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Sinn Fein politician describes Ireland’s lack of national supercomputer as “embarassing”

Louise O'Reilly, Teachta Dála (TD) and spokesperson for Enterprise, Trade, and Employment of the Sinn Féin political party has criticized the Irish government for failing to acquire a new supercomputer. "High performance computing (HPC) is at the core of the fifth industrial revolution and cen...

May 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

UK’s fastest supercomputer now online

The UK’s fastest supercomputer, Isambard-AI which ranked 128 on the most recent edition of the Top500 list has come online. The £225 million ($273m) machine has also placed second on the Green500, a list that ranks supercomputers in terms of energy efficiency, with a rating of 68.8 gigaflops ...

May 13, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Tishman enters data center market with plans for Frankfurt facility

US real estate firm Tishman Speyer is entering the data center market with plans for a campus in Frankfurt, Germany and has acquired a 75,000 sqm site in the Osthafen area of Frankfurt am Main in order to develop a data center. The property, located close to a number of Digital Realty faciliti...

May 13, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NaHS Trust's Dewsbury and District Hospital gets new data center

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NaHS Trust's Dewsbury and District Hospital in the UK has a new 'digital data center' (DDC). The DDC will be replacing the hospital's former data center, which has become outdated and was not able to be expanded as it was within an existing hospital building. Accordi...

May 10, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Grid Telecom to build CLS in Crete

Grid Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) of Greece, and Quadrivium Digital, this week announced plans to build a cable landing station (CLS) on the Greek island of Crete. This CLS will be hosted within Quadrivium’s planned campus and will se...

May 08, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Greece

DataVolt unveils debut datacenter in Uzbekistan

Saudi firm DataVolt has broken ground on its debut data center which will offer 10MW via a $150 million investment. in Tashkent, Uzbekistan this week. DataVolt said the data center features a modular infrastructure design, allowing for scalable solutions able to accommodate various workloads “...

May 08, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Saudi Arabia

New GPU cloud firm offering access to AMD GPUs launches

A new GPU cloud provider Nscale which relies on AMD hardware has announced its official launch and is now offering services based on AMD’s Instinct MI300X GPU accelerators from a cryptomining firm and sister company Arkon Energy’s data center in Glomfjord, Norway. “Over the coming years, AI wi...

May 08, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Norway

Edinburgh University to use waste heat from data center to warm up buildings

Edinburgh University has announced plans to use waste heat from its data center to warm up its buildings and has has received grant funding of just under £2.1 million ($2.62m) to support the energy-saving project at its Kings Buildings campus.The university will also invest £520,000 of its own...

April 30, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Edinburgh

Sky signs new wing PPA in Scotland

UK telco and media firm Sky has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Octopus Renewables Infrastructure to procure the output of a Scottish windfarm. Following this deal, ky UK buy 69 percent of the electricity produced by the 46MW Crossdykes windfarm, located in Lanarkshire, Scotland, ...

April 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Scotland

CRA unveils Edge data center in Cukrák, outside Prague

Czech telecoms firm České Radiokomunikace (CRA) has unveiled its data center at a broadcast tower site in Cukrák, outside Prague after investing tens of millions of crowns (around $422,000) in repurposing its former transmitter into its eighth data center.Miloš MastnÍk, CEO at CRA, said: “Usin...

April 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Prague

Ericsson reports sales drop due to declining network business

Ericsson has reported a decline of 14 percent year-on-year in organic revenues for the first quarter of 2024, posting a revenue of $4.88 billion. The company blamed this decline largely on a significant slump in its network business, with this division declining 19 percent YoY, to $3.1bn.The ...

April 17, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

Viasat launches new headquarters in London

Satellite firm Viasat last week officially launched its new office, at 50 Finsbury Square in London, as the combined offices of both Viasat and Inmarsat, the rival vendor it acquired last year. The new 121,000 square feet site includes new satellite, network, and cyber operations centers for t...

April 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

London

NTT conducts photonics tests in UK and US data centers

NTT has conducted low-latency data center-to-data center light-based photonics tests in the UK and US, claiming latency of less than 1 millisecond between facilities almost 90km apart. In the UK, two data centers around 100 km apart communicated via IOWN APN connection with a round trip of 1...

April 13, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

European Union criticized for new cloud contract bidding rules

European countries including Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Airbus, and 15 others, have criticized the latest draft of the European Union's cybersecurity certification scheme (CCS), which they claim will make it easier for hyperscalers to bid for EU cloud computing contracts. The US tech giants inc...

April 10, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

T-Systems to manage mainframe infrastructure for KMD

T-Systems has been selected to operate the mainframe infrastructure of Danish IT service provider KMD from 2025 in a contract which is the largest the company has won yet in Denmark. While T-Systems handles the operation and maintenance of KMD's mainframes, KMD will be able to focus on develop...

April 08, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Denmark

Civo to abolish data egress fees for customers unconditionally

UK cloud services provider Civo has said that it will abolish all data egress fees for customers, an offer which goes beyond that which is being proposed by the hyperscalers. The company said in a statement: “The end of all egress fees on Civo comes with no requirements or limits, with busines...

April 06, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Telecom Italia to receive a €1 billion payout

Telecom Italia (TIM) is set for a €1 billion ($1.1bn) payout after it won its 15-year dispute with the Italian government. A court in Rome ordered the government to pay the sum after TIM sought to recover the license fee it was required to pay to the state in 1998, the year after the telecoms ...

April 05, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Rome

Telia Company completes sale of Danish business unit

Swedish telco Telia Company has confirmed in a new announcement that the sale of its Danish business unit to local energy and Internet firm Norlys has been finalized for DKK 6.25 billion ($900 million), on a cash and debt-free basis. “The sale of our Danish business marks a significant milesto...

April 04, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sweden

JLL to offer training education for next generation data center operators

JLL has revealed its plans to offer free educational and training opportunities for the next generation of data center operators. The company has teamed up with non-profit organization Nomad Futurist Foundation to create a 16-hour curriculum called the Technical Development Program (TDP), bas...

April 01, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Oriole Networks raises £10 million in seed funding

University College London (UCL) spinout Oriole Networks has raised £10 million ($12.6m) in a seed funding round co-led by UCL Technology Fund, Clean Growth Fund, XTX Ventures, and Dorilton Ventures, with support from Innovate UK Investor Partnership. “As the demand for compute continues to inc...

March 29, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

London

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