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George Mason University and AWS jointly develop a data center engineering course

Amazon AWS

A data center engineering course is being created by George Mason University in Fairfax County, Virginia, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The faculty of Mason's College of Engineering and Computing will offer the course, which will be titled ME/ECE 499: Data Center Engineering. It will be acces...

Mubadala makes an investment in Aligned Data Centers and acquires a minority stake

Aligned

Mubadala Investment Company, the sovereign investment branch of Abu Dhabi, has invested in Aligned Data Centers. Mubadala will become a minority shareholder in the U.S. company, although the scale of the investment was not disclosed. Macquarie Asset Management remains the majority shareholder ...

GTR will construct a 16MW data facility in Barcelona, Spain.

A data center will be built in Barcelona, Spain, by Global Technical Realty (GTR). The company, backed by KKR's third global infrastructure fund, has acquired its first data center building site in Spain. The location is Parc de l'Alba in Cerdanyola del Vallès, just outside of Barcelona. Accor...

Stack Infrastructure concludes its second $250 million debt financing of 2023

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

$250 million in securitized notes have been issued as part of Stack Infrastructure's second round of structured debt financing for 2023. The funding round began a month ago with an initial goal of raising $100 million, which has since more than doubled. Since 2019, Stack has raised $2.3 billio...

Cirion intends to construct a 20MW data center in Santiago, Chile

Cirion Technologies, a developer of digital infrastructure and technology, plans to construct a 20MW data center in Santiago, Chile. The facility, known as SAN2, will be the company's second data center in the country and is anticipated to be operational by early 2025.The data center will be l...

Markley Group seeks $80 million in data center litigation with Zayo

Zayo

The Markley Group has filed a $80 million lawsuit against networking company Zayo Group over a data center lease in a Boston carrier hotel. The filing is a response to the case raised by zColo in April 2023, in which it was alleged that the Markley Group had engaged in a years-long campaign of...

AWS launches its local zone edge location in Phoenix, Arizona

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of a Local Zone Edge location in Phoenix, Arizona. The general availability of a Local Zone in Phoenix was first announced back in January 2022. It was known then as us-west-2-phx-1a, which appears to have now been replaced by the new us-west...

Bitcoin Miner GDA opens of three new data centers in South Carolina

South Carolina

Genesis Digital Assets (GDA) has announced the opening of three new data centers in South Carolina's Western region. The company is one of the world's largest Bitcoin mining companies, and has 400 MW of capability spread across three continents.  It reportedly accounts for about 2% of the Bitc...

Toyota looks to sell KDDI shares worth $1.8 billion

KDDI

Toyota Motor Corporation intends to sell a roughly $1.80 billion stake in KDDI Corporation as part of a share buy-back deal.  Reuters reports that the Japanese automaker wants to raise funds to accelerate vehicle electrification. Toyota's stake in the Japanese telco would decrease from 14.68 p...

AMD will invest $400 million in a new India facility

India / Bhārata

Over the next five years, AMD plans to invest approximately $400 million in India. With this investment, a new AMD campus will be constructed in Bengaluru (Bangalore), Karnataka. This will be the company's largest design center, and it is anticipated that approximately 3,000 new engineering po...

AMD will spend $135 million on chip R&D in Ireland

Over the next four years, AMD intends to invest $135 million in Ireland. The money will go toward studying and creating data centers, networking, 6G, and generative AI technologies. In addition, the company is anticipated to employ approximately 290 engineers and researchers in the country to ...

Cyxtera refuses leases at two data centers in Silicon Valley owned by Prime

Cyxtera Technologies

Cyxtera plans to decline leases for two data centers held by Prime DC in Santa Clara, California. In June, Cyxtera filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to continuing losses and upcoming debt maturities. The organization is seeking a buyer or new investor. According to DgtlInfra, Cyxtera intends...

Cellnex contemplates selling a stake in its Nordic enterprises

Nordics

Cellnex is contemplating the sale of a minority stake in its Nordic operations, which could fetch up to $1.11 billion. Reuters reported last week that Cellnex would use the earnings to pay down debt, according to sources familiar with the matter.Reuters reported that Cellnex is collaborating w...

AirTrunk has submitted plans for a 320MW facility in Sydney, Australia

AirTrunk

AirTrunk has filed for its Sydney, Australia, SYD3 data center campus. After purchasing the land in 2021, the company has submitted plans to the New South Wales Department of Planning for a 320MW data center spanning 1.3 million square feet across seven stories.The property in question cost $7...

Dell'Oro: AI growth will drive data center capex to $500bn by 2027

The analyst firm Dell'Oro Group forecasts that data center capital expenditures will surpass $500 billion by 2027 due to AI infrastructure expenditures. As the market undergoes digestion, the group predicts that cloud and enterprise expenditure growth will decelerate in the near future.Despite...

Blackstone and QTS to build data centers worth $8bn for "once in a generation" AI growth

QTS Data Centers

The premier property fund of Blackstone, valued at $68 billion, is selling assets and preparing to invest billions in data centers. According to the Financial Times, Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, or Breit, intends to invest $8 billion in the construction of new data centers through its ...

Two data centers secure a $15 million loan in Cape Verde

Africa

The island nation of Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) in Africa has been granted a loan to construct two new data centers. This week, the African Development Bank (ADB) and the government of Cabo Verde announced the signing of a loan agreement for $15.3 million to improve the Cabo Verde Technology Park...

CommScope will invest $60.3 million to expand its fiber manufacturing facility

Over the next four years, CommScope intends to invest $60,3 million to expand its manufacturing facilities in North Carolina. The telecommunications equipment supplier stated that the increased production will generate at least 250 new employment.The investment comes at a crucial moment for th...

Vodafone extends its European Edge presence to Spain using AWS

Amazon AWS

In collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Vodafone Business has implemented Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) in Spain. After launching the service in Germany and the United Kingdom two years prior, introducing the pilot service in Spain expanded its European footprint. Spain is the mos...

Accelevation Holdings establishes a business unit focused on data centers

Accelevation Holdings has established a new business entity focused on data centers. Conatech and Instor Solutions, two recently acquired subsidiaries, will be combined to form the Accelevation Data Center Business Unit.Accelevation will integrate the white space installation and project manag...