition of the Global Access Point Union Station data center located in Northern Indiana. This facility offers access to more than 20 telecommunication network service providers, totaling  75,000 sq ft (6,9...

Duos launches first Edge data center in Texas

Texas

 Duos Technology, a company specializing in machine vision and AI to analyze fast-moving objects including trains, this week announced the launch of its first Edge data center at the Region 16 Education Service Center in Amarillo.  Doug Recker, president of Duos Edge AI said Amarillo is a loca...

Penta Infra plans new data center in Copenhagen, Denmark

Penta Infra

 European data center firm Penta Infra has announced the acquisition of a site that will be developed into a 20,000 sqm (215,280 sq ft) data center, delivering 20MW of IT load. This will be the company's second facility in the Danish capital. Penta acquired its Glostrup, Copenhagen, data cente...

Blackstone acquires AirTrunk for AU$24bn

Australia

 Blackstone has acquired APAC data center firm AirTrunk from Macquarie Asset Management and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board. for US$16.1 billion, making it the largest-ever deal in the space. This deal was secured with funds from Blackstone along with the Canada Pension Plan Investm...

Quantum Brilliance partners with ORNL for hybrid quantum computing project

Diamond-based quantum technology company Quantum Brilliance has partnered with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to integrate room-temperature quantum computers with classical supercomputers. They aim to build a platform that will support the on-premises integration of Quantum Brilliance’s ...

Singtel and Nscale announce partnership to accelerate GPU capacity

Europe

 Singaporean telco Singtel has formed a strategic partnership with AI cloud provider Nscale to accelerate GPU capacity across Europe and Southeast Asia. This partnership dubbed GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), will see Nscale receive access to Singtel’s Nvidia H100 GPU capacity in Southeast Asia thr...

Microsoft signs rooftop solar PPA in Singapore

Microsoft Azure

 Microsoft has signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with EDP Renewables (EDPR) to purchase 100 percent of the renewable energy exported to the grid from the energy firm's 200MWp SolarNova 8 project.  EDPR said phase eight of the SolarNova program is both the largest solar project in Singa...

Empyrion Digital to expand into Japan

Japan

 APAC data center firm Empyrion Digital  this week announced it has signed a binding agreement with “one of Japan’s largest diversified financial services groups” to develop a 25MW AI-ready data center in Tokyo.  Mark Fong, CEO of Empyrion Digital described the news as a "significant milestone...

Stellium to deploy Submer immersion cooling at Newcastle data center

United Kingdom

 UK colo firm Stellium Datacenters this week announced a collaboration with immersion cooling firm Submer and petrochemical/immersion cooling fluid supplier ExxonMobil as it plans to develop Submer’s immersion cooling technology at its data center campus in Newcastle. Under the agreement, Subm...