Data Center News

TSMC and Synopsys use Nvidia’s cuLitho for chip development

United States

GPU designer Nvidia announced the computational lithography library this time last year, saying that contract chip manufacturers TSMC and ASML were testing it out, alongside chip design tools company Synopsys.  Vivek Singh, Nvidia's VP of advanced technology, said, "A chip is made up of trilli...

Three companies invest in combined $200m data center in Oslo

Oslo

Norwegian telco Telenor, energy company Hafslund and investment fund HitecVision are building a data center in Oslo, Norway, via a newly formed joint venture, Skygard. These companies are to make a NOK 2.4 billion ($200m) joint investment in this data center which is already undergoing constru...

Pi Data Center secures funding for new data center in Cyberjaya

Pi Datacenters Pvt. Ltd

Malaysian data center firm Pi Data Center has secured funding for a new facility in Cyberjaya. Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Berhad revealed plans to support the launch of Pi Data Center Sdn Bhd (PiDC) in the city with a RM 253.5m ($53m) investment being provisioned by Tawarruq Asset Financing Fac...

Google to invest in carbon capture projects

Google

Google has revealed its plans to invest $35 million into carbon capture projects, matching the US government's aim to purchase 35 million in carbon removal credits through the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Carbon Dioxide Removal Purchase program. Google announced this week, “We’re proud to be t...

US government to award Intel $8.5 billion in direct funding under CHIPS Act

Arizona

The US government is set to award Intel $8.5 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act as confirmed by the Department of Commerce on Tuesday. Intel is also to get an additional $11bn in low-interest rate loans and a 25 percent investment tax credit on up to $100 billion of Inte...

Chorus expands colocation capacity in Auckland data center

New Zealand wholesale fixed line operator, Chorus this week said it had expanded its Mount Eden data center in partnership with Vertiv, which designed and implemented a 23-rack hot aisle containment system. With a scalable power range of 50kW to 250kW, the facility uses refrigerant-based air-c...

Exaion launches new data center in Canada

Canada

Exaion, an EDF Group subsidiary specializing in the development and operation of ‘eco-responsible digital services platforms,’ recently announced the opening of its data center in Sherbrooke, Canada. This facility called Bellevue, is located in the Humano District project, to which it will pro...

UK telcos urged to stop installation of new telegraph poles

United Kingdom

UK’s Data and Digital Infrastructure Minister Julia Lopez has urged telecommunication companies in the UK to stop the installation of new telegraph poles. The minister wrote a public letter to the operators asking them to prioritize sharing existing telegraph poles ahead of building new ones. ...

Google signs new energy contract in Mesa, Arizona

Google

Google has signed a new renewable energy agreement to power its operations in Mesa, Arizona. The company mentioned that this new agreement includes a mix of dedicated wind power, solar energy, and battery storage from three facilities operated by NextEra Energy Resources on SRP’s power grid in...

Philips and AWS partner for medical technology project

Amazon AWS

Electronics giant Philips and AWS have partnered for a medical technology project to make digitalized pathology slides available at scale in the cloud. This is an expansion of the existing relationship with both companies, with Philips having selected AWS as its cloud partner seven years ago. ...

Vodafone sells Italian business for €8 billion

Vodafone

Vodafone has sold its Italian business to Swisscom for €8 billion in a deal which will see Swisscom merge Vodafone with its Italian subsidiary Fastweb. This merger was announced in Europe this week after the Spanish government approved the proposed Orange and MásMóvil merger. Margherita Della ...

Ardian completes Verne acquisition

Verne Global

Investment firm Ardian this week said it had completed the acquisition of European data center firm Verne from UK infrastructure firm Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (D9). The company will support the expansion of Verne with up to $1.2bn committed investment through equity and debt to “deliver an...

Possible subsea cable damage linked to outage spike in West Africa

Africa

Outages are being reported along the western coast of Africa after a possible cable damage incident. Reports from MyBroadband have linked this downtime to multiple outages on undersea cables near Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire. Microsoft is reporting network latency issues in its South Africa North ...

Vast Data unveils AI architecture developed with Nvidia

VAZATA

AI data platform Vast Data has unveiled an AI architecture for data centers,built in partnership with Nvidia. The data platform claims that the new system will deliver improved performance and quality of service, as well as enhanced zero-trust security. Jeff Denworth, co-founder at Vast Data, ...

WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

Sydney

Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) has selected CDC Data Centres for its digital tower deployment. WSI will be one of the first in Australia to run a digital air traffic control tower and has partnered with CDC, Frequentis Australasia, and Airservices to develop the system. WSI will de...

OVHcloud launches new data center environment in Toronto, Canada

OVH Group

European cloud provider OVHcloud announced this week that it has launched a new data center environment in Toronto, Canada. The company said its Ontario site will be supported by a C$145 million (US$107m) investment over the next eight years. "This new data center marks a major turning point i...

Edenor completes cloud migration to AWS and Microsoft

Argentina

Argentinian electricity company Edenor announced that its data architecture is now cloud-based, with Edenor using both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft's Azure cloud platforms.  “It's a foundational project because it allows us to generate the bases to be a data-driven company and to be...

Equinix announces Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as new CEO

Equinix

Equinix has appointed Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as its new CEO to succeed Charles Meyers, who has led the company for six years. Fox-Martin who has led Google Cloud's go-to-market teams globally since early last year, has been a member of the Equinix board of Directors since 20...

Keppel plans expansion into Japan

Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel is expanding into Japan with plans to build and buy facilities in the country. In this regard, the company has siged a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mitsui Fudosan Co. Ltd. (Mitsui Fudosan) to ‘jointly explore data center development and investment opportunities’ in Japan and ...

UK joins the European Union’s CJU program

United Kingdom

The UK has joined the European Union’s ‘Chips Joint Undertaking’ (CJU) program as a “participating state.” This is a move that gives the country access to a €1.3 billion semiconductor research and development fund. “We are very happy to welcome the UK to the Chips Joint Undertaking as a partic...