Data Center News

Digital 9 Infrastructure to sell off its assets

Digital 9 Infrastructure

UK infrastructure fund Digital 9 Infrastructure has revealed plans to wind down and sell off its assets following a strategic review which started late last year. The company mentioned that it intends to “immediately commence” sale preparations for the company's wholly-owned assets ahead of la...

IHS Towers signs new deal with Airtel Nigeria

Nigeria

Tower company IHS Towers has announced that Airtel Nigeria has signed a deal to renew its contract in the country and has committed to take 3,950 tenancies over the next five years, with the majority expected over 2024/2025. Following the terms of the renewed agreement, Airtel is to extend the...

Viasat to enter ViaSat-3 F1 satellite into service next quarter

Americas

Satellite operator Viasat is to enter its ViaSat-3 F1 satellite into service next quarter, despite the new machine offering far less bandwidth than planned after a deployment issue. The company plans to make ViaSat-3 F1 the first in a constellation of three geostationary Ka-band communications...

Khazna unveils new data center in Abu Dhabi

Khazna

Khazna Data Centers this week announced the launch of AUH6, a new data center in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Hassan Alnaqbi, CEO of Khazna Data Centers, said: “AUH6 embodies Khazna's commitment to pushing boundaries of technological innovation and sustainability in data...

Microsoft plans new data center in South Africa

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft, this week revealed plans to build a new data center campus in Centurion, South Africa. “Still in the early phases of development, Microsoft aims to build out its cloud infrastructure in new areas of South Africa to meet growing demand from public sector and private organizations for...

Cloudflare extends server hardware lifespan to five years

United Kingdom

Cloudflare, during its Q4 2023 earnings call this week, revealed has become the latest company to extend the lifespan of its server hardware and will save millions of dollars by adding a year to the operational lifespan of its data center IT kit. “With the evolution of the composition of our i...

Aqua Comms signs new agreement with Energy Sciences Network for fiber pair

New York State

Aqua Comms has entered an agreement with Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) that for 25 percent of a fiber pair between New York, Dublin, and London. This agreement will last for 15 years and will give ESnet a dedicated 5Tbps data pipe on its AEC-1 subsea cable to accommodate data traffic from th...

GI Partners' managing director, John Sheputis, announces resignation

GI Partners

GI Partners' managing director, John Sheputis, who has been with the company for over four years, has now announced his resignation. According to his LinkedIn profile, he left the MD role in November 2023, carrying on as a senior advisor until the end of the year before finally departing. He i...

Azora to launch new European Edge data center platform

Spain

Investment manager Azora in collaboration with Core Capital, this week launched a new European Edge data center platform called Quetta Data Centers. The investment firm plans to invest over €500 million in constructing six Edge data centers in Spain and Portugal totaling 60MW of capacity. Sant...

Singapore-based startup receives $12.5 million in funding for electricity transformers

Singapore

Singapore-based startup Amperesand, which makes SSTs that could replace standard transformers in electricity distribution, has been given $12.5 million in funding to develop solid-state transformers (SSTs), which could make electricity grids more efficient and flexible. "We are thrilled to par...

Kyndryl and Google Cloud partner for AI solution needs

Google

Kyndryl and Google Cloud, which have been working together since 2021, has agreed to an extended partnership which will see the digital infrastructure services provider offer its clients access to Google’s AI tools, including its Gemini large language models. Following this partnership, the co...

Iris Energy and Poolside sign new partnership

Texas

Iris Energy and AI startup Poolside have gotten into an agreement to give the latter cloud access to Nvidia GPUs. According to Iris Energy, the initial contract is three months, with a potential three month extension. Daniel Roberts, co-Founder and co-CEO of Iris Energy, said: “We are pleased ...

Equinix signs new PPA in Australia

Equinix

Global colocation giant Equinix recently announced that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for 151MW of wind power in Australia. The company will  pay for 20 percent of the first phase of the giant Golden Plains Wind Farm project, which is being built in rural Victoria, not far fro...

Gcore launches new serverless Edge solution

Luxembourg

European cloud and CDN firm Gcore has launched a new serverless Edge solution called FastEdge. FastEdge is built upon Gcore's content delivery network (CDN), which distributes the custom code across more than 160 Edge nodes worldwide. Gcore notes that this serverless Edge solution was designed...

Datacenter One opens up new facility in Hamburg

Germany / Deutschland

Datacenter One (DC1), the German colocation company acquired by AtlasEdge last year, has opened a new facility in Hamburg called HAM1. This facility is located in Ahrensburg, northeast of Hamburg. Phase one spans 3,500 square meters and it will offer 20MW across 10,000 square meters at full bu...

Verizon reveals deployment of 130,000 Open RAN-cabaple radios

United States

Verizon revealed in an announcement this week that it has deployed more than 130,000 Open RAN capable radios. The telco noted that the figure includes the massive MIMO radios as part of the previously announced 15,000 O-RAN compliant virtualized cell sites with O-RAN compliant baseband units i...

PCCW-led Peace subsea cable arrives in Bizerte, Tunisia

Orange

The PCCW-led Peace subsea cable has landed in Bizerte, Tunisia. According to industry observer Philippe Devaux, this cable known as Ifriqya by local operator Ooredoo – was landed by Orange’s CS Teliri. “Today, we celebrate a historic achievement with the arrival of the submarine cable "Ifriqya...

UK government announces £45 million funding package for quantum projects

United Kingdom

The UK government has announced a £45 million funding package to boost the use of quantum technology across a number of sectors, including healthcare, energy, and transport. This comes as quantum technologies is now recognized as one of the five critical technologies set out by the UK governme...

Eutelsat satellite ceases operation after disruption

A Eutelsat satellite over the Americas has ceased operations after experiencing an anomaly. The company noted in an announcement, “Eutelsat Group confirms that following an anomaly on its Eutelsat 113 West A satellite which occurred on 31st January, it has ceased operations on the satellite. M...

Edge data center firm acquires cloud firm CloneCone

Edge data center firm Edge Centres in a new announcement revealed it has acquired US cloud firm CloneCone which offers virtual and hosted server services. Terms of the deal weren’t shared.  Edge Centres announced on LinkedIn this week, “This strategic acquisition represents a significant miles...