Data Center News

Telstra signs power purchase agreement in Queensland, Australia

Telstra

Australian telecommunications firm Telstra has signed a power purchase agreement with Munna Creek Solar Farm investment to support the development of the 120 MW Munna Solar Farm undergoing construction near Gympie in southeast Queensland. Following this agreement, Telstra will buy half of the ...

French authorities raid Nvidia offices raided amid cloud competition inquiry

France

France's competition authority raided Nvidia's French offices on September 27, 2023, as part of a general inquiry of French antitrust authorities into the cloud computing sector. According to the Wall Street Journal, which first broke the news, the Autorité de la concurrence only said the inve...

JTowers, NTT Docomo finalize tower transfer ownership

NTT

NTT Docomo announced on September 26, 2023, that it has agreed with JTowers on a deal to share its current telecommunication tower infrastructure. This agreement enables an ownership transfer of an additional 1,552 Docomo towers to JTower for 17 billion yen ($114 million). This comes after Doc...

IonQ unveils two rack-mounted quantum solutions

Maryland

A leading quantum computing firm, IonQ has announced plans for two rack-mounted solutions that introduce quantum capabilities to existing infrastructures: IonQ Forte Enterprise and IonQ Tempo. These solutions are mainly to help businesses leverage the power of quantum directly from their own d...

Nvidia, NTT Docomo to launch new GPU-accelerated 5G network

NTT

NTT Docomo has partnered with semiconductor company Nvidia to deploy a GPU-accelerated wireless solution in its network in Japan. This partnership will make it the first telco in the world to deploy a GPU-accelerated commercial 5G network.A blog post by Nvidia noted that this partnership "enab...

‘Fortune 200 tech company’ looks to build $750m campus in northern Ohio

Ohio

An unnamed Fortune 200 tech company plans to build a $750 million data center campus on about 750 acres between Perrysburg and Bowling Green in northern Ohio. This company is also undergoing deals and negotiations through a shell company, Liames LLC.Middleton Township trustees discussed plans ...

Slovak Telecom begins slated 3G shutdown

Europe

Slovak Telecom, owned by Deutsche Telekom, begins a phased 3G shutdown today, switching off services in Zlate Moravce and Zarnovica districts ahead of a gradual region-by-region closure. The Slovakian operator expects to complete its 3G shutdown by the end of the year. Slovak Telecom intends ...

South Korean Internet company Kakao completes DC construction

South Korea

South Korean internet company Kakao has revealed that its first in-house data center, Kakao Data Center Ansan, is now completed and is ready for full-scale operation in the first quarter of 2024. The center partially opened in 2021 but officially completed construction on September 26, 2023. I...

New York-based IBM spin-out Kyndryl to separate China business in response to changing data laws

Kyndryl

Global IT managed services provider Kyndryl is now considering separating its business in China into a separate entity in response to several geopolitical issues and the changing data laws in China.According to a report from the Financial Times, the IBM spin-out revealed this to some of its em...

Amazon plans four dc campuses in Mesa, Arizona

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has begun plotting for four new data centers in Mesa, Arizona, on land already owned by the company, as it looks to increase its footprints in the East Valley. The company has filed pre-submittal documents with Mesa's planning office for two data centers about four miles ap...

DC Blox completes purchase of 27.5 acres in South Carolina for 45MW DC campus

DC BLOX

Atlanta-based colocation provider DC Blox has completed the purchase of 27.5 acres in Berkeley County, SC, from Santee Cooper, South Carolina’s state-owned electric and water utility, for a new data center campus. This new facility, to be constructed in the Camp Hall commerce park, will be the...

Vacant data center in Blair, Nebraska up for sale

Nebraska

Cushman & Wakefield has listed a data center for sale at 256 E. Grant Street in Blair. The asking price for this facility outside Omaha, Nebraska, is listed as $1.76 million on the site and $1.5 million in the sales brochure.The 7,564 sq ft (700 sqm) facility was built on six acres in Wash...

North Carolina government funds new Washington-Warren Airport DC

North Carolina

After receiving additional government funding, North Carolina's Washington-Warren Airport is on track to get a new data center campus. This airport in Washington City will get $13.5 million in funding from the state budget.The government funds will be utilized to develop "key infrastructure," ...

Carbon Streaming Corp. signs carbon capture agreement with Microsoft

Microsoft Azure

Carbon Streaming Corporation announced it had signed an agreement to provide Microsoft with biochar carbon removal credits from the Waverly Biochar project in Waverly, Virginia. The company noted that the Biochar project would deliver Microsoft up to 10,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide removal cre...

Webel to construct new DC in West Bengal, India

India / Bhārata

West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Limited (Webel) is considering a new data center in Siliguri, the Indian state of West Bengal. This new data center will be Webel’s third facility focused on promoting the IT and electronics industries in the Indian state.  A senior offi...

Globe Telecom bags $263m loan for network rollout

Philippines

Philippines telco Globe has secured a $263 million loan with the Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company to finance its network upgrading and debt refinancing. In a press statement, the company had invested $660 million in Capex in the first half of this year. This investment was noted to be 25 ...

Amazon Pours Billions to AI startup Anthropic, Becomes Primary cloud provider

Amazon AWS

Amazon will invest $4 billion in AI startup Antropic, becoming its primary cloud provider. This announcement comes after the giant tech companies worldwide raced to benefit from the breakthroughs Antropic could have on their businesses. Antropic, considered one of the world’s most promising AI...

AI's Growth Drives Energy Demand, Sparking Concerns and Innovations

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is heralded as one of the most transformative technological advancements, comparable to the emergence of the internet. This sentiment is echoed by Wall Street, with the Nasdaq (^IXIC) witnessing a 26% surge this year, largely attributed to the enthusias...

Pi Datacenters to invest in new DC campus in Hyderabad, India

Pi Datacenters Pvt. Ltd

Pi Datacenters has revealed plans to expand operations in India by opening a new data center campus in Hyderabad. This new facility will lead the company's new AI Cloud vertical once completed and will be the company's headquarters. Kalyan Muppaneni, founder and CEO of Pi Datacenters, said to ...

AI Edge chip company Kneron raises additional $49m funds

San Diego

Kneron, a startup developing chips for AI inferencing, has raised $49 million from investors to scale up its hardware-developing efforts. Investors, including Foxconn HH-CTBC Partnership (Foxconn Co-GP Fund) and Alltek, made this additional investment, bringing the total Series B financing to ...