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Tonaquint rebrands to ValorC3 Data Centers

ValorC3 Data Centers

US data center firm Tonaquint announced this week that it has rebranded to ValorC3 Data Centers, saying the move aligns with its focus to expand colocation, cloud, and connectivity services across the US.“Technology is advancing at lightning speed – and so are we,” said Jim Buie, CEO of ValorC...

Canadian government to support quantum technology projects with CA$74m

Canada

The Canadian government has announced more than CA$74 million (US$52 million) in funding for quantum technology projects which will be used to support 107 initiatives spanning quantum computing, communications, encryption, materials, and sensing.The government said the funding package aligns w...

Northpoint proposes 15-building data center campus in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

Northpoint Development is set to present plans for Project Hazelnut to Luzerne County Council’s infrastructure committee this week. According to council documents, Northpoint is planning a 1,283-acre, 15-building campus in Hazle Township’s 3,000-acre Humboldt North Industrial Park.The first me...

GlobalFoundries to build an Advanced Packaging and Photonics Center in New York

New York

GlobalFoundries (GF) has announced plans to build an Advanced Packaging and Photonics Center in the state of New York, USA, described as the center as “the first of its kind.” The company said the new facility would allow semiconductors to be “securely manufactured, processed, packaged, and te...

ABC WFAA used Baxtel's research for the Texas market

ABC WFAA used Baxtel's research on the Texas data center market in an article about OpenAI's Stargate data center. Read more on the WFAA ABC news site

Adarga teams up with Oracle Cloud

Oracle

UK AI defense company Adarga is teaming up with Oracle Cloud  to offer Adarga's defense and security software Vantage via Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle's distributed cloud. Vantage will initially be deployed in the Oracle Cloud for UK Government and Defence, Oracle's cloud region spec...

CloudHQ forms a JV with ESR Group

Japan

Data center provider CloudHQ has formed a joint venture with real asset manager ESR Group for the Cosmosqure data center project in Osaka, Japan. Located in Nanko Kita, 10km (6.2 miles) from Osaka’s central business district, the campus will see an investment of $2 billion to deliver a planned...

Rowan secures $975 million for Maryland data center campus

Rowan Digital Infrastructure

Data center developer Rowan Digital Infrastructure has closed $975 million of construction financing to build out its upcoming campus in Maryland. The funds will be used to build the first phase of a hyperscale data center campus in Maryland at the TPG-owned site in Frederick County. Phase one...

University of Stuttgart’s Hunter supercomputer now online

Germany / Deutschland

The University of Stuttgart’s Hunter supercomputer has begun operations in Germany. This is one of two HPE supercomputers ordered by the university to take its High-Performance Computing Center (HLRS) up to exascale level. The second system, named Herder, is due to be installed in 2027. The €1...

Servier expands partnership with Google AI

Google

International pharmaceutical group Servier has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate the research and development (R&D) of pharmaceuticals.This expanded five-year agreement will see Servier using Google Cloud's AI offerings for R&D. Google Cloud will help Servier to ...

Sabey Data Centers names Tim Mirick as president

Sabey Data Centers

Sabey has appointed a new president for its data centers business, naming Tim Mirick as a replacement for the outgoing presodent Rob Rockwood, who stepped down from his role at the end of December. Mirick, who has served as chief revenue officer since 2012, joined Sabey in 2012. He previously ...

Telehouse launches liquid cooling lab at London data center

Telehouse

Telehouse has teamed up with four cooling technology vendors; Accelsius, EkkoSense, JetCool, and Legrand to launch a liquid cooling lab at its London data center. Liquid cooling technologies from these vendors will be on display at Telehouse South, at the company’s London Docklands campus. Mar...

Macquarie invests in Applied Digital's AI data center business

Applied Digital

Investment firm Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) is set to invest $5 billion into Applied, a cryptomining firm pivoting to AI and HPC data centers. Under the deal, MAM will invest up to $900 million in Applied's Ellendale campus in development in North Dakota, and has the right of first refusa...

Apollo Global Management is acquiring Argo Infrastructure Partners.

TierPoint

Investment giant Apollo Global Management is acquiring Argo Infrastructure Partners in a deal that will add approximately $6 billion of assets to the Apollo infrastructure platform.  Argo is the majority owner of US data center firm TierPoint, which operates around 40 facilities across 18 US m...

Colorado gov't completes migration to state-owned data center

LDeX Group

The government of Colorado has completed its migration to a state-owned data center, marking the end of a two-year process exiting the leased eFORT data center and entering the state-owned Lakewood Data Center. The project has been ongoing since June 2022, with the Governor's Office of Informa...

Edged and Merlin plan two gigawatt-scale data center campuses in Spain

Spain

Data center firm Edged Energy and real estate firm Merlin Properties this week announced a public-private project with the regional government of Extremadura to develop facilities located in Navalmoral de la Mata in Cáceres Province and Valdecaballeros in Badajoz Province, each site offering u...

General Catalyst chooses AWS as primary cloud provder

Amazon AWS

General Catalyst, a global investment company, is teaming up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the development of healthcare AI tools, to be the company's official preferred cloud provider, supplying the necessary technology and compute for the development of solutions for healthcare systems....

Australian gov't to provide additional $3bn to complete fiber build-out

Australia

The Australian government has pledged this week to provide an additional AU $3 billion (US$1.86bn) to support NBN Co's fiber network upgrades. NBN Co noted that the investment is in addition to more than AU$800 million (US$494m) of its own investment.NBN, which is a state-owned corporation of ...

Oklo and RPower to deploy nuclear and natural gas hybrid power model for data centers

United States

Small modular reactor and nuclear recycling firm Oklo has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with RPower, a provider of onsite prime and backup power solutions, to deploy a phased power model that combines natural gas and nuclear power for the data center sector. The model will combine...

Cottonwood Group closes $56 million in financing

United States

Cottonwood Group closed $56 million in financing for three data center developments in Arizona, Ohio, and Virginia. Based in California, Cottonwood is a private equity real estate investment firm headed up by CEO Alexander Shing.“The timing for these investments was ideal, given the sector’s e...