Data Center News

Perennial Power and CEP Solar partner on renewable energy development in Virginia

Virginia

Energy firm Perennial Power has partnered with CEP Solar in a collaboration that will prioritize solar and battery storage projects, with construction on the 1.5GW portfolio planned for late 2025.Perennial Power, part of the Sumitomo Group's renewable energy efforts, currently operates five pr...

AWS and e& sign $1bn cloud agreement

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and UAE-based telco e& have signed a $1 billion cloud agreement in the Middle East, combining AWS' cloud infrastructure and solutions with e& networking capabilities with an aim to offer cloud services to customers in the public sector and heavily regulated in...

Neste to supply Verne's Finnish data centers with HVO

Finland

Finnish oil refining firm Neste Oyj has signed an agreement with European data center firm Verne to supply renewable diesel to power the company's backup generators in Finland. The oil firm will deploy the renewable diesel at all of Verne’s Finnish data centers. Verne currently has three opera...

EllaLink and SPLANG begin subsea cable extension

EllaLink and SPLANG, the local public company for the digital development of French Guiana, have begun the construction of the EllaLink cable extension to include Cayenne, French Guiana. The new 2,100km branch will secure connectivity between French Guiana and Europe across two fiber pairs.Alc...

Edgnex to develop new data center in Madrid, Spain

Spain

UAE data center firm Edgnex this week announced its expansion into Europe with the acquisition of land in Madrid. The site has been acquired from real estate private equity manager ActivumSG and will host a 40MW data center. Located in the Vicalvaro region, the 236,805 sq ft (22,000 sqm) facil...

Infinera approved for $93m in direct funding

Pennsylvania

The Department of Commerce has provisionally agreed to provide up to $93 million in direct funding to optical networking vendor Infinera which would support the construction of a new fab in San Jose, California, and a new advanced test and packaging facility in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.“We are ...

CBRE acquires NRG Energy's renewable advisory division

CBRE Group has acquired NRG Energy's renewable advisory division. Led by Miro Sutton, the NRG advisory group specializes in facilitating renewable energy deals, brokering over 5GW of clean power, focusing on community solar, large-scale energy contracts, such as Virtual Power Purchase Agreemen...

BPA proposes 13 new transmission projects to expand Pacific Northwest grid infrastructure

The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) has proposed 13 new transmission projects to expand the Pacific Northwest's grid infrastructure. Combined, the projects are estimated to cost approximately $3 billion. Each project must undergo preliminary engineering and environmental review to inform...

Samsung and KT Corp partner on 5G private network for Korean Navy

Samsung and KT Corp (formerly Korea Telecom) have been picked by the Republic of Korea Navy to build and deploy a 5G private network at a Korean Naval base.Both  ompanies were selected as part of an effort to strengthen its battleship and base operation support capabilities and achieve compreh...

IQM signs agreement with EuroHPC for two quantum computers

IQM is to deliver two of its Radiance quantum systems to a supercomputing center in Germany after signing a purchase agreement with the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU).Folowing the agreement, IQM will hand over one 54-qubit system to the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in the second...

University of Pisa deploys HPC system at its Green Data Centre

The University of Pisa (UniPi) has deployed a Lenovo high-performance computing (HPC) system which is the largest university supercomputer in Italy, to support scientific research and teaching at the institution. Consisting of 16 SD650 V3 nodes with two Intel Xeon Max 9480 CPUs, the first x86 ...

Harrison Street and fifteenfortyseven acquire data center in Hawaii

Hawaii

Investment firm Harrison Street and data center company fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) this week announced the acquisition of AlohaNAP, a carrier hotel data center located on the island of O‘ahu in Hawaii."AlohaNAP is a crucial hub for international data transmission, connect...

80MW data center planned in Newham, East London

An 80MW data center planned for the London Borough of Newham has been given the go-ahead in the UK. Legal & General is spearheading the project, working with specialist digital infrastructure investment firm Goldacre and data center development company sineQN.Matteo Colombo, managing direc...

Lenovo announces new liquid-cooled Nvidia Blackwell server

Lenovo has announced new liquid-cooled AI hardware powered by Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs at its Tech World ‘24 event in Seattle, Washington this week. “For more than a decade, Lenovo has pioneered liquid cooling innovations, with the goal of bringing the power of high-performance computing to eve...

Start Campus and JetCool partner to deploy advanced cooling technology

Sustainable data center developer Start Campus and liquid cooling company JetCool have agreed to a strategic partnership to expand the portfolio of high-efficiency cooling options for future customers at Start Campus’ 1.2GW Sines DC in Portugal.Dr. Bernie Malouin, CEO of JetCool said: “Our par...

Canada announces $362m funding for SREPs

Canada

The Canadian Ministry of Energy has announced up to CAD$500 million ($362.1m) in funding for its Smart Renewables and Electrification Pathways program (SREPs) Utility Support Stream. The program received nearly CAD$2.9 billion ($2.1bn) in the Canadian government's 2023 budget to support clean ...

UK fire suppression firm Alpine Fire has acquired DAS Fire

United Kingdom

DAS Fire is a supplier of fire detection and suppression solutions for data centers. DAS Fire’s offerings include the design, installation, and maintenance of data center fire suppression systems. “This acquisition enables us to accelerate our diversification strategy into sectors that complem...

Dept of Commerce announces funding agreement with WolfSpeed

The US Department of Commerce has provisionally agreed to provide silicon carbide semiconductor manufacturer Wolfspeed with up to $750 million in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act. The proposed funding would support the construction of a new silicon carbide wafer manufacturing fac...

Vertiv and Nvidia collab on 7MW

Vertiv and Nvidia have released a 7MW reference architecture for the GB200 NVL72, a liquid-cooled platform supports up to 132kW per rack. "We are proud to deepen our collaboration with Nvidia to enable AI-driven data centers of today and tomorrow," Giordano Albertazzi, CEO of Vertiv, said. "As...

DataBank completes $2 billion equity

Australia

DataBank has completed a $2 billion equity raise led by Australian superannuation fund, AustralianSuper. AustralianSuper has committed $1.5bn in equity which will see it become a significant minority owner of DataBank and join the company's board of directors."We are delighted to have Australi...