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USCG awards data center support services contract to Credence Management Solutions

Credence Management Solutions, a government-focused IT services company will be awarded a six-months data center support services contract by the US Coast Guard (USCG). A notice posted by the USCG mentioned that it would reduce competition to awards a sole task order for a part of its existing...

October 16, 2023

United States

Lonestar to transmit US Declaration of Independence to Lunar-based mini data center and back

Lonestar Data Holdings recently revealed its plans to transmit the US Declaration of Independence to the lunar surface as the first document in history to be stored digitally on the Moon. This is a test of its lunar data centers concept for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS).This mission, ...

October 11, 2023

United States

Newmark Real Estate Company launches a data center practice financial division

Newmark Division, Inc., a US real estate advisory and services firm, has launched a data center practice division to provide financial data center consulting. This week, the company announced the expansion of its Capital Markets services by introducing the Data Center and Digital Infrastructur...

August 18, 2023

United States

Tillman FiberCo and Northleaf execute a $500 million investment agreement

Northleaf Capital Partners and Tillman FiberCo have joined forces in a strategic partnership. The fiber broadband company confirmed receiving a preliminary investment of $200 million, with an additional $300 million possible as the company looks to expand.The investment, per Tillman, will spee...

August 14, 2023

United States

Culpeper data center rezoning request deferred

On July 18th, the Town of Culpeper Planning Commission held a public hearing where it deferred action on a rezoning request for a large data center complex adjacent to the Culpeper National Cemetery annex.Copper Ridge Culpeper LLC of Middleburg is seeking to rezone 116 acres along East Chandle...

July 25, 2023

United States

Switch Inc. receives $500m investment from Aware Super

The Australian pension fund Aware Super has invested in the data center company Switch Inc. This week, Switch proprietor DigitalBridge announced that Aware Super will make "a significant investment" in Switch. The deal's value wasn't made public in the initial publication, but DigitalBridge's ...

July 14, 2023

United States

Edgewater receives a $138 million contract for FBI data center

The FBI has awarded Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc. a contract to manage its data centers. Edgewater recently disclosed that it had been granted a five-year, $138 million license to support the Information Technology Infrastructure Division (ITID) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...

June 19, 2023

United States

DOE invests millions in funding for cooling solution projects

As the imperative to decarbonize data becomes clearer, the U.S. the Department of Energy (DOE) has announced it will invest $40 million in funding for 15 projects for the development of high-performance, energy-efficient cooling solutions for data centers.The department outlined that data cent...

May 10, 2023

United States

The Green Grid (TGG)'s new tool to tackle data center power consumption

The Green Grid (TGG) recently announced the launch of its updated tool, which it says will boost data center power consumption by 50%. Total Cost of Ownership Calculation Tool – dubbed tggTCO, reportedly enables the analysis of different liquid cooling methods' impact on a data center's financ...

March 28, 2023

United States

Senators Revive a Legislation To Strengthen Federal Data Center Security

As institutions continue to consolidate their information repositories, a bipartisan group of senators has proposed legislation to strengthen government data centers' physical and electronic security against various threats. The Office of Management and Budget would be required to work with go...

March 28, 2023

United States

PG&E Power Failure Causes The Internet Archive Data Center to go Offline

After a power failure knocked down its data center, the Internet Archive's digital library was offline for many hours. Free public entry to backups of websites, software programs, games, music, movies, photos, and millions of books is offered by the California-based non-profit. The Bay Area ha...

March 26, 2023

United States

SolarWinds expands footprint in Australia

SolarWinds has announced that it has launched its Australian IT service management (ITSM) data center, to enhance performance and speed and assist customers, and demonstrate compliance with data sovereignty requirements. The launch is part of an ongoing investment in the region.Speaking about ...

March 16, 2023

United States

2022 Saw Box Inc. Spend $15m More on Cloud & $5m Less on Data Centers

Box's financial report for 2022, which details the company's plans to transfer operations to public cloud infrastructure, was just published. The report indicates that in 2022, the corporation increased its spending on public cloud infrastructure by $15.2 million while decreasing its expenditu...

March 16, 2023

United States

WEKA launches its sustainable AI initiative

WekaIO (WEKA) has announced that it has launched a new Sustainable AI Initiative with the aim of raising awareness of the rapid growth in global data center energy consumption and carbon emissions driven by next-generation computing technologies. According to the company, while technologies su...

March 13, 2023

United States

Inspur, China's Top Server Maker, Is Blacklisted by The US Government

The US Department of Commerce's "Entity List" bans US corporations from interacting with Chinese server company Inspur. Inspur, one of the oldest Chinese IT businesses, has close relationships with western tech giants, particularly hyper-scale cloud providers. Inspur is the world's third-large...

March 13, 2023

United States

Inspur, China's Top Server Maker, Is Blacklisted by The US Government

The US Department of Commerce's "Entity List" bans US corporations from interacting with Chinese server company Inspur. Inspur, one of the oldest Chinese IT businesses, has close relationships with western tech giants, particularly hyper-scale cloud providers. Inspur is the world's third-large...

March 08, 2023

United States

Castrol Joins The ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program of GRC

Castrol has joined GRC's certification program for alternate data center immersion tank cooling fluids.This week, the company announced that it had joined GRC's ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program, which makes its Castrol ON immersion cooling fluid compatible with GRC equipment. The companies st...

March 08, 2023

United States

Lonestar Data Holdings Secures $5M For Moon-based Data Centers

Lonestar Data Holdings has successfully completed a $5 million seed round. The funding was provided by Scout Ventures, Seldor Capital, The Veteran Fund, Atypical Ventures, Irongate Capital, 2 Future Holding, and KittyHawk Ventures. The startup intends to deploy small data centers on the Moon. ...

March 07, 2023

United States

Twitter experiences continual outages: Issues attributed to data center issues and staff cuts

Twitter continues to experience outages, which are impacting a number of users. The most recent outage occurred yesterday. Reports are that users were experiencing issues with their timeline, instead greeted with messaging saying, "Welcome to Twitter! This is the best place to see what's happe...

March 02, 2023

United States

Allied Energy Corp signs with Enerhash USA for flare gas crypto mines

Allied Energy has announced it has signed a definitive agreement with Enerhash USA and River Energy Group through which it will develop flare gas-powered crypto mines. According to the company, the first part of the project will be carried out at Allied's Thiel Well in Texas, which will be a b...

February 20, 2023

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