Data Center News

Alibaba Cloud Launches Mexico Cloud Region

Chinese cloud company Alibaba Cloud has launched its first Mexican cloud region located in Querétaro with one availability zone. The new region brings Alibaba's total network to 87 availability zones across 29 regions. Details about the data center hosting the region have not been shared.“The ...

CommBank Signs Five- year Deal with AWS

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is extending its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and has signed a five-year agreement with AWS that will see the company remain the bank's preferred cloud provider.The bank is using AWS' cloud and AI service to develop its CommBiz Gen AI-powered me...

Prometheus Hyperscale Hires Liquid Cooling Expert John Gross as CTO

Prometheus Hyperscale has appointed liquid cooling expert John Gross as CTO. Gross has been with the firm for the last four years as lead engineering consultant. In his new role he will lead the Prometheus engineering team and “leverage his extensive experience in designing and commissioning i...

DataBank Raises $250 Million from TJC

DataBank, a data center colocation, interconnection, and managed services company, has raised $250 million from TJC (formerly The Jordan Company). This incestment fund came from excess interest in the company's $2 billion round last October. The operator has raised nearly $5bn in debt and equi...

Oracle Database@Google Cloud adds Eight Regions

Oracle is expanding the availability of its multi-cloud offering, Oracle Database@Google Cloud to include eight new regions and will be introducing new capabilities to the offering.Over the next 12 months, Oracle Database@Google Cloud will be available in the US Central 1 (Iowa), North America...

Top Data Center News from January 27th - 31st 2025

This week, Amazon secured two solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in Japan.The first deal is a 20-year PPA with EDP Renewables APAC, a subsidiary of EDP-Energias de Portugal and the second deal is another 20-year PPA with X-Elio in Japan for the full capacity of the 14MW Funaki solar plant....

Euroclear Signs Seven Year Cloud Deal with Microsoft

Belgium financial services company Euroclear has signed a seven-year cloud deal with Microsoft.  Euroclear will develop a financial data-sharing platform, bring AI into its Euroclear FundsPlace to improve customer experience, as well as work to strengthen Euroclear's infrastructure backbone.Va...

Aussie Digital Transformation Agency Signs New Agreement with AWS

Australia's Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has signed a new three-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for whole-of-government services and builds on the previous 2019 deal awarded to AWS.This agreement will see AWS provide support for Australian Public Service technology and clo...

Andhra Pradesh Government to Develop "Data City" in India

The Andhra Pradesh government is set to develop a 500-acre “Data City” in Visakhapatnam, India which will be located in Madhurawada and built to replicate Hyderabad’s HITEC City. The local government in the South Indian state has been focused on establishing the city of Visakhapatnam as a tech...

Polcom to Build Two Data Centers Near Krakow

Polish data center operator Polcom is set to build two new data centers and launch a new service platform - Polcom AI Cloud. The two data centers - DC3 and DC4 - will have a combined capacity of 44MW. Each facility will span three floors with three 300 sqm data halls.The facilities will use hy...

United Group Invests €120m in Four Renewable Projects

Southeastern European telco firm United Group has invested €120 million ($125.1 million) to support the development of three solar power plants and a wind farm in Bulgaria. The projects will have a combined capacity of 124MW.The first solar plant, located near Stara Zagora, reached operational...

CMA Releases Provisional Findings for Cloud Services Market Investigation

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has released its provisional findings for its cloud services market investigation which set out to see if there were elements of cloud service providers' offerings that had an "adverse effect on competition" (AEC), and has provisionally conclude...

Free University of Brussels to Host Incoming Flemish Tier-1 S upercomputer

The Flemish Supercomputer Centre (VSC) has selected the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Free University of Brussels) to host and manage the next Flemish Tier-1 supercomputer. It will be housed in a Nexus-built data center at the Green Energy Park in Zellik, a town in the province of Flemish Braba...

Amazon Signs Two PPAs in Japan

Amazon has secured two solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in Japan.In its first deal, Amazon signed a 20-year PPA with EDP Renewables APAC, a subsidiary of EDP-Energias de Portugal, to buy power from a 44MW solar farm in Fukushima. The project includes 63,000 solar panels and is expected t...

NREL Launches Geothermal Storage Project

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a federally funded research center, has launched a new project to address the increasing energy consumption of data center cooling. It aims to incorporate geothermal underground thermal energy storage (UTES) technology at data center sites natio...

Trump Plans “100 percent tax” on Foreign Semiconductors

President Trump has announced plans to impose tariffs on foreign-made computer chips, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals, in particular those originating from Taiwan, claiming the tariffs would incentivize tech companies to manufacture chips in the US instead of Taiwan."In the very near futur...

Salute Acquires Data Center Services Provider Keysource

Salute this week announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Keysource Group, with the deal is set to close in Q2 2025, subject to regulatory approval. The deal will see Keysource’s team of 130 join Salute. Jon Healy, EMEA president and group COO at Keysource, said: "Salute and ...

Microsoft acquires land in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for data center development

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Microsoft has purchased another 240 acres of land in Wisconsin for data center projects. The land in question is nearby to Microsoft's existing Mount Pleasant project, construction on which was "paused" at the start of this year. At the time, Microsoft said: “We have paused early construction ...

OpenAI Begins Hiring for Stargate Data Center's Core Team

OpenAI has begun hiring for the core team that will help develop The Stargate Project and is in search of a data center sourcing manager (equipment and vendors), and a technical program manager, infrastructure strategy. "Are you the type of person who is excited by massive global challenges sp...

STMicroelectronics Signs PPA with TotalEnergies in France

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European semiconductor firm STMicroelectronics has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Total Energies. The PPA will power STMicroelectronics sites in France and will be supplied from two recently constructed wind and solar farms with a combined capacity of 75MW."We are delight...