Global Data Center News

H.I.G. Capital acquires majority stake in Polar

Alternative investment firm H.I.G. Capital through one of its affiliates had acquired a controlling interest in PolarDC Group Limited, The investment firm said Polar's first data center in Norway will provide up to 48MW of capacity once fully operational – with 100 percent of its initial capa...

October 07, 2024

T.Loop to place data center in Stockholm’s slaughterhouse district

Swedish Edge data center firm T.Loop l ast week announced it had entered into an agreement with real estate development firm Atrium Ljungberg for operational management of the Palmfelt Datacenter in the Slaughterhouse area of the capital. "We see great potential in the data center, which is ...

October 07, 2024

Sweden

Nvidia HGX H200 servers now available

Cirrascale Cloud Services has added Nvidia HGX H200 servers to its AI Innovation Cloud. The servers platform is available in the form of integrated baseboards in eight Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPU configurations. It also provides up to 32 petaflops of FP8 deep learning compute and more than 1....

October 05, 2024

Russia to invest in home-grown chip making equipment

Russia is reportedly planning to spend more than 240 billion rubles ($2.54 billion) on 110 R&D projects focused on developing domestic chip-making equipment and materials. A report revealed that the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade and the International Scientific and Technical Cente...

October 05, 2024

Russia / Россия

Microsoft invests in AI and cloud computing infrastructure in Italy

Microsoft has committed to investing €4.3 billion ($4.75bn) in expanding its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) data centre infrastructure in Italy, making this Microsoft's largest investment in the country to date. It will be expanding its data center in Northern Italy, and has also com...

October 05, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Meta and CarbonBuilt partner on low-carbon concrete production

Meta has partnered with CarbonBuilt, a company which develops low-carbon concrete solutions to reduce carbon footprints by up to 70 percent compared to industry baselines.This partnership aims to accelerate the production of low-carbon concrete and will allow CarbonBuilt to upgrade and scale t...

October 04, 2024

Goodman completes Hong Kong data center

Real estate firm Goodman this week said it has completed the third building at its Goodman Tsuen Wan West data center campus and handed over the 50MW facility to Chinese operator GDS.Goodman’s head of Asia, Paul McGarry, said: “This is the latest data center completion at the brand new 225MW G...

October 04, 2024

Hong Kong

CyrusOne launches 40MW Illinois data center campus

CyrusOne has launched its 40MW data centre campus outside of Chicago in Aurora, Illinois, set on a 32-acre site, to comprises two data centre buildings spanning 446,000 sq ft (46,500 sqm) across from Interstate 88 on Bilter Road in Kendall County. According to the filings, the development will...

October 04, 2024

DTCP invests in data center firm Atlantic Hub

Investment firm Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP) has invested in Atlantic Hub, a data center developer based in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The company is looking to develop data center campuses across the island of Ireland and has recently received planning pe...

October 03, 2024

Northern Ireland

Microsoft invests in AI and cloud computing infrastructure in Italy

Microsoft has committed to investing €4.3 billion ($4.75bn) in expanding its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) data centre infrastructure in Italy, making this Microsoft's largest investment in the country to date. It will be expanding its data center in Northern Italy, and has also comm...

October 03, 2024

Microsoft Azure

Google Distributed Cloud expands partnership to add NetApp offerings

NetApp and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership, integrating NetApp's unified data storage and intelligent services into its Distributed Cloud architecture. The companies aim to help public sectors and regulated industries access artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure while meetin...

October 03, 2024

Google

Digital Realty extends credit facility

Digital Realty this week announced that it has amended, extended, and upsized its existing $3.75 billion senior unsecured multi-currency global revolving credit facility to $4.2 billion. The maturity date was extended by three years and total availability was expanded by $450 million which no...

October 03, 2024

Digital Realty Trust

Crusoe partners with Vast Data

Crusoe Energy Systems is collaborating with Vast Data to develop "Shared Disks," a petabyte-scale file system capable of reads up to 200Mbps per TiB per node with hundreds of GPps in aggregate read and write bandwidth per cluster.The Shared Disks also offer a 99.5 percent SLA that is offered...

October 03, 2024

Crusoe

Oracle to invest in AI and cloud computing in Malaysia

Oracle revealed this week that it plans to open a cloud region in Malaysia, where it will be offering more than 150 infrastructure and cloud services, including Oracle's AI offerings. Customers in the country will have access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) generative AI agents, as well a...

October 02, 2024

Oracle

Alva to use Google Cloud as primary cloud provider

Indonesian electric motorcycle company Alva has selected Google Cloud as its primary cloud service provider and plans to use Google Cloud's artificial intelligence (AI) optimized infrastructure for innovation across R&D, customer service, productivity, and marketing. Alva will also look i...

October 01, 2024

Google

IBM unveils quantum data center in Germany

IBM this week announced the launch of the facility, at IBM's campus in Ehningen near Stuttgart, in a ceremony attended by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. It is IBM's second quantum data center, featuring three systems - one based on IBM's Heron processor, alongside two other new systems that w...

October 01, 2024

Kyndryl

Google launches first data center in Malaysia.

Google this week held a ceremonial groundbreaking for its first data center and cloud region in Malaysia located at the Elmina Business Park outside Kuala Lumpur.Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and Google, said: "Today, Google reaffirms its support for advancing ...

September 30, 2024

Google

DNeX and Google Cloud to develop sovereign cloud in Malaysia

Dagang NeXchange Berhad (DNeX) and Google Cloud have signed a deal to deliver sovereign cloud services to Malaysia and will operate the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) offering as a managed GDC provider, bringing a sovereign cloud offering to the country. Karan Bajwa, vice president for Asia P...

September 30, 2024

Google

PDG to develop data center campus at Mindspace park

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has signed a deal with business park developer Mindspace REIT to develop three more data centers outside Mumbai, India. Under this partnership, Mindspace REIT will develop three additional built-to-suit data centers for PDG, adding a further 1 million sq ft to its...

September 27, 2024

Princeton Digital Group

Pirbright Institute installs new containerized data center

The UK's Pirbright Institute, a global leader in the study and surveillance of viruses, has installed a new containerized data center. The containerized data center will offer “scalable, resilient, flexible, and energy-efficient infrastructure” for the Pirbright Institute, Schneider and APT s...

September 27, 2024

United Kingdom

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Five Colorado Cities and Counties Pause or Ban New Data Centers in 2026

H.I.G. Capital acquires majority stake in Polar

T.Loop to place data center in Stockholm’s slaughterhouse district

Nvidia HGX H200 servers now available

Russia to invest in home-grown chip making equipment

Microsoft invests in AI and cloud computing infrastructure in Italy

Meta and CarbonBuilt partner on low-carbon concrete production

Goodman completes Hong Kong data center

CyrusOne launches 40MW Illinois data center campus

DTCP invests in data center firm Atlantic Hub

Microsoft invests in AI and cloud computing infrastructure in Italy

Google Distributed Cloud expands partnership to add NetApp offerings

Digital Realty extends credit facility

Crusoe partners with Vast Data

Oracle to invest in AI and cloud computing in Malaysia

Alva to use Google Cloud as primary cloud provider

IBM unveils quantum data center in Germany

Google launches first data center in Malaysia.

DNeX and Google Cloud to develop sovereign cloud in Malaysia

PDG to develop data center campus at Mindspace park

Pirbright Institute installs new containerized data center

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