Data Center News

PDG to develop data center campus at Mindspace park

Princeton Digital Group

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...

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...

Brazil’s Scala secures financing to fund data center rollout

Scala Data Centers

 Brazilian firm Scala Data Centers this week announced the successful completion of $500 million in structured financing. The investment includes $250 million from Coatue Tactical Solutions and $250m from the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO) which will be used to accelerate ...

Comcast deploys Qwilt's Open Edge platform

Telecommunications conglomerate Comcast said it will deploy Qwilt’s Open Edge platform to create “the most distributed content delivery network (CDN) in the US."  Comcast added that as entertainment moves to live streaming and demand for delivery quality continues to increase, a CDN is foundat...

DE-CIX unveils Internet exchange in Sines, Portgual

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...

DE-CIX unveils Internet exchange in Sines, Portgual

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...

Ethiopia's Ethio Telecom has announced a plan to phase out copper services.

Ethiopian telco Ethio Telecom has announced the final plan for its copper switch-off initiative. The carrier revealed plans to transfer the remaining 100,000 customers on its copper network over to fiber. Ethio, Ethiopia's biggest network operator with more than 78 million customers, said 60,0...

Rpower and Wise Asset are set to provide natural gas-powered land for data center developers in Texas.

Two companies are partnering to offer land and natural gas power to data center developers.Backup power provider Rpower and landowner Wise Asset this week announced a partnership to provide powered-land solutions to serve large energy users including data centers and heavy industrial manufactu...

Ooredoo secures financing for data center expansion

Qatari telco Ooredoo has secured newQAR 2 billion ($552m) financing deal to fund the expansion of its data center portfolio across the MENA region. The 10-year hybrid facility, which comprises commercial and Islamic tranches, has been signed with Qatari National Bank (QNB), Doha Bank, and Masr...

Brazil's Scala has obtained $500 million in funding.

Brazilian firm Scala Data Centers has secured new financing to fund its data center roll-out. The DigitalBridge-owned company this week announced the successful completion of $500 million in structured financing. The investment includes $250 million from Coatue Tactical Solutions and $250m fro...

Mari Petroleum to develop data centers accross Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistani oil company Mari Petroleum Company Limited (MPCL) has revealed plans to develop data centers across the country as part of an expansion into digital infrastructure. This week the company said it has formed the new digital infrastructure subsidiary with an equity investment of Rs. 10 ...

Deutsche Telekom slams Meta following direct peering agreement

Deutsche Telekom (DT) has slammed Meta after the Facebook parent company ended its direct peering relationship with the German carrier. This follows a recent court decision in Germany that ruled in favor of DT. According to DT, all data traffic from Meta to the DT network used to run via direc...

Uber has teamed up with Ampere Computing to develop custom chips.

Uber is set to use custom Ampere Computing chips on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Announced at Oracle CloudWorld 2024, Uber is partnering with Ampere and Oracle to have more control over how its workloads are running on OCI. The partnership enables Uber to co-design its chips with the US ...

Stack receives approval for Gainesville data center

Virginia

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors has approved a rezoning requestto rezone the land from agricultural to planned business district to enable two data centers to be built. in Gainesville, Virginia. The data centers are expected to total nearly 815,000 sq ft (75,716 sqm) and are per...

Vodafone partners with Intelsat to expand broadband coverage

Vodafone Group has extended its partnership with satellite network operator Intelsat to provide portable satellite broadband services to businesses in underserved areas. Intelsat will help the company to provide wider coverage of temporary and on-the-move satellite connectivity services to org...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded a colocation contract to Equinix.

Equinix

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded Equinix a contract for colocation services for its Homeland Security Enterprise Network.Published on SAM.gov on September 17, the tender called for "power, connectivity and related operations and maintenance," adding that the services wi...

Blackstone confirms it will spend £10bn on AI data center in Blyth, UK

United Kingdom

Blackstone has confirmed it plans to spend £10 billion ($13.3bn) developing an AI data center on a derelict industrial site in Blyth, UK. The plot of land, known as Northumberland Energy Park, had been earmarked for a battery factory by now-defunct electric vehicle battery maker Britishvolt.Jo...

ECL plans to construct a 1GW hydrogen-powered AI data center in Texas, with Lambda as its inaugural tenant.

Data center startup ECL claims that it will build a 1GW AI data center on a more than 600-acre site east of Houston, Texas, powered by hydrogen.The TerraSite-TX1 will initially have a capacity of 50MW, coming next summer, at a cost of around $450 million. AI cloud provider Lambda will be the f...

Huawei unveils Dorado V7 all-flash storage solution

Huawei has unveiled its latest all-flash storage solution, dubbed the OceanStor Dorado 18000 or, more informally, the Dorado V7  at the company's annual Huawei Connect event in Shanghai. According to Huawei, the new OceanStor Dorado 18000 minimizes power consumption whilst still providing 30 p...

Ephos raises funds for glass-based photonic chips

Ephos, a startup building glass-based photonic chips, has raised $8.5 million in a seed funding round and is opening a research and manufacturing plant in Italy. The company plans to use the proceeds of the funding round to scale up operations at its headquarters in Milan, Italy, and its US ba...