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Swiss Life Asset Managers acquires major stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners

Investment firm Swiss Life Asset Managers this week entered an agreement with London-based InfraBridge, an infrastructure investment management division of DigitalBridge Group, to acquire a co-controlling equity stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners (TIP). Gianfranco Saladino, head of value...

January 10, 2024

London

Singapore considers making data centers and clouds "critical infrastructure"

Singapore’s government is currently contemplating marking data centers and clouds as "critical infrastructure,” and extending oversight to cloud service providers and data center operators. A decision in this regard is expected to be made by January 15, 2024. Currently, the Cybersecurity Age...

December 22, 2023

Singapore

Seraya Partners reaches goal of $800 million APAC funding

Singapore-based Seraya Partners has closed an $800 million fund dedicated to digital infrastructure and energy transition investments. Half of the fund has already been dedicated to three companies: data center operator Empyrion DC, offshore wind vessel operator Cyan Renewables, and solar, win...

December 14, 2023

Singapore

Mitratel acquires over 800 towers from Gametraco for $113 million

Jakarta-based PT Dayamitra Telekomunikasi Tbk (Mitratel) revealed last week that it recently acquired 803 towers from infrastructure operator PT Gametraco Tunggal for around $113 million. The Telkom Indonesia subsidiary noted that this acquisition includes 1.327 tenants, confirming that 562 ...

December 03, 2023

Jakarta

Open Access Data Centers to expand Johannesburg facility

Pan-African operator Open Access Data Centers (OADC) plans to expand its data center in Johannesburg, South Africa, and has reportedly begun work on phase two expansion of its Isando facility, which is expected to be complete in Q1 2024, adding 4MW and 600 racks. Darren Bedford, group chief b...

November 22, 2023

Johannesburg

OpenAI president Greg Brockman quits as the company fires CEO

OpenAI's co-founder and president, Greg Brockman, has quit the company after the board suddenly fired CEO Sam Altman last week. Brockman, who was initially made to step down as board chairman, has left the company. The board is yet to disclose the exact reason for firing Altman as the company ...

November 20, 2023

San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman fired from the company

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of the artificial intelligence startup as the board denounces confidence in his leadership. In a statement released by the company, the board noted that it “no longer has confidence in his ability to lead.” Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technol...

November 19, 2023

San Francisco Bay Area

Ridge purchases UK data center consultancy Concert

Building consultancy Ridge recently acquired London-based Concert, a data center-focused consulting company, to boost its business in that sector. Both companies finalized this acquisition on November 3, but the terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Concert will operate under its curre...

November 18, 2023

London

X claims $100m annual savings upon exiting Sacramento data center

X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, claims to have saved $100 million annually after exiting its Sacramento data center via a post on the platform. X further claimed to have saved a significant amount by repatriating some of its workloads to on-prem data centers. The company...

November 02, 2023

Sacramento

ICG completes £125 million purchase of London DC portfolio

Asset management firm Intermediate Capital Group recently completed a £125 million purchase of offices and data center portfolio in London leased to UK telco Vodafone. The 260,000 square feet portfolio comprises five data centers which was initially acquired from British Land who announced the...

October 23, 2023

London

BCX partners with Alibaba to launch cloud products in Johannesburg, South Africa

Telkom subsidiary BCX, in partnership with Alibaba Cloud, officially launched its Africa Local Public (ALP) Cloud service from two Johannesburg-based data centers last week. Both companies entered a partnership that grants BCX exclusive rights to distribute Alibaba Cloud’s products and service...

October 13, 2023

Johannesburg

6Estates launches Nvidia DGX BasePOD for AI offerings

Singaporean large language model provider 6Estates recently launched an Nvidia DGX BasePOD based on Nvidia GCX H100 systems to develop its AI offerings. The company will use this BasePOD for its "Model Solutions" offering, which provides users with personalized large language models. The clust...

October 11, 2023

Singapore

Nvidia, NTT Docomo to launch new GPU-accelerated 5G network

NTT Docomo has partnered with semiconductor company Nvidia to deploy a GPU-accelerated wireless solution in its network in Japan. This partnership will make it the first telco in the world to deploy a GPU-accelerated commercial 5G network.A blog post by Nvidia noted that this partnership "enab...

October 04, 2023

NTT

JTowers, NTT Docomo finalize tower transfer ownership

NTT Docomo announced on September 26, 2023, that it has agreed with JTowers on a deal to share its current telecommunication tower infrastructure. This agreement enables an ownership transfer of an additional 1,552 Docomo towers to JTower for 17 billion yen ($114 million). This comes after Doc...

October 04, 2023

NTT

Prea obtains authorization for 100MW Berlin data center

The construction of a 100MW data center in Berlin, Germany, has received planning approval. This week, the German consulting and services firm Prea announced that it has received approval to construct a new data center in Berlin in collaboration with the Dutch developer Van Caem.Four four-stor...

September 20, 2023

Berlin

Morrow County, Oregon, rezones Percheron data center land

Land 11 miles southwest of Boardman in Oregon's Morrow County has been zoned from agricultural to industrial, and the board of commissioners has given authorization. The change in zoning will permit the construction of data centers on the site. There are proposals to construct a 50MW solar fa...

September 12, 2023

Oregon

Clark provides NTT with a data center in Ashburn, Virginia

NTT's Ashburn, Virginia, data center has been delivered by the construction company Clark. This week, Clark Construction Group revealed the notable finalization of the first phase of the VA6 Data Center in Loudoun County, Virginia.The project, which began in May 2022, was completed on time for...

August 31, 2023

NTT

NTT data centers in India becomes 100% booked

The entire capacity of NTT's data center campuses currently under construction in Kolkata, Noida, Chennai, and other areas of Maharashtra has been pre-booked. NTT Data's Senior Vice President of Global Delivery, Ravi Kumar, stated.The Japanese conglomerate revealed plans to invest $2 billion i...

August 28, 2023

NTT

Data center design standards approved by Leesburg Town Council in Loudoun

Leesburg's Loudoun County Council unanimously approved data center design criteria. Unlike Ashburn, Virginia's Leesburg has no data centers; however, this may change. Three rezoning petitions may allow data center development in town. One is in the Oaklawn neighborhood, one close to the former...

August 16, 2023

Northern Virginia

Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development

Plans for an entertainment district development in San Jose, California, have been scrapped and replaced with data center plans, it has been announced. Back in 2018, developer Terra Ventures had initially pitched for development known as 'Shops @ Terra'; this would have been an entertainment d...

August 08, 2023

San Francisco Bay Area

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