Data Center News

CPP partners with Pacific AMC for South Korea data center

South Korea

Pension fund Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) this week announced a KRW 1 trillion (US$711 million) joint venture with Pacific Asset Management Company (Pacific AMC) to develop carrier-neutral hyperscale data centers in South Korea.“The demand for data centers in Asia Pac...

Amazon to invest another $4bn in Anthropic

Amazon AWS

Amazon plans to invest $4 billion in Anthropic, following a previous $4bn investment in the generative artificial intelligence startup. The companies said that the startups "will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and deploy its future foundation models," however Anthropic will lik...

RWE selects HPE Private Cloud AI for weather modeling

Renewable energy company RWE has selected HPE's private coud AI for weather modeling and will be using HPE's Private Cloud for evaluating, fine-tuning, and inferencing its weather models. “As a leading provider of renewable energy, RWE is at the forefront of balancing the increasing power dema...

Boldyn Network and Verizon deploy small cells at Texas

Texas

Boldyn Network has partnered with Verizon Wireless to install millimeter wave 5G small cells at Fort Cavazos US Army base in Texas. The company notes that the small cells will "enhance coverage and speeds" for the more than 60,000 soldiers and family members living on base.“This project is abo...

RackNerd expands offerings to Dublin, Ireland

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-performa...

Michigan extends data center tax breaks

Michigan

Legislators in the Michigan House of Representatives have approved extended tax breaks for data centers in a move aimed at attracting business from the hyperscalers. It was approved 64-45 in a vote led by the Democrats, but with support from many Republican lawmakers.Rep. Joey Andrews, who spo...

France Télévisions selects Thésée Datacenter for cloud migration

France

France Télévisions, Radio France, France Médias Monde, and TV5 Monde have partnered with Thésée Datacenter to assist with their transition to cloud solutions.The migration aims to make the media companies more resilient against the risks of cyber attacks, reduce the environmental impact of bro...

IBM to make AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs available via IBM Cloud

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 e...

ORNL adds IQM Resonance to its quantum cloud service

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has added IQM Resonance, a quantum cloud service, to its quantum computing user program. Through it's Quantum Computing User Program, academic institutions, researchers, scientists, and developers will be able to access IQM Crystal, a high-fidelity quantum ...

Nationwide migrates on-premises IT Estate to HPE GreenLake cloud

United Kingdom

UK-based bank and building society Nationwide has migrated its on-premises IT Estate to HPE GreenLake cloud. GreenLake is HPE's Edge-to-cloud solution, and sees HPE servers and storage deployed on-premises with cloud-like capabilities.“In today’s world our customers expect us to deliver an alw...

Keppel looks to buy facilities in Singapore

Singapore

Keppel DC REIT this week announced the proposed acquisition of two hyperscale data centers at the Keppel Data Centre Campus in Singapore from a joint venture owned by its parent company.  Keppel will continue to operate and manage the two facilities post-acquisition.The deal would be for S$1.0...

Nvidia's data center revenue up 112% over last year

Nvidia's data center revenue for the latest quarter was $30.8 billion, up 17 percent from Q2 and up 112 percent from a year ago. “The age of AI is in full steam, propelling a global shift to Nvidia computing,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia.“Demand for Hopper and anticipation for...

Oracle Database@Azure expands footprint

Oracle

Oracle has expanded its Database@Azure footprint to include Brazil South and Italy North regions. Oracle and Microsoft aim to add a further 24 regions by the end of 2025, as well as 11 disaster recovery-only Azure regions.“Oracle Databases running on Exadata have been powering mission-critical...

TECfusions secures $300m loan for Virginia data center expansion

Virginia

TECfusions has secured over $300 million to be used for the development and expansion of its Virginia site. In response to “urgent capacity needs” from a key tenant, gradual funding began in January 2024 and has now been solidified in a formal loan agreement, which includes the cumulative moni...

Colovore to expand footprint of liquid-cooled colocation data centers beyond Silicon Valley

Chicago

Colovore is to expand its footprint of liquid-cooled colocation data centers beyond Silicon Valley and into Reno and Chicago. The company this week announced its second facility in Santa Clara, California, will open next month, and confirmed the locations of its next two sites.“We are staying ...

Yondr Group launches data center in Northern Virginia

Yondr Group

Yondr Group has launched its first data center in Northern Virginia. Having broken ground on the facility in 2022, the first phase is now operational at what will eventually be a two-building campus with 96MW of IT capacity. Chad Stanley, senior construction director for the Americas said: “No...

Colt signs $1.7bn joint venture in India

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt Data Centre Services and family-owned alternative asset owner RMZ this week announced a 50:50 joint venture to invest $1.7 billion in the Indian data center market. The companies this week said the investment will initially focus on expediting development at Colt’s existing sites in Navi ...

ADIB invests billions into DeepGreenX for green data center development

Asia-Pacific (APAC)

The Asia Development and Investment Bank (ADIB) has announced a strategic equity investment in DeepGreenX, a green energy and technology firm. ADIB will provide the firm with $140 billion of engineering, procurement, construction, and data management projects and exclusive placement and manage...

Google DeepMind refutes criticism of AI chip design platform AlphaChip

Google

Google DeepMind has published a research paper hitting back at criticism of its AI chip design system AlphaChip. That paper claimed that AlphaChip was able to save thousands of hours of human effort for each new generation of Google TPU AI accelerator, and was already being used by the company...

Bouygues Telecom acquires MVNO La Poste Telecom

Bouygues Telecom has announced the completion of its acquisition of MVNO La Poste Telecom from La Poste Group and rival French telco SFR Group. La Poste Group revealed in a statement that the transaction amounts to a value of €950 million ($1bn), with the figure split between La Poste Group an...