Data Center News

Metrobloks raises $5.2 million in funding round

New York

Metrobloks, a new data center startup focused on metro projects this week announced an oversubscribed $5.2 million seed round led by Current Equity Partners with the backing of Serena Capital. The company noted that it designs, deploys, and operates modular and scalable data centers in underse...

Microsoft acquires plots of land for data center campus outside Leeds

United Kingdom

Microsoft has acquired  48 acres of land at Harworth's Skelton Grange site in Leeds for £106.6 million for a data center development. The deal comprises two adjacent plots, the first plot  27 acres and sold for £52.9 million and the second totals 21 acres and will be sold for £53.2 million.“Si...

Australia's CSIRO launches Virga supercomputer

Australia

Australia's national science agency CSIRO has launched its Virga high-performance computing (HPC) cluster which comprises of  Dell PowerEdge XE9640 servers containing Intel Xeon processors, Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU accelerators with 94GB of high-bandwidth memory per GPU, and a Nvidia Transf...

Yotta to go public via SPAC merger

India / Bhārata

Indian data center firm Yotta, the data center unit of Nidar Infrastructure Limited is to go public on the Nasdaq following a definitive merger agreement with Cartica Acquisition Corp. "Through its Yotta data centers, Nidar is India's leading data center provider for AI and high-performance co...

América Móvil to increase stake in ClaroVTR to 91 percent

Chile

América Móvil has announced plans to increase its stake in Chilean telco ClaroVTR from from the 50 percent which was acquired as part of a 50:50 joint venture (JV) with Liberty Latin America (LLA) to 91 percent.“We are excited about the prospects of ClaroVTR. Our strong partnership with Libert...

Hivelocity launches private cloud offering

United States

IT service provider Hivelocity has launched a private cloud offering which uses the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), Cloud Director, and NSX architectures, as well as Hivelocity's pre-built infrastructure."As businesses seek to optimize their cloud expenditures while maintaining the necessary ca...

CPUC denies AT&T’s request to be released from COLR duties

California

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has voted to deny AT&T’s request to be released from its duties as Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) in the state, leaving the company legally obligated to provide its telephone services to anyone who asks."Despite AT&T’s contention that pr...

CSIRO partners with Alphabet moonshot unit for new inverter prototype

Australia

Australia's national science agency CSIRO is partnering with one of Alphabet’s skunkworks projects to develop a new type of smart inverter project to better handle renewable energy on the grid through greater real-time visibility and more simulation capabilities.The prototype smart inverter wa...

Stack unveils new scholarship program for female students in the UK

United Kingdom

Stack Infrastructure has launched a scholarship program for female students at universities in the UK which will be available to female students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds planning to study a STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) subject.The company will be responsible for f...

Ada Infrastructure receives approval Docklands data center

United Kingdom

Ada Infrastructure recently announced that it has received planning permission from the Newham Strategic Development Committee to develop one of London's largest data center campuses; 210MW data center campus in East London's Royal Docks in the UK.Jennifer Weitzel, president of Ada Infrastruct...

Verne deploys CFD cluster at Icelandic data center

Iceland

European data center firm Verne has partnered with high-performance computing (HPC) consultants OFC to deploy an HPC cluster in Iceland on behalf of open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software provider Engys. Engys notes that it is able to access to 100 percent renewable hydroelect...

Kyndryl upgrades data center for Panasonic Information Systems

IT services firm Kyndryl has upgraded a data center which handles the core systems for Panasonic Information Systems.  Kyndryl reduced the data center’s air conditioning unit quantity by 10 which enabled Panasonic to reduce the CO2 generated by its data center by around 180 tons per year.“Pana...

Xerox to migrate workloads to Microsoft's Azure cloud

United States

American printing and digital products provider has announced that it will be commencing a cloud migration to Microsoft Azure cloud with help from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). After this migration, Xerox will be able to deploy a cloud-based ERP platform and to use technologies such as gene...

Nuclear plant-owning utilities may join energy deals this year

United States

A recent S&P Global Ratings research note has found that nuclear plant-owning utilities in the US are likely to sign energy deals with data centers this year. The report noted that nuclear operators poised to take advantage include Constellation Energy Group, PSEG Power, and Vistra.“While ...

IFFCO to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for drone fertilizer spraying

India / Bhārata

The Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperation Ltd (IFFCO) has revealed plans to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for drone-based fertilizer spraying and has built a cloud-native application on Oracle Cloud that enables farmers to easily book, view, and manage drone-based spraying of IFFCO nan...

IQM Quantum Computers launches first quantum data center in Munich, Germany

Germany / Deutschland

IQM Quantum Computers has opened its first quantum data center on the company’s premises in Munich, Germany which currently houses two IQM quantum machines and will eventually have space to host up to 12 quantum computers, with 800kW of power capacity.“Our aim is to solve business challenges b...

Actis unveils Asia-focused data center firm Epoch Digital

Taiwan

Investment firm Actis this week announced the launch of Epoch Digital, with a current portfolio under development offering 200MW of IT capacity across three identified projects and more in the pipeline.CEO Chng said: “The emergence of generative AI is transforming industries at an unprecedente...

Honeywell to acquire aerospace technology firm CAES for $1.9bn

United States

US manufacturing company Honeywell has announced plans to buy aerospace technology provider CAES for $1.9 billion after agreeing to an all-cash deal with Advent International, the private equity firm that currently owns CAES.“This acquisition further positions Honeywell at the forefront of the...

Oracle to invest in AI and cloud computing in Spain

Oracle has announced plans to invest over $1 billion in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing in Spain which will enable Oracle to open a third cloud computing region in the country, located in Madrid.“The opening of the third Oracle cloud region in Spain is excellent news for our c...

Johnson Controls sells Air Distribution Technologies unit

Los Angeles

Johnson Controls  this week announced it had reached a definitive agreement to sell its Air Distribution Technologies business to Truelink, a middle-market private equity firm based in Los Angeles. The brands included in this sale are Koch Filter, Titus, Ruskin, Krueger, PennBarry, and Tuttle ...