Data Center News

Department of Commerce awards $5m to small businesses under SBIR program

United States

The Department of Commerce has awarded almost $5 million to 17 small businesses under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to support microelectronics research projects that have the potential to be commercialized.The 17 companies include California-based HighRI Optics, which ...

AWS signs custom chip deal with Intel

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has entered into a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar contract with Intel to develop custom chip designs. Following the terms of this agreement, Intel will produce an AI fabric chip for AWS on Intel 18A, and produce a custom Xeon 6 chip on Intel 3. Intel has long develo...

Ricoh migrates on-premise workloads to the cloud

Japan

Ricoh, a Japanese company specializing in imaging and electronics, has moved its on-premise workloads to the cloud as a part of the company's GLIDER data infrastructure project which aims to consolidate data from sales, inventory, and operations from more than 50 separate companies that make u...

Telesat completes CA$2.54 billion in funding agreements

Canada

Canadian satellite firm Telesat has announced the completion of funding agreements with the Government of Canada and the Government of Quebec for the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband constellation. The satellite firm now has all financing sources in place to fund the Lightspeed network, includi...

MCA launches £175 million coastguard emergency response network

United Kingdom

The UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has launched a £175 million coastguard emergency response network across UK coastlines with an aim to prevent the loss of life on the coast and the sea. Technology firm Telent was responsible for designing and building the network, with constructio...

Equinix becomes one of the top 10 largest US corporate issuers after issuing $750m in green bonds

Equinix

Equinix has now become one of the top 10 largest US corporate issuers in the market, issuing $750 million in green bonds across two offerings. The company says it will use the proceeds to advance sustainability initiatives across its business. Equinix said the funding will be towards initiativ...

Lenovo unveils GPU-as-a-Service offering

United States

Lenovo has launched a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offering designed to help customers bring artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on-premises, Lenovo has added GPUaaS to its subscription-based infrastructure model, TruScale. The company also added automation, predictive analytics, and generativ...

STT GDC India names Bimal Khandelwal as new CEO

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has appointed Bimal Khandelwal as the new CEO of its India business. He has previously served as the CFO for STT GDC India. Prior to that, he worked in the telecoms, financial services, and IT sectors, including at Tata Teleservices. He is to succeed ...

Orange Business completes first phase of data center infrastructure for GEPD

Orange Business has completed the first phase of data center infrastructure in Egypt's New Administrative Capital for Grifols Egypt for Plasma Derivatives (GEPD) and  is providing communications infrastructure for GEPD in the Medical City within the New Capital, a satellite city of Cairo. GEPD...

Microsoft signs carbon removal deal in Mexico

Microsoft has purchased 234,000 carbon removal credits from Toroto, a Mexican business that specializes in nature-based solutions that improve the environment. These credits represent the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and are issued under the Climate Action Reserve Mexico Fores...

Khara moves archive to Wasabi's cloud

 Television and film production company Khara Inc. has migrated its operations and 500TB of archival data from on-premises storage to Wasabi Technologies cloud storage. According to the company, the migration has saved Khara around 80 percent in management and operations costs related to the d...

Google signs 128MW solar PPA in Texas

Google has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with renewable energy firm X-Elio to offtake from X-Elio’s 128MW Bell Solar PV Plant. The site will also include a 100MW battery energy storage system to provide energy demand support on a 24/7 basis.Mirko Molinari, CCO of X-Elio, said: “The P...

CWA continues AT&T strike in Southeast

AT&T workers continue to strike across nine Southeastern states. In a recent development, the company's employees in the West have also rejected its tentative agreement which might lead to an additional 8,400 employees joining the strike. Over 17,000 workers have taken industrial action ag...

Anduril to deploy new offerings on Oracle cloud

Oracle

Anduril, a defense technology company, will be deploying Lattice on Oracle Cloud Isolated and National Security Regions - air-gapped cloud infrastructure - as well as Oracle Cloud Regions, Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud, and Oracle Government Clouds in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United ...

OpenAI disbands research SRE team

Google

 OpenAI has disbanded its Site Reliability Engineering team focused on research and training workloads which was formed less than a year ago. Todd Underwood who was hired to lead the team  spent 14 years and nine months at Google, where he created the machine learning SRE group, and co-authore...

Infineon manufactures world's first 300mm power gallium nitride wafers

German chipmaker Infineon has successfully developed the world’s first 300mm power gallium nitride (GaN) wafers which will help to boost the market for GaN-based power chips as the 300mm wafers are “technologically more advanced and significantly more efficient” when compared to 200mm wafers.“...

Karis Critical proposes nine-building data center campus in Northwest Indiana

Karis Critical has approached Merrillville about building a data center campus in the Lake County town and the Town Council voted 7-0 Tuesday to approve zoning that would allow a data center to be built at the site. The campus set on a 180-acre site on 101st Avenue east of Deep River, could to...

Indian conglomerate L&T to invest $300m to establish fabless chip company

Indian conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has revealed plans to invest more than $300 million to establish a fabless chip company in India  at the inaugural Semicon India 2024. Sandeep Kumar, CEO of the newly formed L&T Semiconductor Technologies, said the company plans to design 1...

Data center fire in Singapore impacts Alibaba Cloud services

Singapore

A data center fire incident in Singapore has caused issues to Alibaba's cloud services. The company said it occurred in Availability Zone C of its Singapore region."At 10:20 on September 10, 2024 Beijing time, Alibaba Cloud monitoring detected network access anomalies in availability zone C of...

SambaNova unveils new AI inference cloud

Chip and artificial intelligence (AI) model developer SambaNova Systems has launched an AI cloud offering using the SN40L AI chip. The SambaNova cloud can be accessed by developers via an API and create their own generative AI applications using the open-source Llama 3.1 405B and Llama 3.1 70B...