Data Center News

Eviden to build new data center in Germany

Atos-owned company Eviden this week announced it has been awarded a contract by Jülich Supercomputing Centre (Germany) to build a new data center in Germany to host Europe’s first exascale supercomputer system: the EuroHPC-funded Jupiter supercomputer. Prof. Dr. Thomas Lippert, director of the...

Wasabi Technologies acquires Curio AI from GrayMeta

Cloud storage company Wasabi Technologies has acquired Curio AI, its intellectual property and the team behind it from GrayMeta. Following this acquisition, Wasabi will use Curio AI's technology as part of its storage offering for the media and entertainment industry which is expected to be wi...

Millicom subsidiary Tigo Colombia agrees to sell 1,100 towers to KKR

Millicom subsidiary Tigo Colombia has agreed to sell 1,100 telecom towers to US investment firm KKR. This deal will see KKR lease the wireless communications towers to Tigo Colombia to support its wireless networks. KKR has also revealed plans to work with digital infrastructure platform NEXO ...

Mississippi seeks approval for two hyperscale data center developments

Mississippi’s Republican Governor Tate Reeves is seeking approval for a $10 billion investment in two hyperscale data center developments in Canton and wider Madison County. Reeves called a special session to discuss this opportunity on January 25, noting on X that this is a project that will ...

Maincubes to expand footprint in Frankfurt

German data center firm Maincubes recently announced it is expanding its presence in Frankfurt with a new facility located in the Rhine-Main metropolitan area, south of Frankfurt in Dietzenbach. This facility called FRA04 will provide approximately 12,500 square meters (134,550 sq ft) of white...

Starwood announces new data center-focused unit

Real estate-focused private investment firm Starwood Capital Group recently announced the launch of Starwood Digital Ventures, a new platform dedicated to the group’s data center investment strategy. Starwood Digital will use funds from different Starwood investment vehicles to develop its pip...

Remi Galasso announces new subsea cable connecting New Zealand to Australia

Data center and cable entrepreneur Rémi Galasso announced on LinkedIn this week that Intelia is planning a new subsea cable connecting the southern island of New Zealand to Australia. The 3,000 km system will include a total of 16 fiber pairs; 4 fiber pairs from Invercargill to Australia, offe...

Danfoss to provide cooling and heat reuse systems for Google's data centers

As part of a partnership between Danfoss and Google, Danfoss is set to provide cooling and heat reuse systems for Google's data centers. Google on the other hand, will provide artificial intelligence solutions to the multinational engineering group for customer experience improvements, interna...

HPE appoints Neil McDonald to lead HPC and AI unit

HPE has appointed Neil MacDonald as the head of the company’s HPC and AI business segment, in addition to his current role leading the company’s compute unit. In his new role, he will oversee the team responsible for developing HPE’s AI strategy, integrating the company’s HPE GreenLake edge-to...

Amazon logistics head John Felton to become CFO

Amazon's logistics head John Felton is set to replace current CFO Richard Puccio, who is planning to leave the company and take over as chief financial officer at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Felton has had a long history with Amazon as he has been in the company since 2004 when he was hired as ...

Tract signs energy partnership with Silicon Ranch

Data center park developer Tract has signed a solar partnership deal with solar farm developer Silicon Ranch, a company which specializes in solar energy and battery storage. Silicon Ranch announced the exclusive collaboration agreement to pair renewable projects with Tract’s data center sites...

AT&T, Google, and Vodafone invest $155 million in AST SpaceMobile

Direct-to-cell satellite firm AST SpaceMobile this week announced a $155 million strategic investment from AT&T, Google, and Vodafone along with aggregate new financing of up to $206.5 million. This investment is to support  the commercial roll-out of AST SpaceMobile’s network and is compr...

Shell deploys GRC immersion tanks at Texas facility

Oil and gas company Shell, which also offers its own cooling fluid, has deployed a number of clusters from Penguin Solutions utilizing AMD processors inside GRC Immersion Cooling Systems at a data center in Houston, Texas.  Copeland said, “Each of the GRC immersion systems (S10 Duo) you see in...

PowerHouse expands footprint into Nevada

PowerHouse Data Centers, a joint venture between American Real Estate Partners (AREP) and Harrison Street – this week announced that it has expanded out of Virginia and into Nevada with plans for a new campus in Reno. The company closed on the site of PowerHouse Reno; a three-building, 900,000...

Macquire to develop new data center in Australia

Macquarie Data Centres has revealed plans to add a third data center to its Sydney campus. This facility dubbed IC3 SuperWest, the data center received approval from the Independent Planning Commission New South Wales (IPC, NSW).  This new facility will bring the total IT capacity at the Macqu...

Google confirms Project Zodiac facility in Indiana

Google has confirmed it is involved in a major data center campus proposal in Fort Wayne, Indiana dubbed Project Zodiac. This project is a 12-building campus spanning more than 700 acres, bounded by East Tillman Road, Adams Center Road, and the railroad track. Google spokesperson Devon Smiley ...

Orange & Capgemini to unveil Microsoft-focused sovereign cloud venture

Orange

Orange & Capgemini this week announced that their Microsoft-focused Bleu joint venture is now getting ready for commercial operations. This cloud venture has begun engaging with ‘select French public and private organizations’ to ensure that they are ready for the migration once the first ...

Lunar Digital begins upgrade of the Reynolds House data center

Manchester

Lunar Digital began the planned multi-million-pound upgrade of the Reynolds House data center in Manchester, UK. The company started development works across all the data halls at the site, including full renovations of the C5 and C6 data halls to optimize power and cooling, the deployment of ...

1623 Farnam names Bill Severn as its new CEO

1623 Farnam LLC

Nesbraka data center firm 1623 Farnam has announced Bill Severn as its new CEO. Severn who joined the company as an operating partner in 2019 will now serve as its CEO and will fill the position of 1623 Farnam president, which was held by Todd Cushing since 2017. Severn said, "I've had the ple...

EllaLink to land first trans-Atlantic cable in French Guiana

EllaLink this week announced it has been awarded a contract by SPLANG (the Local Public Company for the Digital Development of Guyana) for a 2,100km extension to the existing EllaLink cable to land in the South American French territory. This new branch will land in Cayenne, French Guiana, and...