Data Center News

Network Spin Off by Italy's Wind Tre

Italy

According to reports, the Italian telecom giant Wind Tre is considering spinning off its network assets. A Reuters source noted that  the operator continues to explore a potential sale with the Swedish private equity firm EQT while also expressing a desire to spin off its network assets into a...

Exascale Tape Library Installed by Spectra Logic at SLAC National Accelerator Library

Spectra Logic has installed a new 18-frame exascale Tape Library at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, USA. The 18-frame Spectra TFinity Tape Library is the foundation for the data storage system known as The Tape Library, which stores LTO-9 tape drives and media. Spectra ...

Spectra7 and Zhaolong Design 112G PAM4 for North American and Chinese Data Center Industries

Zhaolong Interconnect Technology Co., a well-known cable supplier in China, will offer Active Copper Cable (ACC) parts and components with 112G PAM4 signaling to Hyperscalers and OEM/ODMs in both North America and China. These configurations will include Spectra7's GC1122 GaugeChangerTM chips,...

OneWeb and Amazon Explore Cloud-based Connection Collaboration

Amazon AWS

OneWeb, a provider of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed a letter of intent to discuss cloud-based connection options. The two organizations want to collaborate on a totally integrated satellite constellation management service. They wa...

Oxford Quantum Circuits Will Install Quantum Computer at Equinix Japan Data Facility

Equinix Tokyo TY11

A quantum computer is being installed at an Equinix data center in Tokyo, Japan, by the UK-based Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC). This week, the company said that starting in late 2023, it will provide "Quantum Computing as a Service" through a system on Equinix's TY11 Tokyo International Bus...

Scala Data Centers' Senior Director of Data Center Deployment is Revealed

Scala Data Centers

Mark Sanchez has been appointed as Scala Data Centers' new Senior Director of Data Center Deployment. Scala Data Centers is the top Latin American platform for environmentally friendly data centers in the hyperscale market. After five years managing teams and implementing data centers on five ...

BladeRoom Data Centers Hyperscale Solution, BRG Technologies Achieved TIA 942 Accreditation

Capitoline Ltd, a UK-based independent engineering consultancy and one of the few TIA-licensed Certification Bodies worldwide, has given BladeRoom Data Centres' Hyperscale System data center design a good standing, confirming that the design meets the Rating 3 requirements of TIA942. The TIA94...

Michigan DXC Data Center is Sold And Will Become a Manufacturing Facility

DXC Technology

A defunct HP/DXC data center in Michigan was sold and will be turned into an industrial space. According to RE Journal, manufacturing company Engineering Design Services purchased a 75,200-square-foot facility at 885 W Entrance Drive in Auburn Hills, Michigan, with the help of US real estate f...

Another sustainability-linked loan secured by AirTrunk

AirTrunk

AirTrunk has announced that it has secured a new AU$ 650 million (US$432.5m) Sustainability Linked Loan (SLL) in Japan. This latest addition, it has outlined, means that all debt platforms are now linked to sustainability targets; a total of AU$ 5 billion (US$3.3bn) in Environmental, Social, ...

Italy's Bergamo Will Soon Have a Campus For Data Centers

Italy

A new data center is being planned by the local real estate company Vitali outside of Bergamo, Italy. The Municipality of Arcene in northern Italy is reportedly in talks with Vitali s.p.a. to create a new data center campus, according to the local Italian press.The commune of Arcene is located...

Meta Will Terminate 10,000 More Workers

Meta

After letting go of around 11,000 workers in the latter part of last year, Meta aims to let go of about 10,000 individuals. As part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 'Year of Efficiency' appeal to investors to improve a falling share price, the corporation will also eliminate 5,000 unfilled position...

Africa Data Centres signs 20-year PPA for solar

Africa Data Centres

Africa Data Centres (ADC) has announced the signing of a new 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Distributed Power Africa (DPA) to procure solar energy for its South African operations.Through the deal, the company will be supplied via wheeling, which occurs by delivering renewable en...

Adani to develop 15 GW of renewable energy projects and 400 MW of data center projects

India / Bhārata

Adani Group has announced plans to develop 15 GW of renewable power projects over the next few years in Andhra Pradesh, in Anantapur, Kadapa, Kurnool, Visakhapatnam, and Vizianagaram. This announcement came at a recent investors summit, ‘Global Investors Summit 2023’ held in the state. Accordi...

Orange announces solar panel deployment in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso

Orange

In further efforts to decarbonize, Orange has announced that it is deploying solar panels at its Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso data centers. Reports are that the deployments will average at 1MWp.These solar panels will be deployed by SolarX, part of investment firm Omnium Invest, and will repor...

Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) opens Osaka Keihanna data center

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt has launched its ​​45MW facility, located in the Keihanna area of Osaka, following the company first announcing the project in 2021. According to the company, already, 75% of the data center is committed.Spanning 42,000 sqm (452,000 sq ft), Niclas Sanfridsson, CEO of Colt DCS, said that ...

Thor Equity launches Form8tion Data Centers

Madrid

Thor Equities has announced it has launched its own data center development company, named Form8tion data centers, which is reportedly now marketing Thor’s maiden project in Madrid, Spain, named ‘Madrid One’ campus. This facility will offer up to 100MW of capacity spanning 60,000 sqm (645,850 ...

Southwest Airlines Transitions to Amazon Web Services

Amazon AWS

Southwest Airlines, situated in the US, has said that it is transferring its applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company claimed that the choice was made as part of its digital transformation project, which aims to enhance the passenger experience, increase operational effectiven...

Ascenty Raises $1 Billion For Brazilian Operations

Ascenty

Ascenty, a data center company in South America, has gotten more than $1 billion in funding. The corporation, which is owned by Digital Realty, disclosed that it had obtained two instruments: an offshore term credit facilities and a local capital market debenture issuance. Ita, Natixis, Scotia...

Vocus’ Melbourne Data Center Experiences Downtime Due to a UPS Issue

Vocus Melbourne (55 King) [Site Closed]

An outage was brought on by a UPS issue at a Melbourne, Australia-based Vocus data center. Recently, Vocus reported a "major incident" at its VDC-MEL03 data center, located at 530 Collins Street in Melbourne, Victoria, on its status page. On-site power had been out between 09:02 and 09:27 A...

Lee Kestler is Appointed CEO of EdgeCore

EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, LLC

Lee Kestler has been named the new CEO of data center builder EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure, a worldwide data center builder, owner, and operator. The company said this week that Kestler has been appointed as the new CEO of EdgeCore, effective immediately, by the board of directors. Tom R...