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Accenture to Buy Construction Consultancy Firm Soben

Accenture is buying construction consultancy Soben which specializes in developing data centers, as well as pharma and energy projects. for an undisclosed sum in order to boost its data center development expertise.“The market for capital projects and especially data centers is growing rapidly...

March 15, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Cisco Signs 100MW PPA with X-Elio

Brookfield-owned energy developer X-Elio and the Net Zero Consortium for Buyers (NZCB) this week announced the signing of six virtual Power Purchase Agreements (vPPAs) for a combined total capacity of 172MW in the US. The consortium includes major companies such as Cisco Systems, Biogen, IDEXX...

March 15, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Backblaze Leases Capacity at Cologix's Toronto Facility

Cloud storage company Backblaze has selected Cologix's TOR3 data center in Toronto, Canada, to host its data sovereign storage services in the country. Backblaze said it will be able to provide cloud storage services to Canadian customers while meeting data sovereignty requirements with the ne...

March 15, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft to Purchase 1.5 Million Tons of Carbon Removal Credits in India

Microsoft has agreed to purchase 1.5 million tons of carbon removal credits over the next 30 years from a large-scale afforestation project in India. The agreement was signed with Climate Impact Partners, a provider of carbon markets solutions, and Terra Natural Capital, a firm that offers cli...

March 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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Celestial AI Raises $250m in Funding Round

Optical interconnect company Celestial AI has closed a $250 million Series C1 funding round which was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and saw participation from existing investors AMD Ventures and Koch Disruptive Technologies, and new investors BlackRock, Maverick Silicon, an...

March 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

PDG Converts $105m Loan to Green Financing

APAC-focused data center firm Princeton Digital Group (PDG) this week converted a $105 million loan into green financing for its 22MW JC2 data center campus in Jakarta, Indonesia. The conversion was arranged in collaboration with Green Loan Coordinators, PT Bank DBS Indonesia, and PT Bank UOB ...

March 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

University of Virginia on Lookout for New Research Data Center

The University of Virginia is looking to get a new data center which would be used for research purpose. If approved, the data center would have an initial 4MW of IT capacity and see $72 million of investment. This could be expanded to 16MW in the future.According to the university's vice pres...

March 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Cathedra Sells Cryptomine Data Center in North Dakota

Cathedra Bitcoin, a Vancouver-based developer and operator of crypto mining and data center infrastructure, has announced the sale of a 60MW Bitcoin mining facility in North Dakota to an unnamed third-party Bitcoin miner for a fee of $21 million. The company intends to use the funds to “develo...

March 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Intel Appoints Lip-Bu Tan as CEO

Beleaguered chipmaker Intel has appointed former director Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO. Tan will take up his new role on March 18, and also rejoin the Intel board of directors.Intel named CFO David Zinsner and Intel Products CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus as interim co-CEOs following Gelsinger’s ...

March 13, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spark NZ Expands Partnership with HPE

Telco Spark New Zealand has expanded its partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). This new partnership will include the use of HPE's GreenLake cloud-to-Edge offering and Spark will be moving to a "variable model" for IT infrastructure by using the HPE GreenLake Cloud, a solution that...

March 13, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Ecoblox and Tenstorrent Form Partnership for AI and HPC Offerings

Modular data center firm Ecoblox and chip designer Tenstorrent have signed an agreement to help expand their AI and high performance computing (HPC) offerings in the Middle East and Africa. Both companies will work together to bring AI and HPC compute capacity to the Middle East/Africa region,...

March 13, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Eaton Acquires Fibrebond Corporation

Eaton this week announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Fibrebond Corporation, a designer and builder of pre-integrated modular power enclosures for data center, industrial, utility, and communications customers.“Fibrebond is known for its engineering capabilities and customer focus in...

March 13, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QuamCore Secures $9m Funding

Israeli quantum computing firm QuamCore has secured $9 million in seed funding in a round led by Viola Ventures and Earth & Beyond Ventures. The company emerged from stealth this week and with a patented architecture it claims will enable the integration of one million qubits into a single...

March 13, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virgin Media O2 to Invest in UK Mobile Coverage Boost

Virgin Media O2 has announced plans to invest £700 million ($904m) into its mobile network this year in an effort to improve its reliability, speed, and coverage across the UK. The investment will be used to plug gaps in the telco's coverage in the country as the carrier reports that traffic o...

March 12, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty to Host Quantum Computer in Amsterdam

Digital Realty this week announced it would host a quantum system for SURF at the AMS17 facility in Amsterdam’s Science Park. The quantum computer will be deployed by SURF directly next to its existing national supercomputer, Snellius."We’re excited to partner with SURF to bring this pioneerin...

March 12, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

OpenAI Signs AI Cloud Deal with CoreWeave

OpenAI has agreed an $11.9 billion deal to buy services from CoreWeave, which will see it take an equity stake in the AI cloud provider. This deal comes just before CoreWeave’s stock market debut, which is expected to happen in the next few weeks via an IPO. It will see OpenAI receive CoreWeav...

March 12, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

xAI Buys Land for Second Memphis Data Center

xAI has bought a 1 million sq ft (92,905 sqm) site for a new data center in Memphis, as Elon Musk’s startup looks to expand its Colossus supercomputer. The company has purchased three parcels of land at 5400 Tulane Road, Whitehaven, through an affiliate company CTC Properties. It acquired an e...

March 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

JLL Secures Management Contract with Pure DC

JLL has announced it has secured a landmark facilities management contract with Pure Data Centres for a data center in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The company said its offerings will comprise ongoing maintenance and support for Yas Island’s low-voltage and high-voltage electrical systems, including its UP...

March 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Hyve Breaks Ground in Frankfurt, Germany

Managed hosting company Hyve has launched a new data center deployment in Frankfurt, Germany and has taken space in an Equinix data center. From there, Hyve will offer services including colocation, managed private cloud, managed enterprise cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud solutions, dedicated an...

March 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Data4 Signs Nuclear Deal with Westinghouse

European data center firm Data4 this week announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore the use of Westinghouse Electric Company’s AP300 SMR to power future data centers in Europe. Data4 will use the AP300 SMR as its technology of choice to evaluate deployment at one o...

March 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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