North America Data Center News

Leesburg Council vote in favor of rezoning for proposed data center

Town council officials in Leesburg, Virginia, announced this week that they have voted to approve a rezoning application that will allow data centers and additional industrial and research park uses on two parcels of vacant land to the south of Leesburg. Springfield East, LC, the applicant so...

March 01, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Modine to acquire Scott Springfield Manufacturing

Modine this week announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Calgary, Alberta-based manufacturer of air handling units (AHU), Scott Springfield Manufacturing. Modine mentioned that it will gain ‘immediate access to a highly complementary product portfolio and a blue-c...

February 27, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Canada

Summit acquires managed services provider Deft

US cloud hosting firm Summit has acquired managed services provider Deft. Deft co-founders and principals Jordan Lowe, Daniel Brosk, and Eric Dynowski will join the Summit leadership team and retain a “significant ownership stake” in the business. Other terms of this deal have not been shared....

February 26, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

GlobalFoundrues receives over $2 billion in finding from the government

GlobalFoundries has been awarded $1.5 billion by the US government under the CHIPS and Science Act to subsidize the company’s future semiconductor production capabilities. The company will also be receiving another $600 million from the state of New York over the next decade under its Green Ch...

February 21, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Northwood Space founded by former disney actor raises over $6 million

Satellite ground station startup Northwood Space, a company led by a former Disney actor, has raised more than $6 million in seed funding. This company is led by Bridgit Mendler, an actress and singer who was once a regular on the Disney Channel. She launched this startup with her husband last...

February 21, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

California

Iceotope claims achievement of superior chip cooling level

Icetope has claimed that its precision liquid cooling technology has achieved chip-level cooling up to and beyond 1000W, reaching an important industry milestone for overcoming the challenges of rising thermal design power. In a new report published by the company, it claimed that at a flow ra...

February 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Loudoun County Planning Commission rejects proposed data center

The Loudoun County Planning Commission has rejected a data center proposed along Route 28 and the Old Ox Road interchange, close to Dulles International Airport in Virginia. This proposed project called "Innovation Gateway" project was for a 425-unit apartment building and 700,000 sq ft (65,03...

February 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Expedient unveils new facility in Columbus, Ohio

Expedient this week announced that it has launched services from a data center in Columbus, Ohio, previously operated by an insurance firm and has added a former Nationwide data center near Columbus to its portfolio. This facility located at 281 E. Powell Road in Lewis Center township, the 102...

February 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Ohio

Zededa raises $72 million in new funding round

California-based company Edge computing orchestration startup Zededa last week announced the closing of the Series C round, led by Smith Point Capital which was founded by former Salesforce Co-CEO Keith Block. The company raised $72 million in its latest funding round which will see the compan...

February 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

California

Skylo Technologies raises $37 million for expansion efforts

Direct-to-device satellite connectivity provider Skylo Technologies has raised $37 million from existing investors Intel Capital and Innovation Endeavours, and new backers BMW i Ventures, Samsung Catalyst, Next47, and Seraphim Space. This investment will help the company to expand its operatio...

February 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Former Sungard data center is up for sale in New Jersey

Via RI Marketplace, Real estate firm Marcus & Millichap is offering 1008 Virgil Avenue in Ridgefield, a former Sungard data center field as up for sale via auction and bidding for this property is set to begin March 25, with $750,000 listed as a starting bid. The listing reads, “The proper...

February 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New Jersey

Aqua Comms signs new agreement with Energy Sciences Network for fiber pair

Aqua Comms has entered an agreement with Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) that for 25 percent of a fiber pair between New York, Dublin, and London. This agreement will last for 15 years and will give ESnet a dedicated 5Tbps data pipe on its AEC-1 subsea cable to accommodate data traffic from th...

February 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New York State

Iris Energy and Poolside sign new partnership

Iris Energy and AI startup Poolside have gotten into an agreement to give the latter cloud access to Nvidia GPUs. According to Iris Energy, the initial contract is three months, with a potential three month extension. Daniel Roberts, co-Founder and co-CEO of Iris Energy, said: “We are pleased ...

February 08, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Verizon reveals deployment of 130,000 Open RAN-cabaple radios

Verizon revealed in an announcement this week that it has deployed more than 130,000 Open RAN capable radios. The telco noted that the figure includes the massive MIMO radios as part of the previously announced 15,000 O-RAN compliant virtualized cell sites with O-RAN compliant baseband units i...

February 07, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

General Atlantic to plans Actis acquisition

Growth equity firm General Atlantic has recently revealed plans to acquire sustainable infrastructure investor Actis. This deal will create an investment platform with about $96 billion in combined assets under management. Company head Torbjorn Caesar, who will continue to run the business, s...

January 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

DigitalOcean to now offer Nvidia H100 GPUs

Cloud provider DigitalOcean which is dedicated to small-to-medium businesses and startups, has added to its GPU-accelerated cloud computing platform with Nvidia chips. With this new upgrade, DigitalOcean's ability to offer cloud-based artificial intelligence, machine learning applications, and...

January 17, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Seagate to ship 30TB hard drives with HAMR tech

Seagate Technology recently announced that it will be shipping 30TB hard drives based on its heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology. The company expects to conclude full production by the end of March as hyperscale customers already have evaluation units and are planning to adopt i...

January 17, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Stonepeak invests $200 million into GTA

Investment fund Stonepeak has invested $200 million into Guam telecoms firm TeleGuam Holdings (GTA). Huntsman Family Investments and its affiliates (HFI) will continue to be the majority owner of GTA and operate the company which will divert the investment into developing additional cable land...

January 16, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Sandbox AQ acquires Good Chemistry

Alphabet quantum spinout Sandbox AQ has acquired quantum and computational chemistry startup Good Chemistry. Neither of the companies disclosed the terms of this acquisition. However, the Wall Street Journal reported that the deal is worth $75 million and comprises of cash and stock. SandboxAQ...

January 10, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

TierPoint acquires multi-megawatt facility in Texas

US colocation provider TierPoint this week announced that it has acquired a multi-megawatt data center in Fort Worth, Texas. This data center located at 13701 Independence Parkway is the company’s third in the Dallas-Forth Worth area. The colocation provider noted that this facility sitting o...

January 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Tierpoint Fort Worth

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