Data Center News

Quantum computing company Orca secures US customer

United States

Montana State University (MSU) has purchased two PT-1 quantum photonics systems, an investment that was funded by the US Air Force as part of a $115 million Applied Quantum Core grant.“By having a working system that has all the modularity you would like, it means we don't have to buy a new qu...

DDC ITS lands $50 million mainframe contract

United States

Services firm DDC IT Services has been awarded a $50 million mainframe by the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Mainframe Line of Business (LOB), marking the second won by DDC ITS in the last year following the Mainframe East contract.“We are honored that DISA has once again entrust...

Zella DC partners with Laser Light to deploy micro-data center pods

Australia

Micro-data center firm Zella DC is partnering with network firm Laser Light to deploy its pods across Australia and globally.  Laser Light will be deploying a number of Zella modules to host its networking services as Laser Light and Halo are looking to create a global networking platform – a ...

Compass Datacenters launches new program for frontline construction supervisors

United States

Compass Datacenters has launched a new program for its frontline construction supervisors which aims to encourage, support, and maximize the project insight of frontline supervisors.“No one has more influence on construction site safety than Frontline supervisors. They have the exceptional abi...

Ooredoo Group names Sunita Bottse as the CEO of Mena Digital Hub

Qatar

Qatari telco Ooredoo Group has named Sunita Bottse as the CEO of Mena Digital Hub, its newly established carrier-neutral data center branch, set up to provide colocation services to hyperscalers in the Middle East region.“Sunita’s appointment marks an exciting milestone in our journey to trans...

NCLH migrates shoreside technology infrastructure to AWS

Amazon AWS

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. (NCLH) has migrated its shoreside technology infrastructure to Amazon Web Services in a process which took 15 months to complete and involved moving more than 100 applications, thousands of virtual and physical servers, data center environments, and peripher...

Equinix announces second data center in Lisbon, Portugal

Equinix

Equinix  this week announced plans for LS2, a new International Business Exchange (IBX) facility to be located adjacent to Equinix's existing LS1 site. This €50 million project  due to open in the first quarter of 2025 will offer 2,050 square meters of colocation space.Carlos Paulino, managing...

Eaton invests in European data center power module firm

Europe

Power management company Eaton announced it has completed a “significant strategic investment” in NordicEPOD AS, which designs and assembles standardized power modules for data centers in the Nordic region.“We are delighted to be partnering with Eaton. Their global reach and commitment to Nord...

Iron Mountain signs solar energy deal with InRange in UK

United Kingdom

Iron Mountain has signed a new energy deal to procure solar power from rooftop solar sites in the UK which InRange which will supply 5MW annually to offset Iron Mountain’s LON-1 facility, aggregated from locally generated rooftop solar power from commercial and industrial buildings.“In our pur...

DataNovaX pitches Northern Texas as a potential hub for new facilities

Texas

DataNovaX, a new build-to-suit (BTS) data center provider, this week announced it is pitching Northern Texas as a potential hub for new facilities and is accepting clients at Pioneer Park in Wichita Falls.Ahmed Abdelghani, DataNovaX CEO, said: "This area offers a wealth of resources and busine...

UK Post Office to extend its contract with Fujitsu for controversial Horizon IT system

The UK Post Office is set to extend its contract with Fujitsu for the controversial Horizon IT system for a further five years, and £180 million ($230m) and has requested £1bn ($1.3bn) of extra public funding to get the program to replace Horizon running again.Should Fujitsu exit the deal, the...

BT's new CEO Allison Kirkby calls for telecoms infrastructure improvement

Sweden

BT's new CEO Allison Kirkby this week called for the UK to improve its existing telecoms infrastructure. Kirkby, who joined the company earlier this year from Swedish telco Telia, also said that the Nordics is "way ahead" of the UK in telecoms infrastructure."What I would say is Scandinavia is...

Microsoft allegedly nears multi-million-euro agreement with CISPE for antitrust complaint

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is reportedly nearing a multi-million-euro agreement with cloud lobby CISPE- also known as Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe to put an end to its antitrust complaint according to news first reported by Politico. However, a CISPE representative denied the claims to Reu...

UEM Sunrise and Logos team up for a data center campus in Johor, Malaysia

Malaysia

Real estate firms UEM Sunrise and Logos are partnering for a data center campus in Johor, Malaysia.  According to a new announcement, both companies have signed a  Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Logos Infrastructure Holdco Pte Ltd to exclusively explore the opportunity in developing a ...

Core Scientific rejects acquisition offer from CoreWeave

CoreWeave

Cryptomine and HPC hosting firm Core Scientific has rejected an acquisition offer from GPU provider CoreWeave after confirming that it received an unsolicited non-binding proposal from CoreWeave on June 3 to acquire all of the outstanding shares of the company on a fully diluted basis for $5.7...

Cayman Islands reveals plans for new subsea cable

Colombia

The Cayman Islands government has revealed plans to deploy a new subsea cable. Ranulf Scarbrough, who leads the Cayman Islands Submarine Cable Modernisation Project for the Cayman Islands Government, presented the self-governing British Overseas Territory’s plans at the Subsea Networks EMEA co...

Manx Telecom unveils dedicated data center division

United Kingdom

Isle of Man telecom’s group Manx Telecom has launched a dedicated data center division with the aim  to meet "the increasing demand from businesses across the UK offering secure and reliable data storage solutions within the UK Customs Zone.”Stephen Kane, director of commercial strategy at Man...

Google partners with Purdue University for low-carbon data center construction

Google

Google has partnered with Purdue University, Indiana, on a project exploring the use of AI in designing low-carbon data centers and other industrial buildings. The project will deploy AI to explore new materials, technologies, and design strategies that can potentially reduce the carbon footpr...

French telco group Iliad to invest in OpCore data center unit

France

French telco group Iliad has revealed plans to invest billions of Euros into its OpCore data center unit as it aims to expand that business unit over the next decade. The company plans to invest €2.5 billion  in organic developments, supported by Iliad and a future financial partner and has al...

Duke Energy, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Nucor sign MoU for renewable energy

Amazon AWS

Duke Energy, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Nucor have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for renewable energy development in North and South Carolina.This new MoU called "Accelerating Clean Energy" (ACE) tariffs, would help the companies to support carbon-free energy generation invest...