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Vodafone and Three Unveil Leadership Team

Vodafone has announced its full leadership team ahead of its imminent merger with Three in the UK as the merger was cleared by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in December. The appointments have been made by Max Taylor, who has been appointed as CEO of the merged company.Accord...

Amadeus Renews Cloud Contract with Microsoft

Travel technology company Amadeus has renewed its cloud computing contract with Microsoft. The company has recommitted to its cloud migration strategy and will use Microsoft's cloud and AI technologies. Amadeus has thus far moved more than 50 percent of its applications to the public cloud. Th...

Meta Announces World’s Longest Subsea Cable Project

Meta plans to deploy a multi-billion dollar cable that will span the globe, a 50,000km (31,070 mi) Project called Waterworth. This project is expected to be the world's longest 24 fiber pair submarine cable, connecting the US, India, Brazil, South Africa, and other regions.The company said tha...

FirstLight Expands Maine Data Centers

US fiber firm FirstLight this week announced the expansion of its data center in Brunswick, Maine. The renovation project, which began last summer, doubled the power capacity at the facility. The facility, located at 14 Resilient Circle in Brunswick Landing, is a former NATO Command and Contro...

AI Drives Environmental Concerns Over Rise in Data Center Growth Across Central Texas

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What's causing the growth in data centers in Austin, TX? The answer is AI. Data centers and large AI consumers, like the Texas Advanced Computing Center’s supercomputers, require enormous amounts of energy and water, raising environmental concerns. Our research reveals there are 386 data cente...

Verne to Expand Helsinki Data Center

European data center firm Verne this week announced the acquisition of more land at its existing Helsinki data center campus, securing room for future expansion. The planned expansion will include two new buildings, which will be able to support liquid cooling and take the campus to a potentia...

NXP Semiconductors Acquires Kinara for $307m

Netherlands-based NXP Semiconductors has acquired AI chip startup Kinara in a $307 million all-cash agreement. The company says this acquisition would enable it to “enhance and strengthen” its ability to provide scalable AI platforms by combining Kinara’s NPUs and AI software with NXP’s soluti...

Reimei Quantum Computer goes Online

Quantinuum has successfully deployed its Reimei quantum computer at the Wako, Saitama, campus of Japanese research institute Riken. It is now fully operational and will be used to accelerate quantum applications across physics and chemistry.The Quantinuum H1-1 ion trap quantum computer contain...

UK Government Pledges 500MW for its AI Growth Zones

The UK government says it will work with power companies to make up to 500MW of electricity available for new data center developments in each of its planned AI growth zones. They aim to create areas with favorable conditions for building AI infrastructure, with streamlined planning rules to e...

Riot Platforms plans expansion into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads

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Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms is considering an expansion into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads and has appointed three new directors to its board to evaluate whether spare capacity can be repurposed.Riot, which develops some of the largest mining facilities in t...

Rocky Mountain Power and Torus Partner on Energy Storage Integration

Rocky Mountain Power, the Utah-based subsidiary of Northwestern US electric power company Pacficorp, and Torus, a US energy storage firm, are working together to integrate Torus’s energy storage technology into Rocky Mountain’s Wattsmart Battery program."As Utah attracts more data centers, man...

Johnson Controls Appoints Joakim Weidemanis as CEO

Industrial machine manufacturer Johnson Controls has appointed Joakim Weidemanis as CEO, effective March 12, 2025. During his stint at Danaher, Weidemanis grew the company’s diagnostics business through acquisitions and organic growth, taking leadership of an approximately $15 billion group ac...

Top Data Center News from 3rd-8th February 2025

Amazon has signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) in India for a combined 199MW across two onshore wind projects. The first PPA was signed with CleanMax, an Asia-focused renewable developer, while the second PPA was signed with BluPine Energy, an Indian renewable energy developer, for ene...

3M Joins Semiconductor US-JOINT Consortium

Multinational technology company 3M has joined the US-JOINT Consortium, a group of 12 semiconductor suppliers focused on developing next-generation semiconductor advanced packaging and back-end processing technologies. Since its inception, US-JOINT has also been overseeing the construction of ...

CtrlS Completes 125MW Solar Farm to Power Mumbai Campus

Indian data center developer CtrlS Datacenters has completed the construction of a 125MW captive solar farm in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. CtrlS has said that the project will cover 60 percent of the energy requirements at its Mumbai data center campus. The campus currently houses five data ce...

LANL to Lead Multi-institution Project

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) will lead a multi-institution project focused on transforming how chips are designed and manufactured and will explore how to fabricate chips that are more energy efficient and able to operate in extreme environments, in particular those with high levels o...

Singtel Secures $475.9 Million Green Loan

Singtel’s regional data center arm, Nxera, this week announced a S$643 million five-year green loan to finance the development of the 58MW DC Tuas data center in Singapore. The funds will go toward funding the development and capital expenditure of DC Tuas, which is due to go live in 2026.As p...

Equinix Launches Data Center in Paris, France

Equinix this week inaugurated its PA13x facility in the Meudon area of Île-de-France. It is part of Equinix’s xScale portfolio, targeting hyperscale customers. The €350 million ($361.4m) facility, located at 9 Avenue du Marechal Juin, totals 78,910 sq ft (7,330 sqm) of colocation space across ...

Borealis Raises $148m in Debt Funding

Nordic firm Borealis Data Center (BDC) this week announced $148 million in funding from infrastructure investment firm Infranity and Iceland’s Arion Bank. The funds will support Borealis’ expansion plans in the Nordics, though further details weren't shared.“Our strategy for growth is rooted i...

BT Ireland Sells Wholesale and Enterprise Units

BT has agreed to sell its Irish wholesale and enterprise unit including BT’s domestic network infrastructure, more than 400 customers, and associated teams supporting the wholesale and business enterprises to Cordiant subsidiary Speed Fibre Group.The transaction will not include BTCIL’s multin...