Data Center News

ColoHouse acquires Hivelocity

United States

Valterra Partners-owned colocation firm ColoHouse has acquired Hivelocity, a bare metal colocation provider in an acquisition which combines ColoHouse’s infrastructure and hosting services with Hivelocity’s bare metal servers, network automation, and virtual private cloud solutions. Jeremy Pea...

Telia Company completes sale of Danish business unit

Sweden

Swedish telco Telia Company has confirmed in a new announcement that the sale of its Danish business unit to local energy and Internet firm Norlys has been finalized for DKK 6.25 billion ($900 million), on a cash and debt-free basis. “The sale of our Danish business marks a significant milesto...

Digital Core REIT acquires more shares in Osaka data center

Japan

Digital Core REIT has acquired an additional 10 percent share in a data center in Osaka, Japan via Digital Core REIT's subsidiary, Digital CR Singapore 4 Pte. Ltd., for JPY 7,725 million (~$51.5m), from Mitsubishi Corporation. The Osaka data center is a freehold facility with a 95 percent occu...

GDS partners with Gaw Capital for Japan expansion

GDS Services Ltd

Chinese data center firm GDS and real estate private equity firm Gaw Capital this week announced they will jointly invest in the construction of a data center campus with a total IT capacity of 40MW in Fuchu City, Tokyo.  Both companies plan to develop a carrier-neutral data center park on two...

Airspan Networks files for Chapter 11 protection

Delaware

Airspan Networks  which specializes in developing 5G hardware and software, said it plans to trade its more than $205 million in funded debt for equity and raise up to $95 million in new equity financing and has filed for Chapter 11 protection at a Delaware bankruptcy court.  “This support agr...

Air force requests for RFP for enterprise IT service contracts

United States

The US Air Force has put out a request for proposals (RFP) for 'phase 2' of its enterprise IT service delivery, a contract which is a potential 10-year deal with a $12.5 billion budget and will work towards the Air Force's goals to centralize its many IT modernization efforts.  This contract i...

Nucor Corporation launches data center infrastructure unit

California

Steelmaker Nucor Corporation this week announced that it has acquired  Southwest Data Products, Inc. (SWDP), a manufacturer and a data center supplier and launched a new business unit that will help better serve its customers in the data center infrastructure industry. Nucor said SWDP and the ...

Microsoft signs new solar PPA in Texas

Microsoft Azure

Microsofr this week announced that it has entered into a two 200MW Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with Energy firm Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) which will help it purchase the power generated from two 200MW LRE solar facilities currently under development in Texas: Morrow Lake Solar in Frio...

Cyxtera and Evoque to rebrand under new Centersquare moniker

Cyxtera Technologies

US data center firms Cyxtera and Evoque are rebranding under the new Centersquare moniker. Cyxtera was acquired by Brookfield last year and is being combined with the investment firm’s other data center company, Evoque.Mullee said: “The birth of Centersquare is more than a name change. It’s a...

JLL to offer training education for next generation data center operators

United Kingdom

JLL has revealed its plans to offer free educational and training opportunities for the next generation of data center operators. The company has  teamed up with non-profit organization Nomad Futurist Foundation to create a 16-hour curriculum called the Technical Development Program (TDP), bas...

Amazon invests additional $2.75 billion in AI startup Anthropic

Amazon AWS

Amazon has invested an additional $2.75 billion in AI startup Anthropic in a deal which marks the second round of funding provided by the cloud and eCommerce giant under a previously agreed plan to invest up to $4bn in the startup. Amazon made an initial investment of $1.25bn for a minority st...

Advania takes extra data center space at atNorth’s facility

atNorth

IT services provider Advania and colocation company atNorth have agreed to a deal that will see Advania take extra capacity at atNorth’s ICE03 site in Iceland, a 12MW data center in Akureyri that opened last year. A statement from both companies noted that “The expansion onto the ICE03 campus ...

BT signs new agreement with Global for new speed WiFi

BT Global Services

BT has entered a 10-year partnership with media group Global to repurpose its legacy payphones and kiosks into brand-new street WiFi hubs which will provide digital connectivity for more than 200 towns and cities across the UK. Followinf this agreement, Global will convert more than 2,000 conv...

Oriole Networks raises £10 million in seed funding

London

University College London (UCL) spinout Oriole Networks has raised £10 million ($12.6m) in a seed funding round co-led by UCL Technology Fund, Clean Growth Fund, XTX Ventures, and Dorilton Ventures, with support from Innovate UK Investor Partnership. “As the demand for compute continues to inc...

FCC rejects SpaceX’s bid for more spectrum

United States

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week rejected SpaceX’s bid to use the 1.6GHz and 2GHz radio spectrums due to a technicality. SpaceX's satellite division Starlink, had been seeking approval to use up to 7,500 second-generation satellites with spectrum in the 1.6 GHz, 2 GHz, and 2.4...

Stack Infrastructure breaks ground on 60MW data center expansion in California

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

IPI-owned company Stack Infrastructure announced this week that it has broken ground on a 60MW data center expansion in Silicon Valley, California. The company plans to build two data centers to add 60MW of capacity, an advanced manufacturing facility, and a parking structure, spanning 19 acre...

NTT Data opens third data center campus in Berlin

NTT Data

NTT Data is opening a third campus in Berlin, with up to 96MW of capacity planned across two data centers. This new campus will be built on a 10.8-hectare (26.6-acre) plot, with construction work to start in 2025. “Berlin is an important market in our growing portfolio and expansion plans," sa...

Fauquier County approves zoning changes

Virginia

Virginia's Fauquier County has approved zoning changes for Vint Hill relating to the "planned commercial and industrial district" that will limit data centers. These zoning rules will require any buildings or assemblages of buildings of more than 50,000 sq ft (4,645 sqm) to apply for and recei...

Internet Vikings launches first Latin America data center

Latin America (LATAM)

Internet Vikings is opening its first data center in Latin America to cater to the growing demand for licensed iGaming and sports betting services. The company said it would offer “reliable and secure hosting services that enable operators to develop in this competitive environment.” It added ...

Italian University selects Vertiv for data center infrastructure expansion

The University of Pisa in Italy has selected Vertiv to help extend its existing data center infrastructure and will be providing critical power and cooling systems, including liquid cooling equipment, to enable the university to deploy high-performance computing (HPC) systems and Artificial In...