Data Center News

ExxonMobil teams up with Intel for data center cooling fluid

Intel

Oil and gas company ExxonMobil has teamed up with Intel to develop new liquid cooling technologies for data centers. The two firms say the partnership has been set up to “design, test, research, and co-develop energy-efficient cooling fluid solutions”  for use with systems built on chipmaker I...

Google fires 28 employees following series of internal protests

Google

Google has terminated the employment of 28 employees on Wednesday. This comes after a series of internal protests about labor conditions and the company's contract with the Israeli government and military.The protests were led by the "No Tech For Apartheid" organization. One of the protestors ...

Fujitsu selects Oracle Alloy for cloud deployment in Japan

Oracle

Fujitsu has selected Oracle Alloy to deploy sovereign cloud services in Japan. Oracle Alloy is a cloud infrastructure platform that enables other companies to build their own cloud offering. By using Alloy, Fujitsu will expand its Hybrid IT offering Fujitsu Uvance. Fujitsu will deploy and mana...

Crown Castle reveals update on fiber business review

Crown Castle

Tower company Crown Castle recently revealed that it has been in talks with multiple parties regarding its fiber business in recent months. Miller, who was the company's CEO until 2001, wants to sell the fiber business and has previously said the assets could fetch as much as $15 billion."The ...

United Airlines to complete cloud migration soon

United States

United Airlines has almost completed its cloud migration as CFO Mike Leskinen revealed the company has migrated 70-90 percent of its workloads to the cloud, with the rest still on-premise.The company has had a challenging first quarter and is now attempting to offset those costs with "great op...

CRA unveils Edge data center in Cukrák, outside Prague

Prague

Czech telecoms firm České Radiokomunikace (CRA) has unveiled its data center at a broadcast tower site in Cukrák, outside Prague after investing tens of millions of crowns (around $422,000) in repurposing its former transmitter into its eighth data center.Miloš MastnÍk, CEO at CRA, said: “Usin...

Zuckerberg says energy constraints are hindering AI data center buildout

United States

Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that energy constraints have become the largest blockers to building out AI data centers as he echoed industry commentary on the challenges of building larger and larger data centers."Over the last few years, there's been this issue of GPU production," he said. "Even ...

Intel completes assembly of High NA EUV system in Oregon

Intel

Intel revealed that it has completed the assembly of its High Numerical Aperture NA Extreme Ultraviolet (High NA EUV) lithography tool at the company’s R&D site in Hillsboro, Oregon. This tool will allow it to deliver new levels of precision and scalability in chip manufacturing, enabling ...

T-Mobile completes 5G network upgade

Louisiana

T-Mobile announced that it has completed its 5G network upgrades in Louisiana, a multi-year investment totaling $290 million, including $50m towards an upgrade in its 5G service in the Greater New Orleans area. The company notes that the expansion provides access to 5G ultra capacity coverage ...

Team Global Express moves to cloud with Infosys

Australia

Australian logistics firm Team Global Express has migrated to the cloud with help from Infosys in a program which required moving more than 300 application. This move was achieved without any business impact to the 4,000+ users or to network integration spread over 100 sites.Danny Gravell, CIO...

Open Fiber to move to Edge data centers

Edge Centres

Italian fiber firm Open Fiber  (formerly Enel Open Fiber) is planning to move into Edge data centers. Andrea Lazzaroli, operational marketing business market manager at Open Fiber, said the company will be deploying Edge data centers along its network.“With the introduction of Edge data center...

Reka selects OCI to support its AI models

Oracle

Reka, an artificial intelligence (AI) research and product company, has selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to support its AI models and will use it to create multimodal models that will support over 20 languages and are trained on OCI AI Infrastructure based on Nvidia GPUs."We are part...

Georgia Power increases capacity to meet data center demand

Georgia

Electric utility Georgia Power (GP) has received approval from the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) to increase its generation capacity with both fossil fuels and renewable energy to meet power demand from data centers. This agreement will also allow Georgia Power to contract generation...

Ericsson reports sales drop due to declining network business

Europe

Ericsson has reported a decline of 14 percent year-on-year in organic revenues for the first quarter of 2024, posting a revenue of  $4.88 billion. The company blamed this decline largely on a significant slump in its network business, with this division declining 19 percent YoY, to $3.1bn.The ...

CGI kickstarts network deployment in Alaska

CGI kickstarts network deployment in Alaska

United States

Managed services provider CGI confirmed earlier this month that it has begun the first part of its network fiber deployment in Alaska, installing approximately 45 miles of fiber over the frozen tundra between Eek and Napaskiak. This is part of a project between Bethel Native Corporation and GC...

Akamai launches cloud offering for video processing

United States

Akamai has launched a media-optimized cloud offering for video processing,  based on Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Generation GPUs which have been selected for their ability to process video content more efficiently and effectively.“Media companies need low-latency, reliable compute resources that maint...

Colt DCS plans expansion of planned data center in Hayes

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt DCS, a company which provides hyperscale and large enterprise data center solutions,  is set to double the size of its planned data center campus in Hayes, West London, after acquiring a fresh parcel of land.A Colt DCS statement said: “This will make the entire site one of the largest in ...

IHH Healthcare migrates to Oracle

Oracle

IHH Healthcare (IHH) has migrated its workloads to Oracle's cloud offerings. Its Singapore operations will be moved to Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. On the other hand, its Malaysia branch has opted to migrate to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, one of Oracle's o...

Accelsius launches new two-phase cooling system

Australia

Cooling company Accelsius, which provides two-phase direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems, this week officially announced the launch of its new two-phase cooling system, NeuCool, its in-rack solution. The company says NeuCool offers capacity that has been tested beyond 1,500 watts per server c...