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Read Crusoe Tied to Proposed Data Center Development in Virginia's Franklin County
A proposed data center project could be coming to Franklin County, Virginia. Local media report that county officials have been in discussions with Crusoe over the potential "Project Flash" develop...

Crusoe Tied to Proposed Data Center Development in Virginia's Franklin County

July 16, 2026 Crusoe

A proposed data center project could be coming to Franklin County, Virginia. Local media report that county officials have been in discussions with Crusoe over the potential "Project Flash" development since November. Few details have been disclosed, but the project is reportedly being considered...

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Read Beacon Reveals Plans for Alabama Data Center Campus
Canadian data center developer Beacon has unveiled plans to build a new campus in Alabama. The company has outlined proposals for the Calvert Infrastructure Hub, which would be developed near the c...

Beacon Reveals Plans for Alabama Data Center Campus

July 07, 2026 Beacon Data Centers

Canadian data center developer Beacon has unveiled plans to build a new campus in Alabama. The company has outlined proposals for the Calvert Infrastructure Hub, which would be developed near the community of Calvert in Mobile County. Calvert is an unincorporated community in southwestern...

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Read Crusoe Temporarily Stops 1.8GW Data Center Build in Wyoming
Crusoe has paused development of Project Jade, a planned 1.8GW data center campus in Cheyenne, Wyoming that was announced last year and designed to potentially scale up to 10GW. The project was bei...

Crusoe Temporarily Stops 1.8GW Data Center Build in Wyoming

June 10, 2026 Crusoe

Crusoe has paused development of Project Jade, a planned 1.8GW data center campus in Cheyenne, Wyoming that was announced last year and designed to potentially scale up to 10GW. The project was being developed in partnership with Blackstone-backed energy company Tallgrass. Crusoe said it has...

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Read Brookfield Increases French Data Center Investment by €10 Billion
Brookfield Increases French Data Center Investment by €10 Billion

Brookfield Increases French Data Center Investment by €10 Billion

June 02, 2026 Brookfield Asset Management

France has secured billions of dollars in new investments across data centers, cloud services, and artificial intelligence. At this week’s Choose France Summit, President Emmanuel Macron unveiled a series of investment commitments tied to data center development and broader digital...

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Read Crusoe Plans Modular Data Center Deployment at Energy Vault’s Snyder, Texas Technology Center
Crusoe Plans Modular Data Center Deployment at Energy Vault’s Snyder, Texas Technology Center

Crusoe Plans Modular Data Center Deployment at Energy Vault’s Snyder, Texas Technology Center

February 12, 2026 Crusoe

US energy storage firm Energy Vault has partnered with AI infrastructure provider Crusoe to deploy modular data centers at Energy Vault’s technology center in Snyder, Texas.“Crusoe is executing against a clear market imperative: customers need scalable compute delivered quickly and reliably,”...

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Read Brookfield Launches $100bn AI Infrastructure Fund
Brookfield Launches $100bn AI Infrastructure Fund

Brookfield Launches $100bn AI Infrastructure Fund

November 18, 2025 Brookfield Asset Management

Investment giant Brookfield announced the launch of a global AI Infrastructure program in partnership with GPU giant Nvidia and the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA).Sikander Rashid, head of AI infrastructure at Brookfield, said: “AI is creating one of the largest infrastructure buildouts in...

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Read Crusoe to Deploy in Starcloud Satellite Data Center
Crusoe to Deploy in Starcloud Satellite Data Center

Crusoe to Deploy in Starcloud Satellite Data Center

October 22, 2025 Crusoe

Neocloud Crusoe is going to space and has revealed plans to deploy on a Starcloud satellite scheduled to launch in late 2026, and offer limited GPU capacity from space by early 2027. This comes ahead of the expected launch of the Starcloud-1 satellite this November. About the size of a small...

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Read Groq and IBM Partner on Agentic AI Capabilities
Groq and IBM Partner on Agentic AI Capabilities

Groq and IBM Partner on Agentic AI Capabilities

October 20, 2025 Kyndryl

AI chip startup Groq has partnered with IBM to provide agentic AI capabilities via GroqCloud on IBM watsonx Orchestrate. Under the terms of the agreement, the partners will also integrate Red Hat’s open source vLLM technology with Groq’s LPU chips, with plans to support IBM Granite models on...

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Read Crusoe's Abilene Data Center Campus id Officially Live
Crusoe's Abilene Data Center Campus id Officially Live

Crusoe's Abilene Data Center Campus id Officially Live

September 30, 2025 Crusoe

Stargate's flagship data center campus in Abilene, Texas, is now live. The first two buildings on the planned 1.2GW site are now operational and being used by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for OpenAI. The two buildings span 980,000 square feet and support 200MW+ of IT.“One of the defining...

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Read Crusoe to Lease Polar Facility in Norway for AI Cloud
Crusoe to Lease Polar Facility in Norway for AI Cloud

Crusoe to Lease Polar Facility in Norway for AI Cloud

June 16, 2025 Crusoe

Data center and AI cloud firm Crusoe has announced a strategic partnership with Polar to establish its first data center in mainland Europe. Crusoe has signed a contract for a 12MW facility located in Norway, which will host Crusoe Cloud, the company’s GPU cloud services.“Partnering with Polar...

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Read IBM and GlobalFoundries end legal dispute
IBM and GlobalFoundries end legal dispute

IBM and GlobalFoundries end legal dispute

January 07, 2025 Kyndryl

IBM and GlobalFoundries (GF) have reached a settlement in their long-running legal dispute which saw both companies claim breach of contract and misuse of trade secrets and intellectual property. The two companies said the undisclosed settlement resolves “all litigation matters” and would allow...

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Read IBM to make AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs available via IBM Cloud
IBM to make AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs available via IBM Cloud

IBM to make AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs available via IBM Cloud

November 20, 2024 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...

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Read Crusoe partners with Vast Data
Crusoe partners with Vast Data

Crusoe partners with Vast Data

October 03, 2024 Crusoe

Crusoe Energy Systems is collaborating with Vast Data to develop "Shared Disks," a petabyte-scale file system capable of reads up to 200Mbps per TiB per node with hundreds of GPps in aggregate read and write bandwidth per cluster.The Shared Disks also offer a 99.5 percent SLA that is offered by...

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Read IBM unveils quantum data center in Germany
IBM unveils quantum data center in Germany

IBM unveils quantum data center in Germany

October 01, 2024 Kyndryl

IBM this week announced the launch of the facility, at IBM's campus in Ehningen near Stuttgart, in a ceremony attended by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. It is IBM's second quantum data center, featuring three systems - one based on IBM's Heron processor, alongside two other new systems that will...

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Read Riken to deploy IBM quantum computer
 Riken to deploy IBM quantum computer

Riken to deploy IBM quantum computer

May 01, 2024 Kyndryl

Japanese research institute Riken is set to deploy an IBM quantum computer at its facilities in Kobe. The quantum system – to be powered by a 133-qubit Heron processor – will be colocated and integrated with the organization’s existing Fugaku supercomputer. “Riken is committed to developing...

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Read IBM signs agreement with Canadian government to strengthen the country’s semiconductor industry
IBM signs agreement with Canadian government to strengthen the country’s semiconductor industry

IBM signs agreement with Canadian government to strengthen the country’s semiconductor industry

April 29, 2024 Kyndryl

IBM has signed an agreement with both the Quebec government and the Canadian government to strengthen the country’s semiconductor industry. Following this agreement, IBM and the two governments invest C$187 million (US$137m) in the company’s Bromont plant in Quebec to bolster the country’s...

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Read IBM to buy Hashicorp for $6.4 billion
IBM to buy Hashicorp for $6.4 billion

IBM to buy Hashicorp for $6.4 billion

April 24, 2024 Kyndryl

IBM is set to buy out HashiCorp, a vendor that makes software to help businesses manage digital infrastructure, for $6.4 billion. It will pay $35 per share for HashiCorp. The company’s stock had been trading at a price of $24.88 before the deal was announced. "Enterprise clients are wrestling...

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Read IBM and RPI launch a new quantum computer in New York
IBM and RPI launch a new quantum computer in New York

IBM and RPI launch a new quantum computer in New York

April 06, 2024 Kyndryl

IBM and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have launched a quantum computer at RPI’s campus in New York. A chapel that the university repurposed in the 1960s, the quantum computer is be positioned next to a stained glass window and serves as a focal point of RPI’s new Curtis Priem Quantum...

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Read Crusoe announces first European project
Crusoe announces first European project

Crusoe announces first European project

December 16, 2023 Crusoe

Crusoe Energy Systems LLC has announced a collaboration with atNorth, a Nordic colocation, computing and AI service provider, to colocate Crusoe Cloud GPUs in atNorth's ICE02 data center in Iceland, marking Crusoe’s first project in Europe. Cully Cavness, Crusoe's co-founder and president, said,...

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Read Crusoe Energy gets $200m loan to purchase Nvidia GPUs
Crusoe Energy gets $200m loan to purchase Nvidia GPUs

Crusoe Energy gets $200m loan to purchase Nvidia GPUs

October 26, 2023 Crusoe

Crusoe Energy,responsible for powering AI and crypto workloads from waste gas burnt at oil wells, is to borrow $200m from investment firm Upper90, to buy H100 TensorCore GPUs, the latest Nvidia GPU which launched in April and some of the previous version. Crusoe notes the new GPUs will come...

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