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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 community of Calvert in Mobile County. Calvert is an unincorporated community in southwestern Alabama...

July 07, 2026

Beacon AI Centers

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 being developed in partnership with Blackstone-backed energy company Tallgrass. Crusoe said it has paus...

June 10, 2026

Crusoe

Brookfield Increases French Data Center Investment by €10 Billion

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 infrastruct...

June 02, 2026

Brookfield Asset Management

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

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,” ...

February 12, 2026

Crusoe

Brookfield Launches $100bn AI Infrastructure Fund

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 h...

November 18, 2025

Brookfield Asset Management

Crusoe to Deploy in Starcloud Satellite Data Center

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 r...

October 22, 2025

Crusoe

Groq and IBM Partner on Agentic AI Capabilities

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 G...

October 20, 2025

Kyndryl

Crusoe's Abilene Data Center Campus id Officially Live

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 ...

September 30, 2025

Crusoe

Crusoe to Lease Polar Facility in Norway for AI Cloud

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...

June 16, 2025

Crusoe

IBM and GlobalFoundries end legal dispute

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 allo...

January 07, 2025

Kyndryl

IBM to make AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs available via IBM Cloud

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 e...

November 20, 2024

Kyndryl

Crusoe partners with Vast Data

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...

October 03, 2024

Crusoe

IBM unveils quantum data center in Germany

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 w...

October 01, 2024

Kyndryl

Riken to deploy IBM quantum computer

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 sy...

May 01, 2024

Kyndryl

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

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 as...

April 29, 2024

Kyndryl

IBM to buy Hashicorp for $6.4 billion

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 w...

April 24, 2024

Kyndryl

IBM and RPI launch a new quantum computer in New York

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 ...

April 06, 2024

Kyndryl

Crusoe announces first European project

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, sa...

December 16, 2023

Crusoe

Crusoe Energy gets $200m loan to purchase Nvidia GPUs

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 o...

October 26, 2023

Crusoe

New York-based IBM spin-out Kyndryl to separate China business in response to changing data laws

Global IT managed services provider Kyndryl is now considering separating its business in China into a separate entity in response to several geopolitical issues and the changing data laws in China.According to a report from the Financial Times, the IBM spin-out revealed this to some of its em...

October 03, 2023

Kyndryl

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