North America Data Center News

Synergy Group names Northern Virginia, Beijing, and Dublin as top 3 hyperscale locations

A report from Synergy Research Group found that just twenty state or metro markets account for 62 percent of the world’s current hyperscale data center capacity. Northern Virginia tops this list while the Greater Beijing Area takes the second place, with both making up 22 percent of global hyp...

August 23, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Eight Windstream switch and data center sites portfolios up for sale

A portfolio of eight switch and data center sites in the US are up for sale. The sites are located in eight cities across seven states, totaling 379,000 square feet (35,210 sqm) spread across 26 acres. The facilities are located in Lexington, Kentucky; Texarkana and Sugar Land, Texas; Colorad...

August 23, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Swiss startup to use metal foam for cooling data centers

Swiss company Apheros this week raised $1.85 million in a funding round led by venture capital firm Founderful to help commercialize its metal foam product. The foam is meant to cover the chip, which helps dissipate the heat generated during use through its large surface area. The company not...

August 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Blueprint plans data center outside Austin, Texas

Taylor City Council last week granted unanimous approval to give Austin-based Blueprint Projects tax breaks on a proposed data center project in the city of Taylor. The company plans to use land owned by the Taylor Economic Development Corp. at 1601 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Williamson ...

August 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Texas Instruments awarded $1.6bn in US CHIPS funding

The US Department of Commerce has signed a memorandum of terms with Texas Instruments that could see the company awarded $1.6 billion in CHIPS and Science Act funding which would support Texas Instrument’s plans to invest $18bn in the construction of two fabs in Sherman, Texas, and one in Lehi...

August 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Talen Energy looks to sell nuclear powered facility in Pennsylvania

Independent power firm Talen Energy is looking to pivot away from crypto mining operations to supply power to data center developers instead and has confirmed its plans to sell its stake in the Bitcoin mining center located at its Pennsylvania nuclear power plant. The company first announced i...

August 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pennsylvania

Natron Energy to invest $1.4 billion on a giant factory in Edgecombe County, North Carolina

Sodium-ion battery manufacturer Natron Energy plans to spend $1.4 billion on a 1.2 million square foot (111,500 sqm) facility, at the Kingsboro CSX Select Megasite which is expected to produce 24GW of batteries annually at full capacity and lead to 1,000 jobs. “Today is a momentous day for Na...

August 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

North Carolina

Meta signs new solar PPA in US

Meta has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure the output of two solar farms in the US, currently in development in Louisiana and Illinois. Construction is underway at RWE’s 274MWac County Run Solar in Illinois and 100MWac Lafitte Solar in Louisiana, both are due to go live in lat...

August 17, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

TierPoint to expand data center footprint in St. Louis, Missouri

US operator TierPoint this week announced that it has acquired a building in downtown St. Louis which it plans to retrofit into an enterprise-grade data center. ver the next year, the first phase of investment will build out 22,600 square feet of data center production space and 5MW of utility...

August 16, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Missouri

Quinbrook’s Rowan secures investment from Canadian pension fund

Rowan owner Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners this week announced that Rowan Digital Infrastructure has secured a co-investment from University Pension Plan Ontario (UPP). The companies said UPP’s investment in Rowan will allow Quinbrook to “further advance its efforts” to provide solutions t...

August 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Canada

Edged unveils new data center in New Albany, 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 buil...

August 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Ohio

Foundry unveils GPU-based Foundry Cloud Platform

Foundry has launched its GPU-based Foundry Cloud Platform for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads which it claims can reduce operational complexity and compute cost by up to six times. The company seeks to overcome the GPU shortage by turning to existing GPUs that it claims are "vastly und...

August 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

RadiusDC acquires data center in Miami

RadiusDC this week announced the acquisition of Miami I in the Sweetwater area of the city from NextStream, a data center operator in Latin America owned by Actis. RadiusDC said it plans to immediately expand the site's capacity from 3.2MW to 9.2MW. "We believe Miami I is an ideal asset to e...

August 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Miami

Consensus Core selects Cologix for its Canadian deployment.

Artificial intelligence (AI) cloud provider Consensus Core has selected Cologix's Montreal data center for its Canadian deployment where it will offer its Nvidia-powered GPU-as-a-Service to the Canadian market. Wayne Lloyd, co-founder and CEO of Consensus Core, said of the partnership with Co...

August 11, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Canada

JLL predicts Edge data center market to surpass $300bn by 2026

A report from real estate consulting firm JLL has predicted that the global Edge data center market will hit a valuation of $317 billion by 2026. The report notes that a surge in data-dependent technologies, including AI and the Internet of Things (IoT), will drive the market growth, which can...

August 11, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

US Cellular to use Ericsson routers for rural 5G network expansion

Regional carrier US carrier US Cellular has picked Ericsson to support its 5G network infrastructure upgrade in rural areas, leveraging Ericsson's Router 6000 portfolio, including model 6671, to bolster its 5G transport infrastructure. Narothum Saxena, vice president of technology, strategy, a...

August 07, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

4iG plans entry into North Macedonian mobile market

Hungarian-based IT company 4iG last week, the company revealed that North Macedonia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Transport, Aleksandar Nikoloski, held talks with Gellért Jászai, chairman of 4iG Group over a potential expansion into the North Macedonian mobile market. "We believe ...

August 07, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Alabama

FCC grants AST SpaceMobile license to launch commercial satellites

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted AST SpaceMobile a license to launch and operate V, S, and UHF frequencies to support gateway, feeder link, and telemetry, tracking, and control operations for the first five commercial satellites later this year.Scott Wisniewski, presiden...

August 06, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Florida

US DOJ opens antitrust probes into Nvidia

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched two separate antitrust probes into GPU and AI giant Nvidia to evaluate whether the company has abused its market dominance and forced companies to buy additional products to receive GPUs, while penalizing those that buy rival chips. This comes a...

August 03, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Stonepeak partners with CoreSite for Colorado data center

Infrastructure investment firm Stonepeak this week announced that it has formed a joint venture with American Tower subsidiary CoreSite to develop, construct, and operate an 18MW data center in Denver. Stonepeak is expected to hold 85 percent of the equity of the CoreSite DevCo JV, with Cor...

August 01, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Colorado (CO)

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