Data Center News

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...

WIOCC secures green financing to fund OADC roll-out

Nigeria

Pan-African data center and fiber group WIOCC has secured green financing deal fromthe International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Proparco to fund its data center and fiber roll-out in three African countries.“We are excited to conclude this next stage of our capital raise, which will enable ...

US Navy connects aircraft carrier to the cloud

The US Navy has conducted a pilot project to see if users at sea can connect to cloud services and the project has demonstrated that the Navy can consistently move several terabytes of data each day between the cloud and thousands of users.Navy CIO Commander Kevin White during a live video dem...

KKR and Singtel to invest in STT GDC

KKR and Singtel are set to invest  in ST Telemedia Global Data Centres in an investment which will comprise an initial S$1.75bn (US$1.3bn) by the consortium via Redeemable Preference Shares. Once finished, Singtel and KKR may invest an additional S$1.24bn.Bruno Lopez, president & group CEO...

Vertiv join forces with Ballard for fuel-cell powered UPS test

Vertiv alongside fuel cell firm Ballard Power Systems this week entered into a strategic technology partnership, with a focus on backup power applications for data centers and critical infrastructures, scalable from 200kW to multiple megawatts.“As the soaring increase in data usage is driving ...

Microsoft signs carbon removal deal with Indigo AG

Microsoft has signed a carbon removal deal to purchase 40,000 agricultural soil-based carbon credits from Indigo AG's  third carbon crop, issued in February.Brian Marrs, senior director of energy and carbon removal at Microsoft said: “Soil organic carbon restoration is vital to the future of f...

Fortum plans new data center campus in Jyväskylä, Finland

Finnish state-owned energy company Fortum is planning to develop a data center in Central Finland and has  signed a letter of intent with the city of Jyväskylä to build a data center complex of at least 20 hectares on land owned by the city in the Seppälänkangas area of Jyväskylä.“Fortum is an...

HPE and Nvidia partner on AI portfolio with private cloud for GenAI

HPE and Nvidia have entered a partnership to develop a portfolio of AI products, which the two companies say will enable enterprises to accelerate the adoption of generative AI. According to a joint statement, the HPE Private Cloud AI integrates Nvidia’s AI computing, networking, and software ...

CBRE acquires Direct Line Global

Real estate services firm CBRE this week announced the acquisition of Direct Linel, a provider of mission-critical data center infrastructure, from Guardian Capital, a private equity firm.“This acquisition fits squarely with our strategy of enhancing our capabilities in asset classes that bene...

D-Wave to deploy on-premise quantum computer in Alabama

Quantum computing firm D-Wave will be placing an Advantage system on-premise at a new site operated by defense company Davidson Technologies. The QPU will be located at Davidson’s new global headquarters in Huntsville and placed in a secure facility developed to run sensitive applications.“Dav...

Reliance Jio experiences nationwide outage across India

Reliance Jio is experiencing a nationwide outage across India as customers are experiencing issues with mobile Internet services, Jio Fiber, and other Jio services."Metrics show a disruption to leading India Internet provider Reliance Jio (AS55836) affecting multiple regions, corroborating use...

HPE and Danfoss team up on modular data center heat reuse package

United States

HPE has partnered with engineering company Danfoss on a new package to help data center operators recover waste heat in a deal which will see HPE’s scalable modular data center (MDC) products combined with Danfoss heat reuse solutions.“Our strategic partnership with HPE is a great example of h...

Petronas unveil data center cooling fluid

Malaysia

Oil and gas company Petronas Lubricants International announced this week that it will be launching its Petronas Iona Tera, a liquid coolant specifically designed for data centers, and has partnered with Iceotope.Petronas Lubricants International’s MD and group CEO, Hezlinn Idris said: "Petron...

Africa Data Centres secures $109 million in financing

Africa Data Centres

Cassava Technologies group ADC has secured a bespoke financing solution worth ZAR2 billion ($109m) arranged by the South African banking group RMB. The funding will allow the company to expand its data center capacity and meet the growing demand for cloud computing in South Africa – expanding ...

UK Home Office to migrate systems out of police data center

United Kingdom

The UK's Home Office is planning to migrate all the systems and services out of a core Police data center located in Hendon, northwest London. The data center is government-owned, and has been home to the Police National Computer - a database of more than 130 million items - for the past 50 ye...

StackPath to close down business and liquidate assets

United States

Edge computing firm StackPath is closing the business and liquidating its assets as confirmed by many of its employees on LinkedIn. StackPath services set to be shuttered include Edge compute, DNS, object storage, network transit, data center colocation, and server monitoring. “After careful c...

Microsoft to invest heavily in new data centers in Aragon, Spain

Microsoft is planning to invest €6.69 billion ($7.16bn) in developing new data centers in the northeastern region of Aragon, Spain in a deal expected to span over the next 10 years. The regional government of Aragon has said that Microsoft filed for a construction permit to build data centers ...

Microsoft confirms Project Natick underwater data center is no longer active

Microsoft has confirmed that its Project Natick which had been quiet for a number of years but has continued to be referenced by media and other companies as an ongoing initiative is no longer active."I'm not building subsea data centers anywhere in the world," Noelle Walsh, the head of the co...

Vantage closes $9.2bn equity raise

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers revealed this week that it had completed a $9.2 billion equity investment led by investment vehicles managed by DigitalBridge and Silver Lake.“It’s exciting to experience such strong investor demand to fuel our unprecedented growth across North America and EMEA,” said Sure...

Provident Realty Advisors withdraws proposal for Indiana data center

Indiana

Provident Realty Advisors notified Chesterton officials on June 10 about its intention to withdraw its proposal for a $1.3 billion data center in Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana.The led to from residents regarding the development, with concerns surrounding negative impacts of air, water, en...