Data Center News

QuEra names Andy Ory as interim CEO

United States

Neutral-atom quantum computing, QuEra has announced Andy Ory as its interim CEO, noting that its current CEO, Alex Keesling, will transition from his current position to “take on a new role” leading QuEra's efforts to achieve higher-volume production as CTO. Ory said:  "We are grateful for Ale...

PAG and Ayala JV secure $41.1m loan for data center buildout in the Philippines

Philippines

  A-Flow Properties I Corp. (A-Flow), a joint venture between Ayala Land, Inc. and PAG’s Flow Digital Infrastructure has secured  P2.4 billion ($41.1m) loan agreement to fund the development of a data center outside Manila, the Philippines. This loan is to be used for the initial phase of the ...

Vegas Sphere powered by 150 Nvidia RTX A6000 GPUs

Las Vegas

The Sphere in Las Vegas, popularly known for its globe shape and LED displays that cover 750,000 sq ft (69,677 sqm) inside and out is reportedly powered by 150 of Nvidia's RTX A6000 GPUs with each having a 48GB memory and maximum power consumption of 300W.“Sphere is captivating audiences not o...

Upstack acquires consulting firm Performance Networks in Denver

Denver

Data center directory firm Upstack has acquired Performance Networks, a telecommunications consulting company based in Denver which  specializes in sourcing and managing complex telecom networks primarily for large enterprises.“Performance Networks’ commitment to customer experience and client...

Vodafone and Ericsson to deploy new antennas in Germany

Vodafone

Vodafone Germany in an announcement this week revealed that it has partnered with vendor Ericsson to deploy compact 5G antennas and the first compact 5G antenna was deployed on a parking garage in Düsseldorf."Strong winds put pressure on the antenna surfaces mounted on roofs. The more mobile p...

EuroHPC JU signs procurement contract for EuroQCS

Poland

The EuroHPC JU has signed a procurement contract for EuroQCS-Poland, a 20 qubit trapped ion quantum computer, which will be hosted at the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) in Poznan , Poland, and supplied by Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT).Coordinator of the EuroQCS-Poland p...

Tape Ark to migrate West Australian Ballet archives to the cloud

Australia

Tape Ark which specializes in mass migration of data stored on tape to the cloud has been awarded a three-year deal to be the Ballet's 'Historical Digital Preservation Partner.' In preparation for the West Australian Ballet's 75th anniversary which will fall in 2027, Tape Ark is set to migrate...

Telecom Egypt and 4iG partner on Egyptian fiber network

Telecom Egypt and Hungarian telco 4iG have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish the joint venture and build a fiber network to serve a minimum of six million households on a wholesale basis.“Through this agreement, which will capitalize on our respective strengths in the ICT...

Japan's SoftBank acquires British AI chip designer Graphcore

Japan

Japan's SoftBank Group Corp has acquired British chip designer Graphcore, which will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of SoftBank, but will continue to operate under the Graphcore name.“This is a tremendous endorsement of our team and their ability to build truly transformative AI technologies...

AI provider Nebul selects Lightbits Labs for AI cloud offering

United States

Artificial intelligence (AI) cloud provider Nebul has selected Lightbits Labs for the storage foundation for its AI cloud, enabling companies within the EU to deploy Nvidia-based private AI in the cloud."We considered the usual storage providers, but even the software-defined ones tend to have...

Armada secures equity funding from Microsoft

Microsoft Azure

Edge computing firm Armada has closed $40 million in funding led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund. As part of the deal, Armada’s offerings will be made available on the Azure Marketplace.“This investment propels our total funding to over $100m and marks a significant milestone in our journey t...

Hut 8 to expand in West Texas

Texas

Cryptomining company Hut 8 has revealed that it will beexpanding its operations in Texas and has signed a power purchase agreement to procure 205MW of energy for a new data center to be built on an undisclosed greenfield site in West Texas.Asher Genoot, CEO of Hut 8, said: “This transaction ex...

Hexatronic acquires parts of Icelandic services firm

Sweden

Swedish Fiber and connectivity firm Hexatronic  this week announced it has signed a letter of intent to acquire parts of Endor, a data center services unit owned by Icelandic company Sýn, in an acquisition which will bring Hexatronic a customer base across Iceland, Sweden, and Germany."The bus...

Ireland to introduce new policy for company-owned transmission infrastructure

Ireland is set to introduce new policies that would allow private companies including data center operators to build their own energy transmission infrastructure as the government has approved two memos – one on private wires and another on energy storage."It is clear from both the engagement ...

New quantum computing demonstration system commissioned in Germany

Germany / Deutschland

A quantum computing demonstration system, the first full-stack, ion-trap-based quantum computer demonstrator made entirely in Germany by NXP Semiconductors and quantum computing startups eleQtron and ParityQC has finally been commissioned. Jan Leisse, co-founder & CEO at eleQtron, said: “W...

MCC complete the removal of banned Chinese equipment

China

Mediacom Communications Corporation (MCC) has said that it's on course to complete the removal of banned Chinese equipment from its network this month by its July 15 deadline."To date, 100 percent of the program has been completed across the areas of removal and replacement, and 99 percent of ...

Planqc secures €50 million in equity financing

Germany / Deutschland

German quantum computing startup Planqc which makes neural atom-based quantum computers, has secured €50 million ($54m) in equity financing in a  Series A investment, led by the European Family Office Catron Holding and the DeepTech & Climate Fonds (DTCF).Alexander Glätzle, CEO and co-foun...

Ovzon launches services from debut geostationary (GEO) broadband satellite

France

Swedish satellite communications firm Ovzon has launched services from its debut geostationary (GEO) broadband satellite. “Ovzon’s proprietary satellite Ovzon 3 has reached its orbital position in the geostationary arc,” the company said recently. “After a few weeks of final in-orbit testing, ...

CyrusOne secures billion dollar credit facility for data center expansion

CyrusOne

Data center firm CyrusOne this week announced the closing of a $7.9 billion Warehouse Credit Facility incremental to the $1.8 billion Revolving Credit Facility financing completed in May, providing the company with approximately $9.7 billion of additional debt capital raised.“The successful cl...

Start Campus names new CEO after corruption scandal

Portugal

Portuguese data center company Start Campus has appointed Robert Dunn as chief executive officer, effective immediately, after the previous one was arrested in a corruption scandal that saw the country’s prime minister ousted.Dunn said: “I am excited to continue leading Start Campus as CEO at ...