Data Center News

Quinbrook’s Rowan secures investment from Canadian pension fund

Canada

Rowan owner Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners this week announced that  Rowan Digital Infrastructure has secured a co-investment from University Pension Plan Ontario (UPP). The companies said UPP’s investment in Rowan will allow Quinbrook to “further advance its efforts” to provide solutions t...

Edged unveils new data center in New Albany, Ohio

Ohio

Data center firm Edged Energy has officially announced plans for a new data center located at 6525 New Albany Road East, the 206,000 sq ft (19,140 sqm) facility will offer 24MW across two stories. Construction is underway and expected to be completed in July 2025.  “We are on a mission to buil...

Telekom Malaysia to deploy Private 5G network at Petronas

Malaysia

Telekom Malaysia (TM) has deployed a Private 5G network for oil and gas company Petronas at its  LNG Complex in Bintulu, Sarawak.  According to TM, this location is one of four Petronas sites installed with a Private 5G network.  TM deployed the network along with the Digital Nasional Berhad (...

PDG acquires new data center in Singapore

Singapore

Princeton Digital Group this week announced the acquisition of Yahoo’s Singapore data center, SG3 which offers 5MW across 5,400 sqm (58,125 sq ft).  Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Yahoo will continue to host its infrastructure at the facility.  Rangu Salgame, chairman, CEO and co-fo...

RadiusDC acquires data center in Miami

Miami

RadiusDC this week announced the acquisition of Miami I in the Sweetwater area of the city from NextStream, a data center operator in Latin America owned by Actis.  RadiusDC said it plans to immediately expand the site's capacity from 3.2MW to 9.2MW.  "We believe Miami I is an ideal asset to e...

Foundry unveils GPU-based Foundry Cloud Platform

United States

Foundry has launched its GPU-based Foundry Cloud Platform for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads which it claims can reduce operational complexity and compute cost by up to six times.  The company seeks to overcome the GPU shortage by turning to existing GPUs that it claims are "vastly und...

Iomart deploys rooftop solar in Maidenhead data center

United Kingdom

UK data center operator Iomart has announced it has installed 560 solar panels on its flagship data center in Maidenhead, the largest of Iomart’s 13 data centers in the UK. This investment will contribute to the aim of self-sustaining energy during the summer to power the site.  David Gammie, ...

Waterland Private Equity to acquire MVNO Lebara

Europe

Investment firm Waterland Private Equity has revealed its plans to acquire MVNO Lebara Group by buying out Alchemy and Triton Partners, the existing owners of Lebara since 2019. The company, founded in 2001 does not own a mobile spectrum license but sells mobile services to more than four mill...

Amazon plans data center expansion in Hyderabad, India

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has confirmed its plans to expand its data center presence in Hyderabad, India with investment in the Telangana region. The discussions were held in California in the US, and have seen AWS express a desire to expand its data center facilities and workforce in Hyderaba...

Indosat and Google Cloud expand partnership for sovereign Indonesian cloud

Google

 Indonesian telco Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership to create sovereign and Edge cloud services in Indonesia. The telco will offer Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) on-premises to customers in Indonesia via its data center arm. Customers will also have acc...

TalkTalk strikes new refinancing agreement in UK

United Kingdom

TalkTalk has struck a refinancing deal with lenders in the UK worth £400 million. This deal will enable TalkTalk to alleviate fears it would default on payments and extend its debt maturities to 2027. A group of SSN holders, a group of RCF banks, Ares Management Funds, and the company’s major ...

CoreWeave hires execs from Google, Oracle, and AWS

 AI cloud company CoreWeave has added several hyperscale executives to its team and has appointed Chen Goldberg as SVP of engineering and Sachin Jain as chief operating officer.  Sachin Jain came from Oracle, where he spent less than a year at the company in charge of AI Infrastructure, data c...

Consensus Core selects Cologix for its Canadian deployment.

Canada

Artificial intelligence (AI) cloud provider Consensus Core has selected Cologix's Montreal data center for its Canadian deployment where it will offer its Nvidia-powered GPU-as-a-Service to the Canadian market.  Wayne Lloyd, co-founder and CEO of Consensus Core, said of the partnership with Co...

JLL predicts Edge data center market to surpass $300bn by 2026

United States

A report from real estate consulting firm JLL has predicted that the global Edge data center market will hit a valuation of $317 billion by 2026. The report notes that a surge in data-dependent technologies, including AI and the Internet of Things (IoT), will drive the market growth, which can...

Microsoft partners with Palantir on AI for US defense and intelligence Community

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft and Palantir Technologies are teaming up to provide cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics capabilities to the US Defense and Intelligence Community units to help them access Microsoft's large language models (LLMs) via Azure OpenAI Service within Palantir's AI Platforms ...

Equinix surpasses $1bn EBITDA for Q2

Equinix

Equinix has surpassed a $1 billion EBITDA in Q2 2024 for the first time, reaching $1.036bn. The company Equinix has surpassed a $1 billion EBITDA in Q2 2024 for the first time, reaching $1.036bn. Furthermore, the quarter's results saw operating income up 20 percent compared to the previous qua...

Telkomsel deploys base stations to support 4G and 5G mobile services in Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesian telco Telkomsel has deployed 49 base stations to support 4G and 5G mobile services in the country's new capital city, Nusantara which is set to open on August 17, located on the island of Borneo, 800 miles away from the current capital Jakarta on the island of Java.  "By ensuring th...

Swisscom deploys 300 Nokia's Drones-as-a-Service network accross Switzerland

Switzerland

Nokia has teamed up with Swisscom Broadcast to deploy 300 Nokia Drone-in-a-Box units to support emergency response, perimeter protection, and infrastructure inspection, as well as to protect public safety workers across Switzerland. This marks Nokia's second nationwide deployment of its Drone ...

Japanese scientists develop new EUV lithography technology

Japan

Professor Tsumoru Shintake of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has proposed an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that is supposedly superior to the method currently used in semiconductor manufacturing. The proposed method uses smaller EUV light sources, whi...

Riverlane raises $75 million in a Series C funding round

Europe

 Quantum engineering company Riverlane has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Planet First Partners. This funding saw participation from ETF Partners, EDBI, and existing investors Cambridge Innovation Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, the UK's National Security Strategic In...