Data Center News

Deep Atomic unveils data center specific SMR

Small modular reactor (SMR) startup Deep Atomic has announced plans to introduce a new SMR specifically for the data center market dubbed MK60. It is a light water SMR with a generation capacity of 60MW of electricity and 60MW of cooling capacity through an integrated data center centric desig...

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

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...

BT begins operations at self-powered mobile site in UK

BT Global Services

British multinational telecommunications company BT has commenced operations at its first self-powered mobile site in Shropshire, UK which provides 4G and 5G connectivity to EE customers living, working, and traveling in the area.The site was selected following an environmental assessment that...

PJM proposes to hasten grid connection for shovel-ready projects

Virginia

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 ...

Amazon acquires land in Phoenix, Arizona for possible data center

Amazon has bought a 220-acre site in Phoenix, Arizona, potentially for a data center campus. An Amazon Web Services spokesperson confirmed the land purchase in a statement to the Business Journal and said "we are constantly evaluating new locations based on customer demand.”Real estate develop...

Atalait to expand its data center in Metepec, Mexico

México

Mexican IT firm Atalait has announced plans to invest $100 million expanding the site, located in Mexico State. The initiative aims to double the capacity of the data center and significantly expand its offerings. Leonardo Rodríguez, vice chairman of Aktiva Capital and vice president of Atalai...

Sabey completes first data center consultation in Texas

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...

EuroHPC JU selects LuxProvide to host MeluXina-Q quantum computer

Luxembourg

The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has announced that LuxProvide in Luxembourg will host the initiative’s MeluXina-Q quantum computer. The system will be integrated with EuroHPC JU’s MeluXina supercomputer and will be made available to European members of th...

Veon investor calls for shake-up, criticizes current strategy

Shah Capital, a long-term investor with a seven percent stake in telecoms company Veon, has criticized the company's current strategy, claiming that its share price is 80 percent lower than it should have been over the last decade. In an open letter to Veon's board of directors, Himanshu H Sha...

Macquarie Data Centres secures debt refinancing

Macquarie Data Centres

The owner of Australia’s Macquarie Data Centres has secured additional financing to fund further development as Macquarie Technology Group Limited announced the successful signing of a debt refinancing to support its data center expansion. Following the recently signed  facility agreement, the...

Hemlock Semiconductor secures direct funding under CHIPS Act

United States

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...

V.tal launches Tecto data center subsidiary

Brazil / Brasil

Brazilian fiber firm V.tal has launched a new data center subsidiary. At the same time, the company has broken ground on a new facility in Fortaleza and acquired land in São Paulo for its first data center in the city.“The Tecto Data Centers brand was officially launched yesterday during an ev...

Edged & Merlin launch new campus in Lisbon, Portugal

Portugal

Real estate firm Merlin Properties and data center company Edged Energy this week announced the start of construction on the 180MW campus located in the Parque das Nações business district of Vila Franca de Xira. The campus will be constructed in phases with the first of five facilities expect...

Keppel signs conditional offtake agreement with Woodside

Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel Data Centers has signed a conditional offtake term sheet to supply and purchase liquid hydrogen from Woodside. The company plans to integrate the potential liquid hydrogen supply into a broader, long-term portfolio of low-carbon power solutions that it is developing to meet the energy n...

CloudCoCo to sell IT services business to Aspire for £9.2m

United Kingdom

Managed services provider CloudCoCo has announced plans to sell its IT services business to Aspire in a £9.2 million ($11.9m) deal that will help the company pay off its debts. The company, which is based in Leeds, UK, added it is in advanced discussions to sell Connect, its data center busine...

HF Sinclair unveils immersion cooling fluid

Oil company HF Sinclair has launched an immersion cooling fluid for high-density workloads which it announced this month as a line of single-phase immersion cooling fluids under a new brand, Innovate. Developed by HF Sinclair’s Lubricants & Specialties business, Innovate is a series of die...

Photonics startup Oriole Networks raises funds to scale technology

United Kingdom

UK photonic networking startup Oriole Networks has raised $22 million to scale up its technology. The startup has raised the cash in a funding round led by VC group Plural, with existing investors UCL Technology Fund, XTX Ventures, Clean Growth Fund, and Dorilton Ventures all contributing.Orio...

Area Group starts construction of Malaysian data center campus

Malaysia

Real estate private equity firm Area Group has begun constructing its 156-acre data center campus in Kedah, northern Malaysia. The firm  has now officially purchased the land in a sale and purchase agreement for an undisclosed amount, and begun construction on the first 30-acre parcel of land....

Aizo Group and Netrunner plan new data center in Malaysia

Malaysia

Aizo Group has announced plans to build a data center in Sarawak, Malaysia, with Netrunner Sdn Bhd, a special purpose vehicle focused on data center investment in Sarawak. The company will lead the technical development and design of the data center park, which is expected to meet Tier IV stan...

TMF Group selects Orange for hybrid cloud solution

Microsoft Azure

Professional services firm TMF Group  which provides administrative services such as tax, HR, and payroll services across 125 offices in 86 jurisdictions, has selected Orange Business to help it deploy a centralized managed hybrid cloud solution. The company is now using Microsoft's Azure Stac...