Data Center News

GI Partners acquires fiber firm DQE Communications

GI Partners

Investment firm GI Partners this week announced the closing of the acquisition of Pennsylvanian regional fiber firm DQE Communications from DQE’s parent company, Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Light Holdings Inc. The company has also appointed Michael T. Sicoli as CEO of the company, effective imme...

Oracle to deploy GPU-based infrastructure in dedicated Digital Realty data center

Oracle

Oracle is set to deploy GPU-based infrastructure in a dedicated Digital Realty data center in Northern Virginia as a part of a collaboration between the two companies to provide artificial intelligence (AI) services for enterprises. Digital Realty’s website notes that the company has 16 data c...

T5 to develop new data center campus in Illinois

T5 Data Centers

T5 Data Centers recently revealed its plans to develop a new data center campus in Grayslake, Illinois as it announced that the 160-acre site, 40 miles north of Chicago, will be used for “multiple data center buildings.”“The new Grayslake campus represents a major investment by T5 to meet the ...

Armstrongs unveils critical event monitoring data center in Quebec, Canada

Canada

Candian monitoring service provider Armstrongs has unveiled a critical event monitoring data center will provide a primary home in Canada for all the receivers and storage of subscribers' data in Laval, Quebec. From this new campus, Amstrongs will be able to provide dedicated video monitoring ...

Oracle partners with TIM for cloud region

Oracle

Oracle has announced plans for a second Italian cloud region in partnership with Telecom Italia (TIM), which would be the host partner for Oracle's second planned cloud region in Italy, located in Turin at the telco’s data center. Following the agreement, TIM Enterprise will also integrate Ora...

Samsung partners with O2 Telefonica to unveil Open RAN network in Germany

Samsung Electronics has partnered with German telco O2 Telefónica to launch the site in Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, providing high-performance and reliable 4G and 5G services to customers. This comes after the vendor announced the launch of its first commercial site in Germany.Both companies i...

Coreweave secures $1.1 billion in new funding

United States

GPU cloud provider CoreWeave announced that it has secured $1.1 billion in new Series C funding round this week led by Coatue, with participation from Magnetar who led the last primary round, as well as Altimeter Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and Lykos Global Management....

KYEC to exit china following semiconductor sanctions

China

King Yuan Electronics Co (KYEC), one of the world's largest testing and packaging services firms, has sold its entire 92.1 percent stake in its King Long Technology (KLT) subsidiary, a manufacturing hub in the Chinese city of Suzhou as the company sets out to leave China. KYEC cites issues ari...

TSMC partners with Ansys, Synopsys and Cadence for silicon photonics program

Taiwan

Chipmaker TSMC is partnering with Ansys, Synopsys, and Cadence to develop its silicon photonics integration system capabilities.  Engineering firms, Ansys and TSMC are collaborating on the chipmaker’s Compact Universal Photonic Engine (COUPE) silicon photonics integration system while chip des...

AWS to build new data centers at energy park in Ireland

Amazon AWS

Amazon has revealed plans to develop data centers at a renewable energy business park in County Offaly, Ireland.AWS will become the first business to develop at the Bord na Móna Eco Energy Park in County Offaly, where it will leverage the energy produced by Bord na Móna's renewable development...

BT Group powers up repurposed EV charger in UK

BT Global Services

UK telecoms firm BT  has installed its first electric vehicle (EV) charge point repurposed from one of its old street cabinets which was traditionally used to store broadband and phone cabling. This repurposed charger forms part of a nationwide pilot by the business’ start-up incubation hub, c...

Eviden launches new server line

United States

Atos-owned Eviden has announced a new server line called BullSequana AI product line. This product line includes five AI server models that the company says have been optimized for AI workloads, all offering different levels of performance, scalability, and flexibility, depending on customers’...

Microsoft signs renewable energy framework deal with Brookfield

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has entered an agreement to invest an estimated $10 billion in renewable electricity projects to be developed by Brookfield Asset Management. The “global framework agreement” signed by the cloud company is a commitment to bring 10.5 gigawatts of generating capacity online.“Microsoft ...

Riken to deploy IBM quantum computer

Kyndryl

Japanese research institute Riken is set to deploy an IBM quantum computer at its facilities in Kobe. The quantum system – to be powered by a 133-qubit Heron processor – will be colocated and integrated with the organization’s existing Fugaku supercomputer. “Riken is committed to developing sy...

Microsoft plans Azure cloud region in Thailand

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has revealed plans to build cloud and AI infrastructure in Thailand, including a data center region as part of its digital infrastructure commitment to expand the availability of the company's hyperscale cloud services.At the Microsoft Build AI Day in Bangkok, Microsoft CEO Satya Nad...

US DISA unveils Five-year strategy

United States

The US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has unveiled its updated strategy for the next five years which will align the IT service provider of the Department of Defense (DoD) with the 2022 National Defense Strategy.“As a combat support agency and the premier IT service provider for the...

Orange and Huawei partner to unveil Cloud services in Egypt

Orange

Orange and Huawei have teamed up to launch Huawei Cloud services in Egypt. Both companies have previously teamed up to launch the Orange Business Cloud for business in Egypt. Following the latest agreement which is an extension of that launch, Huawei Cloud will roll out an array of its cloud c...

SES to acquire rival satellite operator Intelsat for $3.1 billion

United States

European satellite firm SES is set to acquire Virginia-based Intelsat via 100 percent of the equity of Intelsat Holdings S.a.r.l. for a cash consideration of €2.8 billion ($3.1 billion) and certain contingent value rights. The companies said the partnership will create a “stronger multi-orbit ...

Edinburgh University to use waste heat from data center to warm up buildings

Edinburgh

Edinburgh University has announced plans to use waste heat from its data center to warm up its buildings and has has received grant funding of just under £2.1 million ($2.62m) to support the energy-saving project at its Kings Buildings campus.The university will also invest £520,000 of its own...

IBM signs agreement with Canadian government to strengthen the country’s semiconductor industry

Kyndryl

IBM has signed an agreement with both the Quebec government and the Canadian government to strengthen the country’s semiconductor industry. Following this agreement,  IBM and the two governments invest C$187 million (US$137m) in the company’s Bromont plant in Quebec to bolster the country’s as...