Data Center News

Vodafone partners with Intelsat to expand broadband coverage

Vodafone Group has extended its partnership with satellite network operator Intelsat to provide portable satellite broadband services to businesses in underserved areas. Intelsat will help the company to provide wider coverage of temporary and on-the-move satellite connectivity services to org...

Blackstone confirms it will spend £10bn on AI data center in Blyth, UK

United Kingdom

Blackstone has confirmed it plans to spend £10 billion ($13.3bn) developing an AI data center on a derelict industrial site in Blyth, UK. The plot of land, known as Northumberland Energy Park, had been earmarked for a battery factory by now-defunct electric vehicle battery maker Britishvolt.Jo...

ECL plans to construct a 1GW hydrogen-powered AI data center in Texas, with Lambda as its inaugural tenant.

Data center startup ECL claims that it will build a 1GW AI data center on a more than 600-acre site east of Houston, Texas, powered by hydrogen.The TerraSite-TX1 will initially have a capacity of 50MW, coming next summer, at a cost of around $450 million. AI cloud provider Lambda will be the f...

Huawei unveils Dorado V7 all-flash storage solution

Huawei has unveiled its latest all-flash storage solution, dubbed the OceanStor Dorado 18000 or, more informally, the Dorado V7  at the company's annual Huawei Connect event in Shanghai. According to Huawei, the new OceanStor Dorado 18000 minimizes power consumption whilst still providing 30 p...

Sixth Street acquires minority stake in EdgeConneX

EdgeConneX

Investment firm Sixth Street has acquired a minority stake in data center firm EdgeConneX from EQT as both companies announced that the EQT Infrastructure IV and V funds have signed an agreement to sell a minority stake in EdgeConneX to funds managed by Sixth Street. Infrastructure will remain...

Ephos raises funds for glass-based photonic chips

Ephos, a startup building glass-based photonic chips, has raised $8.5 million in a seed funding round and is opening a research and manufacturing plant in Italy. The company plans to use the proceeds of the funding round to scale up operations at its headquarters in Milan, Italy, and its US ba...

Prince William Times Reports Amazon Expands Virginia Data Center Footprint, Citing Baxtel Data

The Prince William Times used Baxtel’s data to quantify Amazon’s expanding presence in Prince William County, highlighting that Amazon now operates 42 data centers in the county and 135 in Virginia overall. The article reports that Amazon paid $53.5 million for most of Colchester Industrial Pa...

PDG announces $1bn expansion plan in Mumbai and Chennai

Princeton Digital Group

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has announced plans to expand its data center capacity in Mumbai and Chennai, India through a $1 billion into the country which will bring its India portfolio to 230MW of capacity. DG plans to add three new facilities, bringing the total campus capacity to 150MW a...

Atos awarded contract to upgrade Sweden's Berzelius supercomputer

Sweden

Atos's Eviden business unit has been awarded a four-year multi-million euro contract to boost the performance of the Berzelius supercomputer at Linkoping University for the second time. Eviden will integrate and deploy further Nvidia GPUs into the system, adding an extra 512 petaflops of FP8 A...

Microsoft signs carbon deal with Arbor

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a biomass carbon sequestration carbon capture deal with biomass sequestering company Arbor. The company's system uses waste biomass to create power, while also capturing the CO2 it says would have been released into the atmosphere via that biomass decomposing or burning up...

Munters partners with ZutaCore on liquid cooling system

Munters and ZutaCore this week announced the integration of their two platforms combined into one system to provide a two-phase, waterless liquid cooling solution. The combined system features Munter's SyCool product rejecting the heat outside the data center and ZutaCore's Hypercool offering ...

IQM has manufactured 30 quantum computers at Espoo, Finland

Finland

IQM Quantum Computers revealed on September 16 thst it has manufactured 30 full-stack quantum computing machines to date at its Espoo, Finland, manufacturing facility. In addition, it has delivered and installed six full-stack quantum computers to customers including the VTT Technical Research...

SiFive unveils RISC-V based AI accelerator

California

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...

Snowhawk invests in CleanArc Data Centers

United States

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...

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

United States

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...

AT&T to remove lead cabling from Lake Tahoe

AT&T has agreed to remove abandoned telecommunications cables that have caused toxic lead to filter into Lake Tahoe as a part of a settlement it reached in court with the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), which has been pushing the case since 2021. According to court docu...

Microsoft signs 20-year, 835MW AI data center PPA to reopen Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft plans to take up 100 percent of a revived Three Mile Island nuclear power plant to faid its AI datacenter plans. If approved by regulators, Constellation hopes to open the 837MW Pennsylvania facility in 2028. 100 percent of the power will go to Microsoft, to match the power used by i...

UK telecoms minister calls for infrastructure sharing

United Kingdom

The UK's telecoms minister Chris Bryant has called for  infrastructure sharing amid increasing concern around the number of telegraph poles being installed across the country. He met with 15 operators last week to voice concerns about the deployment of the telegraph poles. This comes as the re...

HBF completes mainframe to cloud migration

Australia

Australian insurance provider HBF has completed its  "digital transformation" project which began in 2019. This project involved migrating its workloads and core systems from a mainframe to the cloud. The company has reportedly also established a new core insurance platform for policy, product...

Google signs solar deal in Nebraska

Google

Google revealed this week that it has worked with Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) on a procurement framework that enables Google to supply carbon-free energy to OPPD. The search giant signed a deal with NextEra Energy to offtake from the Pierce County Energy Center a 420MW solar system and ...