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...

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....

Russia to invest in home-grown chip making equipment

Russia / Россия

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...

Microsoft invests in AI and cloud computing infrastructure in Italy

Microsoft Azure

 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...

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...

Goodman completes Hong Kong data center

Hong Kong

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...

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...

DTCP invests in data center firm Atlantic Hub

Northern Ireland

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...

Digital Realty extends credit facility

Digital Realty Trust

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...

Google Distributed Cloud expands partnership to add NetApp offerings

Google

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...

Crusoe partners with Vast Data

Crusoe

 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...

Microsoft invests in AI and cloud computing infrastructure in Italy

Microsoft Azure

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...

Oracle to invest in AI and cloud computing in Malaysia

Oracle

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...

Alva to use Google Cloud as primary cloud provider

Google

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...

IBM unveils quantum data center in Germany

Kyndryl

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...

Google launches first data center in Malaysia.

Google

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 ...

DNeX and Google Cloud to develop sovereign cloud in Malaysia

Google

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...

Former Compaq Computer campus gets investment for AI data center upgrade

Texas

A Houston, Texas, facility has received $40 million in investment to be upgraded as an artificial intelligence (AI) data center. This site is located at 11445 Compaq Center W. Drive and is part of the 66-acre Viva Center campus at State Highway 249 and Louetta Road. The $40 million will be use...

GoTo Group signs new cloud deals with Tencent and Alibaba Cloud

Indonesia

Indonesian technology company GoTo Group,  a provider of ride-hailing and delivery services, has signed five-year deals with Tencent and Alibaba to use their cloud infrastructure services. GoTo will use Tencent's Platform as a Service (PaaS) technology to support its end-to-end ecosystem, whil...

EU approves e&'s PPF Telecom acquisition

Portugal

Internet exchange operator DE-CIX is now offering its interconnection and cloud services in Sines, Portugal which will be hosted at Start Campus’ Sines DC facility outside Lisbon. The first building, with an initial capacity of 14MW, is expected to be operational in Q4 2024. The remaining five...