Data Center News

Liberty Energy signs MoU with DC Grid

Liberty Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with DC Grid to deliver off-grid gas generation to the data center sector and commercial fleet electric vehicle (EV) hubs. Following the MoU terms, Liberty will deploy its digiPower mobile generator through its Liberty Power Innovat...

Ligado sues Inmarsat following bankruptcy ruling

United States

 Satellite operator Ligado Networks has sued its contract partner Inmarsat shortly after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In its lawsuit, Ligado claims Inmarsat failed to make the required upgrades to its satellite network while still demanding payments from Ligado, at a time when Ligado has ...

US government signs executive order for gigawatt-scale data center campus development on federal lands

United States

Outgoing US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to open up federal lands for data center development. This will make government-owned land available to developers for lease and require agencies to make efforts to improve transmission infrastructure to those developments.“Today, P...

NASA sun observatory now operational

Operations have resumed at the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) following the flood at its data center in late 2024. In a January 7 update from the Joint Science Operations Center (JSOC) at Stanford, staff said that the observatory has "begun processing most near-real-time (nrt) SDO data ...

Constellation Energy to acquire Calpine Corporation

United States

US energy giant Constellation Energy has agreed to acquire Calpine Corporation, an independent power producer, for $26.6 billion, including debt considerations in a transaction that includes 50 million shares of Constellation stock, $4.5 billion in cash, and the assumption of about $12.7 billi...

CoreWeave first two UK data center locations now operational

CoreWeave

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, ...

BBVA completes data platform migration to AWS

Amazon AWS

 Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) has successfully migrated its data platform to Amazon Web Services (AWS), covering its European and Uruguay operations. BBVA announced its plans to migrate to the cloud provider in February 2023, citing the need for high-performance computing (HPC) for s...

PowerHouse and Provident partner for data center campus in Texas

Texas

Data center firm PowerHouse has partnered with Provident Data Centers for the development of a 768-acre data center campus in Texas. Provident Data Centers is the data center arm of the Dallas-based real estate development firm Provident.“The demands on digital infrastructure are accelerating ...

Iron Mountain files to expand Manassas data center campus

Iron Mountain Data Center has filed for a permit to expand its Manassas data center campus in Prince William County, Virginia and is seeking a federal and state permit for a new data center on land west of Route 234 and east and north of Wellington Road in Prince William County.The new buildin...

Substrate AI plans 10MW data center outside Toledo

Spain

Spanish AI firm Substrate AI this week announced it aims to develop a 10MW facility on a 25,000 sqm (269,095 sq ft) site at the Torrehierro industrial estate in Talavera de la Reina that will host Nvidia GPU hardware, including NVL72 racks. The company will invest €100 million ($102.3m) in the...

Queen Mary University of London uses data center waste heat to warm buildings

Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) is using waste heat from its data center to warm buildings on its Mile End campus. Heat from the university’s Tier 2 data center is being repurposed to warm the Joseph Priestley Building, and supply the campus district heating network.Philippa Lloyd, vice...

Mapping and location company Here signs 10-year $1bn deal with AWS

Amazon AWS

Mapping and location technology company Here has signed a 10-year deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to use its cloud computing infrastructure. Here will combine AWS technologies with its mapping solutions to help automakers develop location-sensitive technologies for their vehicles.“Location...

Compass to develop new data center campus in Mississippi

Compass Datacenters

Compass Datacenters is to develop a new $10 billion data center campus in Mississippi. The $10 billion figure was the total investment value of the campus, including IT equipment by customers, rather than the company's individual investment figure. “We are looking forward to building our next ...

Deep Fission to supply Endeavour data centers with 2GW of nuclear energy

United States

Deep Fission, a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) developer, has partnered with Endeavour Energy, a US sustainable infrastructure developer, to develop and deploy its technology at scale. They have committed to co-developing 2GW of nuclear energy to supply Endeavour's global portfolio of dat...

Swisscom seals Vodafone Italy acquisition

Italy

Swisscom has finalized its €8 billion ($8.33bn) acquisition of Vodafone Italy, noting that the acquisition is "a key step for Swisscom to achieve its strategic objective of profitable growth in Italy." Swisscom confirmed that the existing commercial brands Fastweb, Vodafone, and Ho Mobile will...

AWS to invest around $11 billion in data centers in Georgia

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest around $11 billion in data centers in Georgia which will be used to support growing demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and is expected to create at least 550 new jobs. "We are delighted to expand our infrastructure...

InterServer selects 365 Data Centers for New Jersey expansion

New Jersey

Web hosting and managed service provider InterServer has selected 365 Data Centers as its colocation provider as it looks into expanding its offering in the New Jersey market. 365 has 20 data centers across the US, including multiple New Jersey locations such as Carlstadt and Bridgewater, enab...

Microsoft to expand cloud offering in Luxembourg

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is planning to expand its cloud computing services in Luxembourg through its Microsoft Belux (Belgium-Luxembourg) department. This will give Luxembourg-based customers access to Microsoft's cloud computing offerings while maintaining data sovereignty and reducing latency.In a report ...

Mondelēz chooses AWS as primary cloud provider

Amazon AWS

Snack and confectionary company Mondelēz International has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its primary cloud provider and will move its entire ERP landscape to SAP RISE powered by AWS among others. The company hopes that the move will improve the security, agility, and reliability of its...

Vertical Bridge finalizes Verizon tower deal

DigitalBridge

Vertical Bridge has completed its $3.3 billion acquisition of more than 6,000 towers from Verizon. As part of the acquisition, Vertical Bridge, which is a subsidiary of digital infrastructure investor Digital Bridge, will lease, operate, and manage more than 6,300 wireless communications tower...