North America Data Center News

Indiana advocacy group calls for state data center moratorium

Indiana consumer and environmental advocacy organization Citizens Action Coalition (CAC) has called for a pause on new hyperscale data center development in the state. The group this week called on the Indiana General Assembly to enact a moratorium on new hyperscale data centers used to power ...

October 30, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Indiana

CoreWeave to convert New Jersey lab building into data center

CoreWeave is expanding its data center footprint in New Jersey. According to local press, the company has signed a long-term lease with an Onyx Equities and Machine Investment Group partnership for the entirety of building 11 at The Northeast Science & Technology Center (NEST) in Kenilwort...

October 29, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New Jersey

T-Mobile to connect autonomous shuttle service in Jacksonville, Florida

T-Mobile revealed earlier this week that it had paired with Miller Electric Company to connect a fully autonomous shuttle that transports visitors three miles along Jacksonville's waterfront.“5G connectivity provides the highest bandwidth and lowest latency communication between the AVs and th...

October 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Florida

PJM proposes to hasten grid connection for shovel-ready projects

Grid operator PJM has presented a proposal to permit “shovel-ready” energy projects an expedited route to interconnection to meet grid reliability needs. PJM, with a service area including Virginia and Ohio, has indicated it will provide stakeholders with a formal proposal early next month to ...

October 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Sabey completes first data center consultation in Texas

Sabey Data Centers has announced the completion of the first 430,000-square-foot (39,950 sqm) building at its new campus in the Round Rock area of Austin. The SDC Austin campus will offer up to 84MW of critical power capacity across two buildings at full build-out. Building A is designed to su...

October 24, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Hemlock Semiconductor secures direct funding under CHIPS Act

Chip firm Hemlock Semiconductor (HSC) has secured up to $325 million in proposed direct funding from the Department of Commerce under the CHIPS and Science Act. The funding is intended to shore up the production of semiconductor-grade polysilicon, a a highly pure form of silicon that is used i...

October 24, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Perennial Power and CEP Solar partner on renewable energy development in Virginia

Energy firm Perennial Power has partnered with CEP Solar in a collaboration that will prioritize solar and battery storage projects, with construction on the 1.5GW portfolio planned for late 2025.Perennial Power, part of the Sumitomo Group's renewable energy efforts, currently operates five pr...

October 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Infinera approved for $93m in direct funding

The Department of Commerce has provisionally agreed to provide up to $93 million in direct funding to optical networking vendor Infinera which would support the construction of a new fab in San Jose, California, and a new advanced test and packaging facility in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.“We are ...

October 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pennsylvania

Harrison Street and fifteenfortyseven acquire data center in Hawaii

Investment firm Harrison Street and data center company fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) this week announced the acquisition of AlohaNAP, a carrier hotel data center located on the island of O‘ahu in Hawaii."AlohaNAP is a crucial hub for international data transmission, connect...

October 17, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Hawaii

Canada announces $362m funding for SREPs

The Canadian Ministry of Energy has announced up to CAD$500 million ($362.1m) in funding for its Smart Renewables and Electrification Pathways program (SREPs) Utility Support Stream. The program received nearly CAD$2.9 billion ($2.1bn) in the Canadian government's 2023 budget to support clean ...

October 16, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Canada

TensorWave closes $43m funding round

AI GPU cloud platform TensorWave has closed a $43 million SAFE (simple agreements for future equity) funding round. This included participation from Maverick Capital, Translink Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, Granite Partners, and AMD Ventures. The participating investors have the right to ...

October 10, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

TSMC signs MoU with Amkor Technology

Chipmaker TSMC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with US semiconductor product packaging and test services company, Amkor Technology. Following their agreement, Amkor will provide TSMC with turnkey advanced packaging and test services at its planned outsourced semiconductor assemb...

October 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Arizona

Talen acquires Nautilus Cryptomine facility

US independent power producer Talen Energy has acquired full ownership of Nautilus Cryptomine, a 200MW Bitcoin mining facility in Berwick, Pennsylvania, from TeraWulf. Talen acquired TeraWulf’s 25 percent interest in Nautilus and obtained full control of the legacy Power Purchase Agreement (...

October 08, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pennsylvania

Former Compaq Computer campus gets investment for AI data center upgrade

A Houston, Texas, facility has received $40 million in investment to be upgraded as an artificial intelligence (AI) data center. This site is located at 11445 Compaq Center W. Drive and is part of the 66-acre Viva Center campus at State Highway 249 and Louetta Road. The $40 million will be use...

September 27, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Stack receives approval for Gainesville data center

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors has approved a rezoning requestto rezone the land from agricultural to planned business district to enable two data centers to be built. in Gainesville, Virginia. The data centers are expected to total nearly 815,000 sq ft (75,716 sqm) and are per...

September 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Alibaba Cloud claims modular data center can reduce build times by 50%

Alibaba Cloud has claimed its modular data center architecture can reduce build times by as much as 50 percent as it shared details of its Cube DC 5.0 modular data center architecture at its annual Apsara conference. The provider describes Cube DC 5.0 as a prefabricated modular design that use...

September 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Snowhawk invests in CleanArc Data Centers

Private equity firm Snowhawk LP has invested in data center developer CleanArc Data Centers as the company expands its team and develops its first data center campus in Virginia. Led by Vantage Data Centers founder Jim Trout, the company aims to develop hyperscale data center campuses deliveri...

September 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

SiFive unveils RISC-V based AI accelerator

RISC-V chipmaker SiFive has announced a new series of AI accelerators for high-performance workloads including its Intelligence XM Series which it claims is the first IP to include a scalable matrix engine, designed to accelerate time-to-market for semiconductor companies building system-on-c...

September 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

California

Department of Commerce awards $5m to small businesses under SBIR program

The Department of Commerce has awarded almost $5 million to 17 small businesses under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to support microelectronics research projects that have the potential to be commercialized.The 17 companies include California-based HighRI Optics, which ...

September 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Telesat completes CA$2.54 billion in funding agreements

Canadian satellite firm Telesat has announced the completion of funding agreements with the Government of Canada and the Government of Quebec for the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband constellation. The satellite firm now has all financing sources in place to fund the Lightspeed network, includi...

September 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Canada

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