Data Center News

Danfoss to provide cooling and heat reuse systems for Google's data centers

As part of a partnership between Danfoss and Google, Danfoss is set to provide cooling and heat reuse systems for Google's data centers. Google on the other hand, will provide artificial intelligence solutions to the multinational engineering group for customer experience improvements, interna...

HPE appoints Neil McDonald to lead HPC and AI unit

HPE has appointed Neil MacDonald as the head of the company’s HPC and AI business segment, in addition to his current role leading the company’s compute unit. In his new role, he will oversee the team responsible for developing HPE’s AI strategy, integrating the company’s HPE GreenLake edge-to...

Tract signs energy partnership with Silicon Ranch

Data center park developer Tract has signed a solar partnership deal with solar farm developer Silicon Ranch, a company which specializes in solar energy and battery storage. Silicon Ranch announced the exclusive collaboration agreement to pair renewable projects with Tract’s data center sites...

Shell deploys GRC immersion tanks at Texas facility

Oil and gas company Shell, which also offers its own cooling fluid, has deployed a number of clusters from Penguin Solutions utilizing AMD processors inside GRC Immersion Cooling Systems at a data center in Houston, Texas.  Copeland said, “Each of the GRC immersion systems (S10 Duo) you see in...

AT&T, Google, and Vodafone invest $155 million in AST SpaceMobile

Direct-to-cell satellite firm AST SpaceMobile this week announced a $155 million strategic investment from AT&T, Google, and Vodafone along with aggregate new financing of up to $206.5 million. This investment is to support  the commercial roll-out of AST SpaceMobile’s network and is compr...

Amazon logistics head John Felton to become CFO

Amazon's logistics head John Felton is set to replace current CFO Richard Puccio, who is planning to leave the company and take over as chief financial officer at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Felton has had a long history with Amazon as he has been in the company since 2004 when he was hired as ...

Google confirms Project Zodiac facility in Indiana

Google has confirmed it is involved in a major data center campus proposal in Fort Wayne, Indiana dubbed Project Zodiac. This project is a 12-building campus spanning more than 700 acres, bounded by East Tillman Road, Adams Center Road, and the railroad track. Google spokesperson Devon Smiley ...

Macquire to develop new data center in Australia

Macquarie Data Centres has revealed plans to add a third data center to its Sydney campus. This facility dubbed IC3 SuperWest, the data center received approval from the Independent Planning Commission New South Wales (IPC, NSW).  This new facility will bring the total IT capacity at the Macqu...

PowerHouse expands footprint into Nevada

PowerHouse Data Centers, a joint venture between American Real Estate Partners (AREP) and Harrison Street – this week announced that it has expanded out of Virginia and into Nevada with plans for a new campus in Reno. The company closed on the site of PowerHouse Reno; a three-building, 900,000...

Orange & Capgemini to unveil Microsoft-focused sovereign cloud venture

Orange

Orange & Capgemini this week announced that their Microsoft-focused Bleu joint venture is now getting ready for commercial operations. This cloud venture has begun engaging with ‘select French public and private organizations’ to ensure that they are ready for the migration once the first ...

Lunar Digital begins upgrade of the Reynolds House data center

Manchester

Lunar Digital began the planned multi-million-pound upgrade of the Reynolds House data center in Manchester, UK. The company started development works across all the data halls at the site, including full renovations of the C5 and C6 data halls to optimize power and cooling, the deployment of ...

1623 Farnam names Bill Severn as its new CEO

1623 Farnam LLC

Nesbraka data center firm 1623 Farnam has announced Bill Severn as its new CEO. Severn who joined the company as an operating partner in 2019 will now serve as its CEO and will fill the position of 1623 Farnam president, which was held by Todd Cushing since 2017. Severn said, "I've had the ple...

EllaLink to land first trans-Atlantic cable in French Guiana

EllaLink this week announced it has been awarded a contract by SPLANG (the Local Public Company for the Digital Development of Guyana) for a 2,100km extension to the existing EllaLink cable to land in the South American French territory. This new branch will land in Cayenne, French Guiana, and...

TA Realty unveils dedicated hyperscale data center development arm

North American real estate investment firm TA Realty recently unveiled a dedicated hyperscale data center development arm to be led by Tim Shaheen, who joined the company a year ago from Aligned Energy, where he was the EVP of strategy and development. Shaheen said, “I am thrilled to lead the ...

Worldline to move operations to Google Cloud Platform

Google

Global payment services company Worldline has agreed to migrate its operations to Google Cloud Platform as a part of its “Move to Cloud” program. Following this partnership, the payment service company will use Google’s Could Infrastructure and Google's data analytics and AI offerings to devel...

India’s Union Cabinet approves MoU with the European Union

India’s Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Modi, has approved the Memorandum of Understanding on semiconductors signed by India and the European Union in November 2023. Following this agreement, both governments will work together to build a robust semiconductor supply chain and further ...

Michael Winterson leaves Equinix after 24 years

Equinix

Michael Winterson has left colocation provider Equinix after 24 years to take on the role of managing director for the European Data Centre Association. Winterson wrote on LinkedIn, “Exactly 24 years ago I started my data center career at IXEurope, not 300 meters from our current Equinix offic...

LightEdge acquires data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

GI Partners

GI Partners-owned company  LightEdge this week announced it had acquired a 76,000-square-foot, 3.6MW facility, located at 1708 West Creek Lane in Carver County, Chaska, Minnesota.  This data center houses 30,000 square feet of data hall space across three private data center suites. LightEdge ...

General Atlantic to plans Actis acquisition

United States

Growth equity firm General Atlantic has recently revealed plans to acquire sustainable infrastructure investor Actis. This deal will create an investment platform with about  $96 billion in combined assets under management. Company head Torbjorn Caesar, who will continue to run the business, s...

DigitalOcean to now offer Nvidia H100 GPUs

United States

Cloud provider DigitalOcean which is dedicated to small-to-medium businesses and startups, has added to its GPU-accelerated cloud computing platform with Nvidia chips. With this new upgrade, DigitalOcean's ability to offer cloud-based artificial intelligence, machine learning applications, and...