Data Center News

Liberty Latin America acquires mobile spectrum from EchoStar

Puerto Rico

Liberty Latin America (LLA) has acquired spectrum assets from EchoStar in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.The acquisition also includes close to 85,000 pre-paid mobile subscribers, confirmed LLA in a statement.LLA will pay $255 million for the assets, to be paid across four installments,...

PowerHouse acquires land in North Carolina for new data center

PowerHouse Data Centers

 PowerHouse Data Centers's alongside real estate investment management firm Town Lane this week announced the completed purchase of 122 acres in Charlotte via a joint venture partnership between both companies. The site is intended for a five-building, 2.5 million square feet (232,255 sqm) dat...

Penta Infra plans new data center in Copenhagen, Denmark

Penta Infra

 European data center firm Penta Infra has announced the acquisition of a site that will be developed into a 20,000 sqm (215,280 sq ft) data center, delivering 20MW of IT load. This will be the company's second facility in the Danish capital. Penta acquired its Glostrup, Copenhagen, data cente...

1547 CSR and Harrison Street acquire carrier hotel in Indiana

Indiana

 Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) and Harrison Street announced the acquisition of the Global Access Point Union Station data center located in Northern Indiana. This facility offers access to more than 20 telecommunication network service providers, totaling  75,000 sq ft (6,9...

Blackstone acquires AirTrunk for AU$24bn

Australia

 Blackstone has acquired APAC data center firm AirTrunk from Macquarie Asset Management and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board. for US$16.1 billion, making it the largest-ever deal in the space. This deal was secured with funds from Blackstone along with the Canada Pension Plan Investm...

Duos launches first Edge data center in Texas

Texas

 Duos Technology, a company specializing in machine vision and AI to analyze fast-moving objects including trains, this week announced the launch of its first Edge data center at the Region 16 Education Service Center in Amarillo.  Doug Recker, president of Duos Edge AI said Amarillo is a loca...

Quantum Brilliance partners with ORNL for hybrid quantum computing project

Diamond-based quantum technology company Quantum Brilliance has partnered with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to integrate room-temperature quantum computers with classical supercomputers. They aim to build a platform that will support the on-premises integration of Quantum Brilliance’s ...

Singtel and Nscale announce partnership to accelerate GPU capacity

Europe

 Singaporean telco Singtel has formed a strategic partnership with AI cloud provider Nscale to accelerate GPU capacity across Europe and Southeast Asia. This partnership dubbed GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), will see Nscale receive access to Singtel’s Nvidia H100 GPU capacity in Southeast Asia thr...

Microsoft signs rooftop solar PPA in Singapore

Microsoft Azure

 Microsoft has signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with EDP Renewables (EDPR) to purchase 100 percent of the renewable energy exported to the grid from the energy firm's 200MWp SolarNova 8 project.  EDPR said phase eight of the SolarNova program is both the largest solar project in Singa...

Empyrion Digital to expand into Japan

Japan

 APAC data center firm Empyrion Digital  this week announced it has signed a binding agreement with “one of Japan’s largest diversified financial services groups” to develop a 25MW AI-ready data center in Tokyo.  Mark Fong, CEO of Empyrion Digital described the news as a "significant milestone...

RBA selects NTT for new IT infrastructure

Australia

 The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has selected NTT Australia for the 'design and implementation' of its new IT infrastructure. This contract worth AU$12.7 million is part of RBA's CoreMod program, an effort that was revealed at the end of 2023.  While this "design and implementation phase" ...

Stellium to deploy Submer immersion cooling at Newcastle data center

United Kingdom

 UK colo firm Stellium Datacenters this week announced a collaboration with immersion cooling firm Submer and petrochemical/immersion cooling fluid supplier ExxonMobil as it plans to develop Submer’s immersion cooling technology at its data center campus in Newcastle. Under the agreement, Subm...

Thai telco True to take legal actions against mobile tower thieves

Thailand / Prathet Thai

 Thai telco True Corporation has confirmed it's taking legal action against thieves stealing mobile tower equipment from its sites. The company has appointed a legal firm to collaborate with the police on all cases, including thefts of lithium batteries, cables, and base station equipment acro...

IndiGo airline completes cloud migration process

India / Bhārata

Indian airline IndiGo has completed its cloud migration program, shifting all of its workloads to the cloud in less than 18 months. It is using advanced cloud technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics to support its services.  Neetan Chopra, IndiGo's ...

Gold Fields migrates to AWS

Amazon AWS

Mining company Gold Fields revealed at the recent AWS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa that it has migrated its SAP and treasury systems to Amazon Web Services. Gold Fields has been able to adopt advanced analytics, machine learning (ML), and generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabil...

Data center firms announce $5bn data center JV for CoreWeave

Chirisa Investments

Data center firms Chirisa and PowerHouse are partnering with asset manager Blue Owl for a multi-billion-dollar joint venture to build data centers for AI cloud firm CoreWeave.  The agreement is intended as the first stage of a partnership with capacity to deploy up to $5 billion of capital for...

CoreSite seeks tax rebate for Denver data center

Denver

American Towner-owned company CoreSite is planning to “rehabilitate and activate” an abandoned industrial site in Denver as part of a proposed tax agreement. The data center campus will span 600,000 square feet and create up to 75 new trades and technology-oriented jobs, according to a present...

Zettabyte proposes new AI data center in Taiwan

Taiwan

Zettabyte, which describes itself as “Asia's leading AI data center software and systems technology provider" has announced a strategic partnership with Wistron Corporation, a technology service provider, to build Taiwan's first hyperscale AI data center.  Kenneth Chung-Hou Tai, chairman of Ze...

DOE's advisory board proposes ways to combat AI data center power challenges

United States

 The US Department of Energy's advisory board has proposed ways to combat the growing challenge of AI data center power use and its impact on the grid. The  board suggested building an AI data center for national labs, academia, and industry "to collaborate in development and assessment of alg...

STT GDC to pilot AI data center cooling control system

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has annunced plans to pilot an artificial intelligence-based autonomous control system for cooling.   Daniel Pointon, group CTO at STT GDC, said: “Combining our expertise in delivering AI-ready data centers across major economic hubs with Phaidra’s in...