Global Data Center News

March 24, 2025

MediaTek and Far EasTone Telecoms Sign PPAs in Taiwan

Chip company MediaTek and Taiwanese telco Far EasTone Telecommunications have signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to procure wind energy in Taiwan. Both companies have signed agreements with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) to offtake from the Fengmiao 1 offshore wind farm in T...

March 24, 2025

Oracle Expands Oracle Database@Azure offering

Oracle has expanded its Oracle Database@Azure offering. The company has now made its Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure available in these @Azure regions. The company has also added a new location to the offering at Microsoft Azure's East US 2 region, bringing the total...

March 22, 2025

NorthC Launches Data Center in Switzerland

European data center operator NorthC has re-launched a data center it acquired in Winterthur, Switzerland, marking its fourth data center in Switzerland. This facility has a capacity of 1.8MW across 1,100 sqm (11,840 sq ft) and offers potential for expansion in the future.“Regionality is very ...

March 21, 2025

SUB1 Secures Investment from Boultbee Brooks

A new UK data center developer SUB1 this week announced a major strategic investment from Boultbee Brooks Real Estate. The developer aims to focus on redeveloping brownfield sites on industrial estates and business parks with existing or potential on-site power to quickly deploy high-performan...

March 21, 2025

Judicial Review of Art Data Centres Ennis campus is Dismissed

The request for a judicial review of Art Data Centres' campus in County Clare, Ireland, has been dismissed. The Ennis data center project was given planning permission in 2022, and approved by An Bord Pleanala in April 2024, but opponents to the project including the Clare Green Party called f...

March 21, 2025

Telehouse Signs Wind PPA in UK

Data center firm Telehouse and RWE this week announced a 10-year PPA to offtake from the London Array wind farm. Under the agreement, RWE will supply a “substantial amount” of the renewable energy used at Telehouse’s London Docklands campus, until the end of 2035.Mushtaq Choudhary, head of pro...

March 21, 2025

SoftBank to Acquire Ampere Computing for $6.5bn

SoftBank plans to acquire Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion. The company will now operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank Group and retain its name, while lead investors Carlyle and Oracle will sell their stakes.SoftBank, meanwhile, remains the single largest shareholder of Arm, which...

March 21, 2025

DigitalOcean to Deploy GPUs at Flexential Data Center

Cloud company DigitalOcean has signed an agreement with Flexential to bring a high-density GPU deployment to the latter's Atlanta-Douglasville data center which will include DigitalOcean's "GPU Droplets" powered by Nvidia H200 and AMD Instinct GPUs, and will be deployed across two connected da...

March 20, 2025

Microsoft Partners with Core42 for Sovereign Cloud and AI infrastructure for Abu Dhabi

The Abu Dhabi government is partnering with Microsoft and Core42 for AI infrastructure and a sovereign cloud offering in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Both companies aim to establish a sovereign cloud computing environment capable of processing more than 11 million digital interactions daily...

March 20, 2025

OData Announces New Data Center in São Paulo

Latin American operator OData is developing a new data center in São Paulo, Brazil. The company aims to invest more than $450 million on the 48MW facility. DC SP04 is scheduled to become operational in April 2025.“We take great pride in operating with 100 percent renewable energy in Brazil, re...

March 20, 2025

DSTA Partners with Oracle for Isolated Cloud Region

Singapore's Defense Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) has signed a contract with Oracle for an Oracle Cloud Isolated Region which will support both the Ministry of Defense (MINDEF) and Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), giving them access to a high-performance, air-gapped, and secure sovereign c...

March 19, 2025

Amazon Cancels Echo device processing

Amazon Echo devices, which give users access to the firm's Alexa personal assistant via voice commands, will stop offering local processing capabilities on March 28, at which point all voice recordings will be sent to the cloud to be processed.The move comes as Amazon is launching Alexa+, a su...

March 19, 2025

Turkish Coast Guard HQ Launches Data Center

The Turkish Coast Guard Command has launched its data center which has now been commissioned with an opening ceremony held. The data center is part of the SahilNET project which was signed between the Coast Guard and Havelsan in September 2021. That project will see the establishment of a netw...

March 19, 2025

Core Capital Investments Unveils AI cloud Cartagon.ai

Core Capital Investments has launched an AI cloud platform dubbed Cartagon.ai with an initial funding of more than €30 million ($32.7m). The AI platform will be part of Cartagon, a cloud and IT service provider in Spain and Portugal and "managed vehicle" of Core Capital Partners“Cartagon.ai re...

March 19, 2025

Equinix Raises SGD $500m in Green Bonds

Equinix has issued SGD $500 million (US$375m) in green bonds to help fund efficiency improvements at its data centers in Singapore. The company claims to be the first US company to access the Singapore dollar market in more than five years, and will utilize the proceeds from the bond issue to ...

March 19, 2025

Google signs 35MW wind PPA in Spain

Google has signed a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Exus Renewables for the supply of wind power in Spain. This PPA would support Google’s wider sustainability ambitions while also allowing Exus to “transition to a leading independent power producer (IPP) and provider of clean ener...

March 18, 2025

Oracle Announces $5bn investment plan for the UK

Oracle this week announced plans to invest $5 billion over the next five years to expand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s (OCI) footprint in the UK and help the UK Government "deliver on its vision for AI innovation and adoption."Siobhan Wilson, senior vice president and country leader for Oracle...

March 18, 2025

Qualcomm Signs PPA with Recurrent Energy

Canadian Solar subsidiary Recurrent Energy has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Qualcomm in Spain for the supply of 50,000 MWh annually, the equivalent of 8,000 tonnes of CO₂ emissions each year.In a statement, the companies said the project will strengthen Spain’s leadership in re...

March 17, 2025

Alfanar Plans $1.4bn Investment in Saudi Arabia

Alfanar Global Development revealed it would be developing four data centers in Saudi Arabia last month during the LEAP 2025 event and has now disclosed that it plans to spend $1.4 billion on developing data centers in the country.The data centers will be "strategically located" across Riyadh ...

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Oracle Expands Oracle Database@Azure offering

NorthC Launches Data Center in Switzerland

SUB1 Secures Investment from Boultbee Brooks