Data Center News

V.tal launches Tecto data center subsidiary

Brazil / Brasil

Brazilian fiber firm V.tal has launched a new data center subsidiary. At the same time, the company has broken ground on a new facility in Fortaleza and acquired land in São Paulo for its first data center in the city.“The Tecto Data Centers brand was officially launched yesterday during an ev...

Keppel signs conditional offtake agreement with Woodside

Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel Data Centers has signed a conditional offtake term sheet to supply and purchase liquid hydrogen from Woodside. The company plans to integrate the potential liquid hydrogen supply into a broader, long-term portfolio of low-carbon power solutions that it is developing to meet the energy n...

CloudCoCo to sell IT services business to Aspire for £9.2m

United Kingdom

Managed services provider CloudCoCo has announced plans to sell its IT services business to Aspire in a £9.2 million ($11.9m) deal that will help the company pay off its debts. The company, which is based in Leeds, UK, added it is in advanced discussions to sell Connect, its data center busine...

HF Sinclair unveils immersion cooling fluid

Oil company HF Sinclair has launched an immersion cooling fluid for high-density workloads which it announced this month as a line of single-phase immersion cooling fluids under a new brand, Innovate. Developed by HF Sinclair’s Lubricants & Specialties business, Innovate is a series of die...

Photonics startup Oriole Networks raises funds to scale technology

United Kingdom

UK photonic networking startup Oriole Networks has raised $22 million to scale up its technology. The startup has raised the cash in a funding round led by VC group Plural, with existing investors UCL Technology Fund, XTX Ventures, Clean Growth Fund, and Dorilton Ventures all contributing.Orio...

Aizo Group and Netrunner plan new data center in Malaysia

Malaysia

Aizo Group has announced plans to build a data center in Sarawak, Malaysia, with Netrunner Sdn Bhd, a special purpose vehicle focused on data center investment in Sarawak. The company will lead the technical development and design of the data center park, which is expected to meet Tier IV stan...

Area Group starts construction of Malaysian data center campus

Malaysia

Real estate private equity firm Area Group has begun constructing its 156-acre data center campus in Kedah, northern Malaysia. The firm  has now officially purchased the land in a sale and purchase agreement for an undisclosed amount, and begun construction on the first 30-acre parcel of land....

AWS and e& sign $1bn cloud agreement

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and UAE-based telco e& have signed a $1 billion cloud agreement in the Middle East, combining AWS' cloud infrastructure and solutions with e& networking capabilities with an aim to offer cloud services to customers in the public sector and heavily regulated in...

TMF Group selects Orange for hybrid cloud solution

Microsoft Azure

Professional services firm TMF Group  which provides administrative services such as tax, HR, and payroll services across 125 offices in 86 jurisdictions, has selected Orange Business to help it deploy a centralized managed hybrid cloud solution. The company is now using Microsoft's Azure Stac...

Perennial Power and CEP Solar partner on renewable energy development in Virginia

Virginia

Energy firm Perennial Power has partnered with CEP Solar in a collaboration that will prioritize solar and battery storage projects, with construction on the 1.5GW portfolio planned for late 2025.Perennial Power, part of the Sumitomo Group's renewable energy efforts, currently operates five pr...

Infinera approved for $93m in direct funding

Pennsylvania

The Department of Commerce has provisionally agreed to provide up to $93 million in direct funding to optical networking vendor Infinera which would support the construction of a new fab in San Jose, California, and a new advanced test and packaging facility in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.“We are ...

Neste to supply Verne's Finnish data centers with HVO

Finland

Finnish oil refining firm Neste Oyj has signed an agreement with European data center firm Verne to supply renewable diesel to power the company's backup generators in Finland. The oil firm will deploy the renewable diesel at all of Verne’s Finnish data centers. Verne currently has three opera...

Edgnex to develop new data center in Madrid, Spain

Spain

UAE data center firm Edgnex this week announced its expansion into Europe with the acquisition of land in Madrid. The site has been acquired from real estate private equity manager ActivumSG and will host a 40MW data center. Located in the Vicalvaro region, the 236,805 sq ft (22,000 sqm) facil...

CBRE acquires NRG Energy's renewable advisory division

CBRE Group has acquired NRG Energy's renewable advisory division. Led by Miro Sutton, the NRG advisory group specializes in facilitating renewable energy deals, brokering over 5GW of clean power, focusing on community solar, large-scale energy contracts, such as Virtual Power Purchase Agreemen...

EllaLink and SPLANG begin subsea cable extension

EllaLink and SPLANG, the local public company for the digital development of French Guiana, have begun the construction of the EllaLink cable extension to include Cayenne, French Guiana. The new 2,100km branch will secure connectivity between French Guiana and Europe across two fiber pairs.Alc...

BPA proposes 13 new transmission projects to expand Pacific Northwest grid infrastructure

The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) has proposed 13 new transmission projects to expand the Pacific Northwest's grid infrastructure. Combined, the projects are estimated to cost approximately $3 billion. Each project must undergo preliminary engineering and environmental review to inform...

Samsung and KT Corp partner on 5G private network for Korean Navy

Samsung and KT Corp (formerly Korea Telecom) have been picked by the Republic of Korea Navy to build and deploy a 5G private network at a Korean Naval base.Both  ompanies were selected as part of an effort to strengthen its battleship and base operation support capabilities and achieve compreh...

IQM signs agreement with EuroHPC for two quantum computers

IQM is to deliver two of its Radiance quantum systems to a supercomputing center in Germany after signing a purchase agreement with the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU).Folowing the agreement, IQM will hand over one 54-qubit system to the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in the second...

Harrison Street and fifteenfortyseven acquire data center in Hawaii

Hawaii

Investment firm Harrison Street and data center company fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) this week announced the acquisition of AlohaNAP, a carrier hotel data center located on the island of O‘ahu in Hawaii."AlohaNAP is a crucial hub for international data transmission, connect...

University of Pisa deploys HPC system at its Green Data Centre

The University of Pisa (UniPi) has deployed a Lenovo high-performance computing (HPC) system which is the largest university supercomputer in Italy, to support scientific research and teaching at the institution. Consisting of 16 SD650 V3 nodes with two Intel Xeon Max 9480 CPUs, the first x86 ...