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CoreWeave to Develop 180MW data center in Indiana

AI cloud firm CoreWeave is to build a 180MW data center in Indiana. It was revealed ata city council meeting this week, the City of Hammond unanimously approved a development agreement for a multibillion-dollar data center investment with CoreWeave.CoreWeave will expand its current presence at...

June 12, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CoreWeave

CoreWeave Selected as AI Partner by Aston Martin Aramco

Formula One team Aston Martin Aramco has signed a multi-year agreement with AI cloud provider CoreWeave. As part of the partnership, CoreWeave will help Aston Martin Aramco to move its on-premises computing infrastructure to a cloud computing environment, which Aston Martin hopes will "elimina...

May 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CoreWeave

Merlin Edged Launches Barcelona Data Center

Merlin Edged has launched a data center in Barcelona, inaugurated today by the Mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, and Albert Tort, Secretary of Telecommunications and Digital Transformation of the Government at Generalitat de Catalunya. This facility will be used by neocloud Coreweave. "We'll...

May 16, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CoreWeave

CoreWeave first two UK data center locations now operational

GPU cloud firm CoreWeave this week announced that two of its initial data center locations, in Crawley and London's Docklands, are now operational. The company said these sites will host some of Europe's largest Nvidia GPU deployments, powered by the chip giant’s H200 hardware.Mike Mattacola, ...

January 13, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CoreWeave

Meta & QTS sign solar PPA in Oregon

Avangrid and Portland General Electric (PGE) have signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with QTS and Meta for energy from a 120MW solar energy project under construction in Morrow County, Oregon. This project will deliver energy to the PGE grid through the Green Future Impact (GFI) program, ...

December 06, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

CoreWeave and Core Scientific launch 100MW data center in Oklahoma

CoreWeave and Core Scientific this week announced ground had been broken on a 100MW facility in the Port of Muskogee in West Oklahoma. The facility will provide approximately 70MW of critical IT load, with the remaining 30MW powering ancillary systems required to ensure optimal GPU performance...

November 26, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CoreWeave

Sixth Street acquires minority stake in EdgeConneX

Investment firm Sixth Street has acquired a minority stake in data center firm EdgeConneX from EQT as both companies announced that the EQT Infrastructure IV and V funds have signed an agreement to sell a minority stake in EdgeConneX to funds managed by Sixth Street. Infrastructure will remain...

September 24, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

EdgeConneX

PowerHouse acquires land in North Carolina for new data center

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...

September 07, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

PowerHouse Data Centers

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

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...

September 01, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Chirisa Investments

Blackstone claims a data center portfolio of $55bn

Investment management company Blackstone in its latest earnings call mentioned that it has more than $70 billion in prospective data center pipeline development and over $70 billion in prospective data center pipeline development. CEO Stephen Schwarzman said that "the consequences of AI are as...

July 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

CoreWeave to launch data centers in mainland Europe

Quantum computing startup Atom Computing has secured a funding investment of 70 million DKK ($10.21 million) from the Danish government. State-owned EIFO, the national promotional bank and export credit agency of Denmark. Invest in Denmark, also involved in the deal, is part of the Ministry of...

June 10, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CoreWeave

Core Scientific rejects acquisition offer from CoreWeave

Cryptomine and HPC hosting firm Core Scientific has rejected an acquisition offer from GPU provider CoreWeave after confirming that it received an unsolicited non-binding proposal from CoreWeave on June 3 to acquire all of the outstanding shares of the company on a fully diluted basis for $5.7...

June 03, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CoreWeave

Coreweave to make billion dollar investment in UK data centers

AI cloud provider CoreWeave has revealed its plans to invest £1 billion in expanding its operations in the UK which will enable the launch of two data centers in the UK in 2024, with further expansion plans for 2025. The cloud provider has also opened an office in London, which will be its Eu...

May 08, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CoreWeave

Lumen secures new contract from GAO

Lumen Technologies has secured a contract worth about $73.6 million from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) under the General Services Administration's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program. This multi-million dollar contract will see Lumen modernize network, data, voice...

April 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Lumen Technologies

EdgeConneX secures $1.9 billion sustainable-tied financing

This week, EdgeConneX announced it had secured an additional $1.9 billion in sustainability-linked financing to support its EMEA expansion. The company mentioned that this financing consolidates it’s portfolio across EMEA, transitioning it from “stand-alone project-based funding to a more robu...

April 12, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

EdgeConneX

EQT Infrastructure partners with EdgeConneX to develop hyperscale facility

Investment firm EQT’s Infrastructure VI fund has invested in EdgeConneX to build and operate purpose-built data centers for hyperscale customers around the world, expanding the company into new markets. Terms of this investment were not shared. However, EQT noted that this investment by EQT In...

January 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

EdgeConneX

CoreWeave acquires thousands of Dell PowerEdge servers

AI infrastructure company CoreWeave recently purchased thousands of Dell PowerEdge servers for its cloud, some of which will feature Nvidia's H100 Tensor Core GPUs to provide AI and generative AI services to CoreWeave's customers. Brian Venturo, co-founder and chief technology officer, CoreWe...

December 19, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

CoreWeave

County’s planning staff recommends denial of massive data center project again

The Prince William County staff have again recommended the denial of all three rezoning requests associated with the PW Digital Gateway data center project. This comes after two rejections of the rezoning requests by QTS and Compass in recent months. County staff said in a report, “At this po...

December 13, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

US Defense Information Systems Agency awards $110 million contract to Lumen

The US Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Lumen Technologies a $110 million contract to provide mission-critical network services to the US Department of Defense (DoD). This contract has a timeline of five years, from November 30, 2023, through September 30, 2028. This contract is...

November 10, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Lumen Technologies

QTS acquires Netherlands-based data center management firm Zentrys

US data center firm QTS recently purchased Dutch data center management and operations company Zentrys. QTS intends to bring Zentrys employees on board over the next year and integrate the newly purchased company with its technology and processes. Chad Williams, CEO of QTS, said, "We welcome ...

November 08, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

QTS Data Centers

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