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Read Eurus Energy and Toyota Break Ground on Wind-Powered Data Centre in Hokkaido
Japanese renewable energy company Eurus Energy has begun construction of the Soya Green Data Center 1 in Hokkaido, developed with Toyota Tsusho. The facility will be Japan’s first data centre direc...

Eurus Energy and Toyota Break Ground on Wind-Powered Data Centre in Hokkaido

July 24, 2026 Japan

Japanese renewable energy company Eurus Energy has begun construction of the Soya Green Data Center 1 in Hokkaido, developed with Toyota Tsusho. The facility will be Japan’s first data centre directly powered by wind energy, using electricity from the nearby Kobaoko Wind Farm via a private line....

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Read PowerX and Highreso Partner on Data Center and BESS Collaboration
Japanese battery energy storage system (BESS) developer PowerX and data center operator Highreso have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on deploying battery storage at Highr...

PowerX and Highreso Partner on Data Center and BESS Collaboration

July 16, 2026 Japan

Japanese battery energy storage system (BESS) developer PowerX and data center operator Highreso have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on deploying battery storage at Highreso's data centers and expanding its GPU data center business. Highreso operates the GPUSOROBAN GPU...

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Read Mayor of London Commits to Joint Effort on Data Center Growth Challenges
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged "coordinated action" to address the challenges posed by rising data center demand across the capital, particularly growing pressure on power infrastructure. A re...

Mayor of London Commits to Joint Effort on Data Center Growth Challenges

June 17, 2026 London

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged "coordinated action" to address the challenges posed by rising data center demand across the capital, particularly growing pressure on power infrastructure. A report commissioned by the Greater London Authority and prepared by Buro Happold found that while...

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Read Denver City Council Approves a One-year Moratorium on Data Centers
Denver City Council Approves a One-year Moratorium on Data Centers

Denver City Council Approves a One-year Moratorium on Data Centers

May 20, 2026 Denver

Denver City Council voted Monday to approve a one-year moratorium on new data center developments. The measure temporarily halts the acceptance, processing, and approval of zoning permits, site development plans, and amendment applications related to data centers. However, the moratorium excludes...

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Read PowerX Unveils Mounted BESS for Data Centers
PowerX Unveils Mounted BESS for Data Centers

PowerX Unveils Mounted BESS for Data Centers

May 19, 2026 Japan

PowerX, a Japanese energy storage firm, has unveiled a mounted battery energy storage system for data centers. The product concept, dubbed "PowerX Energy Blade," is a high-output, rack-mounted lithium-ion battery storage system. The company claims that the unit will be optimized for rapid charge...

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Read ABB Buys Premium Power to Strengthen Data Center Advisory Services
ABB Buys Premium Power to Strengthen Data Center Advisory Services

ABB Buys Premium Power to Strengthen Data Center Advisory Services

February 16, 2026 Dublin

Global electrification firm ABB has acquired Irish electrical engineering consultancy Premium Power to expand its advisory capabilities within the data center market.“For more than two decades, Premium Power has built its reputation by helping customers solve complex electrical challenges with...

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Read Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus Planned in Toyama, Japan
Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus Planned in Toyama, Japan

Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus Planned in Toyama, Japan

January 09, 2026 Japan

Nanto City and data center firm GigaStream Toyama are planning to develop a large-scale cluster known as the Nanto Campus. The site, located on land outside Toyama within Nanto City, will reportedly support up to 3.1GW upon completion.Renders suggest two-buildings are planned in the first phase....

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Read Qilimanjaro Opens Quantum Data Center in Barcelona
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Qilimanjaro Opens Quantum Data Center in Barcelona

November 06, 2025 Barcelona

Quantum computing firm Qilimanjaro last week announced the inauguration of Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech's quantum data center in the city's innovation district. The facility has the capacity to host up to ten quantum computers, available in both analog and digital modes, and connected with classical...

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Read Groq and IBM Partner on Agentic AI Capabilities
Groq and IBM Partner on Agentic AI Capabilities

Groq and IBM Partner on Agentic AI Capabilities

October 20, 2025 Kyndryl

AI chip startup Groq has partnered with IBM to provide agentic AI capabilities via GroqCloud on IBM watsonx Orchestrate. Under the terms of the agreement, the partners will also integrate Red Hat’s open source vLLM technology with Groq’s LPU chips, with plans to support IBM Granite models on...

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Read MOL Partners with Kinetics for Floating Data Center Platform
MOL Partners with Kinetics for Floating Data Center Platform

MOL Partners with Kinetics for Floating Data Center Platform

July 07, 2025 Japan

Japanese shipping giant Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has partnered with Kinetics, an energy systems provider, to develop a floating data center platform. Both companies are to collaborate on the design, construction, and deployment of a data center hosted on a retrofitted vessel.The partnership will...

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Read Cryptominer Hive Digital acquires Toronto data center
Cryptominer Hive Digital acquires Toronto data center

Cryptominer Hive Digital acquires Toronto data center

June 25, 2025 Toronto

Crypto firm Hive Digital this week announced the signing of a purchase and sale agreement to acquire a facility with 7.2MW of installed capacity. Hive said the acquisition will support the development of a “sovereign Canadian AI ecosystem” through its wholly owned subsidiary, Buzz High...

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Read CloudHQ forms a JV with ESR Group
CloudHQ forms a JV with ESR Group

CloudHQ forms a JV with ESR Group

January 22, 2025 Japan

Data center provider CloudHQ has formed a joint venture with real asset manager ESR Group for the Cosmosqure data center project in Osaka, Japan. Located in Nanko Kita, 10km (6.2 miles) from Osaka’s central business district, the campus will see an investment of $2 billion to deliver a planned...

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Read EdgeConneX to expand into Japan
EdgeConneX to expand into Japan

EdgeConneX to expand into Japan

January 15, 2025 Japan

Data center firm EdgeConneX this week announced plans to develop a facility in the greater Osaka-Kyoto area alongside Kagoya Asset Management. The EdgeConneX greater Osaka-Kyoto data center development is targeted to be ready-for-service in 2027 with a total capacity of more than 140MW when fully...

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Read IBM and GlobalFoundries end legal dispute
IBM and GlobalFoundries end legal dispute

IBM and GlobalFoundries end legal dispute

January 07, 2025 Kyndryl

IBM and GlobalFoundries (GF) have reached a settlement in their long-running legal dispute which saw both companies claim breach of contract and misuse of trade secrets and intellectual property. The two companies said the undisclosed settlement resolves “all litigation matters” and would allow...

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Read Edisun to supply AI-driven data centers with power from Madrid solar plant
Edisun to supply AI-driven data centers with power from Madrid solar plant

Edisun to supply AI-driven data centers with power from Madrid solar plant

December 23, 2024 Madrid

European solar power producer Edisun Power plans to direct power from its 941MW Fuencarral solar power plant in Madrid to data centers in the region.The company noted that the additional electricity demand from artificial intelligence and the increasingly stringent European regulations for the...

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Read Rakuten to deploy Ampere Arm CPUs across data centers
Rakuten to deploy Ampere Arm CPUs across data centers

Rakuten to deploy Ampere Arm CPUs across data centers

November 23, 2024 Japan

Japan's Rakuten Group is set to deploy Ampere hardware across its data centers. The company is expanding its partnership with Ampere Computing to reduce the power consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) computing.Hironori Yoshida, executive officer and vice director of the cloud platform...

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Read RackNerd expands offerings to Dublin, Ireland
RackNerd expands offerings to Dublin, Ireland

RackNerd expands offerings to Dublin, Ireland

November 21, 2024 Dublin

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider RackNerd has expanded its offering to Dublin, Ireland and will be offering its IaaS from the Digital Realty DU10 data center located in Dublin, Ireland."Our expansion into Dublin represents a strategic response to the growing demand for high-performance...

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Read IBM to make AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs available via IBM Cloud
IBM to make AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs available via IBM Cloud

IBM to make AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs available via IBM Cloud

November 20, 2024 Kyndryl

IBM is planning to make AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs available as a service via IBM Cloud. The GPUs will be rolled out on the platform in the first half of 2025, with the aim of improving the performance and power efficiency of generative AI models and high-performance computing applications.“As...

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Read IBM unveils quantum data center in Germany
IBM unveils quantum data center in Germany

IBM unveils quantum data center in Germany

October 01, 2024 Kyndryl

IBM this week announced the launch of the facility, at IBM's campus in Ehningen near Stuttgart, in a ceremony attended by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. It is IBM's second quantum data center, featuring three systems - one based on IBM's Heron processor, alongside two other new systems that will...

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Read Ricoh migrates on-premise workloads to the cloud
Ricoh migrates on-premise workloads to the cloud

Ricoh migrates on-premise workloads to the cloud

September 18, 2024 Japan

Ricoh, a Japanese company specializing in imaging and electronics, has moved its on-premise workloads to the cloud as a part of the company's GLIDER data infrastructure project which aims to consolidate data from sales, inventory, and operations from more than 50 separate companies that make up...

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