Data Center News

Telecom Egypt and Vodafone Egypt sign multiple infrastructure deals

Telecom Egypt and Vodafone Egypt have signed multiple infrastructure service agreements, worth up to E£30 billion ($609 million). As part of the agreement reached, Telecom Egypt will also extend its transmission services agreement with Vodafone until 2031.“The agreements between Telecom Egypt ...

Atlantic Quantum and MIT receive funding for supercomputers

United States

Atlantic Quantum has received a contract from the US Air Force to develop a quantum computer based on fluxonium qubits. The company has been given a $1.8 million Phase II STTR grant from AFWERX, the innovation arm of the US Department of the Air Force (DAF). The quantum startup will use the fu...

Cogent converts more Sprint switch sites to colocation data centers

Fiber firm Cogent Communications has converted another nine Sprint switch sites to colocation data centers, and is exploring selling a large portion of its newly refurbished data center capacity on a wholesale basis.T-Mobile sold its Wireline business to Cogent Communications for just $1 in Se...

Airbus to develop Gaia-X data space

Finland

Aerospace giant Airbus is aiming to move all of its data-sharing capabilities to a Gaia-X data space. The company announced its plans at the Gaia-X Summit 2024 in Helsinki, Finland, explaining that it hopes to increase transparency with its massive network of suppliers.According to Catherine J...

Charter Communications to acquire Liberty Broadband

Charter Communications has announced a deal to acquire Liberty Broadband as part of an all-stock transaction. As part of the deal announced today, Liberty has agreed to divest GCI, which is Alaska's largest communications provider."We are pleased to announce this agreement today with Liberty B...

ENEA selects Lenovo for new HPC cluster

Italy

Italy’s National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) has chosen Lenovo for its new HPC cluster, dubbed CRESCO8. It consists of 758 nodes with 2 Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ CPUs, meaning the cluster will bring the compute power of CRESCO (Computational ...

Volvo Penta invests in UIG

Sweden

Swedish marine and industrial engine manufacturer Volvo Penta has announced a follow-up investment in UtilityInnovation Group (UIG), an US and Irish company specializing in utility systems and decentralized energy solutions. Following the investment, UIG aims to combine Volvo’s battery energy ...

Prime launches new data center in Los Angeles, California

Prime Data Centers

Prime Data Centers announced the opening of its Los Angeles data center at a ribbon-cutting ceremony today. This new facility, located at 4701 S. Santa Fe in Vernon, California, is a purpose-built three-story, 242,495-square-foot hyperscale data center  which will deliver 33 MW of critical IT ...

Microsoft's AI VP Luis Vargas quits

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft's vice president of AI, Luis Vargas, has quit the technology giant and will now be the founder and CTO of a new AI startup, details of which have yet to be revealed."I feel extremely fortunate to have worked with exceptional people on many exciting things, from introducing HA/DR in S...

EE expands mobile coverage to mast at Ben Nevis mountain

United Kingdom

UK mobile operator EE has deployed its mobile coverage to an existing mast site, located at the base of Ben Nevis, Scotland. Ben Nevis is the tallest mountain in the British Isles, with a summit of 1,345 meters. According to EE, the purpose of the deployment is to aid search and rescue operati...

Tessolve acquires Dream Chip Technologies in $45.8m deal

Indian semiconductor engineering company Tessolve has acquired Dream Chip Technologies for $45.8 million. Dream Chip Technologies is a German semiconductor chip design firm that focuses on the development and design of ASICs, SoCs, and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).“This acquisition s...

Aermont acquires Spanish data center firm Nabiax

Nabiax

Keppel-linked European asset management company Aermont is to acquire Spanish data center operator Nabiax. Asterion Industrial Partners this week announced an agreement to sell Nabiax to a fund managed by Aermont. The transaction includes the sale of Telefónica's 20 percent stake in the compan...

XeedQ installs ita Baby Diamond computer at Goethe University

Germany / Deutschland

Quantum computing company XeedQ has installed its so-called Baby Diamond quantum computer at Goethe University in Germany. The five-qubit machine is an XQ1 system from XeedQ’s XQ series. On its website, XeedQ describes the XQ1 as “the first multi-qubit mobile quantum processor that is room-tem...

Amazon purchases land n Minnesota, for data center

Minnesota

Amazon has purchased 348 acres of land in Becker, Minnesota, for a data center project. According to a real estate filing published with the Minnesota Department of Revenue, the parcel will be used for a data center and was previously part of Xcel Energy Inc.'s Sherco Site.Xcel spokesperson Ke...

RUVDS to deliver server to South Pole

Russia / Россия

Russian hosting provider RUVDS recently announced that it will deliver a server to the South Pole, where it will test the possibility of installing a high-speed communication channel alongside the server.  The server will be insulated from the extreme cold through weather-resistant equipment. ...

HMC to pay for iseek ahead of data center portfolio listing

Australia

MC is set to pay AU$400 million ($264m) for Australian data center operator iseek as it prepares to publicly list its digital infrastructure portfolio in a move that could raise $AU4 billion ($2.64bn). The asset manager will form a new company, DigiCo Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), which...

TCS signs multi-year cloud migration deal with Air France

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has signed a multi-year deal with French airline Air France-KLM to migrate its workloads to the cloud. This new partnership will involve migrating critical systems and core business data to the cloud surrounding flight operations, passenger information, aircraft...

AT&T snaps up $1bn worth of spectrum from UScellular

AT&T

UScellular has confirmed that it will sell a portion of its spectrum assets to AT&T for $1 billion. This deal will see T-Mobile acquire a significant chunk of UScellular's operations, including its customer base and around 30 percent of the company's wireless spectrum."We are pleased with ...

Saudi dairy company Almarai moves to Google Cloud

Google

Saudi Arabia-based dairy company Almarai is moving its critical systems to Google Cloud and hopes that this will improve its scalability and flexibility while remaining cost-effective. The data will be hosted in Google Cloud's Saudi Arabia region, enabling the company to meet digital sovereign...

Equinix launches data center in Oman with Omantel

Equinix

Equinix this week officially opened Salalah in partnership with local telco Omantel with a facility known as SN1. This facility is to be commercially and operationally managed in full by Equinix as a carrier-neutral and open-access Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data center.Kame...