Data Center News

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Top News Stories for 10th - 15th March 2025

With plans to remain at the forefront of AI innovation in Memphis, xAI has purchased a 1 million square feet site for a new data center in Memphis through an affiliate company CTC Properties.European data center firm Data4 is exploring the future of data centers in Europe and has signed a memo...

Equal1 launches silicon quantum server

Irish quantum computing startup Equal1 has unveiled the world’s first silicon-based quantum server dubbed Bell-1. Equal1 says the server operates at 1,600W and slots “seamlessly” into existing data centers and high-performance computing (HPC) environments by plugging into standard electrical s...

Backblaze Leases Capacity at Cologix's Toronto Facility

Cloud storage company Backblaze has selected Cologix's TOR3 data center in Toronto, Canada, to host its data sovereign storage services in the country. Backblaze said it will be able to provide cloud storage services to Canadian customers while meeting data sovereignty requirements with the ne...

Accenture to Buy Construction Consultancy Firm Soben

Accenture is buying construction consultancy Soben which specializes in developing data centers, as well as pharma and energy projects. for an undisclosed sum in order to boost its data center development expertise.“The market for capital projects and especially data centers is growing rapidly...

Cisco Signs 100MW PPA with X-Elio

Brookfield-owned energy developer X-Elio and the Net Zero Consortium for Buyers (NZCB) this week announced the signing of six virtual Power Purchase Agreements (vPPAs) for a combined total capacity of 172MW in the US. The consortium includes major companies such as Cisco Systems, Biogen, IDEXX...

Microsoft to Purchase 1.5 Million Tons of Carbon Removal Credits in India

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Microsoft has agreed to purchase 1.5 million tons of carbon removal credits over the next 30 years from a large-scale afforestation project in India. The agreement was signed with Climate Impact Partners, a provider of carbon markets solutions, and Terra Natural Capital, a firm that offers cli...

Cathedra Sells Cryptomine Data Center in North Dakota

Cathedra Bitcoin, a Vancouver-based developer and operator of crypto mining and data center infrastructure, has announced the sale of a 60MW Bitcoin mining facility in North Dakota to an unnamed third-party Bitcoin miner for a fee of $21 million. The company intends to use the funds to “develo...

Celestial AI Raises $250m in Funding Round

Optical interconnect company Celestial AI has closed a $250 million Series C1 funding round which was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and saw participation from existing investors AMD Ventures and Koch Disruptive Technologies, and new investors BlackRock, Maverick Silicon, an...

University of Virginia on Lookout for New Research Data Center

The University of Virginia is looking to get a new data center which would be used for research purpose. If approved, the data center would have an initial 4MW of IT capacity and see $72 million of investment. This could be expanded to 16MW in the future.According to the university's vice pres...

PDG Converts $105m Loan to Green Financing

APAC-focused data center firm Princeton Digital Group (PDG) this week converted a $105 million loan into green financing for its 22MW JC2 data center campus in Jakarta, Indonesia. The conversion was arranged in collaboration with Green Loan Coordinators, PT Bank DBS Indonesia, and PT Bank UOB ...

Spark NZ Expands Partnership with HPE

Telco Spark New Zealand has expanded its partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). This new partnership will include the use of HPE's GreenLake cloud-to-Edge offering and Spark will be moving to a "variable model" for IT infrastructure by using the HPE GreenLake Cloud, a solution that...

QuamCore Secures $9m Funding

Israeli quantum computing firm QuamCore has secured $9 million in seed funding in a round led by Viola Ventures and Earth & Beyond Ventures. The company emerged from stealth this week and with a patented architecture it claims will enable the integration of one million qubits into a single...