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Sophia Space Secures $3.5m for Orbital Data Centers

Seattle-based Sophia Space, an orbital computing venture, has raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding led by Unlock Ventures with the participation of angel investors, to develop Edge compute solutions for orbit and what they call space-based data centers.“We are at the dawn of a new era where...

May 27, 2025

Seattle

Lambda Installs GB200 NVL72 Rack in California

GPU cloud provider Lambda has deployed an Nvidia GB200 NVL72 rack system at EdgeCloudLink's (ECL) data center in Mountain View, California. The rack was installed on January 22, and the installation process took around "one hour" due to the flexibility of the data center.In a LinkedIn post, EC...

January 29, 2025

California

Chiplet startup Baya Systems raises $36m in Series B funding round

Chiplet technology startup Baya Systems has raised more than $36 million in a Series B funding round led by Maverick Silicon and backed by a strategic investment from Synopsys. It also saw participation from current investors, including Matrix Partners and Intel Capital.Growing AI workloads ar...

January 25, 2025

New York

Novacap closes first digital infrastructure fund

North American investment firm Novacap this week announced the final closing of Novacap Digital Infrastructure Fund I, the firm's first fund dedicated entirely to investing in digital infrastructure. The firm has also named its recently announced data center joint venture with H5, HyScale Data...

January 24, 2025

New York

GlobalFoundries to build an Advanced Packaging and Photonics Center in New York

GlobalFoundries (GF) has announced plans to build an Advanced Packaging and Photonics Center in the state of New York, USA, described as the center as “the first of its kind.” The company said the new facility would allow semiconductors to be “securely manufactured, processed, packaged, and te...

January 22, 2025

New York

InterServer selects 365 Data Centers for New Jersey expansion

Web hosting and managed service provider InterServer has selected 365 Data Centers as its colocation provider as it looks into expanding its offering in the New Jersey market. 365 has 20 data centers across the US, including multiple New Jersey locations such as Carlstadt and Bridgewater, enab...

January 09, 2025

New Jersey

Phoenix to clamp down on data centers

The city of Phoenix in Arizona is set to clamp down on data centers. The City Council has approved a series of changes to better regulate data center growth in the city, including regulating locations and external design specifications.The vote, which took place on December 10, targeted standa...

January 02, 2025

Phoenix

Intel shareholders file lawsuit alleging federal securities laws violations

Intel shareholders have filed a derivative lawsuit against the company, alleging executives, including former CEO Pat Gelsinger, made false and misleading statements about the reorganization of a manufacturing segment. The lawsuit accuses Intel executives, including former CEO Pat Gelsinger, o...

December 21, 2024

California

Oxide Cloud Computer to be installed at LLNL

Oxide Computer Company and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are teaming up to bring on-premises cloud capabilities to the LLNL supercomputing center. The startup will be deploy its rack-scale Oxide Cloud Computer at LLNL's high performance computing (HPC) center in Livermore, ...

November 18, 2024

California

CoreWeave to convert New Jersey lab building into data center

CoreWeave is expanding its data center footprint in New Jersey. According to local press, the company has signed a long-term lease with an Onyx Equities and Machine Investment Group partnership for the entirety of building 11 at The Northeast Science & Technology Center (NEST) in Kenilwort...

October 29, 2024

New Jersey

SiFive unveils RISC-V based AI accelerator

RISC-V chipmaker SiFive has announced a new series of AI accelerators for high-performance workloads including its Intelligence XM Series which it claims is the first IP to include a scalable matrix engine, designed to accelerate time-to-market for semiconductor companies building system-on-c...

September 20, 2024

California

IBM announces two new AI-focused chips for its Z-systems mainframes

IBM has announced two new AI-focused chips for its Z-systems mainframes at the Hot Chips 2024 event this week in California. The new Telum II chip which was designed to power IBM Z systems features increased frequency, memory capacity, a 40 percent growth in cache, and integrated AI accelerato...

August 28, 2024

California

Synergy Group names Northern Virginia, Beijing, and Dublin as top 3 hyperscale locations

A report from Synergy Research Group found that just twenty state or metro markets account for 62 percent of the world’s current hyperscale data center capacity. Northern Virginia tops this list while the Greater Beijing Area takes the second place, with both making up 22 percent of global hyp...

August 23, 2024

Northern Virginia

Arrcus raises $30m in funding round

Hyperscale networking firm Arrcus has raised $30 million in an investment round with investments from Nvidia and Hitachi Ventures amongst others. "We are thrilled to welcome Nvidia as our latest investor and look forward to building on our collaboration. Arrcus’ leading networking software c...

July 20, 2024

California

Phaidra raises funds for data center cooling control system

Industrial AI company Phaidra has raised $12 million for its data center cooling control system from Index Ventures and will use the money for R&D, implementation, and go-to-market efforts.“The data center industry is in the midst of an arms race to build new capacity wherever land and po...

July 05, 2024

Seattle

Metrobloks raises $5.2 million in funding round

Metrobloks, a new data center startup focused on metro projects this week announced an oversubscribed $5.2 million seed round led by Current Equity Partners with the backing of Serena Capital. The company noted that it designs, deploys, and operates modular and scalable data centers in underse...

June 27, 2024

New York

CPUC denies AT&T’s request to be released from COLR duties

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has voted to deny AT&T’s request to be released from its duties as Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) in the state, leaving the company legally obligated to provide its telephone services to anyone who asks."Despite AT&T’s contention that pr...

June 26, 2024

California

Johnson Controls sells Air Distribution Technologies unit

Johnson Controls this week announced it had reached a definitive agreement to sell its Air Distribution Technologies business to Truelink, a middle-market private equity firm based in Los Angeles. The brands included in this sale are Koch Filter, Titus, Ruskin, Krueger, PennBarry, and Tuttle ...

June 21, 2024

Los Angeles

Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments

Atlanta City Councilmen Jason Dozier and Matt Westmoreland have introduced bills to block data center developments around certain areas of the Georgia city near transit stops and the Beltline.“Excited to introduce legislation alongside Matt Westmoreland to address the rapid growth of data cent...

May 10, 2024

Atlanta

Oxide deploys hardware on CoreSite data center in California

New cloud company Oxide is deploying its on-premise hardware at CoreSite’s data center in Silicon Valley. It also announced this week that it would ‘leverage colocation solutions’ at CoreSite's Silicon Valley SV2 data center. “The Oxide Cloud Computer empowers developers to build, run, and ope...

April 24, 2024

California

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