Data Center News

CFS signs multi-year agreement with Microsoft for cloud and AI

Microsoft Azure

Australian wealth management fund Colonial First State (CFS) has signed a five-year agreement with Microsoft for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) services which will see CFS continue to use Azure as its preferred cloud provider and deploy generative AI use cases in collaboratio...

Microsoft signs carbon removal deal in California with 3Degrees

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a new cabon capture deal with climate solutions provider 3Degrees  to purchase more than 80,000 metric tons of carbon removals from Western Rivers Conservancy's (WRC) Blue Creek Improved Forest Management Project, located in Northern California.  "Microsoft's investment in...

Johnson Controls in search for new CEO

Europe

Industrial machine manufacturer Johnson Controls this week announced George R. Oliver has decided to stand down as CEO, following “substantial progress on its portfolio transformation.” The Irish company is now on the hunt for its next CEO with the assistance of an executive search firm to hel...

Stonepeak partners with CoreSite for Colorado data center

Colorado (CO)

Infrastructure investment firm Stonepeak  this week announced that it has formed a joint venture with American Tower subsidiary CoreSite to develop, construct, and operate an 18MW data center in Denver.   Stonepeak is expected to hold 85 percent of the equity of the CoreSite DevCo JV, with Cor...

Alerify acquires Pennsylvania data center

Pennsylvania

Recently formed colocation firm Alerify, Inc. announced this week that it will be acquiring the assets of the hosting and Internet services business of Elevated MSP which was built in 1981 and is owned by local real estate firm the Vartan Group. The two-story building totals 68,830 square feet...

Telecom Namibia inaugurates cable landing station in Swakopmund

Africa

Telecom Namibia has inaugurated its cable landing station in Swakopmund, Namibia, activating its capacity on Google’s Equiano subsea cable which connects Namibia to Europe via Portugal and to the rest of Africa, via Cape Town and Johannesburg.  The cable will help to build resilience in light ...

Alameda Healthcare Group partners with Dell for data center development in Cairo, Egypt

Africa

  Alameda Healthcare Group and Dell Technologies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a joint data center development in Cairo. Dell will be responsible for providing the data center equipment necessary to Alameda, as well as to provide implementation services. Dell will also of...

Alameda Healthcare Group partners with Dell for data center development in Cairo, Egypt

Africa

 Dell will also offer advisory services to Alameda surrounding Edge computing, network infrastructure, data center core technologies, and multi-cloud solutions.The data center will be located in Cairo, and will host Alameda's digital infrastructure.Dr. Fahad Khater, chairman of Alameda Healthc...

Humana selects Google Cloud for its IT infrastructure

Google

Humana Inc., a healthcare insurance company and Google Cloud have entered into an agreement which  will see Humana modernizing its cloud infrastructure with Google Cloud, and using the Google's artificial intelligence technologies.  Jim Rechtin, Humana CEO said: “Embracing technology solutions...

TenneT to invest up to €4.6bn in new transmission infrastructure

Netherlands

Dutch transmission system operator TenneT is looking to invest up to €4.6bn in thousands of kilometers of new transmission infrastructure across the Netherlands and Germany as it looks to update the grid.  TenneT CEO Manon van Beek said: “To achieve the 2030, 2045, and 2050 climate milestones ...

Iceotope CEO David Craig to retire in September

United Kingdom

Liquid cooling firm Iceotope has announced that CEO David Craig will be retiring, effective September 30 after spending nine years at the helm of Iceotope, previously serving as COO of McLaren Software and the founder of wind turbine developer Green Power partnership.  Nathan Blom, chief comme...

Transworld Associates to land 2Africa cable in Karachi, Pakistan

Pakistan

Transworld Associates (TWA) has announced it will land the 2Africa cable in Karachi, Pakistan, the world’s largest subsea cable network, and will connect 33 countries with 46 landing points in Europe and Asia. Eight partners including China Mobile International, Baobab, center3, Meta, Orange, ...

Data Journey acquires Bed Bath & Beyond data center in North Carolina

North Carolina

Data Journey this week announced it has acquired the former purpose-built enterprise data center from Bed Bath & Beyond data center in Claremont, Catawba County, and has converted the facility into a colocation facility. This marks the company’s second facility acquisition, after acquiring...

AirTrunk launches Johor data center in Malaysia

Malaysia

APAC data center firm AirTrunk has launched its first campus in Johor, Malaysia and has officially commenced operations at the JHB1 data center . The facility features the company’s first deployment of direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology alongside traditional indirect evaporative cooling ...

Seattle Times uses Baxtel Map Data to track Data Center Growth

The Seattle Times used Baxtel's data to analyze the recent data center growth in Washington state.Read the Article Here

Microsoft accuses Google and AWS of 'muddying' UK CMA investigation

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has claimed that its rivals Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google are 'muddying the waters' of the antitrust investigation currently underway by the UK Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA).   Google reiterated the criticism of Microsoft in its six-page response. which said; "We be...

Equinix acquires land for data centers in Malaysia

Equinix has acquired land in Cyberjaya, Malaysia to expand its data center capacity in the country and has invested RM23 million (approximately $5 million) in acquiring land in Cyberjaya, Kuala Lumpur, from Cyberview Sdn Bhd.  Dato’ Seri Amirudin Shari, Chief Minister of Selangor, said: “Selan...

Team IM to launch sovereign cloud for New Zealand

New Zealand

Kiwi information management services provider Team IM has deployed Oracle Alloy in its data centers and is set to launch a sovereign cloud for New Zealand which it claims will be New Zealand's first sovereign hyperscale cloud.  Ian Rogers, CEO of Team IM. said: “Many companies have promised to...

Oracle confirms AI strategy for custom chips

Oracle

Jason Rees, SVP of technology and cloud engineering EMEA at Oracle Cloud during a roundtable this week confirmed that Oracle is not currently looking at developing its own custom chips for artificial intelligence (AI).  When asked if Oracle was exploring the possibility of developing its own c...

Fractile exits stealth with $15 million in seed funding

United Kingdom

AI chip startup Fractile has exited stealth with $15 million in seed funding round  co-led by Kindred Capital, NATO Innovation Fund, and Oxford Science Enterprises and included participation from a number of angel investors, including Stan Boland, co-founder of Icera, and Amar Shah, co-founder...