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OpenAI hires Todd Underwood to head new SRE team

OpenAI has hired Google’s Todd Underwood to head a new Site Reliability Engineering team focused on research and training workloads as it already has a functional team for the applied side working on inference and API products. The SRE concept originally started at Google, but has since spread...

November 28, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

OpenAI hires Google’s Richard Ho to head new hardware department

OpenAI has hired Google’s Richard Ho as the head of hardware to lead the new division to help “influence roadmaps for hardware partners for data center networks, racks, and buildings.” Ho had spent about 9 years at Google, leading one of the company’s Cloud Tensor Processing Units projects, wi...

November 27, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Norwegian mayor debunks claim that Google new facility will need 860MW

Mayor of the Skien municipality, Marius Roheim Aarvold has said claims that Google’s upcoming data center campus in Norway will require 860MW of power to support its planned data center campus in Gromstul, Skien municipality.are false. Local press had reported that Microsoft formerly applied f...

November 22, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Ridge purchases UK data center consultancy Concert

Building consultancy Ridge recently acquired London-based Concert, a data center-focused consulting company, to boost its business in that sector. Both companies finalized this acquisition on November 3, but the terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Concert will operate under its curre...

November 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

London

Xavier Niel acquires 6% stake in Belgian telco Proximus

Xavier Niel, the founder of French telecoms company Iliad, has acquired a six percent stake in Belgian telco Proximus through his holding company Carraun.The Belgian government has a majority stake of 53.51% in this telco, while the company holds 4.59 percent of its share capital. Niel said, "...

November 15, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Belgium

Google to launch new cloud region in Saudi Arabia

Google recently announced that it will be launching its Saudi Arabian cloud region this week. Anthony Cirot, Google Cloud’s EMEA South VP, posted on LinkedIn, “I'm thrilled to share an exciting milestone in Google Cloud's journey: the launch of our new cloud region in Saudi Arabia. This marks ...

November 14, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Carter Funds acquires data center in Collierville, Tennessee

This week, Aphorio Carter Fund Management Company, the critical infrastructure and data center division of Carter Funds, announced that it had acquired a fully leased enterprise data center property in Collierville for about $13 million. John Regan, chief investment officer of Aphorio Carter, ...

November 11, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Tennessee

Google signs first wind PPA in Poland

Google has signed its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure renewable energy in Poland . Following this agreement with Polsat Plus Group, Google will now offtake from the company’s wind farm in Przyrów to power Google Cloud’s operations. Tara Brady, president, Google Cloud EMEA said...

November 03, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Proximus and LuxConnect launch JV to offer Google Cloud services

Cloud companies Proximus and LuxConnect recently launched a joint venture to offer Google Cloud services through a sovereign cloud. This venture called the Clarence JV, aims to provide a "disconnected sovereign cloud solution to governments, regulated companies, international organizations and...

October 30, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Quantum computing firm D-Wave faces delisting from NYSE again

Quantum computing firm D-Wave is facing delisting from the New York Stock Exchange over its low stock price for the second time this year. The company announced this week that it received a notice from the NYSE that it is not in compliance with listing requirements as the average closing price...

October 26, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New York

ICG completes £125 million purchase of London DC portfolio

Asset management firm Intermediate Capital Group recently completed a £125 million purchase of offices and data center portfolio in London leased to UK telco Vodafone. The 260,000 square feet portfolio comprises five data centers which was initially acquired from British Land who announced the...

October 23, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

London

Fortune 100 company proposes 12-building DC campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana

An unnamed Fortune 100 company is planning a new 772-acre data center campus between Fort Wayne and New Haven to the east in Allen County. The application for this project, dubbed ‘Project Zodiac,” is for a new facility bound by East Tillman Road, Adams Center Road, and railroad tracks. Wane....

October 12, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Indiana

6Estates launches Nvidia DGX BasePOD for AI offerings

Singaporean large language model provider 6Estates recently launched an Nvidia DGX BasePOD based on Nvidia GCX H100 systems to develop its AI offerings. The company will use this BasePOD for its "Model Solutions" offering, which provides users with personalized large language models. The clust...

October 11, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Singapore

Google tests demand-response system to cut data center power consumption

Google has tested a demand-response system, which will reduce data center electricity consumption during grid problems and shift non-urgent tasks to other locations. The company notes that this is an extension of its plan to shift computing work to areas where energy is carbon-free.A blog post...

October 10, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Google data center pioneer Luiz André Barroso passes away

59-year-old data center luminary Luiz André Barroso unexpectedly passed away on September 16, 2023.The DC legend joined Google in 2001 and was fundamental in remodeling the company's DC design, impacting the industry. Before his journey with Google, Barroso worked at Digital Equipment Corporat...

September 28, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Google-affiliated company buys 143 acres in South Carolina

A Google-affiliated company has acquired 143 acres in Moncks Corner industrial site, Berkeley Country, where the Silicon Valley tech giant has operated a data center since 2007. Arum Composites LLC purchased this parcel, comprising five parcels across Mount Holly Commerce Park Cypress Gardens ...

September 26, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Prea obtains authorization for 100MW Berlin data center

The construction of a 100MW data center in Berlin, Germany, has received planning approval. This week, the German consulting and services firm Prea announced that it has received approval to construct a new data center in Berlin in collaboration with the Dutch developer Van Caem.Four four-stor...

September 20, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Berlin

New HPC data center to be built at the University of Alabama

The University of Alabama (UA) will receive a new data center to house supercomputers. The UA System Board of Trustees has approved the first phase of construction for a new high-performance computing (HPC) data facility on the Tuscaloosa campus.The initiative is predicted to need $96 million ...

September 19, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Alabama

Google proposes to build a data center in Kansas City

Google has submitted two planning applications to Kansas City to develop its Northland at the Hunt Midwest Business Center site. The cloud computing company acquired 78.9 acres in Northland, Kansas City, in 2019, followed by an additional 236.4 acres in December 2021, stating that the parcel ...

September 11, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Google shares plans for $600M data center in Red Oak, Texas

Google has shared further expansion plans, with the announcement of a new $600 million data center in Red Oak, near Dallas. The new facility will become the company’s second in the state of Texas. Back in 2020, the company purchased 165 acres of land in the area, which is believed to be the lo...

September 05, 2023

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