Data Center News

IBM to buy Hashicorp for $6.4 billion

Kyndryl

IBM is set to buy out HashiCorp, a vendor that makes software to help businesses manage digital infrastructure, for $6.4 billion. It will pay $35 per share for HashiCorp. The company’s stock had been trading at a price of $24.88 before the deal was announced."Enterprise clients are wrestling w...

Digital Realty to partner with Enel X for grid balancing UPS systems

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has revealed that it will be partnering with energy firm Enel X to roll out grid-balancing UPS systems in Ireland. The integrated battery banks, housed within Digital Realty’s Irish data centers, will relieve grid dependence on fossil fuel power plants during periods of frequenc...

WSF signs new MoU with Alibaba for cloud services

United States

The World Squash Federation (WSF) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Alibaba Cloud for cloud and AI technologies and is now set to use Alibaba's cloud computing to augment content, management and commercialization. WSF will also use the cloud provider's platform to develop a squash ...

Vantage plansnew billion dollar data cener campus in Ireland

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has revealed that it will be spending €1 billion on a new data center campus development in Dublin.  The campus will be built at Profile Park, Grange Castle, a data center hub nine miles south of Dublin which is already home to the likes of Google, Digital Realty, and Cyru...

ExxonMobil teams up with Intel for data center cooling fluid

Intel

Oil and gas company ExxonMobil has teamed up with Intel to develop new liquid cooling technologies for data centers. The two firms say the partnership has been set up to “design, test, research, and co-develop energy-efficient cooling fluid solutions”  for use with systems built on chipmaker I...

Axis-REIT sells former steel site in Johor to unnamed data center operator

Malaysia

Malaysian firm Axis Real Estate Investment Trust (Axis-REIT) announced this week that it has sold a former steel complex in Johor to a data center operator in a deal valued at RM162 million ($33.9m) and is set to close in the second half of the year.The buyer wasn’t named, but the terms of the...

Google fires 28 employees following series of internal protests

Google

Google has terminated the employment of 28 employees on Wednesday. This comes after a series of internal protests about labor conditions and the company's contract with the Israeli government and military.The protests were led by the "No Tech For Apartheid" organization. One of the protestors ...

Fujitsu selects Oracle Alloy for cloud deployment in Japan

Oracle

Fujitsu has selected Oracle Alloy to deploy sovereign cloud services in Japan. Oracle Alloy is a cloud infrastructure platform that enables other companies to build their own cloud offering. By using Alloy, Fujitsu will expand its Hybrid IT offering Fujitsu Uvance. Fujitsu will deploy and mana...

Crown Castle reveals update on fiber business review

Crown Castle

Tower company Crown Castle recently revealed that it has been in talks with multiple parties regarding its fiber business in recent months. Miller, who was the company's CEO until 2001, wants to sell the fiber business and has previously said the assets could fetch as much as $15 billion."The ...

United Airlines to complete cloud migration soon

United States

United Airlines has almost completed its cloud migration as CFO Mike Leskinen revealed the company has migrated 70-90 percent of its workloads to the cloud, with the rest still on-premise.The company has had a challenging first quarter and is now attempting to offset those costs with "great op...

CRA unveils Edge data center in Cukrák, outside Prague

Prague

Czech telecoms firm České Radiokomunikace (CRA) has unveiled its data center at a broadcast tower site in Cukrák, outside Prague after investing tens of millions of crowns (around $422,000) in repurposing its former transmitter into its eighth data center.Miloš MastnÍk, CEO at CRA, said: “Usin...

Zuckerberg says energy constraints are hindering AI data center buildout

United States

Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that energy constraints have become the largest blockers to building out AI data centers as he echoed industry commentary on the challenges of building larger and larger data centers."Over the last few years, there's been this issue of GPU production," he said. "Even ...

Intel completes assembly of High NA EUV system in Oregon

Intel

Intel revealed that it has completed the assembly of its High Numerical Aperture NA Extreme Ultraviolet (High NA EUV) lithography tool at the company’s R&D site in Hillsboro, Oregon. This tool will allow it to deliver new levels of precision and scalability in chip manufacturing, enabling ...

T-Mobile completes 5G network upgade

Louisiana

T-Mobile announced that it has completed its 5G network upgrades in Louisiana, a multi-year investment totaling $290 million, including $50m towards an upgrade in its 5G service in the Greater New Orleans area. The company notes that the expansion provides access to 5G ultra capacity coverage ...

Team Global Express moves to cloud with Infosys

Australia

Australian logistics firm Team Global Express has migrated to the cloud with help from Infosys in a program which required moving more than 300 application. This move was achieved without any business impact to the 4,000+ users or to network integration spread over 100 sites.Danny Gravell, CIO...

Open Fiber to move to Edge data centers

Edge Centres

Italian fiber firm Open Fiber  (formerly Enel Open Fiber) is planning to move into Edge data centers. Andrea Lazzaroli, operational marketing business market manager at Open Fiber, said the company will be deploying Edge data centers along its network.“With the introduction of Edge data center...

Reka selects OCI to support its AI models

Oracle

Reka, an artificial intelligence (AI) research and product company, has selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to support its AI models and will use it to create multimodal models that will support over 20 languages and are trained on OCI AI Infrastructure based on Nvidia GPUs."We are part...

Georgia Power increases capacity to meet data center demand

Georgia

Electric utility Georgia Power (GP) has received approval from the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) to increase its generation capacity with both fossil fuels and renewable energy to meet power demand from data centers. This agreement will also allow Georgia Power to contract generation...

Ericsson reports sales drop due to declining network business

Europe

Ericsson has reported a decline of 14 percent year-on-year in organic revenues for the first quarter of 2024, posting a revenue of  $4.88 billion. The company blamed this decline largely on a significant slump in its network business, with this division declining 19 percent YoY, to $3.1bn.The ...

CGI kickstarts network deployment in Alaska