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Hudson IX to Expand Presence at the 60 Hudson Street Carrier Hotel

US data center firm Hudson InterXchange (Hudson IX) is expanding its presence at the 60 Hudson Street carrier hotel in New York City with the addition of a 2MW data hall. The expansion, integrated into Hudson IX’s sixth floor data center, is designed to deliver up to 40kW of capacity per cabin...

May 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Meta Raises AI Data Center Capex Forecast to up to $72bn

Meta reported strong earnings and growing AI data center spend in its latest quarter,expecting its 2025 capital expenditure to increase to between $64 billion and $72bn, up from the $60bn to $65bn it previously planned to spend.CFO Susan Li noted in an earnings call that the increase is parti...

May 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OData Launches First Phase of Mexican Facility

Latin American data center firm OData this week announced the launch of the first 75MW facility at its DC QR03 campus, located in the PyME Industrial Park in Querétaro. At full build-out, the campus will see an investment of more than $3 billion and provide up to 300MW of IT capacity across fi...

May 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Phoenix Group Adds 52MW of Bitcoin Mining Capacity to Ethiopia Facility

Bitcoin mining company Phoenix Group has announced plans to add 52MW of cryptomining capacity to its existing site in Ethiopia which already has an 80MW mining capacity. The new expansion takes the company’s total capacity in Ethiopia to 132MW, and will raise its global capacity to more than 5...

May 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Nuveen Invests in CleanArc Data Centers

US developer CleanArc Data Centers this week announced a strategic investment from Nuveen, the investment manager of the TIAA pension fund.“Nuveen is focused on expanding its investment in digital infrastructure, and CleanArc stood out for its strong leadership, commercial traction, and commit...

May 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Stack Infrastructure Sells European Colo Business to Apollo

Stack Infrastructure is selling its European colocation data centers to investment fund Apollo. Apollo will acquire seven data centers in five markets - Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Milan, and Geneva - and form a new, independent company to manage them. According to a statement from the busine...

May 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

ESR and Stack Break Ground on 72MW Data Center Campus

ESR and Stack have broken ground on a new data center campus outside Osaka, located in Japan’s Kansai region. The Keihanna campus will offer 72MW of capacity and span 53,110 sqm (571,660 sq ft). The first facility, KIX01A, has begun construction. It will offer 18MW of capacity, and ESR estimat...

May 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

AirJoule Raises $15m to Turn Data Center Waste Heat into Pure Water

AirJoule Technologies, which is developing technology to extract pure water from waste heat produced in industrial settings such as data centers, has raised $15 million. Proceeds from the fundraising will be used to commercialize AirJoule’s system, which the company claims can separate water f...

May 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

BNP Paribas Signs Multi-Year Agreement with IBM Cloud

French multinational bank BNP Paribas has signed a ten-year agreement with IBM Cloud, expanding its use of the latter's cloud computing offering. BNP has been hosting IBM Cloud hardware in its data centers and the company will now build on that existing infrastructure by dedicating a new area ...

May 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft to Increase European Data Center Capacity by 40 Percent

Microsoft has pledged to increase its data center capacity in Europe by 40 percent over the next two years in a blog post by company president Brad Smith. Local cloud providers have pointed to the White House's attacks on NATO, tariffs on the EU, and threats to invade Greenland as justificatio...

May 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Nova Infrastructure Purchases Majority Stake in DartPoints

Investment fund Nova Infrastructure has purchased a majority stake in US-based data center operator DartPoints from Astra Capital Management. The investment includes an injection of growth capital that is designed to scale DartPoints’ platform and “expand its footprint through targeted investm...

May 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CtrlS Breaks New Ground in Bhopal, India

Indian data center firm CtrlS has broken ground on a data center located on a five-acre land parcel at the Badwai IT Park. CtrlS said that the facility would possess “24/7 operational reliability and high uptime,” but specific figures were not provided. Sridhar Pinnapureddy, chairman of CtrlS,...

May 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

LSEG Expands use of AWS Cloud Platform

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has expanded its existing multi-year agreement with the cloud provider and has named AWS the preferred cloud platform for its markets, risk intelligence, and FTSE Russell divisions.Daniel Maguire, group head of markets at LSEG, said: “Our ongoing collabor...

May 01, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Signs Wind PPA with in West Virginia

Microsoft has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Clearway Energy Group in West Virginia which will see Microsoft granted access to energy generated by the 335MW Mount Storm wind farm located in Grant County, West Virginia. Valerie Wooley, SVP of Origination at Clearway, sai...

May 01, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Navarre Government Doubles Data Center Capacity

The Navarre government this week announced that it has invested €4 million ($4.54m) in the expansion and modernization of the facility. The Data Processing Center (CPD) saw its capacity increased from 200kW to 400kW of installed power, and can now house 96 racks (double the prior 48 racks) acr...

April 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Stack Infrastructure sells European Colo Business to Apollo

Stack Infrastructure has signed a deal with investment fund Apollo which will see Apollo acquire seven data centers in five markets - Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Milan, and Geneva - and form a new, independent company to manage them. According to a statement from the businesses, the data cen...

April 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Airstar Bank Migrates Operations to Tencent Cloud

Hong Kong-based Airstar Bank has fully migrated its operations to the cloud, successfully running operations for more than 100 days. The company began its migration in December 2023, signing an agreement with Tencent Cloud that would see all business operations moving to the cloud.Felix Tao, C...

April 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Chillmine and Energywise to Develop Solar Powered Data Centers

Seattle-based cloud computing company Chillmine has signed a memorandum of understanding with Zimbabwean independent power producer (IPP) Energywise to develop solar-powered data centers across the country.They plan to use power from Energywise’s planned 100MW Runde River Solar Park in Zvishav...

April 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Rio de Janeiro to Host Latin America's Largest Data Center Campus

A new artificial intelligence (AI) data center campus has been announced in Rio de Janeiro-the “Rio AI City” project. This project was revealed at the opening of the Web Summit Rio on 27 April and it is ti be located in the city’s Olympic Park. When completed, the project will reportedly be t...

April 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

AT&T and Helium Partner fot Enhance WiFi Connectivity across US

AT&T has partnered with Helium to expand the number of WiFi hotspots available to its mobile customers.Helium Network operates as a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) company that lets individuals and organizations deploy WiFi hotspots in return for cryptocurrency tokens...

April 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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