Data Center News

Datacenter One opens up new facility in Hamburg

Germany / Deutschland

Datacenter One (DC1), the German colocation company acquired by AtlasEdge last year, has opened a new facility in Hamburg called HAM1. This facility is located in Ahrensburg, northeast of Hamburg. Phase one spans 3,500 square meters and it will offer 20MW across 10,000 square meters at full bu...

Verizon reveals deployment of 130,000 Open RAN-cabaple radios

United States

Verizon revealed in an announcement this week that it has deployed more than 130,000 Open RAN capable radios. The telco noted that the figure includes the massive MIMO radios as part of the previously announced 15,000 O-RAN compliant virtualized cell sites with O-RAN compliant baseband units i...

PCCW-led Peace subsea cable arrives in Bizerte, Tunisia

Orange

The PCCW-led Peace subsea cable has landed in Bizerte, Tunisia. According to industry observer Philippe Devaux, this cable known as Ifriqya by local operator Ooredoo – was landed by Orange’s CS Teliri. “Today, we celebrate a historic achievement with the arrival of the submarine cable "Ifriqya...

UK government announces £45 million funding package for quantum projects

United Kingdom

The UK government has announced a £45 million funding package to boost the use of quantum technology across a number of sectors, including healthcare, energy, and transport. This comes as quantum technologies is now recognized as one of the five critical technologies set out by the UK governme...

Vantage Towers names Tobias Steinig as CIO

Vantage Towers has appointed Tobias Steinig as chief information officer, effective since February 1st. Steinig is now responsible for "leading the digital transformation" of the European tower operator, which is majority-owned by Vodafone and standardizing the groupwide IT landscape, and will...

Edge data center firm acquires cloud firm CloneCone

Edge data center firm Edge Centres in a new announcement revealed it has acquired US cloud firm CloneCone which offers virtual and hosted server services. Terms of the deal weren’t shared.  Edge Centres announced on LinkedIn this week, “This strategic acquisition represents a significant miles...

Eutelsat satellite ceases operation after disruption

A Eutelsat satellite over the Americas has ceased operations after experiencing an anomaly. The company noted in an announcement, “Eutelsat Group confirms that following an anomaly on its Eutelsat 113 West A satellite which occurred on 31st January, it has ceased operations on the satellite. M...

Vultr to launch its own CDN service

Cloud provider Vultr recently announced that it will be launching its own content delivery network (CDN) service which will enable global content and media caching, with turnkey services for scaling websites and web applications. J.J. Kardwell, CEO of Vultr’s parent company, Constant said, “Ov...

T-Mobile completes 5G coverage expansion accross Upstate New York

T-Mobile has completed the expansion of its 5G coverage across Upstate New York, now reaching over 48,000 square miles accross the state. As part of the expansion, T-Mobile has added about 400 new cell sites and upgrades to more than 800 existing towers across the region. “Whether it’s the Cat...

Vandals steals a 200-foot tower in Alabama

Vandals in Jasper has reportedly stolen a 200-foot tower belonging to radio station WJLX-AM. Brett Elmore, general manager of WJLX-AM, reported the incident on February 3 through a Facebook post.  He wrote, "I have heard of thieves in this area stealing anything, but this one takes the cake. T...

Ericson announces new partnership with IIT Kharagpur

Swedish vendor Ericsson has announced a long tierm partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, for a joint research relating to AI and Edge computing. Following this partnership, both parties will work towards developing novel AI and distributed compute technology towards 6G...

Switch plans data center expansion in Texas

US firm Switch Inc. has revealed plans to expand its data center footprint in Austin, Texas. The company has reportedly applied to build a new data center at its 4100 Smith School Road campus in Southeast Austin. The planned facility is a 300,000-square-foot (27,870 sqm) data center alongside ...

Equinix signs new solar PPA in France

Equinix this week has signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement to procure renewable energy in France with wpd. The deal, described as one of the largest of its kind signed in France, was facilitated by Schneider Electric and includes four wind projects in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, two in Hauts-de-F...

Cloudflare blocks cyberattack on Brazil facility

Cloudflare has confirmed that it was hacked last year as part of a larger breach of digital identity provider Okta. However, the company notes that all attempts made by the hackers to gain access to the data center’s console were unsuccessful. According to a blog post published on Thursday, th...

Energy Vault signs new deal in South Africa

Swiss-based company Energy Vault has found new partners in South Africa for its idea of using concrete blocks to store energy, which can be recovered as electricity when the blocks are lowered. The Gravity Energy Storage Solutions (GESSOL) consortium plans to develop the idea alongside hydroge...

AWS reports revenue of $24.2 billion for Q4, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported revenues of $24.2 billion in the last three months, year-on-year (YoY) growth of 13 percent. These figures also show a 12 percent increase for the market-leading public cloud platform in the third quarter of the year. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said, "We are now a...

Oracle plans new cloud region in Nairobi

Oracle has revealed plans to open a new cloud region in Kenya and become the first US hyperscale cloud provider to launch in the country. The company mentioned in an announcement this week that it is acting to "meet the growing demand for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services across Afric...

University of Texas to host cluster of 600 Nvidia H100 GPUs

The University of Texas in Austin is creating a Center for Generative AI powered by a cluster of 600 Nvidia H100 GPUs. This cluster, called Vista, will be hosted and supported by the Texas Advanced Computing Center and will be housed within the university’s interdisciplinary Machine Learning L...

Keppel DC REIT's revenue slowed amidst payment dispute with Bluesea

Keppel DC REIT's H2 2023 results revealed that the company’s revenue slowed amidst payment issues with tenant Bluesea Data Development. The company’s revenue increased by 14 percent, but was slowed by a surge in finance costs by 56.1 percent. Keppel recorded a decline in distributions per unit...

Choice Hotel completes full migration to AWS cloud

Choice Hotels International has closed its last data center and completed its full migration to the cloud after a five year process, which involved decommissioning more than 3,729 servers, retiring over 300 applications, and migrating more than 250 applications. The company will now use only A...