Data Center News

AT&T to remove lead cabling from Lake Tahoe

AT&T has agreed to remove abandoned telecommunications cables that have caused toxic lead to filter into Lake Tahoe as a part of a settlement it reached in court with the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), which has been pushing the case since 2021. According to court docu...

Alibaba Cloud claims modular data center can reduce build times by 50%

United States

Alibaba Cloud has claimed its modular data center architecture can reduce build times by as much as 50 percent as it shared details of its Cube DC 5.0 modular data center architecture at its annual Apsara conference. The provider describes Cube DC 5.0 as a prefabricated modular design that use...

Microsoft signs 20-year, 835MW AI data center PPA to reopen Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft plans to take up 100 percent of a revived Three Mile Island nuclear power plant to faid its AI datacenter plans. If approved by regulators, Constellation hopes to open the 837MW Pennsylvania facility in 2028. 100 percent of the power will go to Microsoft, to match the power used by i...

HBF completes mainframe to cloud migration

Australia

Australian insurance provider HBF has completed its  "digital transformation" project which began in 2019. This project involved migrating its workloads and core systems from a mainframe to the cloud. The company has reportedly also established a new core insurance platform for policy, product...

Google signs solar deal in Nebraska

Google

Google revealed this week that it has worked with Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) on a procurement framework that enables Google to supply carbon-free energy to OPPD. The search giant signed a deal with NextEra Energy to offtake from the Pierce County Energy Center a 420MW solar system and ...

UK telecoms minister calls for infrastructure sharing

United Kingdom

The UK's telecoms minister Chris Bryant has called for  infrastructure sharing amid increasing concern around the number of telegraph poles being installed across the country. He met with 15 operators last week to voice concerns about the deployment of the telegraph poles. This comes as the re...

Department of Commerce awards $5m to small businesses under SBIR program

United States

The Department of Commerce has awarded almost $5 million to 17 small businesses under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to support microelectronics research projects that have the potential to be commercialized.The 17 companies include California-based HighRI Optics, which ...

AWS signs custom chip deal with Intel

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has entered into a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar contract with Intel to develop custom chip designs. Following the terms of this agreement, Intel will produce an AI fabric chip for AWS on Intel 18A, and produce a custom Xeon 6 chip on Intel 3. Intel has long develo...

Telesat completes CA$2.54 billion in funding agreements

Canada

Canadian satellite firm Telesat has announced the completion of funding agreements with the Government of Canada and the Government of Quebec for the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband constellation. The satellite firm now has all financing sources in place to fund the Lightspeed network, includi...

MCA launches £175 million coastguard emergency response network

United Kingdom

The UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has launched a £175 million coastguard emergency response network across UK coastlines with an aim to prevent the loss of life on the coast and the sea. Technology firm Telent was responsible for designing and building the network, with constructio...

Ricoh migrates on-premise workloads to the cloud

Japan

Ricoh, a Japanese company specializing in imaging and electronics, has moved its on-premise workloads to the cloud as a part of the company's GLIDER data infrastructure project which aims to consolidate data from sales, inventory, and operations from more than 50 separate companies that make u...

Equinix becomes one of the top 10 largest US corporate issuers after issuing $750m in green bonds

Equinix

Equinix has now become one of the top 10 largest US corporate issuers in the market, issuing $750 million in green bonds across two offerings. The company says it will use the proceeds to advance sustainability initiatives across its business. Equinix said the funding will be towards initiativ...

STT GDC India names Bimal Khandelwal as new CEO

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has appointed Bimal Khandelwal as the new CEO of its India business. He has previously served as the CFO for STT GDC India. Prior to that, he worked in the telecoms, financial services, and IT sectors, including at Tata Teleservices. He is to succeed ...

Lenovo unveils GPU-as-a-Service offering

United States

Lenovo has launched a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offering designed to help customers bring artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on-premises, Lenovo has added GPUaaS to its subscription-based infrastructure model, TruScale. The company also added automation, predictive analytics, and generativ...

Orange Business completes first phase of data center infrastructure for GEPD

Orange Business has completed the first phase of data center infrastructure in Egypt's New Administrative Capital for Grifols Egypt for Plasma Derivatives (GEPD) and  is providing communications infrastructure for GEPD in the Medical City within the New Capital, a satellite city of Cairo. GEPD...

Microsoft signs carbon removal deal in Mexico

Microsoft has purchased 234,000 carbon removal credits from Toroto, a Mexican business that specializes in nature-based solutions that improve the environment. These credits represent the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and are issued under the Climate Action Reserve Mexico Fores...

Khara moves archive to Wasabi's cloud

 Television and film production company Khara Inc. has migrated its operations and 500TB of archival data from on-premises storage to Wasabi Technologies cloud storage. According to the company, the migration has saved Khara around 80 percent in management and operations costs related to the d...

Google signs 128MW solar PPA in Texas

Google has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with renewable energy firm X-Elio to offtake from X-Elio’s 128MW Bell Solar PV Plant. The site will also include a 100MW battery energy storage system to provide energy demand support on a 24/7 basis.Mirko Molinari, CCO of X-Elio, said: “The P...

CWA continues AT&T strike in Southeast

AT&T workers continue to strike across nine Southeastern states. In a recent development, the company's employees in the West have also rejected its tentative agreement which might lead to an additional 8,400 employees joining the strike. Over 17,000 workers have taken industrial action ag...

OpenAI disbands research SRE team

Google

 OpenAI has disbanded its Site Reliability Engineering team focused on research and training workloads which was formed less than a year ago. Todd Underwood who was hired to lead the team  spent 14 years and nine months at Google, where he created the machine learning SRE group, and co-authore...