Data Center News

ABC WFAA used Baxtel's research for the Texas market

ABC WFAA used Baxtel's research on the Texas data center market in an article about OpenAI's Stargate data center. Read more on the WFAA ABC news site

Adarga teams up with Oracle Cloud

Oracle

UK AI defense company Adarga is teaming up with Oracle Cloud  to offer Adarga's defense and security software Vantage via Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle's distributed cloud. Vantage will initially be deployed in the Oracle Cloud for UK Government and Defence, Oracle's cloud region spec...

GlobalFoundries to build an Advanced Packaging and Photonics Center in New York

New York

GlobalFoundries (GF) has announced plans to build an Advanced Packaging and Photonics Center in the state of New York, USA, described as the center as “the first of its kind.” The company said the new facility would allow semiconductors to be “securely manufactured, processed, packaged, and te...

Rowan secures $975 million for Maryland data center campus

Rowan Digital Infrastructure

Data center developer Rowan Digital Infrastructure has closed $975 million of construction financing to build out its upcoming campus in Maryland. The funds will be used to build the first phase of a hyperscale data center campus in Maryland at the TPG-owned site in Frederick County. Phase one...

Servier expands partnership with Google AI

Google

International pharmaceutical group Servier has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate the research and development (R&D) of pharmaceuticals.This expanded five-year agreement will see Servier using Google Cloud's AI offerings for R&D. Google Cloud will help Servier to ...

University of Stuttgart’s Hunter supercomputer now online

Germany / Deutschland

The University of Stuttgart’s Hunter supercomputer has begun operations in Germany. This is one of two HPE supercomputers ordered by the university to take its High-Performance Computing Center (HLRS) up to exascale level. The second system, named Herder, is due to be installed in 2027. The €1...

Colorado gov't completes migration to state-owned data center

LDeX Group

The government of Colorado has completed its migration to a state-owned data center, marking the end of a two-year process exiting the leased eFORT data center and entering the state-owned Lakewood Data Center. The project has been ongoing since June 2022, with the Governor's Office of Informa...

Apollo Global Management is acquiring Argo Infrastructure Partners.

TierPoint

Investment giant Apollo Global Management is acquiring Argo Infrastructure Partners in a deal that will add approximately $6 billion of assets to the Apollo infrastructure platform.  Argo is the majority owner of US data center firm TierPoint, which operates around 40 facilities across 18 US m...

Sabey Data Centers names Tim Mirick as president

Sabey Data Centers

Sabey has appointed a new president for its data centers business, naming Tim Mirick as a replacement for the outgoing presodent Rob Rockwood, who stepped down from his role at the end of December. Mirick, who has served as chief revenue officer since 2012, joined Sabey in 2012. He previously ...

Telehouse launches liquid cooling lab at London data center

Telehouse

Telehouse has teamed up with four cooling technology vendors; Accelsius, EkkoSense, JetCool, and Legrand to launch a liquid cooling lab at its London data center. Liquid cooling technologies from these vendors will be on display at Telehouse South, at the company’s London Docklands campus. Mar...

Macquarie invests in Applied Digital's AI data center business

Applied Digital

Investment firm Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) is set to invest $5 billion into Applied, a cryptomining firm pivoting to AI and HPC data centers. Under the deal, MAM will invest up to $900 million in Applied's Ellendale campus in development in North Dakota, and has the right of first refusa...

Oklo and RPower to deploy nuclear and natural gas hybrid power model for data centers

United States

Small modular reactor and nuclear recycling firm Oklo has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with RPower, a provider of onsite prime and backup power solutions, to deploy a phased power model that combines natural gas and nuclear power for the data center sector. The model will combine...

Australian gov't to provide additional $3bn to complete fiber build-out

Australia

The Australian government has pledged this week to provide an additional AU $3 billion (US$1.86bn) to support NBN Co's fiber network upgrades. NBN Co noted that the investment is in addition to more than AU$800 million (US$494m) of its own investment.NBN, which is a state-owned corporation of ...

Edged and Merlin plan two gigawatt-scale data center campuses in Spain

Spain

Data center firm Edged Energy and real estate firm Merlin Properties this week announced a public-private project with the regional government of Extremadura to develop facilities located in Navalmoral de la Mata in Cáceres Province and Valdecaballeros in Badajoz Province, each site offering u...

General Catalyst chooses AWS as primary cloud provder

Amazon AWS

General Catalyst, a global investment company, is teaming up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the development of healthcare AI tools, to be the company's official preferred cloud provider, supplying the necessary technology and compute for the development of solutions for healthcare systems....

SUR Holdings acquires debt-ridden WOM

Colombia

SUR Holdings has acquired Colombian telco WOM, providing a lifeline for Colombia's fourth-largest mobile network operator, which filed for bankruptcy in April of last year, weeks after its Chilean counterpart. The country's ICT minister Mauricio Lizcano said the investment from SUR Holdings, w...

Telstra to form AI JV with Accenture

Australia

Australian carrier Telstra has this week detailed plans to form a joint venture (JV) with Accenture to speed up the company's data and AI roadmap. Telstra noted that the JV will enable its teams to operate more efficiently and effectively. The JV, which is set to be 60 percent owned by Accentu...

DOE details upcoming ATS-5 supercomputer

United States

The Department of Energy (DOE) has released details about an incoming supercomputer dubbed ATS-5. This system will replace the 30 petaflops ATS-3 Crossroads machine which the DOE said is “nearing the end of its useful lifetime.” While no information about the compute power of the ATS-5 has bee...

Cottonwood Group closes $56 million in financing

United States

Cottonwood Group closed $56 million in financing for three data center developments in Arizona, Ohio, and Virginia. Based in California, Cottonwood is a private equity real estate investment firm headed up by CEO Alexander Shing.“The timing for these investments was ideal, given the sector’s e...

PowerSecure partners with Edged Energy to supply backup generation for US data centers

United States

PowerSecure, the distributed energy solution subsidiary of US utility Southern Company, has partnered with Edged Energy to supply critical electrical and mechanical systems for Edged data center operations in the US, coinciding with the opening of the Edged Atlanta Campus in Atlanta, Georgia, ...