Data Center News

Brazilian local government passes law to support Scala's AI City data center campus

Scala Data Centers

The Brazilian city of Eldorado do Sul, in Rio Grande do Sul state, has passed legislation to allow the construction of Scala Data Centers’ AI City. The legislation will change urban zoning and streamline procedures for the operators ‘mega complex.’ The urban zoning perimeter will be expanded t...

xAI raises $6 billion in a Series C funding round

United States

Elon Musk's generative AI startup xAI has raised $6 billion in a Series C funding round from investors including A16Z, Blackrock, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Kingdom Holdings, Lightspeed, MGX, Morgan Stanley, OIA, QIA, Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners and Vy Capital, amon...

Oregon regulators approve PacifiCorp penalties for high-load energy users

Oregon

 The Oregon Public Utility Commission has ruled in favor of a PacifiCorp proposal that would penalize large-load customers, such as data centers, whose energy use at new facilities is not in line with forecast needs. "The scale of utility procurement and stranded asset risk associated with the...

TPG Real Estate takes full control of Quantum Frederick Project

Maryland

Quantum Loophole will no longer have any "active involvement" in the Quantum Frederick Project, a 2,100-acre data center campus and fiber optic loop (QLoop) in Frederick County, Maryland. This September, TPG sought a court order to remove Quantum Loophole from its role as manager of the $5 bil...

BT wins £1.3bn class action lawsuit

United Kingdom

 BT has successfully defended itself in a £1.3 billion ($1.6bn) class action lawsuit that alleged the telco overcharged millions of customers for fixed telephone lines. The case, which lasted for eight weeks and began in January, accused BT of around 3.7 million landline customers. The case ag...

Equinix to acquire BT Group's Irish data center business for €59 million

Equinix

 Equinix has agreed to acquire BT Group's Irish data center business for €59 million ($61.3m). The transaction, expected to be completed in H1 of 2025, includes two operational data centers in CityWest and Ballycoolin, Dublin. BT's decision to divest is part of a broader strategy to transition...

US Senate passes bill for additional rip and replace funding

United States

The US Senate has voted in favor of a bill that looks set to provide an additional $3 billion to telecom companies in funding for the rip and replace program. This was included as part of the $895 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that was passed by the US Senate on December 18...

Mercury Engineering to create 1,000 jobs in five years

Europe

Irish construction firm Mercury Engineering is preparing to create 1,000 new roles over the next five years. Standing as one of Europe's largest data center builders, the company operates in 16 markets, including data center hotspots such as France, Ireland, and the Nordics. Mercury currently ...

Edisun to supply AI-driven data centers with power from Madrid solar plant

Madrid

European solar power producer Edisun Power plans to direct power from its 941MW Fuencarral solar power plant in Madrid to data centers in the region.The company noted that the additional electricity demand from artificial intelligence and the increasingly stringent European regulations for the...

Swisscom cleared for €8bn Vodafone acquisition

Swisscom, in a statement, confirmed it has received clearance for the acquisition of Vodafone Italia from both the Italian Competition Authority (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato) and the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MIMIT)."This paves the way to the creation of a...

VueNow launches two Edge data centers in midst of investigation

India / Bhārata

VueNow Infotech has inaugurated two Edge data centers in Uttar Pradesh, India, while in the midst of a money laundering investigation. The data centers are located in Malihabad and Ambedkarnagar, and are part of a wider plan to deploy as many as 750 Edge data centers across the state.The compa...

Qualcomm claims win following mistrial in copyright battle with Arm

United States

Qualcomm is claiming victory in its court battle with chip design giant Arm after a jury in the US found that its processor designs are properly licensed, despite the case ended in a mistrial, leaving the door open for Arm to return with a fresh action.After a week-long federal court trial hel...

European Investment Bank to provide loan for two data centers in Azerbaijan

The European Investment Bank will provide €43 million ($44.71m) in loans for the development of two data centers in Azerbaijan. AzInTelecom operates under the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport of the Republic of Azerbaijan and offers cloud solutions and telecom services.Elkhan Aziz...

Taiwan considers partnership with Amazon over Kuiper satellite Internet comms

The Taiwanese government confirmed this week that it's in talks with Amazon's Project Kuiper subsidiary over a partnership for satellite-based communications. This comes after technology minister Wu Cheng-wen told media earlier this week that the OneWeb network of French satellite operator Eut...

Australia's National Reconstruction Fund Corporation invests 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. The investment will be used by Vault to deliver "additional security capabilities for its existing contracts" and to expand its offerings including artificial int...

Intel shareholders file lawsuit alleging federal securities laws violations

California

Intel shareholders have filed a derivative lawsuit against the company, alleging executives, including former CEO Pat Gelsinger, made false and misleading statements about the reorganization of a manufacturing segment. The lawsuit accuses Intel executives, including former CEO Pat Gelsinger, o...

Vertiv acquires tech and assets from BSE

China

Vertiv's Chinese subsidiary has acquired centrifugal chiller technology and assets from BiXin Energy Technology Co. (BSE), a manufacturer of chillers, heat pumps, heat-recovery solutions and air-handling units.“This acquisition supports our capital allocation strategy, which includes adding te...

INZET and Sustainability Economics sign MoU in Bali

Bali

The Amerta Bali Lestari Foundation's INZET unit has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sustainability Economics for clean energy-powered AI data centers in Bali. Sustainability Economics provides net zero solutions for customers in high-emitting sectors, and is currently exploring...

Nokia pairs with EOLO for 5G Standalone mmWave network in Italy

Italy

Nokia has partnered with Italian telco EOLO to deploy a 5G standalone mmWave RAN network in Italy. In the announcement, vendor Nokia claimed the deployment to be a European first, noting it has signed a four-year deal with EOLO. As part of the deal, the vendor will provide its 5G AirScale port...

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...