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PDG Launches Tokyo Data Center Campus

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) this week announced the official launch of the first phase of the 96MW TY1 campus in Saitama City. The first phase sees the launch of a six-story facility spanning 60,000 sqm (650,000 sq ft) and offering 48MW of IT capacity.“AI has reshaped the data center landsca...

April 23, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Adopts LG Electronics Cooling Infrastructure

Microsoft has partnered with LG Electronics to deploy LG Electronics' cooling infrastructure across an unspecified number of upcoming AI data centres. News of this partnership comes as the company recently launched a full suite of data center cooling solutions at Data Center World, packaging e...

April 22, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CoreWeave Leases Another 260MW Capacity from Galaxy

Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. this week announced that CoreWeave has exercised its first option to access an additional 260MW of critical IT capacity at the former’s Helios data center campus."This Phase II commitment with CoreWeave marks another major step in Galaxy's evolution as a trusted pa...

April 22, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Keppel Closes Third Data Center Fund

Keppel this week announced its third data centre fund, KDCF III, has achieved its first close, raising approximately S$786 million (US$580m) in initial capital commitments from various global institutional investors.Christina Tan, CEO of fund management and chief investment officer, Keppel, sa...

April 22, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NED DC Breaks Ground on Data Center in Tel Aviv

Israeli data center developer NED this week announced the groundbreaking of the first phase of its debut Alpha Campus, a $350 million AI and cloud data center project.In development through a partnership with real estate firm Levinstein and investment firm Goldacre, NED is developing a 35,000 ...

April 21, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Top Data Center News from 14th - 19th April 2025

Segro & Icade Propose new data centers in FranceA lot of development might be coming to Paris this year as two different developers have proposed to build state of the art data centers in the suburbs of French capital Paris.X5 Group Plans 10MW Data Center in MoscowX5 Group has taken a big ...

April 21, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

nLighten and Shell Spain Sign PPA for Madrid Data Center

European Edge data center firm nLighten has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Shell Spain to power its MAD1 Edge data center in Madrid. The companies claim that the PPA goes beyond traditional supply contracts by providing nLighten with transparency on what renewable asset...

April 19, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Fujitsu to Launch Data Center Energy Efficiency Initiative

Japanese IT services firm Fujitsu has partnered with US IT solutions provider Supermicro Inc. and Nidec, a Japanese electric motor manufacturer, on the initiative. As part of the collaboration, the partners will combine Fujitsu's liquid-cooling monitoring and control software, Supermicro’s hig...

April 19, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sharon AI and New Era Helium to expand Texas site

Texas Critical Data Centers (TCDC), a joint venture (JV) between natural gas firm New Era Helium and AI data center developer Sharon AI, has expanded the site of its planned campus in Texas' Permian Basin. According to the partners, they have expanded the plot of land where the data center is ...

April 19, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Fluidstack Chooses Vast Data Platform for AI Workloads

AI cloud provider Fluidstack is working with Vast Data to power large-scale AI workloads. The Vast Data Platform offers multi-tenant security and reliability while supporting AI workloads, while Vast's DataEngine can provide integrated search capabilities and data processing designed for large...

April 19, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Oracle Wins Two US Federal Contracts

Oracle has won two US federal contracts as the US Army’s Enterprise Cloud Management Agency (ECMA) expanded its use of OCI, and the company has been selected by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the STRATUS contract.Oracle US Defense Cloud regions are secure and isolated, specificall...

April 18, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Applied Digital Looks to Sell Cloud Business

Digital infrastructure firm Applied Digital has announced that it is set to sell its cloud services business as a result of both internal and external pressures. The company appears to pave the way for a potential pivot to becoming a real-estate investment trust (REIT) in the near future.“Afte...

April 18, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Tencent Cloud Launches Region in Osaka, Japan

Tencent Cloud is launching a new cloud region in the Kansai region of Osaka, which will be the third availability zone in Japan, joining Tencent's two other zones in Tokyo. In addition to the new cloud region, Tencent will open a new office in Osaka to help create more jobs in the region.Dowso...

April 18, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Townsend Group Invests in CleanArc Data Centers

CleanArc Data Centers has secured new investment from a real estate investor, Townsend Group. Terms of the deal were not shared, but existing investor Snowhawk retains a majority share in the data center firm. CleanArc said the investment will support the company’s growth."We're excited to wel...

April 17, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Signs 15-year Carbon Removal Agreement in Louisiana

Microsoft has signed the largest permanent carbon removal to date after agreeing to a 15-year deal with bioenergy firm AtmosClear BR for 6.75 million tons of carbon removals. They will be generated from Atmos’ planned bioenergy carbon capture & storage (BECCS) project at the Port of Greate...

April 17, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Data Facilities Data Centers Completes the First Expansion in Hague

Dutch data center firm Data Facilities Data Centers (DFDC) has completed the first expansion of its facility in the Hague. The expansion will boost the site’s rack capacity from 165 to potentially 275, with the new capacity supporting up to 10kW per rack. “We’re excited to share a major milest...

April 17, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Colt Technology Services Sells European Data Centers

Colt Technology Services this week announced the divestment of six facilities in Germany and the Netherlands to DWS-owned NorthC, as well as two in the UK to DWS separately. The NorthC transaction includes data centers across Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Düsseldorf, and Amsterdam, with ...

April 17, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

X5 Group Plans 10MW Data Center in Moscow

Russia’s largest food retailer X5 Group last week announced that construction had started on its data center. The 6,000 sqm (64,583 sq ft) 10MW facility is due to go live in Q3 2026. It will use an outside air cooling system. The facility will host the company's own IT systems, including logis...

April 17, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New Data Centers Proposed for Val-de-Marne, France

Two developers have proposed new data center projects in the suburbs of French capital Paris. Segro has proposed to build a data center at the Petits Carreaux business park near Bonneuil-sur-Marne, while another developer, Icade, plans to spend €280 million ($318m) building a new hyperscale da...

April 16, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northampton Capital Partners Invests in Blueprint Data Centers

US data center firm Blueprint Data Centers has secured investment from an asset management company, Northampton Capital Partners. Scott McBride, founding partner at Northampton Capital Partners, said: “We are excited to work with the Blueprint team and look forward to what we believe will be a...

April 16, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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