Data Center News

Google signs 128MW solar PPA in Texas

Google has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with renewable energy firm X-Elio to offtake from X-Elio’s 128MW Bell Solar PV Plant. The site will also include a 100MW battery energy storage system to provide energy demand support on a 24/7 basis.Mirko Molinari, CCO of X-Elio, said: “The P...

Indian conglomerate L&T to invest $300m to establish fabless chip company

Indian conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has revealed plans to invest more than $300 million to establish a fabless chip company in India  at the inaugural Semicon India 2024. Sandeep Kumar, CEO of the newly formed L&T Semiconductor Technologies, said the company plans to design 1...

Data center fire in Singapore impacts Alibaba Cloud services

Singapore

A data center fire incident in Singapore has caused issues to Alibaba's cloud services. The company said it occurred in Availability Zone C of its Singapore region."At 10:20 on September 10, 2024 Beijing time, Alibaba Cloud monitoring detected network access anomalies in availability zone C of...

SiMa.ai unveils new multi-modal platform for Edge AI

United States

SiMa.ai has launched MLSoC Modalix, a multi-modal, software-centric Edge AI chip for its embedded Edge machine learning system-on-chip (MLSoC) offering. MLSoC Modalix is the second generation of SiMa’s MLSoC and it supports CNNs, transformers, LLMs, LMMs, and generative AI at the Edge, reporte...

SambaNova unveils new AI inference cloud

Chip and artificial intelligence (AI) model developer SambaNova Systems has launched an AI cloud offering using the SN40L AI chip. The SambaNova cloud can be accessed by developers via an API and create their own generative AI applications using the open-source Llama 3.1 405B and Llama 3.1 70B...

Oracle makes Database@Google Cloud generally available

Oracle

Oracle and Google Cloud this week announced that the Database@Google Cloud is available in four regions in the US and Europe. The solution is now available from Google Cloud data center regions including US East (Ashburn, Virginia), US West (Salt Lake City, Utah), UK South (London), and German...

Fire incident causes emergency power shutdown at Digital Realty

A fire at a Digital Realty data center in Singapore has continued into its second day. The fire alarm was triggered at its SIN11 data center at 7.45am local time yesterday, September 10. By 8.04pm local time, Alibaba, which runs some of its cloud service from the data center, said that, though...

EU advised to encourage telecoms mergers

Europe

A recent report has advised the European Union (EU) to soften its stance on telecom industry mergers, urging that mergers should be viewed more favorably by the EU than is currently the case. Former European Central Bank president and former Prime Minister of Italy, Mario Draghi stated that Eu...

New data center planned in Ashburn, Virginia

Virginia

Daniel Golding, CTO of Appleby Strategy Group, this week announced plans for a new data center at the Quantum Park in Loudoun County. The address is 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, located within the Quantum Park business park. The park is the former UUNet/MCI Worldcom site that was a key connec...

NTT selected to deploy Private 5G in Brownsville, Texas

NTT

NTT Data has been selected by the City of Brownsville in Texas to deploy private 5G wireless connectivity across the city. It will build and manage a turnkey private 5G network with high-speed and low latency. In addition, NTT’s Smart Solutions will be deployed to deliver data analysis, predic...

US DOE launches HPC research program

United States

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has announced a new $23 million research and development program led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The  initiative will see a team led by ORNL source R&D proposals across the areas of hardware, software, and critical technolo...

Adisyn exits Perth data center

Australia

Australian MSP Adisyn previously known as DC Two, announced it has negotiated a surrender of its Bibra Lake data center lease. The company will exit the lease on 18 October - decommissioning and selling plant and equipment at the site - and said the move would result in approximately AU$350,00...

Oracle and AWS partner for Oracle Database@AWS

Amazon AWS

Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are launching Oracle Cloud offerings on Amazon's cloud platform. This solution enables customers to access Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure and Oracle Exadata Database Service within AWS. It will also allow customers to connect their e...

EE becomes the third carrier of 5G Standalone network in UK

United Kingdom

EE has launched its 5G Standalone (5G SA) network in the UK, becoming the third carrier in the country to launch 5G SA, following Vodafone and Virgin Media O2.However, EE is the first to charge a premium for its 5G SA service.“Today, EE is launching UK firsts in network capabilities designed t...

Beyond.pl to expand Poznan campus capacity

Poland

Polish data center operator Beyond.pl has announced plans to expand its Poznan campus to offer 150MW of IT capacity, almost doubling its current capacity with stands at 86MW. The existing facility on the campus, dubbed Data Center 2, has a target capacity of 42MW. The company is now set to bui...

Exa Infrastructure to acquire Bulgarian telco GCN

EXA Infrastructure

Exa Infrastructure has announced its plans to acquire Bulgarian telco Global Communication Net AD (GCN). Exa Infrastructure did not disclose terms of the deal, but the company did state it expects the deal to conclude the during the fourth quarter of this year."The GCN network consists of over...

Seagate expands its Lyve Cloud Object Storage offering with new regions

Seagate Technology has expanded its Lyve Cloud Object Storage offering and added new regions in Europe and Japan. Melyssa Banda, VP of enterprise systems and solutions at Seagate said that the new features and expanded regional coverage will help customers build out their regional presence and...

T-Mobile to get exclusive access to Starlink for one year

SpaceX founder Elon Musk confirmed this week that its satellite broadband subsidiary Starlink will provide mobile phone Internet in the US exclusively to T-Mobile for just one year. After that,the service will be opened up to other mobile carriers, he added in a post on X (formerly Twitter) ea...

ACCC approves Optus-TPG network sharing agreement

Australia

Australian regulator ACCC has approved the proposed regional network-sharing agreement struck by Optus and TPG Telecom, enabling the telcos to create a regional Multi-Operator Core Network (MOCN), which will last for 11 years.  ACCC said it would not oppose the plans in a statement yesterday. ...

Philippines officials to convert dormant nuclear power plant into data center

Philippines officials  are making plans to convert Bataan Nuclear Power Plant [BNPP], the country's only nuclear power station into a data centre. Construction began on the plant in 1976 and was completed in the mid-1980s despite delays and ballooning costs. However, it was never fuelled or ac...