Data Center News

TCS signs multi-year cloud migration deal with Air France

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has signed a multi-year deal with French airline Air France-KLM to migrate its workloads to the cloud. This new partnership will involve migrating critical systems and core business data to the cloud surrounding flight operations, passenger information, aircraft...

AT&T snaps up $1bn worth of spectrum from UScellular

AT&T

UScellular has confirmed that it will sell a portion of its spectrum assets to AT&T for $1 billion. This deal will see T-Mobile acquire a significant chunk of UScellular's operations, including its customer base and around 30 percent of the company's wireless spectrum."We are pleased with ...

Equinix launches data center in Oman with Omantel

Equinix

Equinix this week officially opened Salalah in partnership with local telco Omantel with a facility known as SN1. This facility is to be commercially and operationally managed in full by Equinix as a carrier-neutral and open-access Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data center.Kame...

Oracle partners with Vodafone for IoT communications platform

Oracle

Cloud provider Oracle and telecoms firm Vodafone have announced a partnership to connect the formers’ Edge cloud offering to the latter’s Internet of Things (IoT) network. This partnership aims to bring global IoT connectivity to Oracle’s Enterprise Communications Platform (ECP) customers.Erik...

Saudi dairy company Almarai moves to Google Cloud

Google

Saudi Arabia-based dairy company Almarai is moving its critical systems to Google Cloud and hopes that this will improve its scalability and flexibility while remaining cost-effective. The data will be hosted in Google Cloud's Saudi Arabia region, enabling the company to meet digital sovereign...

Microsoft Research details prototype data center robotics efforts

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Research has given a glimpse at some of its prototype data center robotics efforts in a paper for Hotnets. The team said that "this marks the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we conceive and design data center hardware and the software services," but noted that the effort was ...

Rackspace Technology launches GPU as a Service offering on Nvidia

United States

Rackspace Technology has launched a GPU as a Service (GPUaaS) offering based on Nvidia processors. The company expanded its Rackspace Spot platform, adding both a new geographical location and access to on-demand Nvidia GPUs. The GPUaaS is based on Nvidia H100s, which are housed in RackSpace's...

Keppel acquires data center project in Tokyo, Japan

Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel Ltd. this week announced that its private fund, Keppel Data Centre Fund II (KDCF II), has entered into a sale and purchase agreement with Mitsui Fudosan for the forward purchase of Keppel Data Centre Tokyo 2, a data center facility currently being developed by Mitsui Fudosan. Mitsui Fud...

QuEra to deploy quantum computer at Massachusetts computing center

Massachusetts

Massachusetts has granted just under $5 million to establish a Quantum Computing Complex at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) in Holyoke. QuEra is a partner of the project, and will deploy a neutral atom quantum computer at the complex. The $16 million project ...

Bell Canada to acquire Ziply Fiber for about $7bn

Canada

Bell Canada has agreed to acquire US fiber company Ziply Fiber as part of Bell's plans to expand its fiber footprint across North America and over the border into the US. Bell noted that the value of the deal is worth approximately C$5 billion ($3.6bn) in cash, plus the assumption of debt, res...

Texas researchers develop thermal interface material for improved chip cooling

Texas

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have created a new “thermal interface material” that could organically remove heat from high-powered electronic devices, which they claim could reduce or even eliminate the need for extensive cooling. The new material, made from a mix of liquid ...

FERC rejects proposed interconnection service agreement

Pennsylvania

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has rejected a proposed interconnection service agreement (ISA) for the Susquehanna nuclear power station in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The agreement would have supported an expanded colocated load at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center c...

Microsoft acquires acres of land in North Carolina

Microsoft Azure

Person County last week announced that Microsoft had acquired the 1,350-acre Person County Mega Park. Citing county property records, local press report Microsoft paid $26.85 million for the site, located in Woodsdale Township."Microsoft's presence in Person County will boost our local economy...

NSA hybrid cloud platform is now operational

Utah

The US National Security Agency's (NSA) hybrid cloud platform is now operational. The project is an evolution of the NSA's on-premise GovCloud environment, introducing commercial cloud offerings. Chief finance manager at the NSA, Jennifer Kron, revealed that the initiative had launched during ...

Schneider Electric appoints Olivier Blum as new CEO

France

French energy equipment giant Schneider Electric, a significant supplier of the data center industry has removed CEO Peter Herweck and has appointed long-time employee Olivier Blum as the new chief executive, effective immediately. Schneider said that its Board of Directors "decided to remove ...

Wesco purchases data center firm Ascent for $185 million

United States

Wesco International this week announced it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Ascent LLC., a provider of data center facility management services, for a cash-free, debt-free purchase price of $185 million. The acquisition is anticipated to close in the fourth quarter following custo...

Equinix opens second data center in Istanbul, Türkiye

Equinix

US colocation giant Equinix this week opened its second International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Istanbul, known as IL4. The new facility is located on the same campus as Equinix’s existing Istanbul facility, IL2 and it  offers capacity for 1,125 cabinets across 3,045 sqm (32,775 s...

Google Cloud makes custom CPU-based C4A virtual machines generally available

Google Cloud's custom CPU-based C4A virtual machines (VMs) are now generally available. The VMs are the first series based on Google's Arm-based Axion CPUs. Axion is based on Arm’s Neoverse V2 designs and is built on the standard Armv9 architecture and instruction set.C4A VMs are now available...

Investment firm CVC acquires Spanish colo provider Adam Ecotech

Europe

CVC DIF, the infrastructure arm of leading global private markets manager CVC, this week announced it has agreed to acquire Adam Ecotech.  CVC said it will support Adam Ecotech in its expansion into other regions of Spain and the wider European market. Adam Ecotech owns three operating data ce...

Verizon touts Gen AI potential for sustainable revenue

Verizon executives have touted the potential for Generative AI to provide a solid revenue stream in the future, but cautioned that it won't happen overnight. The carrier stated that it plans to make money from the sale of computing infrastructure for AI operations."We're getting a lot of good ...