Data Center News

Bit Digital acquires Montreal site for data center

United States

US data center developer and crypto firm Bit Digital has acquired the site for a build-to-suit 5MW data center expansion project in Montreal, Canada.The company initially used cash on hand to fund the acquisition and is working to obtain mortgage financing to cover the site's acquisition and s...

Akamai to end CDN services in China

China

US-based cloud computing and Content Delivery Network (CDN) company Akamai plans to end its CDN in China, ending services in the country on June 30, 2026, the company said in a letter to customers. After this point, any remaining content requests will be automatically served from neighboring c...

$17bn data center campus proposed in Atlanta, Georgia

Georgia

A 13-building data center campus costing $17 billion has been proposed for Atlanta, Georgia. The campus would be built on 832 acres of land near the city of Newnan, 45 miles south of Atlanta in Coweta County. The site is adjacent to Welcome Sargent Road and Wagers Mill Road.Each of the data ha...

Rigetti unveils 84-qubit Ankaa-3 quantum computer

Quantum computing company Rigetti launched its 84-qubit Ankaa-3 system in late December 2024, stating that its new flagship system features an “extensive hardware redesign that enables superior performance.”This includes a new cryogenic hardware design to reduce the amount of metal at the refr...

Global Switch confirms search for co-investor

Sydney

Global Switch recently announced that the sale of its Sydney data center business to HMC Capital had closed, and has officially confirmed previous reports it was seeking external investment for its London campus.“As part of its financing strategy to drive future growth, Global Switch has also ...

Meta signs long-term PPA in Texas

Texas

Meta has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with US-based renewable energy company Longroad Energy to purchase 100 percent of the output of the 300MWac (400MWdc) '1000 Mile' solar project in Yoakum County, Texas."The renewable energy from this project will support our data cente...

Biden Admin considers fast tracking data center development

 The Biden Administration is drafting a plan to enable the construction of data centers and electrical power plants on federally owned land. A B&E report  the government is trying to write up a plan before Biden's term ends on January 20. That plan could involve relaxing environmental rest...

Samsung’s advanced chip packaging VP Lin Jun-Cheng resigns

Samsung Electronics’ VP for advanced packaging technology has left the company. Lin Jun-Cheng also confirmed his resignation, posting on LinkedIn that he was leaving “due to the end of my two-year contract.” Jun-Cheng joined the company in March 2023 having previously worked at TSMC for almost...

Digital Core REIT seeks new tenant for Virginia data center

Virginia

Digital Core REIT is looking for a new tenant for one of its data centers in Northern Virginia, as the current occupant of the data center, located at 8217 Linton Hall Road in Bristow, Prince William County, has decided to not exercise its option to extend its lease on the property, the proper...

Phoenix to clamp down on data centers

Phoenix

The city of Phoenix in Arizona is set to clamp down on data centers. The City Council has approved a series of changes to better regulate data center growth in the city, including regulating locations and external design specifications.The vote, which took place on December 10, targeted standa...

Penta Infra gets pension fund PGGM

Penta Infra

 PGGM, which invests on behalf of Dutch pension fund PFZW, has acquired a 49 percent stake in the European data center provider from Photon Capital, an investor that has been involved with Penta Infra since its inception.Bob Sprengers, CEO at Penta Infra, said: "We are proud to welcome PGGM as...

TalkTalk to cut hundreds of jobs in bid to save £120m

England

 TalkTalk is set to cut hundreds of jobs as the struggling ISP looks to save £120 million ($150m), detailing the plans during an investor meeting  in December. TalkTalk has already kicked off a redundancy consultation, ahead of plans to cut around 130 jobs at its Salford consumer division.Furt...

Equinix partners with Dell Technologies for private AI solution

Equinix

Equinix and Dell Technologies are teaming up to offer a private AI solution that enables customers to train AI models on public and private clouds deployed on-premises. Using the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia which combines Dell PowerEdge XE9680 with Nvidia GPUs, the Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet p...

European Commission approves Nvidia's acquisition of Run:ai

Europe

The European Commission (EC) has approved Nvidia's proposed acquisition of Run:ai. The EC gave the green light for the acquisition on December 20, noting that it had "concluded that the transaction would raise no competition concerns in the European Economic Area." The EC added that, while Nvi...

Cellnex completes €800m Austrian tower exit

Austria

Cellnex has completed the sale of its Austrian unit to a consortium comprised of Vauban Infrastructure Partners, EDF Invest, and MEAG for €803 million ($834m), bringing an end to Cellnex's presence in Austria after it entered the market in 2021, when it snapped up CK Hutchison's sites in the c...

TPG in talks to buy Crown Castle's fiber assets

United States

TPG is in advanced talks to buy Crown Castle's fiber assets in a deal worth an estimated $8 billion. US tower operator Crown Castle has been looking to sell its fiber assets for some time, notably revealing in April that it had held talks with multiple parties over a sale.The company launched ...

Australia's NRFC invests AU$22.5m into Vault Cloud

Australia

Australia's National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC) has invested AU$22.5 million (US$14.04m) in Canberra-based Vault Cloud which will be used to deliver "additional security capabilities for its existing contracts" and to expand its offerings including artificial intelligence (AI), "De...

BGRIM to power data centers in Thailand

Thailand / Prathet Thai

Thai energy producer B.Grimm Power (BGRIM) plans to offer energy solutions to Thailand's growing data center sector and is currently in talks with several firms. BGRIM intends to spend between 5 billion baht ($145 million) and 7 billion baht ($203 million) to support its expansion into the dat...

EIB to provide €43m for two data centers in Azerbaijan

Europe

The European Investment Bank will provide €43 million ($44.71m) in loans for the development of two data centers in Azerbaijan. The funding will be used to develop two data centers for AzInTelecom LLC which will be located Absheron and Hajigabul regions.Elkhan Azizov, chairman of the board of ...

Minnesota's City of Farmington sued over Tract data center build

The City of Farmington in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been sued over the construction of a data center in the city. Councilors had approved a data center belonging to Grant van Rooyen’s Tract, by a vote of 4-1. The data center is now facing a lawsuit from the Coalition for Responsible Data Cen...