Data Center News

Oracle Database@AWS Now Generally Available

Oracle's Database@AWS offering has been made generally available, launching in two Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud regions, placing Oracle hardware within Amazon data centers. T“Customers have been putting their most valuable data in Oracle databases for decades,” said Karan Batta, senior vice...

BluSky AI Secures site for Utah Data Center

New data center firm BluSky AI Inc. this week announced the acquisition of the land lease and secured a total of 9.3MW of power to support its debut data center project in Utah.Under the agreement, DAM has assigned BluSky AI its exclusive right to utilize 9.3MW of solar and grid-interconnected...

SiPearl Closes €130m Series A Financing Round

French chip designer SiPearl has closed a €130 million ($152m) Series A financing round, having raised €32m ($38m) in a third and final tranche which saw participation from existing investors, European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund and the French State, via French Tech Souveraineté, and new in...

CareSuper to Leave AWS for Microsoft Azure

Australian superannuation fund CareSuper is migrating its applications and data from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Microsoft Azure. Macquarie Cloud Services is to head the program, which will see the fund exiting VMware Cloud on AWS to a "Managed Edge Azure Local Offering."“Our goal is to optim...

ICS Arabia and XDS to Deliver Immersion Cooled Facilities in Saudi Arabia

ICS, a data center operator and manufacturer based in Saudi Arabia and XDS  which is based in the UK and the UAE and specializes in cooling have signed a deal to construct two immersion-cooled data centers in Saudi Arabia.Arabia Abdullah Ayed Al Mazny, general manager of ICS, said: “Our partne...

Top Data Center News for 30th June - 5th July 2025

DigitalBridge and La Caisse Acquire YondrInvestment manager DigitalBridge and Canadian pension fund La Caisse have acquired data center firm, Yondr, assuming joint control of the firm after completing the purchase from its previous owner Cathexis Holdings for an undisclosed sum.Hut 8 Launches ...

MOL Partners with Kinetics for Floating Data Center Platform

Japan

Japanese shipping giant Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has partnered with Kinetics, an energy systems provider, to develop a floating data center platform. Both companies are to collaborate on the design, construction, and deployment of a data center hosted on a retrofitted vessel.The partnership w...

Imran Latif Joins Johnson Controls from Brookhaven

United States

Imran Latif has joined Johnson Controls as vice president, global technology and innovation, data centers after spending the last 14-and-a-half years at Brookhaven National Laboratory, most recently as its chief operations officer (COO) for data center infrastructure."Having had the opportunit...

Alibaba Cloud Launches Third Data Center in Malaysia

Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud is continuing its global rollout of data centers, announcing the launch of a third site in Malaysia and also revealed that it will launch a second data center in the Philippines in October this year.In addition to the new data center locations, Alibaba Cloud has launched an AI Gl...

Ofgem Approves £24bn in Transmission Upgrades

United Kingdom

UK energy regulator Ofgem has provisionally approved a £24 billion ($32.7bn) investment package into the country’s gas and electricity transmission system.The funding will back the construction of 80 electricity transmission projects aimed at connecting more than 120GW of clean energy capacity...

Digerati Technologies Pivots from Cloud Offering to Colocation Services

United States

Digerati Technologies, the holding company of cloud service and colocation providers Waiv Cloud and Verve Cloud, has pivoted away from cloud computing. Digerati has completed the refinancing and debt-for-equity exchange for its former subsidiary Verve Cloud, enabling it to focus on colocation ...

Microsoft to Deploy Energy Efficiency Platform across Data Centers

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has partnered with Univers, a Singapore-based software development firm, to explore energy enhancement measures across its data centers. This MoU will support the use of Microsoft AI Cloud capabilities to strengthen Univers' sustainability solutions.The platform enables organizations...

DigitalBridge and La Caisse Acquire Yondr

DigitalBridge

Investment manager DigitalBridge and Canadian pension fund La Caisse have completed their acquisition of Yondr, and appointed a new CEO for the hyperscale data center company. They now have joint control of Yondr, having purchased the firm from previous owner Cathexis Holdings for an undisclos...

Fermi America Acquires 600MW of Gas Turbines for 11GW AI Mega Campus

Texas

Fermi America has acquired more than 600MW of natural gas generation for its planned HyperGrid AI campus in Amarillo, Texas across two deals in support of Fermi’s goal to deliver 1GW of AI power at the site by 2026."The executed agreements will allow Fermi America to acquire highly reliable, e...

EIF Invests €30m in Quantum-focused Venture Fund

Europe

The European Investment Fund (EIF) has invested €30 million ($35m) in Quantonation II, a French early-stage venture capital fund targeting quantum and ‘deep physics’ startups. This forms part of the wider InvestEU strategy that aims to close the equity gap faced by early-stage “innovative comp...

Kao Data CEO Doug Loewe Steps Down

KAO Data

The CEO of UK data center company Kao Data, Doug Loewe, has stepped down. The company claimed that Loewe had "decided to dedicate more of his time" to philanthropic work, a cause with which he has a long history. Loewe was CEO for a year and a half.“On behalf of the Board and the entire team a...

T-Mobile Completes $2bn Florida Network Expansion

Florida

T-Mobile, in an announcement this week, said the multi-year expansion of its 5G network has concluded. The carrier said it has upgraded new and existing cell sites across the state.In total, the carrier has upgraded 1,350 sites across Florida, while also bolstering 1,375 sites to shore up emer...

Premier League Signs Five-year Deal with Microsoft

Microsoft Azure

The Premier League has made Microsoft Azure its official cloud and AI partner in a five-year deal. Microsoft will provide English football's top division with cloud computing and AI services to help modernize its digital infrastructure, broadcast match analysis, and organizational operations.R...

Hut 8 Awarded Five-Year Capacity Contract for 310MW of Natural Gas Power in Ontario

Hut 8 Corp

Cryptomining and HPC firm Hut 8 has been awarded a five-year capacity contract with the Ontario Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) for 310MW of natural gas generation assets. The portfolio is owned and operated by Far North Power Corp, a partnership between Hut 8 and Macquarie Equi...

EdgeMode Acquires Infrastructure Investor Blackberry AIF

Spain

EdgeMode has acquired an infrastructure firm as it plans to develop data centers across Spain. The merger would see EdgeMode, which describes itself as an AI data infrastructure company, acquire BAIF’s assets in exchange for equity and investment capital, forming a “platform to support EdgeMod...