Data Center News

Singaporean Science and Tech Agency Signs MoU with Google Cloud

Google

Singapore's Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Google Cloud to use the latter's computing and AI solutions. Under the MoU, use the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) Air Gapped offering. The MoU will see HTX and Google work together on...

10MW Data Center Planned outside Valencia, Spain

Spain

Valencia Digital Port Connect (VDPC), a Spanish telecoms infrastructure company, has selected the municipality of Sagunto as the landing site for the submarine cable and a multi-purpose data center that will offer up to 10MW.VDPC is developing the Barracuda submarine cable project in collabora...

Global Infrastructure Partners to Invest over $1bn in Thailand

Thailand / Prathet Thai

Investment firm Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) will invest more than $1bn in Thai data centers. The company recently announced a partnership with Thailand’s largest conglomerate, Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group, and its data center subsidiary True IDC.CEO of GIP, Bayo Ogunlesi, said: “The gr...

Canadian Indian Reserve Wiikwemkoong Installs Data Center

Canada

Canadian Indian reserve Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory has installed a data center at its administration building which looks to be a containerized facility. The data center is part of the territory's goal of working towards data sovereignty, and will also be used to "digitally preserve and sh...

GridCARE Raises $13.5m for Grid Connection Timelines Reduction

United States

GridCARE, an AI startup focusing on expediting the route to market for data centers seeking a grid connection announced that it has closed an oversubscribed $13.5 million funding round. This round was led by Xora, with participation from Aina Climate AI Ventures, Sherpalo Ventures, Breakthroug...

Greykite to Redevelop Logistics Site as Data Center in Poland

Poland

UK-based investment firm Greykite is converting a former logistics site in Warsaw, Poland, into a data center. The firm alongside White Star Real Estate announced the signing of a long-term lease with a “global leader in data center solutions” at its Digital Ursus site in the Polish capital.Gr...

Vena Launches AI-ready Data Center Subsidiary

Singapore

Singaporean infrastructure developer Vena Global has launched a new subsidiary focused on the development of AI-ready data center infrastructure across the Asia-Pacific region, with plans to create a digital infrastructure developer that is highly integrated with low-carbon energy development....

Frontier Infrastructure Buys Natural Gas Turbines for US Data Centers

United States

Frontier Infrastructure has acquired 16 natural gas turbines from manufacturer Baker Hughes to power planned data center projects across Wyoming and Texas. Baker Hughes will supply 16 of its NovaLT gas turbines, which will have a combined capacity of 270MW of power. "We're seeing a rapid shift...

Trendyol to Build 48MW Data Center in Ankara

Turkey

Turkish e-commerce company Trendyol this week announced a partnership with UAE-based Castle Investments to build and operate a 48MW facility in the Turkish capital.“As well as helping us to better serve our growing domestic and international customer base, it reinforces our commitment to inves...

Heron Power Raises $38m to Fast-track Grid Hardware

United States

US power electronics developer Heron Power has closed a Series A funding round, successfully raising $38 million. Following the Series A round, Heron has now raised a total of $43 million. The funding will support the commercialization of its Heron Link product, which aims to replace legacy tr...

Thylander Plans 100MW Data Center in Esbjerg

Denmark

Danish real estate firm Thylander revealed plans for a “fully Danish developed, operated, and owned hyperscale data center" on LinkedIn. The 100MW facility in Esbjerg is set to launch in 2026 with an initial 10-20MW, and will have expansion potential to 200MW. Thylander said it is working with...

Microsoft to Purchase 60k of Carbon Credits from Indigo

Microsoft has agreed to purchase 60,000 tons of carbon credits from Indigo, generated through its CAR1459 project, which is being implemented across farms in the US. The project generates the credits through partnerships with more than 40 agribusinesses that support the adoption of soil-improv...

Microsoft Launches Cloud Region in Malaysia

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has launched its first cloud region in Malaysia, comprising three availability zones. The region is described by Microsoft as "AI-ready" and will provide Malaysian organisations with Microsoft cloud services offering in-country data residency.YB Gobind Singh Deo, Malaysia’s Minister ...

Snow Lake and Exodys form SMR Venture

United States

Snow Lake Energy, a uranium development firm, and US-based nuclear engineering company Exodys Energy have launched a joint venture to develop a small modular reactor (SMR) for the US data center market. This venture will use an SMR design based on pressurized water reactor (PWR) technology and...

Bell Canada Plans AI 'Data Center Supercluster'

British Columbia

Canadian telecoms operator Bell Canada has launched 'Bell AI Fabric,' a plan to help build AI data centers across the country, starting with six data centers in British Columbia, supported by 500MW of hydroelectric power. The very first facility is set to come online this June, operated by AI ...

APL Plans 100MW Data Center Campus in Finland

Finland

International private equity firm APL Group (also known as Asia Pacific Land) this week announced the development of a hyperscale data center campus in Varkaus, in the province of Eastern Finland.The data center will be built on a 28-hectare site and has a planned capacity of up to 100MW. The ...

IQM Installs Quantum Computer at Politecnico di Torino Data Center

IQM Quantum Computers has brought its first quantum computer in Italy online.The 5-qubit IQM Spark system has been installed in the Turin data center belonging to Politecnico di Torino (PoliTo), Italy’s oldest technical university.IQM’s Spark quantum machines have been specifically tailored fo...

Colovore Appoints Jeffrey Springborn as CEO

Liquid cooled data center firm ​​Colovore has appointed Jeffrey Springborn as chief executive officer. He was previously the CEO of energy monitoring startup Best.Energy USA and prior to that, he was at fiber firm Lightedge for more than 20 years, and also had stints at Terabeam and Inteliant....

Parish Council Objects to Google’s Proposed Data Center Development

United Kingdom

A local council in Essex, UK, has voiced opposition to a proposed data center campus from Google on a 52-acre site at North Weald Airfield, east of London, from the Epping Forest District Council.The company aims to develop two data center buildings and separate offices, delivering up to 77,15...

Sophia Space Secures $3.5m for Orbital Data Centers

Seattle

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...