Data Center News

EdgeConneX to expand into Japan

Japan

 Data center firm EdgeConneX this week announced plans to develop a facility in the greater Osaka-Kyoto area alongside Kagoya Asset Management. The EdgeConneX greater Osaka-Kyoto data center development is targeted to be ready-for-service in 2027 with a total capacity of more than 140MW when f...

Everseen X Google Cloud partner for Vision AI for retail stores

Google

Everseen and Google Cloud are partnering on a Vision AI offering for retail stores, combining Everseen's Vision AI platform with Google Distribute Cloud and Google's Vertex AI platform."Our goal is to provide Vision AI solutions that drive measurable results for retailers— reducing shrink, enh...

Google Cloud and Formula E announce expanded multi-year partnership

Google

Google Cloud and Formula E have announced that they will be entering a new multi-year artificial intelligence (AI) and technology partnership. As part of the agreement, Google Cloud will serve as Formula E’s Official Cloud Technology Services Partner and Official Cloud Security Partner.Jeff Do...

Uranium prices hit all-time high

Microsoft Azure

Uranium prices have hit an all-time high, with artificial intelligence data centers driving increased demand for nuclear fuel. comes as large data center operators have begun prioritizing nuclear power as a crucial energy source for their operations. According to an FT report, the price of enr...

Indosat pairs with ZTE for rural 4G coverage in Indonesia

Indonesia

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) has paired with Chinese vendor ZTE to bolster 4G coverage across remote areas of rural Indonesia. In an announcement last week, the carrier said that it has worked with ZTE to deploy more than 550 ultra-capacity backbone microwave links across Indonesia, which i...

US government signs executive order for gigawatt-scale data center campus development on federal lands

United States

Outgoing US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to open up federal lands for data center development. This will make government-owned land available to developers for lease and require agencies to make efforts to improve transmission infrastructure to those developments.“Today, P...

Liberty Energy signs MoU with DC Grid

Liberty Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with DC Grid to deliver off-grid gas generation to the data center sector and commercial fleet electric vehicle (EV) hubs. Following the MoU terms, Liberty will deploy its digiPower mobile generator through its Liberty Power Innovat...

Sierra Club appeals against data center in Reno, Nevada

Nevada

The Sierra Club, an environmental preservation organization with chapters in all 50 states has filed an appeal against the approval of the Webb Data Center by the Reno Planning Commission on December 18. The commission voted 4-2 for recommending proposals from Ellis Partners for an 82,000-squa...

Ligado sues Inmarsat following bankruptcy ruling

United States

 Satellite operator Ligado Networks has sued its contract partner Inmarsat shortly after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In its lawsuit, Ligado claims Inmarsat failed to make the required upgrades to its satellite network while still demanding payments from Ligado, at a time when Ligado has ...

NASA sun observatory now operational

Operations have resumed at the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) following the flood at its data center in late 2024. In a January 7 update from the Joint Science Operations Center (JSOC) at Stanford, staff said that the observatory has "begun processing most near-real-time (nrt) SDO data ...

PowerHouse and Provident partner for data center campus in Texas

Texas

Data center firm PowerHouse has partnered with Provident Data Centers for the development of a 768-acre data center campus in Texas. Provident Data Centers is the data center arm of the Dallas-based real estate development firm Provident.“The demands on digital infrastructure are accelerating ...

Constellation Energy to acquire Calpine Corporation

United States

US energy giant Constellation Energy has agreed to acquire Calpine Corporation, an independent power producer, for $26.6 billion, including debt considerations in a transaction that includes 50 million shares of Constellation stock, $4.5 billion in cash, and the assumption of about $12.7 billi...

CoreWeave first two UK data center locations now operational

CoreWeave

GPU cloud firm CoreWeave this week announced that two of its initial data center locations, in Crawley and London's Docklands, are now operational. The company said these sites will host some of Europe's largest Nvidia GPU deployments, powered by the chip giant’s H200 hardware.Mike Mattacola, ...

BBVA completes data platform migration to AWS

Amazon AWS

 Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) has successfully migrated its data platform to Amazon Web Services (AWS), covering its European and Uruguay operations. BBVA announced its plans to migrate to the cloud provider in February 2023, citing the need for high-performance computing (HPC) for s...

Substrate AI plans 10MW data center outside Toledo

Spain

Spanish AI firm Substrate AI this week announced it aims to develop a 10MW facility on a 25,000 sqm (269,095 sq ft) site at the Torrehierro industrial estate in Talavera de la Reina that will host Nvidia GPU hardware, including NVL72 racks. The company will invest €100 million ($102.3m) in the...

Iron Mountain files to expand Manassas data center campus

Iron Mountain Data Center has filed for a permit to expand its Manassas data center campus in Prince William County, Virginia and is seeking a federal and state permit for a new data center on land west of Route 234 and east and north of Wellington Road in Prince William County.The new buildin...

Queen Mary University of London uses data center waste heat to warm buildings

Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) is using waste heat from its data center to warm buildings on its Mile End campus. Heat from the university’s Tier 2 data center is being repurposed to warm the Joseph Priestley Building, and supply the campus district heating network.Philippa Lloyd, vice...

Mapping and location company Here signs 10-year $1bn deal with AWS

Amazon AWS

Mapping and location technology company Here has signed a 10-year deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to use its cloud computing infrastructure. Here will combine AWS technologies with its mapping solutions to help automakers develop location-sensitive technologies for their vehicles.“Location...

Compass to develop new data center campus in Mississippi

Compass Datacenters

Compass Datacenters is to develop a new $10 billion data center campus in Mississippi. The $10 billion figure was the total investment value of the campus, including IT equipment by customers, rather than the company's individual investment figure. “We are looking forward to building our next ...

Deep Fission to supply Endeavour data centers with 2GW of nuclear energy

United States

Deep Fission, a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) developer, has partnered with Endeavour Energy, a US sustainable infrastructure developer, to develop and deploy its technology at scale. They have committed to co-developing 2GW of nuclear energy to supply Endeavour's global portfolio of dat...