Data Center News

LightEdge acquires data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

GI Partners

GI Partners-owned company  LightEdge this week announced it had acquired a 76,000-square-foot, 3.6MW facility, located at 1708 West Creek Lane in Carver County, Chaska, Minnesota.  This data center houses 30,000 square feet of data hall space across three private data center suites. LightEdge ...

India’s Union Cabinet approves MoU with the European Union

India’s Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Modi, has approved the Memorandum of Understanding on semiconductors signed by India and the European Union in November 2023. Following this agreement, both governments will work together to build a robust semiconductor supply chain and further ...

General Atlantic to plans Actis acquisition

United States

Growth equity firm General Atlantic has recently revealed plans to acquire sustainable infrastructure investor Actis. This deal will create an investment platform with about  $96 billion in combined assets under management. Company head Torbjorn Caesar, who will continue to run the business, s...

Michael Winterson leaves Equinix after 24 years

Equinix

Michael Winterson has left colocation provider Equinix after 24 years to take on the role of managing director for the European Data Centre Association. Winterson wrote on LinkedIn, “Exactly 24 years ago I started my data center career at IXEurope, not 300 meters from our current Equinix offic...

Swisscom and Nvidia to build AI full-stack supercomputers in Switzerland

Swisscom AG

Swiss telco Swisscom, in a new announcement, revealed that it has partnered with Nvidia to build generative AI full-stack supercomputers in Switzerland for the development of specialized and new AI use cases for both internal and customer use. The telco aims to get the latest technologies from...

Seagate to ship 30TB hard drives with HAMR tech

United States

Seagate Technology recently announced that it will be shipping 30TB hard drives based on its heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology. The company expects to conclude full production by the end of March as hyperscale customers already have evaluation units and are planning to adopt i...

Google to expand data center footprint in London

Google

Google this week announced it has commenced plans to expand its data center footprint in the UK with a new campus outside London in Hertfordshire. The company has started building a new facility on a 33-acre site in Waltham Cross, north of London. And plans to invest $1 billion in the project....

DigitalOcean to now offer Nvidia H100 GPUs

United States

Cloud provider DigitalOcean which is dedicated to small-to-medium businesses and startups, has added to its GPU-accelerated cloud computing platform with Nvidia chips. With this new upgrade, DigitalOcean's ability to offer cloud-based artificial intelligence, machine learning applications, and...

Microsoft signs solar PPA with Apex Clean Energy in Ohio

Apex Clean Energy this week announced its 125MW Wheatsborough Solar project in Ohio has been contracted under the Microsoft–Volt Energy Utility Environmental Justice Framework. Kourtney Nelson, director of renewable energy procurement at Microsoft, said, “As Microsoft works toward a more susta...

Google Cloud announces Oliver Parker as head of new GTM team

Google

Google Cloud recently announced that former Okta executive Oliver Parker has now been recruited by the company to lead a newly formed go-to-market (GTM) organization. Parker will now become the VP of AI to report directly to Google Cloud’s president of GTM, Adaire Fox-Martin. Parker wrote on L...

Aligned Data Centres unveils new liquid cooling system

Aligned

Data center firm Aligned recently unveiled a new liquid cooling system designed to support high-density compute requirements and supercomputers and can cool densities up to 300kW per rack. This cooling system, called DataFlow is said to be a  turnkey solution which supports current and future ...

Vodafone signs 10-year agreement with Microsoft

Microsoft Azure

Vodafone has signed a 10-year agreement with Microsoft for generative AI, cloud computing, and IoT services. As part of this agreement, Vodafone will invest $1.5bn in the cloud giant and will be using Microsoft Azure's OpenAI and Copilot technologies for its customer experience, exit "multiple...

Stonepeak invests $200 million into GTA

United States

Investment fund Stonepeak has invested $200 million into Guam telecoms firm TeleGuam Holdings (GTA). Huntsman Family Investments and its affiliates (HFI) will continue to be the majority owner of GTA and operate the company which will divert the investment into developing additional cable land...

Microsoft and PNNL to conduct battery materials research

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft and the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have partnered to find the best materials for batteries. Using Microsoft's Azure Quantum Elements, they have reduced the possibilities of materials from millions to only a few options, with one curre...

International feasibility study tests storing waste heat underground

United Kingdom

A £2.6 million ($3.3m) international project will investigate storing waste heat from an Edinburgh University supercomputer in old mine workings, before using it to heat local homes. This study will examine the idea of storing hot water at 40oC in disused mines before using it for domestic hea...

Octopus Energy invests in UK-based data center business

United Kingdom

British renewable energy group Octopus Energy has invested £200 million in UK-based data center business Deep Green which specializes in siting small data centers near locations that need waste heat. Zoisa North-Bond, CEO of Octopus Energy Generation, said, "To tackle the energy crisis head-on...

Google joins consortium to deploy first Chile-Australia subsea

Google

Google revealed in a recent announcement that it will be joining a consortium to deploy the first subsea cable between Chile and Australia. The company said, “Today, we’re joining Desarrollo País of Chile and Office of Posts and Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT) to announce Humboldt...

NTT unveils new facility campus in Delhi, India.

NTT

NTT this week announced the launch of its new data center campus, Noida 2, and the opening of its first data center. The first building offers 22.4MW across 300,000 square feet and spans across six acres. The Merlin campus will support a planned capacity of 52.8MW critical IT load in two data ...

Edged Energy starts operations at Barcelona facility

Barcelona

Edged Energy has commenced operations at its facility in Barcelona, Spain, named ‘Merlin.” The company completed the construction of this facility with a critical load capacity of 16MW and uses 100 percent renewable energy in the fall of 2023. Bryant Farland, CEO of Edged Energy said, “We are ...

Google Cloud announces removal of exit fees

Google

In a blog post shared on Thursday, Google Cloud Platform announced that it has removed "exit fees" for customers wishing to leave its services. Amit Zavery, head of platform at Google Cloud wrote: "Starting today, Google Cloud customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their dat...