Data Center News

Engineering Firm Woolpert acquires Greenbox Architecture

Sydney

Engineering and architecture consulting firm Woolpert has acquired Greenbox Architecture. The Sydney-based architectural firm has specialized in data center, commercial, and residential architecture in the APAC region since 2009.“By joining a tech-driven company like Woolpert, we will be able ...

TensorWave closes $43m funding round

United States

AI GPU cloud platform TensorWave has closed a $43 million SAFE (simple agreements for future equity) funding round. This included participation from Maverick Capital, Translink Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, Granite Partners, and AMD Ventures. The participating investors have the right to ...

Large scale data center planned in New Zealand

New Zealand

A large-scale data center powered by hydrogen is reportedly being planned in New Zealand by Mobii Green and North Rakaia.  Mobii Green Energy founder Kenny Tseng said the first phase of the project will see sovereign funds and international private equity funds invest US$2 billion to develop 8...

TSMC signs MoU with Amkor Technology

Arizona

Chipmaker TSMC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with US semiconductor product packaging and test services company, Amkor Technology. Following their agreement, Amkor will provide TSMC with turnkey advanced packaging and test services at its planned outsourced semiconductor assemb...

Nebius to expand Mäntsälä data center capacity

Finland

European AI data center developer Nebius has announced plans to triple the capacity of its data center in Mäntsälä, Finland. This expansion will see Nebius place upwards of 60,000 GPUs at the facility, growing its capacity from 25MW to 75MW. This is part of a broader program that will see the ...

New report reveals data centers form 40% of global real estate investment target

According to a report from Linklaters, data centers form 40 percent of the total target investment for more than 50 global real estate funds. Out of the $50 billion target size for total investment across all asset classes, the capital being raised specifically for data center investment is sa...

Jabil Inc. acquires Mikros Technologies

Global manufacturing company Jabil Inc. has announced it has acquired liquid cooling firm Mikros Technologies which  specializes in liquid cooling solutions and thermal management capabilities.Ed Bailey, Jabil’s senior vice president and CTO, said: “We are thrilled to welcome Mikros Technologi...

D-Wave offers SLAs for quantum computing cloud service

D-Wave last week announced the introduction of service-level agreements (SLAs) specifically tailored for its Leap quantum cloud service customers who are transitioning applications into production. The company said it “stands behind the high levels of availability, reliability, and scalability...

Talen acquires Nautilus Cryptomine facility

Pennsylvania

 US independent power producer Talen Energy has acquired full ownership of Nautilus Cryptomine, a 200MW Bitcoin mining facility in Berwick, Pennsylvania, from TeraWulf.  Talen acquired TeraWulf’s 25 percent interest in Nautilus and obtained full control of the legacy Power Purchase Agreement (...

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

Sweden

 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 ...

H.I.G. Capital acquires majority stake in Polar

Alternative investment firm H.I.G. Capital through  one of its affiliates had acquired a controlling interest in PolarDC Group Limited, The investment firm said Polar's first data center in Norway will provide up to 48MW of capacity once fully operational – with 100 percent of its initial capa...

Microsoft invests in AI and cloud computing infrastructure in Italy

Microsoft Azure

 Microsoft has committed to investing €4.3 billion ($4.75bn) in expanding its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) data centre infrastructure in Italy, making this Microsoft's largest investment in the country to date.  It will be expanding its data center in Northern Italy, and has also com...

Russia to invest in home-grown chip making equipment

Russia / Россия

Russia is reportedly planning to spend more than 240 billion rubles ($2.54 billion) on 110 R&D projects focused on developing domestic chip-making equipment and materials. A report revealed that the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade and the International Scientific and Technical Cente...

Nvidia HGX H200 servers now available

Cirrascale Cloud Services has added Nvidia HGX H200 servers to its AI Innovation Cloud. The  servers platform is available in the form of integrated baseboards in eight Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPU configurations. It also provides up to 32 petaflops of FP8 deep learning compute and more than 1....

Goodman completes Hong Kong data center

Hong Kong

Real estate firm Goodman this week said it has completed the third building at its Goodman Tsuen Wan West data center campus and handed over the 50MW facility to Chinese operator GDS.Goodman’s head of Asia, Paul McGarry, said: “This is the latest data center completion at the brand new 225MW G...

CyrusOne launches 40MW Illinois data center campus

CyrusOne has launched its 40MW data centre campus outside of Chicago in Aurora, Illinois, set on a 32-acre site, to comprises two data centre buildings spanning 446,000 sq ft (46,500 sqm) across from Interstate 88 on Bilter Road in Kendall County. According to the filings, the development will...

Meta and CarbonBuilt partner on low-carbon concrete production

Meta has partnered with CarbonBuilt, a company which develops low-carbon concrete solutions to reduce carbon footprints by up to 70 percent compared to industry baselines.This partnership aims to accelerate the production of low-carbon concrete and will allow CarbonBuilt to upgrade and scale t...

Microsoft invests in AI and cloud computing infrastructure in Italy

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has committed to investing €4.3 billion ($4.75bn) in expanding its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) data centre infrastructure in Italy, making this Microsoft's largest investment in the country to date.  It will be expanding its data center in Northern Italy, and has also comm...

Google Distributed Cloud expands partnership to add NetApp offerings

Google

NetApp and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership, integrating NetApp's unified data storage and intelligent services into its Distributed Cloud architecture. The companies aim to help public sectors and regulated industries access artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure while meetin...

Digital Realty extends credit facility

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty  this week announced that it has amended, extended, and upsized its existing $3.75 billion senior unsecured multi-currency global revolving credit facility to $4.2 billion. The maturity date was extended by three years and total availability was expanded by $450 million which no...