Data Center News

United Group Invests €120m in Four Renewable Projects

Southeastern European telco firm United Group has invested €120 million ($125.1 million) to support the development of three solar power plants and a wind farm in Bulgaria. The projects will have a combined capacity of 124MW.The first solar plant, located near Stara Zagora, reached operational...

CMA Releases Provisional Findings for Cloud Services Market Investigation

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has released its provisional findings for its cloud services market investigation which set out to see if there were elements of cloud service providers' offerings that had an "adverse effect on competition" (AEC), and has provisionally conclude...

Free University of Brussels to Host Incoming Flemish Tier-1 S upercomputer

The Flemish Supercomputer Centre (VSC) has selected the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Free University of Brussels) to host and manage the next Flemish Tier-1 supercomputer. It will be housed in a Nexus-built data center at the Green Energy Park in Zellik, a town in the province of Flemish Braba...

Amazon Signs Two PPAs in Japan

Amazon has secured two solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in Japan.In its first deal, Amazon signed a 20-year PPA with EDP Renewables APAC, a subsidiary of EDP-Energias de Portugal, to buy power from a 44MW solar farm in Fukushima. The project includes 63,000 solar panels and is expected t...

Trump Plans “100 percent tax” on Foreign Semiconductors

President Trump has announced plans to impose tariffs on foreign-made computer chips, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals, in particular those originating from Taiwan, claiming the tariffs would incentivize tech companies to manufacture chips in the US instead of Taiwan."In the very near futur...

NREL Launches Geothermal Storage Project

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a federally funded research center, has launched a new project to address the increasing energy consumption of data center cooling. It aims to incorporate geothermal underground thermal energy storage (UTES) technology at data center sites natio...

Salute Acquires Data Center Services Provider Keysource

Salute this week announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Keysource Group, with the deal is set to close in Q2 2025, subject to regulatory approval. The deal will see Keysource’s team of 130 join Salute. Jon Healy, EMEA president and group COO at Keysource, said: "Salute and ...

Microsoft acquires land in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for data center development

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has purchased another 240 acres of land in Wisconsin for data center projects. The land in question is nearby to Microsoft's existing Mount Pleasant project, construction on which was "paused" at the start of this year. At the time, Microsoft said: “We have paused early construction ...

OpenAI Begins Hiring for Stargate Data Center's Core Team

OpenAI has begun hiring for the core team that will help develop The Stargate Project and is in search of a data center sourcing manager (equipment and vendors), and a technical program manager, infrastructure strategy. "Are you the type of person who is excited by massive global challenges sp...

STMicroelectronics Signs PPA with TotalEnergies in France

France

European semiconductor firm STMicroelectronics has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Total Energies. The PPA will power STMicroelectronics sites in France and will be supplied from two recently constructed wind and solar farms with a combined capacity of 75MW."We are delight...

Lambda Installs GB200 NVL72 Rack in California

California

GPU cloud provider Lambda has deployed an Nvidia GB200 NVL72 rack system at EdgeCloudLink's (ECL) data center in Mountain View, California. The rack was installed on January 22, and the installation process took around "one hour" due to the flexibility of the data center.In a LinkedIn post, EC...

Arm Expands Cambridge Presence

United Kingdom

British chip company Arm is expanding its presence in Cambridge and has signed a lease to take over new office and laboratory space at the developer’s Peterhouse Technology Park. Arm already occupies all six buildings at Peterhouse Technology Park, totaling 330,000 sq ft (30,658 sqm).The Optic...

Could DeepSeek's Efficiency Advances Boost Nvidia's Long-Term Prospects?

United States

DeepSeek's announcement of a new large language model achieving state-of-the-art performance at significantly reduced computational costs sent shockwaves through the AI infrastructure market, triggering a $1.2 trillion market decline and a 15% drop in Nvidia's stock value. The market's reactio...

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 Lander Delivered to Cape Canaveral

Florida

The IM-2 mission lunar lander has been delivered to Cape Canaveral, Florida, currently set to launch on February 26, prepared to carry what could be the first data center on the Moon. Lonestar plans to use the system to see how storage behaves on the Moon's surface, with an eventual aim to use...

Georgia PSC Approves New Billing Rules for Data Centers

Georgia

The Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) has voted to approve a new rule that allows new large-load Georgia Power customers using more than 100MW of electricity to be billed based on the risks associated with their projects.The rule, which passed unanimously, requires data centers to pay th...

Former Contractor Arrested for Shutting Down British Museum's IT systems

United Kingdom

A former tech contractor at the British Museum reportedly shut down some of its IT systems, causing the museum to close some galleries and exhibitions. He allegedly gained access to an unauthorized area of the British Museum last week and turned off some of its IT systems after being dismissed...

BT urges CNI to shift away from copper networks

United Kingdom

UK telco BT issued a rallying cry last week urging the UK's Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) providers to move away from the outdated analog copper landline network by the end of this year. The telco warned that the country's switch from its historic Public Switched Telephone Network (PS...

Verizon Launches AI-centric Network ffering

Verizon Enterprise

Verizon has launched a new AI-centric network offering called Verizon AI Connect, an integrated suite of solutions and products designed to “enable businesses to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) workloads at scale.” The telco s looking to make its underutilized data center assets available ...

NextEra Partners with GE Vernova on Gas for Data Centers

United States

US energy generator NextEra Energy has partnered with energy equipment manufacturer GE Vernova to develop gas-fired generation to meet the energy demands of data centers and will be taking further steps to restart the idled Duane Arnold Energy Center, a nuclear power plant in Iowa.NextEra CEO ...

Canadian gov't urges Amazon to reconsider shutting down the distribution centers in Quebec

Amazon AWS

Amazon announced this week that it would be closing seven warehouses in Quebec over the next two months, cutting more than 1,700 workers as a result. Canada's Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry - François-Philippe Champagne - has written to Amazon's CEO Andy Jassy, requesting the co...