January 03, 2024 Arkansas
Social media firm Meta has signed a 330MW solar Environmental Attributes Purchase Agreement (EAPA) with Adapture Renewables in Arkansas and Illinois. Following this agreement, Meta will buy solar energy from three of Adapture Renewables' solar projects that are currently under development in the...
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January 03, 2024 Virginia
A group of residents in Prince William County, Virginia recently sued the Board of County Supervisors through their formed non-profit "Devlin Defend Corporation” over a data center development. The residents submitted this lawsuit on December 28, hoping to stop the development of a nine-building...
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January 03, 2024 United States
MIPS, a company focused on the development of high-performance RISC-V compute IP recently announced that two former SiFive executives have joined its executive leadership team. Drew Barbier has joined as VP of products and Brad Burgess has been named chief architect. Sameer Wasson, CEO of MIPS...
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December 28, 2023 Minnesota
The Rosemount City Council has voted unanimously in favor of the Meta data center development in Minnesota. Following this vote, the facility will be developed on part of the University of Minnesota's UMore Park. The approved plan d will see a 750,000 sq ft (69,670 sqm) data center campus be...
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December 27, 2023 California
Intel has announced its plans to lay off 311 employees across two Californian campuses. This marks the second round of job cuts carried out by the company in California this year. Two separate "worker adjustment and retraining notifications" (WARNs) filed with the State of California’s Employment...
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December 27, 2023 Virginia
Hourigan, a local developer has proposed a 320-acre data center campus outside Richmond, Virginia. The company has requested to rezone the land from agricultural to light industrial, noting that it expects to see around $1 billion invested in the project. The company said in a filing with...
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December 26, 2023 United States
Hyperscale networking firm Arrcus has joined the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), a group dedicated to delivering Ethernet-based interoperable and high-performance architecture to meet the growing network demands of AI and high-performance computing (HPC). With this move, Arrcus has committed to...
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December 23, 2023 Arizona
Arizona State University (ASU) is set to receive $17.5 million worth of investment from the Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA) to expand the state’s advanced semiconductor manufacturing capabilities. Sandra Watson, president and CEO of the ACA said, “This new investment showcases Arizona’s...
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December 21, 2023 Marathon Digital: Garden City TX
Applied Digital has recently signed a long-term retail electric agreement with TerraForm Power for its 200MW data center in Garden City, Texas. Following this agreement, Applied Digital will use wind power produced in Texas by TerraForm Power. Wes Cummins, Applied Digital chairman and CEO said,...
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December 21, 2023 Houston
Space infrastructure business Axiom Space has planned to develop an 'orbital data center.' The company is currently developing the world’s first commercial space station, which will initially be a part of the International Space Station, but is planned to separate and remain in orbit, once the...
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December 20, 2023 Virginia
Virginia's Fauquier County Board of Supervisors has approved a set of policies designed to curb data center developments in the area. These guidelines have been put in place to protect the county's rural character, the health and welfare of its citizens, as well as the value of the residential...
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December 19, 2023 Boston
Photonic computing company Lightmatter has now been crowned a Unicorn, raising $155 million at a $1.2 billion valuation. This funding is part of the series C investment round, which helped the company raise $154 million in May, successfully tripling the company’s value at the time. Overall,...
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December 16, 2023 Washington
Washington-based Edge computing firm Armada has announced that it recently raised $55 million for its Edge computing modules and management platform. The funds was raised from investors including Founders Fund, Lux Capital, Shield Capital, and 8090 Industries, with participation from Felicis,...
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December 14, 2023 Virginia
Cielo Digital Infrastructure is now on track to develop a 1.4 million square feet data center facility upon approval from Virginia’s Culpeper Country board. This project will be built on a 121-acre parcel along Nalles Mill Road following the County Board of Supervisors' vote to approve the...
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December 13, 2023 Arizona
Social network company Meta announced this week that it has signed a new renewable energy deal in Arizona with Ørsted to support its Mesa data center with new solar energy from the Salt River Project. Following this contract, the social network company will receive most of the output of Ørsted's...
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December 07, 2023 Arizona
Dutch chip equipment manufacturer ASM International has announced it plans to invest €300 million over a five-year period to expand its R&D efforts in Arizona. The company mentioned that this new 20-acre facility, set to be located in Scottsdale, will create an additional 500 jobs in software...
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December 06, 2023 United States
Liberty Networks and Gold Data have entered a partnership with the aim to develop a new subsea cable system connecting the US and Latin America. This system scheduled to be ready for operation by 2026, will be split into two segments: the Gold Data 1 system and Liberty Networks 1 system. Ray...
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December 05, 2023 United States
Startup Quantum computing startup Extropic which was founded last year by former members of Alphabet’s quantum computing research team has raised $14.1 million in seed funding to build physics-based AI computers. The company plans to build computers that allow generative AI to scale in an...
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December 04, 2023 United States
Ardent Data Centers recently revealed its plans to acquire three data centers as part of a €110 million investment plan. The company mentioned it has successfully agreed letters of intent with two sites in the US and is the preferred bidder on a third in the UK. Once all three sites are acquired,...
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December 04, 2023 United States
Data center and digital infrastructure power and cooling company Vertiv recently purchased liquid cooling business CoolTera. Vertiv is now in charge of the provider of coolant distribution infrastructure, including certain contracts, patents, trademarks, and intellectual property from an...
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