Data Center News

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...

Microsoft Research details prototype data center robotics efforts

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Research has given a glimpse at some of its prototype data center robotics efforts in a paper for Hotnets. The team said that "this marks the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we conceive and design data center hardware and the software services," but noted that the effort was ...

Keppel acquires data center project in Tokyo, Japan

Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel Ltd. this week announced that its private fund, Keppel Data Centre Fund II (KDCF II), has entered into a sale and purchase agreement with Mitsui Fudosan for the forward purchase of Keppel Data Centre Tokyo 2, a data center facility currently being developed by Mitsui Fudosan. Mitsui Fud...

Rackspace Technology launches GPU as a Service offering on Nvidia

United States

Rackspace Technology has launched a GPU as a Service (GPUaaS) offering based on Nvidia processors. The company expanded its Rackspace Spot platform, adding both a new geographical location and access to on-demand Nvidia GPUs. The GPUaaS is based on Nvidia H100s, which are housed in RackSpace's...

QuEra to deploy quantum computer at Massachusetts computing center

Massachusetts

Massachusetts has granted just under $5 million to establish a Quantum Computing Complex at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) in Holyoke. QuEra is a partner of the project, and will deploy a neutral atom quantum computer at the complex. The $16 million project ...

Bell Canada to acquire Ziply Fiber for about $7bn

Canada

Bell Canada has agreed to acquire US fiber company Ziply Fiber as part of Bell's plans to expand its fiber footprint across North America and over the border into the US. Bell noted that the value of the deal is worth approximately C$5 billion ($3.6bn) in cash, plus the assumption of debt, res...

Texas researchers develop thermal interface material for improved chip cooling

Texas

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have created a new “thermal interface material” that could organically remove heat from high-powered electronic devices, which they claim could reduce or even eliminate the need for extensive cooling. The new material, made from a mix of liquid ...

Microsoft acquires acres of land in North Carolina

Microsoft Azure

Person County last week announced that Microsoft had acquired the 1,350-acre Person County Mega Park. Citing county property records, local press report Microsoft paid $26.85 million for the site, located in Woodsdale Township."Microsoft's presence in Person County will boost our local economy...

FERC rejects proposed interconnection service agreement

Pennsylvania

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has rejected a proposed interconnection service agreement (ISA) for the Susquehanna nuclear power station in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The agreement would have supported an expanded colocated load at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center c...

NSA hybrid cloud platform is now operational

Utah

The US National Security Agency's (NSA) hybrid cloud platform is now operational. The project is an evolution of the NSA's on-premise GovCloud environment, introducing commercial cloud offerings. Chief finance manager at the NSA, Jennifer Kron, revealed that the initiative had launched during ...

Schneider Electric appoints Olivier Blum as new CEO

France

French energy equipment giant Schneider Electric, a significant supplier of the data center industry has removed CEO Peter Herweck and has appointed long-time employee Olivier Blum as the new chief executive, effective immediately. Schneider said that its Board of Directors "decided to remove ...

Wesco purchases data center firm Ascent for $185 million

United States

Wesco International this week announced it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Ascent LLC., a provider of data center facility management services, for a cash-free, debt-free purchase price of $185 million. The acquisition is anticipated to close in the fourth quarter following custo...

Equinix opens second data center in Istanbul, Türkiye

Equinix

US colocation giant Equinix this week opened its second International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Istanbul, known as IL4. The new facility is located on the same campus as Equinix’s existing Istanbul facility, IL2 and it  offers capacity for 1,125 cabinets across 3,045 sqm (32,775 s...

Investment firm CVC acquires Spanish colo provider Adam Ecotech

Europe

CVC DIF, the infrastructure arm of leading global private markets manager CVC, this week announced it has agreed to acquire Adam Ecotech.  CVC said it will support Adam Ecotech in its expansion into other regions of Spain and the wider European market. Adam Ecotech owns three operating data ce...

Google Cloud makes custom CPU-based C4A virtual machines generally available

Google Cloud's custom CPU-based C4A virtual machines (VMs) are now generally available. The VMs are the first series based on Google's Arm-based Axion CPUs. Axion is based on Arm’s Neoverse V2 designs and is built on the standard Armv9 architecture and instruction set.C4A VMs are now available...

Tecfusions signs AI infrastructure deal with TensorWave

US data center firm Tecfusionshas has signed an AI infrastructure commitment with TensorWave which will see TensorWave lease 1GW of AI capacity across Tecfusion's data center portfolio.“This collaboration with TensorWave marks a watershed moment in the AI infrastructure landscape,” said Shawn ...

Connectbase acquires Network Capacity Solutions

United States

Connectivity marketplace platform Connectbase has acquired Network Capacity Solutions (NCS). Connectbase said the acquisition marks a pivotal step in its mission to digitally transform the connectivity and digital infrastructure marketplace.“By bringing Network Capacity Solutions into Connectb...

Infineon launches world’s thinnest silicon power wafers

Infineon has unveiled the world’s thinnest silicon power wafers, with a thickness of 20 micrometers and a diameter of 300 millimeters. The company said the newly produced wafers are half as thick as current state-of-the-art wafers, which measure between 40-60 micrometers. One millimeter is the...

Former Involta CEO Jim Buie joins Tonaquint Data Centers

ValorC3 Data Centers

US data center firm Tonaquint has appointed Jim Buie as its new chief executive officer, replacing Matt Hamlin, who had led the company for more than 16 years. Buie has previously held leadership positions at Ark Data Centers (formerly Involta) as CEO, as well as roles at Flexential (formerly ...

NTT Data to use Oracle Alloy for sovereign cloud in Japan

NTT Data

NTT Data has selected Oracle Alloy to enhance its sovereign cloud services in Japan.  The company will deploy Oracle Alloy in its data centers, giving customers access to more than 150 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, including its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings.“The aim of ...