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T.Loop to place data center in Stockholm’s slaughterhouse district

Swedish Edge data center firm T.Loop l ast week announced it had entered into an agreement with real estate development firm Atrium Ljungberg for operational management of the Palmfelt Datacenter in the Slaughterhouse area of the capital. "We see great potential in the data center, which is ...

October 07, 2024

Sweden

Former Compaq Computer campus gets investment for AI data center upgrade

A Houston, Texas, facility has received $40 million in investment to be upgraded as an artificial intelligence (AI) data center. This site is located at 11445 Compaq Center W. Drive and is part of the 66-acre Viva Center campus at State Highway 249 and Louetta Road. The $40 million will be use...

September 27, 2024

Texas

Atos awarded contract to upgrade Sweden's Berzelius supercomputer

Atos's Eviden business unit has been awarded a four-year multi-million euro contract to boost the performance of the Berzelius supercomputer at Linkoping University for the second time. Eviden will integrate and deploy further Nvidia GPUs into the system, adding an extra 512 petaflops of FP8 A...

September 23, 2024

Sweden

Duos launches first Edge data center in Texas

Duos Technology, a company specializing in machine vision and AI to analyze fast-moving objects including trains, this week announced the launch of its first Edge data center at the Region 16 Education Service Center in Amarillo. Doug Recker, president of Duos Edge AI said Amarillo is a loca...

September 06, 2024

Texas

CoreWeave to deploy new Nvidia clusters in Sweden

GPU cloud firm CoreWeave and Swedish colocation provider EcoDataCenter this week announced a partnership to host “one of Europe’s first large-scale Nvidia Blackwell clusters” in Sweden. CoreWeave aims to deploy thousands of Blackwell GPUs to help meet demand for large-scale AI infrastructure ...

August 30, 2024

Sweden

Blueprint plans data center outside Austin, Texas

Taylor City Council last week granted unanimous approval to give Austin-based Blueprint Projects tax breaks on a proposed data center project in the city of Taylor. The company plans to use land owned by the Taylor Economic Development Corp. at 1601 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Williamson ...

August 18, 2024

Texas

Texas Instruments awarded $1.6bn in US CHIPS funding

The US Department of Commerce has signed a memorandum of terms with Texas Instruments that could see the company awarded $1.6 billion in CHIPS and Science Act funding which would support Texas Instrument’s plans to invest $18bn in the construction of two fabs in Sherman, Texas, and one in Lehi...

August 18, 2024

Texas

Crusoe plans new AI data center in Texas

AI firm Crusoe has revealed it has designed and engineered, and is building, a 200MW GPU-focused data center at the Lancium Clean Campus outside Abilene, Texas. This facility will include high-density data halls specially designed to enable AI workloads and optimized for direct-to-chip liquid ...

July 19, 2024

Texas

Hut 8 to expand in West Texas

Cryptomining company Hut 8 has revealed that it will beexpanding its operations in Texas and has signed a power purchase agreement to procure 205MW of energy for a new data center to be built on an undisclosed greenfield site in West Texas.Asher Genoot, CEO of Hut 8, said: “This transaction ex...

July 11, 2024

Texas

Hexatronic acquires parts of Icelandic services firm

Swedish Fiber and connectivity firm Hexatronic this week announced it has signed a letter of intent to acquire parts of Endor, a data center services unit owned by Icelandic company Sýn, in an acquisition which will bring Hexatronic a customer base across Iceland, Sweden, and Germany."The bus...

July 11, 2024

Sweden

DataNovaX pitches Northern Texas as a potential hub for new facilities

DataNovaX, a new build-to-suit (BTS) data center provider, this week announced it is pitching Northern Texas as a potential hub for new facilities and is accepting clients at Pioneer Park in Wichita Falls.Ahmed Abdelghani, DataNovaX CEO, said: "This area offers a wealth of resources and busine...

June 04, 2024

Texas

BT's new CEO Allison Kirkby calls for telecoms infrastructure improvement

BT's new CEO Allison Kirkby this week called for the UK to improve its existing telecoms infrastructure. Kirkby, who joined the company earlier this year from Swedish telco Telia, also said that the Nordics is "way ahead" of the UK in telecoms infrastructure."What I would say is Scandinavia is...

June 04, 2024

Sweden

Soluna secures $30 million in funding for data center expansion

Data center operator Soluna has secured $30 million in funding from Spring Lane Capital to expand its data center in Texas. Soluna said the financing will accommodate approximately 12,700 Bitcoin mining rigs, each with a power consumption of around 3.5kW, totaling 48MW. Soluna has an existing ...

May 24, 2024

Texas

Ericsson to invest $50 million for data center expansion

Ericsson this week revealed it will invest an additional $50 million to expand its four-year-old 5G Smart Factory in Lewisville, Texas, an investment which "will further accelerate local production to address the demand for 5G infrastructure made in the USA, compliant with the Build America B...

May 21, 2024

Texas

Samsung plans investment in semiconductor cluster

Samsung Electronics has announced it will invest $40 billion to build a semiconductor cluster across a number of locations in Texas with a $6.4bn in direct funding under the US Chips and Science Act to support the development. The Taylor fabs are expected to be up and running by 2026 and Samsu...

April 15, 2024

Texas

Telia Company completes sale of Danish business unit

Swedish telco Telia Company has confirmed in a new announcement that the sale of its Danish business unit to local energy and Internet firm Norlys has been finalized for DKK 6.25 billion ($900 million), on a cash and debt-free basis. “The sale of our Danish business marks a significant milesto...

April 04, 2024

Sweden

Ericsson begins further layoffs in Sweden

Ericsson has announced it will cut 1,200 jobs in its home market of Sweden as a part of cuts announced earlier this year, with the company citing a "challenging mobile networks market in 2024." "In addition to the headcount reduction, the cost-saving initiatives cover various areas such as red...

March 26, 2024

Sweden

Intelsat signs deal to lease capacity on Eutelsat’s OneWeb satellites

Intelsat recently announced that it has signed a new multi-year, multimillion-dollar agreement partnership with Intelsat on its OneWeb Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation.This deal is valued at up to $500 million over seven years, with a firm commitment of $250m (including a previous $45m deal...

March 26, 2024

Sweden

Iris Energy and Poolside sign new partnership

Iris Energy and AI startup Poolside have gotten into an agreement to give the latter cloud access to Nvidia GPUs. According to Iris Energy, the initial contract is three months, with a potential three month extension. Daniel Roberts, co-Founder and co-CEO of Iris Energy, said: “We are pleased ...

February 08, 2024

Texas

Data Clean Corp acquires data center cleaning business Sealco

Data Clean Corporation has acquired Texas-based critical environment cleaning company Sealco LLC, marking its second acquisition since it was bought by Angeles Equity Partners in November 2022. Frank Spelman, managing director at Angeles Equity Partners said, “Sealco is arguably one of the mos...

November 17, 2023

Texas

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