Data Center News

Equinix accused of major accounting manipulations

Equinix

Short seller Hindenburg Research has accused data center REIT Equinix of "major accounting manipulations." The investigative reporting and researching company claims that Nadaq-listed Equinix overstated its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO), a key profitability metric for REITs, by at leas...

Canadian telco Rogers Communications blames outage on traffic accident

Canada

Canadian telco Rogers Communications has blamed its recent outage on a fiber optic cable cut between Guelph and Brampton after a crash knocked down traffic lights and wires, which happened at Claire Rd W and Gordon St in Guelph. “Customers in parts of Guelph and surrounding areas may be experi...

LightSolver makes laser-based computing system generally available

Israel

Laser-based computing startup LightSolver has made its LPU100 system generally available to selected enterprise clients of LightSolver via the company’s new cloud platform.  This system utilizes all-optical coupled lasers that require no electronics to compute and combines the company’s all-op...

Amazon signs new wind PPA in the UK

Amazon AWS

Amazon this week announced that it has signed a  Power Purchase Agreement (PPA)  with Iberdrola to to procure the output of an offshore wind farm in the UK. The deal is to offtake 159MW from the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm – equivalent to 700GWh of energy annually. Sergio Hernández de...

Schneider Electric and Mainspring Energy partner on fuel-flexible microgrid solution

United States

Schneider Electric and Mainspring Energy have partnered on a fuel-flexible microgrid solution using Schneider's EcoStruxure offering and Mainspring's Linear Generator. The Schneider Electric-Mainspring Microgrid Solution enables customers to power their self-contained electrical network and in...

CMA warns Vodafone against proposed merger

Vodafone

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said it's concerned that Vodafone and Three's proposed merger could lead to mobile customers facing higher prices and reduced service quality. This comes after a 40-day review into the £15 billion ($18.5bn) merger, set to create the UK's big...

Colt DCS unveils new data center telemetry platform

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) has launched a new data center telemetry platform which enables customers to use real-time telemetry data to support the management of their data center workloads. The company developed this platform in partnership with consulting firm Protiviti, the compan...

Ericsson launches dedicated federal 5G units in US

United States

Ericsson has launched an entity dedicated to delivering 5G services for multiple agencies in the US federal government. This is in its aim to support state and federal government entities to boost services and natural security, plus US defense modernization programs. “Connecting individuals, b...

Foundry Technologies launches AI cloud platform

United States

Foundry Technologies, a new cloud platform, launched this week with $80 million of funding gottenfrom a round led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partner. They were joined by other investors including Microsoft's venture capital arm, Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, OpenAI’s Liam Fe...

Data4 launches new project which could use waste heat to grow algae

DATA4 Group

French data center operator Data4 has launched a new project exploring whether waste heat generated by one of its facilities can be used to grow algae. The company is working with the Université Paris-Saclay on the project at its Marcoussis data center campus in the Essonne region south of Par...

OVHcloud launches quantum computer at France data center

OVH Group

OVHcloud this week inaugurated what it described as the first quantum computer available from a European Cloud service provider. “We are convinced that quantum is a technology for the future and we have shown unwavering support to ensure Europe doesn’t miss the next technological revolution,” ...

Google and WWT partner for US sovereign cloud

Google and World Wide Technology (WWT) are partnering for sovereign cloud solutions in the US to target government customers. Google Public Sector and technology solutions provider WTT have announced a joint effort to ‘advance the adoption’ of Google Distributed Cloud Hosted (GDC Hosted), a so...

TSMC and Synopsys use Nvidia’s cuLitho for chip development

United States

GPU designer Nvidia announced the computational lithography library this time last year, saying that contract chip manufacturers TSMC and ASML were testing it out, alongside chip design tools company Synopsys.  Vivek Singh, Nvidia's VP of advanced technology, said, "A chip is made up of trilli...

Three companies invest in combined $200m data center in Oslo

Oslo

Norwegian telco Telenor, energy company Hafslund and investment fund HitecVision are building a data center in Oslo, Norway, via a newly formed joint venture, Skygard. These companies are to make a NOK 2.4 billion ($200m) joint investment in this data center which is already undergoing constru...

Pi Data Center secures funding for new data center in Cyberjaya

Pi Datacenters Pvt. Ltd

Malaysian data center firm Pi Data Center has secured funding for a new facility in Cyberjaya. Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Berhad revealed plans to support the launch of Pi Data Center Sdn Bhd (PiDC) in the city with a RM 253.5m ($53m) investment being provisioned by Tawarruq Asset Financing Fac...

Vertiv installs grid-interactive UPS in Sweden data centers

Stockholm

Swedish colocation data center provider Conapto has installed Vertiv Liebert EXL S1, an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) system that provides an integrated solution for critical power protection and grid support capabilities. “With the introduction of dynamic grid support, we are empowering ...

US government to award Intel $8.5 billion in direct funding under CHIPS Act

Arizona

The US government is set to award Intel $8.5 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act as confirmed by the Department of Commerce on Tuesday. Intel is also to get an additional $11bn in low-interest rate loans and a 25 percent investment tax credit on up to $100 billion of Inte...

Google to invest in carbon capture projects

Google

Google has revealed its plans to invest $35 million into carbon capture projects, matching the US government's aim to purchase 35 million in carbon removal credits through the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Carbon Dioxide Removal Purchase program. Google announced this week, “We’re proud to be t...

Chorus expands colocation capacity in Auckland data center

New Zealand wholesale fixed line operator, Chorus this week said it had expanded its Mount Eden data center in partnership with Vertiv, which designed and implemented a 23-rack hot aisle containment system. With a scalable power range of 50kW to 250kW, the facility uses refrigerant-based air-c...

Exaion launches new data center in Canada

Canada

Exaion, an EDF Group subsidiary specializing in the development and operation of ‘eco-responsible digital services platforms,’ recently announced the opening of its data center in Sherbrooke, Canada. This facility called Bellevue, is located in the Humano District project, to which it will pro...