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Bitzero Blockchain Announces Four Data Centers

Bitzero Blockchain, the cryptomining and HPC infrastructure firm backed by Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary, has announced the development of four data centers across the US, Finland, and Norway, with the locations for its new data centers all seclected based on their cold climates.By "combining ...

June 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

AWS' Quantum General Manager Joins Google

The general manager of quantum technologies at Amazon Web Services Simone Severini has left for Google after spending more than six years at the cloud giant, which is developing its own quantum computers along with offering other companies' systems on its Braket service. He is also a professor...

June 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Amazon AWS

Principal Acquires Connecta Park in Germany

Principal Asset Management has acquired a data center complex in Düsseldorf, Germany.The site is let to a number of tenants, including Digital Realty, Colt, Pluserver, Comtrance, 1&1 Versatel, Telia, Vodafone, and Zayo. The site is also home to the DE-CIX and ECIX (Megaport) Internet excha...

June 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Laura Swett to Replace Mark Christie as Chairman of FERC

The chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Mark Christie, is set to be replaced when his term expires at the end of the month and President Donald Trump has nominated Laura Swett, who currently serves as energy litigation counsel at the law firm Vinson & Elkins, as Ch...

June 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Google to Invest $7bn in Iowa Expansion

Google announced over the weekend that it is "investing an additional $7 billion in Iowa within the next two years in cloud and AI infrastructure, as well as in expanded workforce development programs, meaningfully increasing the pace of investments the company has made in the state since 2007...

June 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

Applied Digital Signs 250MW Agreement with CoreWeave

Crypto and HPC data center firm Applied Digital has entered into two 15-year lease agreements with CoreWeave to deliver 250MW of IT load to its data center campus in Ellendale, North Dakota. Following terms of the agreement, CoreWeave retains the option to access an additional 150MW of critica...

June 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Applied Digital

Microsoft to Invest $400 Million to Expand Swiss Footprint

Microsoft has revealed that it will be expanding its data center capacity in Switzerland with a $400 million investment which will "further strengthen Switzerland's cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities, including the provision of cutting-edge graphics processing units (GPUs)."Microso...

June 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Google Signs Water Sustainability Agreement in North and South Carolina

Google has expanded a partnership with Arable to support water sustainability efforts across North and South Carolina which will see the deployment of Arable's in-field irrigation technology to hundreds of fields across the two states.As part of the agreement, Google will provide funding for t...

June 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

CyrusOne, E.ON Partner on 61MW Onsite Power System

CyrusOne has partnered with European energy company E.ON to develop an on-site gas-fired power system at Cyrus’ FRA7 data center in Frankfurt, Germany. This agreement will see E.ON construct the IQ Energy Center, which is expected to have a capacity of 61MW at full buildout. According to Matt ...

June 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CyrusOne

Top Data Center News from 26th - 31st of May 2025

Thylander Plans 100MW Data Center in EsbjergDanish real estate firm Thylander revealed plans for a “fully Danish developed, operated, and owned hyperscale data center" to launch in 2026 with an initial 10-20MW, and with expansion potential to 200MW. Vena Launches AI-Ready Data Center Subsidiar...

June 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Singaporean Science and Tech Agency Signs MoU with Google Cloud

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...

May 31, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

10MW Data Center Planned outside Valencia, 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...

May 31, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

Canadian Indian Reserve Wiikwemkoong Installs Data Center

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...

May 31, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Canada

Global Infrastructure Partners to Invest over $1bn in Thailand

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...

May 31, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Thailand / Prathet Thai

Greykite to Redevelop Logistics Site as Data Center in 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...

May 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Poland

GridCARE Raises $13.5m for Grid Connection Timelines Reduction

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...

May 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Vena Launches AI-ready Data Center Subsidiary

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....

May 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Singapore

Frontier Infrastructure Buys Natural Gas Turbines for US Data Centers

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...

May 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Trendyol to Build 48MW Data Center in Ankara

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...

May 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Turkey

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

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...

May 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

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