Data Center News

Virgin Media O2 Business X Daisy Group to Create Telecoms Group in UK

Virgin Media O2 Business and Daisy Group have announced plans to merge their B2B operations to create a £3 billion ($3.96bn) telecoms group in the UK. In the announcement, Virgin Media O2 Business said the merger will "create a major new force in the UK business communications and IT sector."“...

Balder Invests in Scandinavian Data Centers

Swedish firm Scandinavian Data Centers (SDC) has secured new investment to fund the development of its underground data center from real estate group Fastighets AB Balder, a new long-term investor. The investment will enable the construction of SDC's first data center, located in Eskilstuna.SD...

BDx Raises Funding for Hong Kong Data Center

Asia Pacific data center operator BDx Data Centers has secured funding for a data center project in Hong Kong from Clifford Capital, UOB (United Overseas Bank), and SMBC (Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation) will go to the development of its first hyperscale data center in the country.“This su...

Iliad Group Signs four PPAs Across Europe for 60MW of Power

French multinational telco company, Iliad Group, has signed four Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) across France, Poland, and Italy for 60MW of power. In France, the company signed two PPAs, including its first wind PPA, with renewable developer H2air. “With these four new projects, we’re passi...

Merlin Edged Launches Barcelona Data Center

CoreWeave

Merlin Edged has launched a data center in Barcelona, inaugurated today by the Mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, and Albert Tort, Secretary of Telecommunications and Digital Transformation of the Government at Generalitat de Catalunya. This facility will be used by neocloud Coreweave. "We'll...

Insurer Marsh McLennan Selects AWS as Preferred Cloud Provider

Amazon AWS

Insurance giant Marsh McLennan has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider across its four global businesses - Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer, and Oliver Wyman. The company will migrate the majority of its global on-premises infrastructure to AWS, significantly reducing the company's physic...

Blue Owl Closes $7 billion Digital Infrastructure Fund

Alternative asset manager Blue Owl Capital Inc. announced today the final close of its latest digital infrastructure fund, Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure Fund III (ODI III), with $7 billion of total capital commitments. ODI III exceeded the original target of $4 billion and hit its hard cap. ...

Angela Rayner Overturns Decision to Block Data Center Planned for Hertfordshire, UK

UK deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has overruled local councillors and given the green light to a £1 billion ($1.32bn) data center in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire.Rayner made her decision based on a report from planning inspector Thomas Hatfield, who recommended that the development, prop...

Equinix Launches First Indonesian Data Center in Jakarta

Equinix

Equinix this week inaugurated its first International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Jakarta via a joint venture with PT Astra International Tbk. JK1 is an eight-story facility offering 550 cabinets in the first phase. At full build-out, the facility will offer a total capacity of 1,60...

UniCredit to use Google Cloud infrastructure in 13 markets

Pan-European bank UniCredit has signed a 10-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Google Cloud which will see UniCredit using Google's infrastructure, AI, and data analytics solutions in its 13 core markets."This strategic partnership with Google Cloud is a pivotal step in our strategy t...

Telekom Malaysia Inks Solar PPA with Gentari

Telekom Malaysia (TM) has signed a series of Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with solar developer Gentari Renewables to power six of its sites in Malaysia. Under the terms of the PPA, Gentari will design, install, and operate 4.3MW of solar projects at the TM facilities, which will generate 4....

Cooling fluids firm Arteco Moves into Data Centers

Industrial lubricants company Arteco recently announced its expansion into the data center and electronics market with its Zitrec EC brand. The company has traditionally been known for engine coolants and heat transfer fluids for applications such as heat pumps, air conditioning, refrigeration...

PepsiCo Signs Multi-Year Contract with AWS

PepsiCo, Inc. has signed a multi-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation will migrate its applications and workloads to AWS' cloud platform as part of its "cloud-first" strategy."A cloud-first approach has been essential t...

Colovore Secures $925m Debt Facility from Blackstone

Liquid-cooled data center firm Colovore has secured almost $1 billion in new debt funding to fuel its ongoing roll-out across the US. The new financing will fast-track Colovore’s national expansion of its liquid-cooled data centers across the US. Initial expansions are planned for Reno, Nevada...

Akamai Completes Edgio Customer Migration

Akamai has completed the migration of customers from bankrupt CDN firm Edgio. Akamai Technologies' CEO Tom Leighton said that of those customer accounts acquired from Edgio, the company has seen a $16 million commitment over the next three years. In total, Akamai saw a revenue of $1.015 billio...

NTT to Launch and List REIT in Singapore

NTT aims to establish and list a new data center real estate investment trust on the Singapore Stock Exchange, to be seeded with six NTT-owned data centers.The company said it aims to transfer six NTT Limited-owned data centers to a proposed Singapore real estate investment trust NTT DC REIT. ...

Thunderhead and HMC to deliver up to 1.5GW of offgrid natural gas power for US data centers

Thunderhead Energy Solutions, a US-based behind-the-meter natural gas power developer, has secured funding from Harbert Management Corporation (HMC) to develop up to 1.5GW of power generation capacity for the data center market.The collaboration will focus specifically on onsite natural gas-po...

Top Data Center News For Baxtel 5th- 9th of May 2025

1. Amazon to Invest $4billion in the Chile RegionAmazon Web Services has committed to investing over $4 billion in developing a cloud region in Chile to support the construction, connection, operation, and maintenance of data centers in the country2. Prometheus Hyperscale to Power Wyoming Data...

Bahnhof Plans Bunker Data Center in Gothenburg, Sweden

Swedish data center firm Bahnhof this week announced plans for the Bunkerberget data center in central Gothenburg’s Gamlestaden. The site has been acquired from Bunkeberget AB, but terms weren’t shared.Bunkerberget was first blasted during World War II as a shelter for the citizens of Gothenbu...

Start Campus and Schneider Electric to Deliver 26MW data center in Sines, Portugal

Schneider Electric has helped deliver the first stage of the Start Campus data center development in Portugal. Located on repurposed industrial land in Sines, Portugal, Start Campus could eventually become Europe’s biggest data center campus, with 1.2GW of power secured by the developer.“Start...