March 08, 2024 Middle East
Edge data center firm Armadathis week announced a strategic collaboration with Edarat Group, a data center engineering consulting and cloud services firm in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Following the terms of this partnership, Edarat Group will deploy Armada's modular data...
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March 05, 2024 United Kingdom
The UK government has finally approved US electronics company Vishay’s takeover of Newport Wafer Fab factory, the UK’s largest semiconductor manufacturing site. Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden has now issued a consent order approving the purchase. Under the terms of the agreement, the UK...
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March 04, 2024 Finland
Boldyn Networks has completed its acquisition of Cellnex's private network business for an undisclosed sum. This acquisition includes Edzcom, Cellnex’s Finnish subsidiary that specializes in private networks for industrial environments.“By bringing Cellnex's private networks business unit under...
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March 01, 2024 Abidjan
Satellite provider Iridium has entered into an agreement with the Republic of Korea (ROK) Ministry of Defense (MOD) to provide connectivity for strategic use within the Republic of Korea's military operations. Iridium will provide the ROK Army with a range of services, including real-time...
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February 29, 2024 London
Property investor Segro has raised £900 million ($1.1 billion) in a share issue and intends to use this funds to develop its portfolio across the UK and Europe. The London-listed business had initially been hoping to raise £800 million ($1.01bn), but on Tuesday evening its directors said strong...
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February 28, 2024 Ukraine
Ukrainian telco Kyivstar has signed a new deal to procure and deploy Rakuten Symphony's Open RAN technology in its network. A letter of intent has been signed by the companies to show that Rakuten would be the preferred partner for Kyivstar's eventual 5G rollout. "I share the excitement of our...
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February 26, 2024 Europe
Demand for colocation space in Europe’s data centers is outpacing supply despite an abundance of new facilities being built for customers accross the continent according to a new report. Kevin Restivo, head of European data center research at CBRE, said, “Hyperscalers have sought increasingly...
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February 26, 2024 Spain
An announcement made earlier this week at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain revealed that the members of the Global Telco AI Alliance (GTAA) are to establish a joint venture later this year specifically aimed at developing Large Language Models (LLMs). "We want our customers to...
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February 23, 2024 Europe
Security services firm Securitas Technologies has revealed plans to train up and certify 10,000 workers as data center security and safety professionals. The company has also introduced certification to improve the skills of its security officers at its data centers. "The Certified Data Center...
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February 23, 2024 Madrid
Spanish insurance firm Mapfre has sold its data center in Madrid. The company received advise on the sale-leaseback deal of its 10MW facility in Alcalá de Henares from CBRE’s Spanish unit. Paul Mortlock, senior director and head of European data center capital markets at CBRE, said, "CBRE's...
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February 23, 2024 Wales
Mavin, a UK-based IT services firm has announced it will install a Powercube data center at the Global Centre of Rail Excellence (GRCE) in Onllwyn, South Wales. “We are delighted to agree this partnership with Mavin and to utilize their cutting-edge Powercube design at the Global Centre of Rail...
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February 22, 2024 Israel
Silicon photonics company DustPhotonics has raised $24 million in a Series B follow-on funding round. This funding came from both new and existing investors, including Sienna Venture Capital, Greenfield Partners, Atreides Management, and Exor Ventures. The company revealed in a statement that the...
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February 19, 2024 Europe
The European Union's antitrust regulator has granted telecoms firms Orange and MásMóvil permission to complete their proposed merger in Spain. This comes after MásMóvil agreed to divest spectrum across three frequency spectrum bands to Romania's Digi. EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said in...
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February 17, 2024 Europe
Real estate company Goodman Group has claimed that it has the power capacity available to develop a portfolio of data centers worth $80bn over the next five to seven years. The company noted that it has added 300MW to its "power bank" since November 2023, bringing its total availability to 4GW....
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February 16, 2024 United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Telecoms firms Batelco and e& announced on February 14 that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to land the Al Khaleej subsea cable system in the UAE. This MoU will see the 1,400km-long cable connecting the UAE to Bahrain, Oman, and Qatar. Nabil Baccouche, group chief carrier...
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February 15, 2024 Romania
Two new data center projects totaling 40-45MW are reportedly coming to Romania. These projects are expected to cost about €500 million though the details about the companies involved, project location and scope, or timelines weren’t shared. "In 2024 we are already talking about two investments in...
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February 14, 2024 United Arab Emirates (UAE)
SpaceX has revealed plans to de-orbit about 100 of its early Starlink satellites after finding a “common error” that could potentially cause failures. In a recent update on the company site, it revealed plans to perform controlled descents of the early-version 1 Starlink satellites in the coming...
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February 12, 2024 Nigeria
Tower company IHS Towers has announced that Airtel Nigeria has signed a deal to renew its contract in the country and has committed to take 3,950 tenancies over the next five years, with the majority expected over 2024/2025. Following the terms of the renewed agreement, Airtel is to extend the...
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February 10, 2024 United Kingdom
Cloudflare, during its Q4 2023 earnings call this week, revealed has become the latest company to extend the lifespan of its server hardware and will save millions of dollars by adding a year to the operational lifespan of its data center IT kit. “With the evolution of the composition of our...
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February 09, 2024 Spain
Investment manager Azora in collaboration with Core Capital, this week launched a new European Edge data center platform called Quetta Data Centers. The investment firm plans to invest over €500 million in constructing six Edge data centers in Spain and Portugal totaling 60MW of capacity....
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