November 19, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area
OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of the artificial intelligence startup as the board denounces confidence in his leadership. In a statement released by the company, the board noted that it “no longer has confidence in his ability to lead.” Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology...
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November 02, 2023 Sacramento
X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, claims to have saved $100 million annually after exiting its Sacramento data center via a post on the platform. X further claimed to have saved a significant amount by repatriating some of its workloads to on-prem data centers. The company...
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October 18, 2023 Sweden
Swedish telco Telia Company has named Patrik Hofbauer as its new president and CEO, bringing the company's search for a CEO since July to an end. The board of directors agreed with the decision to appoint Hofbauer, and he will be leaving his role as CEO of the gambling firm Svenska Spel to begin...
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October 18, 2023 California
A recent filing with the California Employment Development Department has revealed that Chip designer Qualcomm intends to cut its workforce significantly. The filing noted that Qualcomm is cutting 1,258 jobs in San Diego and Santa Clara, California, to reduce costs. The job cuts are to begin by...
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September 30, 2023 San Diego
Kneron, a startup developing chips for AI inferencing, has raised $49 million from investors to scale up its hardware-developing efforts. Investors, including Foxconn HH-CTBC Partnership (Foxconn Co-GP Fund) and Alltek, made this additional investment, bringing the total Series B financing to...
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September 18, 2023 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX, a provider of Hyperscale Data Center Solutions, revealed a $ 403,8 million contract in Sustainability-Linked Senior Facilities to expedite its growth strategy and green initiatives for its Jakarta, Indonesia, data center footprint. This transaction, according to EdgeConneX, will...
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September 14, 2023 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX has shared that it has secured $403.8 million in sustainability-linked financing (SLF). This loan is for its 120MW data center campus development in Jakarta, Indonesia.The deal leverages EdgeConneX's Sustainability Strategy and will reportedly use offshore US dollar borrowing. It...
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September 14, 2023 Detroit
A data center outside of Detroit, Michigan, is available for purchase. Lee & Associates, a real estate agency, has listed 21420 Melrose in Southfield, Oakland County, as available. The 1986-built, 15,956-square-foot property is available for $1.34m. “This building is extremely well maintained...
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September 11, 2023 Sweden
Karnfull Next, a Swedish nuclear corporation, has announced plans for a campus of small modular reactors (SMRs) on the Swedish coast that will power data centers. The company intends to construct the facility in Nykoping, on the Swedish east coast, where the nuclear software company Studsvik...
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September 11, 2023 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX continues to grow its APAC operations by adding three facilities in Malaysia, located in and around Kuala Lumpur. Business Today and Edge Malaysia report that EdgeConneX signed a sales and purchase contract with Cyberview earlier this month to acquire a 12.14-hectare tract of land in...
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September 05, 2023 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX plans to establish a new data center facility in Phoenix, Arizona, to expand its presence there. According to BizJournal, the company has applied for Mesa's administrative and design reviews to construct a multi-phased campus near Elliot Road and Loop 202. EdgeConneX wants to build a...
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September 01, 2023 Florida
The Indian River State College (IRSC) will construct a data center in Okeechobee County, Florida. The campus has been named Okee-One and will be on a 205-acre parcel containing the former Okeechobee "School for Boys." Okee-One will house multiple data centers, function as a learning laboratory...
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August 24, 2023 Sweden
Genesis Digital Assets Limited (GDA) has established a crypto mining data center in northern Sweden. Located near the 417 MW Porjus hydroelectric power station, the current capacity of this facility is 8MW, but expansion is planned for the future. It was previously used as a 'traditional' data...
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August 22, 2023 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX Ireland has appealed to An Bord Pleanála against South Dublin County Council's decision to deny its proposed data center. The company intended to construct two adjacent data centers on its Dublin Campus in Ballmakaily, Lucan, Dublin, on Newcastle Road. Two single-story data centers...
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August 08, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area
Plans for an entertainment district development in San Jose, California, have been scrapped and replaced with data center plans, it has been announced. Back in 2018, developer Terra Ventures had initially pitched for development known as 'Shops @ Terra'; this would have been an entertainment...
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July 19, 2023 EdgeConneX
EdgeConneX has announced the deployment of AWS Direct Connect with both 10Gbps and 100Gbps capability at the Phoenix Edge Data Center (PHX01). The company shared that this will enable customers to establish direct edge cloud on-ramps. This, it shared, can reportedly reduce costs, improve...
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July 07, 2023 Houston
On Friday, July 7, UH Energy will host an educational symposium with a focus on hydrocarbon basin analysis, policy changes, and hydrocarbon opportunities in India to mark the opening of the new University of Houston (UH) - Directorate General for Hydrocarbon (DGH) Center for Hydrocarbon...
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July 04, 2023 Atlanta
Construction on Edge Energy's Atlanta, Georgia data center is underway, with the company commencing work on July 1st. Located at Tilford Yard, the company bought the 158 acre-site back in July 2021; 70 acres will be dedicated to data center development. In January 2023, it filed a building permit...
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June 27, 2023 Phoenix
A 6MW data facility is up for lease or purchase in Phoenix, Arizona. Located in the desirable Deer Valley neighborhood, CBRE has listed 20435 North 26th Avenue for sale or lease. There was no listed pricing. The 6MW facility was completed in 2003 and sits on 3.66 acres of land, with a raised...
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June 22, 2023 Toronto
Grain Management and StratCap bought a data center on the Canadian outskirts of Toronto. This week, the firms announced the formation of a joint venture to purchase 55 Hereford Street in Brampton, Ontario. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but per the joint venture contract,...
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