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Read Atos awarded contract to upgrade Sweden's Berzelius supercomputer
Atos awarded contract to upgrade Sweden's Berzelius supercomputer

Atos awarded contract to upgrade Sweden's Berzelius supercomputer

September 23, 2024 Sweden

Atos's Eviden business unit has been awarded a four-year multi-million euro contract to boost the performance of the Berzelius supercomputer at Linkoping University for the second time. Eviden will integrate and deploy further Nvidia GPUs into the system, adding an extra 512 petaflops of FP8 AI...

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Read IQM has manufactured 30 quantum computers at Espoo, Finland
IQM has manufactured 30 quantum computers at Espoo, Finland

IQM has manufactured 30 quantum computers at Espoo, Finland

September 21, 2024 Finland

IQM Quantum Computers revealed on September 16 thst it has manufactured 30 full-stack quantum computing machines to date at its Espoo, Finland, manufacturing facility. In addition, it has delivered and installed six full-stack quantum computers to customers including the VTT Technical Research...

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Read Data center fire in Singapore impacts Alibaba Cloud services
Data center fire in Singapore impacts Alibaba Cloud services

Data center fire in Singapore impacts Alibaba Cloud services

September 12, 2024 Singapore

A data center fire incident in Singapore has caused issues to Alibaba's cloud services. The company said it occurred in Availability Zone C of its Singapore region."At 10:20 on September 10, 2024 Beijing time, Alibaba Cloud monitoring detected network access anomalies in availability zone C of...

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Read 1547 CSR and Harrison Street acquire carrier hotel in Indiana
1547 CSR and Harrison Street acquire carrier hotel in Indiana

1547 CSR and Harrison Street acquire carrier hotel in Indiana

September 06, 2024 Indiana

Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) and Harrison Street announced the acquisition of the Global Access Point Union Station data center located in Northern Indiana. This facility offers access to more than 20 telecommunication network service providers, totaling 75,000 sq ft (6,965...

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Read CoreWeave to deploy new Nvidia clusters in Sweden
CoreWeave to deploy new Nvidia clusters in Sweden

CoreWeave to deploy new Nvidia clusters in Sweden

August 30, 2024 Sweden

GPU cloud firm CoreWeave and Swedish colocation provider EcoDataCenter this week announced a partnership to host “one of Europe’s first large-scale Nvidia Blackwell clusters” in Sweden. CoreWeave aims to deploy thousands of Blackwell GPUs to help meet demand for large-scale AI infrastructure from...

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Read Meta signs new renewable energy deal in Indiana
Meta signs new renewable energy deal in Indiana

Meta signs new renewable energy deal in Indiana

August 25, 2024 Indiana

Meta has signed a long-term Environmental Attributes Purchase Agreement with Arevon Energy, a renewable energy developer, owner, and operator for its Heirloom Solar Project in Pike County, Indiana. “Arevon is proud to once again partner with Meta and contribute to their sustainability goal of...

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Read Edged unveils new data center in New Albany, Ohio
Edged unveils new data center in New Albany, Ohio

Edged unveils new data center in New Albany, Ohio

August 14, 2024 Ohio

Data center firm Edged Energy has officially announced plans for a new data center located at 6525 New Albany Road East, the 206,000 sq ft (19,140 sqm) facility will offer 24MW across two stories. Construction is underway and expected to be completed in July 2025. “We are on a mission to build...

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Read PDG acquires new data center in Singapore
PDG acquires new data center in Singapore

PDG acquires new data center in Singapore

August 14, 2024 Singapore

Princeton Digital Group this week announced the acquisition of Yahoo’s Singapore data center, SG3 which offers 5MW across 5,400 sqm (58,125 sq ft). Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Yahoo will continue to host its infrastructure at the facility. Rangu Salgame, chairman, CEO and co-founder...

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Read Quantinuum signs MoU in Singapore for city-state’s quantum sector
Quantinuum signs MoU in Singapore for city-state’s quantum sector

Quantinuum signs MoU in Singapore for city-state’s quantum sector

July 25, 2024 Singapore

Quantinuum has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with several Singaporean institutions to provide the city-state with access to it's H-Series and Helios quantum computers and collaborate on quantum computing use cases. Other signatories of the MoU include Singapore’s National Quantum Office,...

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Read Hexatronic acquires parts of Icelandic services firm
Hexatronic acquires parts of Icelandic services firm

Hexatronic acquires parts of Icelandic services firm

July 11, 2024 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...

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Read AQ Compute breaks ground on 60MW data center campus in Barcelona, Spain
AQ Compute breaks ground on 60MW data center campus in Barcelona, Spain

AQ Compute breaks ground on 60MW data center campus in Barcelona, Spain

June 29, 2024 Spain

AQ Compute has broken ground on its 60MW data center campus in Spain and has begun construction work on the new site located in the Parc de l’Alba (Cerdanyola del Vallès) in Barcelona. The data center, dubbed AQ-BCN1, will eventually have an IT capacity of 60MW with cooling capabilities for...

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Read Energy Cluster Denmark and Aalborg University to work together for heat reuse project
Energy Cluster Denmark and Aalborg University to work together for heat reuse project

Energy Cluster Denmark and Aalborg University to work together for heat reuse project

June 27, 2024 Denmark

Energy Cluster Denmark, Aalborg University, Heatflow, and R&R Consult have teamed up on a data center heat reuse project in Denmark which seeks to reduce power consumption, cool data center servers CO2-neutrally, and send surplus heat to the district heating network and local buildings.Paw...

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Read Provident Realty Advisors withdraws proposal for Indiana data center
Provident Realty Advisors withdraws proposal for Indiana data center

Provident Realty Advisors withdraws proposal for Indiana data center

June 14, 2024 Indiana

Provident Realty Advisors notified Chesterton officials on June 10 about its intention to withdraw its proposal for a $1.3 billion data center in Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana.The led to from residents regarding the development, with concerns surrounding negative impacts of air, water,...

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Read FC Barcelona and Hewlett Packard Enterprise sign new cloud offering agreement
FC Barcelona and Hewlett Packard Enterprise sign new cloud offering agreement

FC Barcelona and Hewlett Packard Enterprise sign new cloud offering agreement

June 12, 2024 Barcelona

FC Barcelona and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have signed an agreement for the football club to deploy HPE GreenLake and Aruba Networks at its new facilities. Following this agreement, HPE will be the new Espai Barça Official Edge-to-Cloud Partner for the next four seasons, until 30 June...

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

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

June 04, 2024 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...

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Read Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments
Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments

Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments

May 10, 2024 Atlanta

Atlanta City Councilmen Jason Dozier and Matt Westmoreland have introduced bills to block data center developments around certain areas of the Georgia city near transit stops and the Beltline. “Excited to introduce legislation alongside Matt Westmoreland to address the rapid growth of data...

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Read Hydrogen demonstration facility launches in Austin, Texas
Hydrogen demonstration facility launches in Austin, Texas

Hydrogen demonstration facility launches in Austin, Texas

April 29, 2024 Austin

A hydrogen demonstration facility has launched in Austin, Texas and will help provide power to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) data center via a fuel cell. The project – located at the University of Texas (UT) J.J. Pickle Research Campus in Austin – is a collaboration between GTI...

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Read T-Mobile completes 5G network upgade
T-Mobile completes 5G network upgade

T-Mobile completes 5G network upgade

April 19, 2024 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 to...

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Read Alibaba extends cloud price cut to international customers
Alibaba extends cloud price cut to international customers

Alibaba extends cloud price cut to international customers

April 09, 2024 Singapore

Alibaba has revealed that it is now slashing its prices by as much as 59 percent for customers "from the US to Singapore." This comes shortly after the company's March 2024 announcement that it would be cutting cloud costs for its Chinese customers by up to 55 percent with the hope of winning...

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Read Asia-Pacific plans new data center acquisitions
  Asia-Pacific plans new data center acquisitions

Asia-Pacific plans new data center acquisitions

April 08, 2024 Singapore

Singaporean real-estate firm Asia-Pacific Strategic Investments Limited (APS) this week announced plans to acquire a 100 percent stake in Taiwanese sustainable data solutions provider, Mobii Genius Co., Ltd., for US$150 million. “Creating green data processing and storage facilities is of...

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