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Intel Sells 51% Stake in Altera for $8.75bn

Intel has agreed to sell 51 percent of FPGA chip company Altera to private equity firm Silver Lake for $8.75 billion. Altera will retain a 49 percent stake in Altera, which Intel said will allow it to “participate in Altera’s future success while focusing on its core business.” Intel also anno...

April 16, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google Signs Corporate PPA in Taiwan

Google has signed its first corporate Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for a geothermal project in the APAC region. According to Google, the long-term PPA is aimed at catalyzing the geothermal market in the region and involves a direct equity investment in Baseload."This long-term partnership wi...

April 16, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

atNorth Signs Heat-reuse Agreement in Finland

European data center developer atNorth has signed a heat-reuse agreement with Kesko Corporation, a Finnish retail conglomerate. The agreement will see waste heat generated from atNorth’s FIN02 data center in Sinimäki, Espoo, provided to a neighboring Kesko store."One of the key goals of our am...

April 15, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Vantage Loses Appeal in Dublin

Irish planning regulator An Bord Pleanála this week rejected Vantage’s appeal after it was previously denied permission for a data center. Vantage had hoped to build a single two-story data center totaling 12,895 sqm (138,780 sq ft). As well as 13 emergency backup generators, the application a...

April 15, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Signs Carbon Removal Agreement with CO280

Microsoft has signed a carbon removal agreement with CO280, a Canadian based CO2 removal firm which retrofits existing pulp and paper mills with carbon capture units to capture biogenic CO2 from boiler stack emissions for permanent geological storage. Microsoft will purchase 3.685 million tons...

April 15, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Top Data Center News from 7th-12th April 2025

Alphabet has restated its commitment to investing in AI and the necessary infrastructure as its CEO revealed that the company was still committed to spending around $75 billion on building out data center capacity to support AI.Meta has revealed massive plans to bring a new state-of-the-art “A...

April 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sparrow Quantum raises $24m in Funding Round

Sparrow Quantum has raised $24 million in a Series A funding round led by PensionDanmark with participation from the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark, Novo Holdings, and the European Innovation Council.The company has developed Sparrow Core, described as an “on-chip deterministic single-p...

April 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

BluSky AI Inc launches Modular Data Center Business

BluSky AI Inc. has announced its "transformation" into "new operations" as a modular data center company this week. The company was previously known as Inception Mining and focused on precious metals including gold. The company aims to offer prefabricated modular data centers designed for quic...

April 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Mark IV Capital Sells 300 Acres in Industrial Park outside Reno, Nevada

Real estate investment firm Mark IV Capital this week announced the sale of 300 acres within its Victory Logistics District to an unnamed technology company for a potential data center development. The buyer is described as a “global leader in enterprise software, cloud computing, artificial i...

April 12, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Hypertec Cloud Acquires 5C Data Centers

AI cloud provider Hypertec Cloud has acquired colocation and data center provider 5C Data Centers and both companies have joined together to form 5C Group, through which they will develop AI data center infrastructure across the US.Hypertec Cloud president Jonathon Ahdoot will head the new com...

April 12, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Oracle and Google to Expand Multicloud Offering

Oracle and Google Cloud are expanding their multi-cloud offering, adding 11 new regions to the Oracle Database@ Google Cloud solution. In addition, the solution now supports Oracle Exadata X11M, serves Oracle US Government Cloud customers, and Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud is available....

April 12, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Civo Partners with Carbon Removal Company Orbital

UK cloud firm Civo is partnering with carbon removal company, Orbital Materials, which develops carbon removal products for the data center market for pilot project. This project will see Orbital deploy its novel carbon removal technology at a Civo data center and see Civo support Orbital in ...

April 12, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Yorizon and Hochtief Break Ground on Timber Edge Data Center

Yorizon Cloud and Hochtief this week announced a groundbreaking ceremony for its latest facility in Bad Lippspringe, a town in the district of Paderborn, in North Rhine-Westphalia, in central Germany. Completion of the 2MW site is scheduled for summer 2026.“With this data center, we’re not jus...

April 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

MARA Fully Energizes Gas Flared Cryptomine Facility

Cryptocurrency firm MARA has fully energized a 25MW modular cryptomine data center powered by flared natural gas. The data center has been in semi-operation for five months and is distributed across a range of wellheads in Texas and North Dakota.According to MARA, the 25MW of new capacity curr...

April 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google Recommits to $75bn Spend on Data Centers

The heads of Google and Amazon have restated their commitment to investing in AI and the necessary infrastructure. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said during the Google Cloud Next 2025 conference that the company was still committed to spending around $75 billion on building out data center capaci...

April 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Consortium of Companies to Build Natural Gas Plant in Pennsylvania

Liberty Energy, Imperial Land Corporation (ILC), a real estate developer, and Range Resources, a natural gas exploration and production company, have signed a strategic agreement to support the development of a natural gas generation facility in the Fort Cherry Development District in Robinson...

April 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Yondr Unveils Second Data Center in Slough, UK

Data center firm Yondr Group this week announced it has launched the first 10MW phase of its second data center at its London campus. The facility, Yondr’s second of three at the 100MW campus, will offer 30MW at full build-out. The latest building features solar PV panels on the roof and a gre...

April 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Atos Appoints Thales' Pierre-Yves Jolivet as EVP

Atos Group has appointed Pierre-Yves Jolivet as executive vice president and head of Eviden, the company's HPC business. He enters the role coming from aerospace and defense company Thales where he was most recently VP and GM of the cyber digital business line.In a LinkedIn post, Jolivet wrote...

April 10, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Iron Mountain Names Gary Aitkenhead as EVP

Iron Mountain has appointed Gary Aitkenhead as the company's executive vice president and general manager of data centers. In his new role at Iron Mountain, Aitkenhead will lead commercial and operational activities for Iron Mountain's data center business, reporting to Mark Kidd - EVP and GM ...

April 10, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google Cloud Adds 5th Gen AMD Epyc Processors to VM Offerings

Google Cloud has added 5th Gen AMD Epyc processors to its virtual machine (VM) offerings to be available via the C4D and H4D VM instances. These processors are designed for general-purpose computing workloads, AI inference, and high-performance computing workloads.“Since our launch, 5th Gen AM...

April 10, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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