Data Center News

TalkTalk strikes new refinancing agreement in UK

United Kingdom

TalkTalk has struck a refinancing deal with lenders in the UK worth £400 million. This deal will enable TalkTalk to alleviate fears it would default on payments and extend its debt maturities to 2027. A group of SSN holders, a group of RCF banks, Ares Management Funds, and the company’s major ...

Indosat and Google Cloud expand partnership for sovereign Indonesian cloud

Google

 Indonesian telco Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership to create sovereign and Edge cloud services in Indonesia. The telco will offer Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) on-premises to customers in Indonesia via its data center arm. Customers will also have acc...

CoreWeave hires execs from Google, Oracle, and AWS

 AI cloud company CoreWeave has added several hyperscale executives to its team and has appointed Chen Goldberg as SVP of engineering and Sachin Jain as chief operating officer.  Sachin Jain came from Oracle, where he spent less than a year at the company in charge of AI Infrastructure, data c...

Consensus Core selects Cologix for its Canadian deployment.

Canada

Artificial intelligence (AI) cloud provider Consensus Core has selected Cologix's Montreal data center for its Canadian deployment where it will offer its Nvidia-powered GPU-as-a-Service to the Canadian market.  Wayne Lloyd, co-founder and CEO of Consensus Core, said of the partnership with Co...

Microsoft partners with Palantir on AI for US defense and intelligence Community

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft and Palantir Technologies are teaming up to provide cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics capabilities to the US Defense and Intelligence Community units to help them access Microsoft's large language models (LLMs) via Azure OpenAI Service within Palantir's AI Platforms ...

JLL predicts Edge data center market to surpass $300bn by 2026

United States

A report from real estate consulting firm JLL has predicted that the global Edge data center market will hit a valuation of $317 billion by 2026. The report notes that a surge in data-dependent technologies, including AI and the Internet of Things (IoT), will drive the market growth, which can...

Equinix surpasses $1bn EBITDA for Q2

Equinix

Equinix has surpassed a $1 billion EBITDA in Q2 2024 for the first time, reaching $1.036bn. The company Equinix has surpassed a $1 billion EBITDA in Q2 2024 for the first time, reaching $1.036bn. Furthermore, the quarter's results saw operating income up 20 percent compared to the previous qua...

Telkomsel deploys base stations to support 4G and 5G mobile services in Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesian telco Telkomsel has deployed 49 base stations to support 4G and 5G mobile services in the country's new capital city, Nusantara which is set to open on August 17, located on the island of Borneo, 800 miles away from the current capital Jakarta on the island of Java.  "By ensuring th...

Swisscom deploys 300 Nokia's Drones-as-a-Service network accross Switzerland

Switzerland

Nokia has teamed up with Swisscom Broadcast to deploy 300 Nokia Drone-in-a-Box units to support emergency response, perimeter protection, and infrastructure inspection, as well as to protect public safety workers across Switzerland. This marks Nokia's second nationwide deployment of its Drone ...

Japanese scientists develop new EUV lithography technology

Japan

Professor Tsumoru Shintake of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has proposed an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that is supposedly superior to the method currently used in semiconductor manufacturing. The proposed method uses smaller EUV light sources, whi...

US Cellular to use Ericsson routers for rural 5G network expansion

United States

Regional carrier US carrier US Cellular has picked Ericsson to support its 5G network infrastructure upgrade in rural areas, leveraging Ericsson's Router 6000 portfolio, including model 6671, to bolster its 5G transport infrastructure. Narothum Saxena, vice president of technology, strategy, a...

Riverlane raises $75 million in a Series C funding round

Europe

 Quantum engineering company Riverlane has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Planet First Partners. This funding saw participation from ETF Partners, EDBI, and existing investors Cambridge Innovation Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, the UK's National Security Strategic In...

4iG plans entry into North Macedonian mobile market

Alabama

Hungarian-based IT company 4iG last week, the company revealed that North Macedonia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Transport, Aleksandar Nikoloski, held talks with Gellért Jászai, chairman of 4iG Group  over a potential expansion into the North Macedonian mobile market.  "We believe ...

NextDC receives Nvidia DGX-Ready data center certification

NEXTDC

 Australian data center operator NextDC has received Nvidia DGX-Ready certification which enables the operator to support Australian organizations with digital infrastructure architectures designed for Nvidia's artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. NextDC's chief customer and commercial offi...

Oracle launches second public cloud region in Saudi Arabia

Oracle

 Oracle has launched a second cloud region in Saudi Arabia as a part of its planned $1.5 billion investment in the Kingdom. This public cloud region located in Riyadh is hosted in a Center3 data center and will give organizations access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, including ...

CtrlS acquires land for new data center in India

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd

 CtrlS Datacenters has acquired a parcel of land in Patna, India for an Edge data center development on a site less than 300m from its' existing Patna DC1 data center in the Pataliputra Industrial Area.  The company plans to invest around Rs 400 crore ($477.2m) in the facility, which will have...

Centuria to acquire 50% stake in ResetData

Australia

Australasian real estate fund manager Centuria Capital Group has announced that it has gotten into an agreement to acquire a 50 percent stake in cloud data center provider ResetData for up to $21 million as it plans to expand the group’s revenue stream into a new business line that aims to pro...

FCC grants AST SpaceMobile license to launch commercial satellites

Florida

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted AST SpaceMobile a license to launch and operate V, S, and UHF frequencies to support gateway, feeder link, and telemetry, tracking, and control operations for the first five commercial satellites later this year.Scott Wisniewski, presiden...

Liberty Latin America and Millicom to merge operations in Costa Rica

Caribbean

Liberty Latin American (LLA) and Millicom have signed an agreement merge their operations in Costa Rica which will see LLA hold a stake of around 86 percent in the company, with Millicom holding the remaining 14 percent. The final ownership percentage will be confirmed at closing and the new e...

Atturra expands sovereign cloud in NextDC Sydney data center

Sydney

Australian advisory and IT solutions provider Atturra is expanding its sovereign cloud capacity with a new deployment in NextDC's S3 data center in Sydney, helping the company to meet growing demand from clients for cloud computing and storage capacity.  The solutions provider will commence it...