Data Center News

Microsoft signs agreement to use Oracle Cloud for AI inference

Microsoft Azure

Oracle recently announced a multi-year agreement with Microsoft to support the growth of AI services. Following this agreement, Microsoft will use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI infrastructure and Microsoft Azure AI infrastructure to infuse AI models to power Microsoft Bing conversationa...

Deutsche Telekom’s subsidiary signs solar energy in Germany

Germany / Deutschland

Power and Air Condition Solution Management GmbH (PASM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, has signed a long-term PPA with energy group EnBW. Following this 15-year agreement, PASM will offtake 100MW from the 960MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the North Sea. Construction of the...

Telecom Italia's biggest shareholder opposes KKR bid

Telecom Italia Sparkle S.p.A.

Telecom Italia recently agreed to sell its landline business to investment firm KKR for €22 billion. This deal, backed by Giorgia Meloni's Italian government, was finally approved by TIM on November 5 without making it conditional on a vote by shareholders. Though the board voted 11-3 in favor...

Cloudflare blames Flexential DC outage for its service disruption

Flexential

Content Delivery Network (CDN), security, and Edge computing company Cloudflare has blamed its November 2 service disruption on a power failure at a Flexential data center in Hillsboro, Oregon. "On November 2 at 08:50 UTC, Portland General Electric (PGE), the utility company that services PDX-...

Equinix-owned MainOne launches new data center in Ivory Coast

MainOne MDX-i

Equinix-owned MainOne this week announced the launch of its new Tier III-quality data center in the Village of ICT & Biotechnology of Côte d'Ivoire in Grand Bassam, on the outskirts of Abidjan. Abayomi Adebanjo, regional business head at MainOne, said, “As we round up the year, [we are] ex...

UK gov pours $36 million into district heating system to heat 10,000 homes

United Kingdom

The UK Government has awarded £36 million to a district heating system in West London, which will share data center waste heat with up to 10,000 new homes. The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) will be paid this fund to create the heating system to harness waste heat betwee...

Liberty Latin to acquire Dish's spectrum assets in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands

Puerto Rico

Liberty Latin America Ltd has struck a deal with Dish Network to acquire Dish's spectrum assets in Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands, including 120,000 prepaid mobile subscribers in those markets, for $256 million. This amount will be paid in four annual installments commencing ...

SiTime Corporation acquires time-related IP for $148 million

United States

SiTime Corporation announced this week that it agreed with Aura Semiconductor to purchase its clock products and license all its clock IPs. This agreement between both companies allows SiTime to hold exclusive, perpetual, and irrevocable rights to sell existing and new products based on Aura’s...

Goodman says it has capacity for 3.7GW of data centers

Germany / Deutschland

Real estate group Goodman has over 3GW of potential data center capacity in its pipeline, according to a Q1 2024 operational update published yesterday. The company notes that this is an opportunity worth tens of billions of dollars as it outlines its ambitions for the data center space.  The ...

Iron Mountain to convert records management facility in Miami to a data center

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain is to convert one of its former records management facilities in Miami, Florida, into a data center that will offer 16MW.  Iron Mountain CEO William L. Meaney said during the company's Q3 2023 earnings call last week, “Miami is a key market where a number of our customers are loo...

Vodacom begins 5G technology testing in Congo

Vodacom Business

Vodacom Congo announced that it has recently begun the testing phase of its 5G technology. However, the company noted in an interview with ITWeb Africa that its main focus is still expanding its existing 4G network coverage and mobile money services. Vodacom DRC CEO Khalil Al Americani said in...

Companies plan new “Fuel cell-powered” data center in Ireland

Europe

SK Ecoplant and Lumcloon Energy are planning to create a new age data center in Ireland that will depend on gas-powered fuel cells rather than the regular grid connection. The  Irish development company and SK Group’s construction subsidiary signed this agreement this week during a trade missi...

Gaw & Sinar Primera to construct new DC facility in Batam, Indonesia

Batam

Real estate private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners and Indonesian developer Sinar Primera announced a partnership this week to build a data center in Batam, Indonesia. Gaw will be acting as the primary investor in this partnership with Sinar Primera as the development manager will take a min...

Dominion to construct the largest-ever authorized wind project in the US

United States

Utility Dominion Energy has recently received permission from the US Interior Department for a 2.6 gigawatt offshore wind farm near the Virginia coast, the largest-ever wind project to be authorized in the US. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said, “The Interior Department is committed to...

Google signs first wind PPA in Poland

Google

Google has signed its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA)  to procure renewable energy in Poland . Following this agreement with Polsat Plus Group, Google will now offtake from the company’s wind farm in Przyrów to power Google Cloud’s operations. Tara Brady, president, Google Cloud EMEA said...

Biden orders companies to report large compute deployments to US gov

United States

Biden has imposed an executive order focused on artificial intelligence, mandating all large computing clusters to be registered with the federal government.  Following this order,  "companies, individuals, or other organizations or entities that acquire, develop, or possess a potential large-...

X claims $100m annual savings upon exiting Sacramento data center

Sacramento

X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, claims to have saved $100 million annually after exiting its Sacramento data center via a post on the platform. X further claimed to have saved a significant amount by repatriating some of its workloads to on-prem data centers. The company...

Secretary of state dismisses data center plan in Buckinghamshire

Michael Gove, the UK Secretary of State, has dismissed a planning appeal by Greystoke Land to construct a data center campus in Iver, Buckinghamshire. Greystoke planned to develop up to 163,000 square meters of data center floor space across three 243,600 sq ft buildings. Once completed, this ...

Microsoft to develop new facility in Rome, Georgia

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has revealed its plans to construct a new data center campus on a 347-acre property on Huffaker Road, east of Fouche Gap Road, outside Rome, Georgia. The Rome Floyd County Development Authority (RFCDA), as well as several local news outlets, announced the $1 billion campus outside th...

Vantage closes €2.5 billion investment deal in Europe

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has finalized an investment partnership with DigitalBridge and a consortium of investors led by MEAG and Infranity for some of its European data center assets. The collaboration between both companies consists of six data center facilities across Europe, valued at around €...