Data Center News

Meta, XGS Signs 150MW Geothermal Deal in New Mexico

New Mexico

Social network firm Meta has signed an agreement with enhanced geothermal energy firm XGS Energy to support the development and deployment of a 150MW project in New Mexico.This project is expected to supply energy to the PNM electrical grid and power Meta’s data center portfolio across New Mex...

NextDC Announces Plans for Data Center in Melbourne

NEXTDC

Australian data center firm NextDC this week announced a AU$2 billion (US$1.29bn) commitment to develop M4 Melbourne — a new campus at 127 Todd Road in Port Melbourne. The company said the site will host an AI Factory: a liquid-cooled facility engineered for sovereign AI. NextDC said the facto...

Soluna Secures $20million for New Development in Texas

Crypto and AI data center firm Soluna this week the company announced financing from Spring Lane Capital for a 35MW phase of Project Kati, a behind-the-meter data center project in Texas. The financing will facilitate the construction of the first 35MW of the 83MW phase of Kati 1, which will b...

Vantage Explores Data Center Development on Cloverleaf site

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage has been named as at least one of the companies set to develop data centers in Port Washington, Wisconsin, on up to 1,900 acres north of the Ozaukee County town, west of I-43, and east of the Ozaukee Interurban Trail between Lake Drive and Dixie Road.The company is “in the early stages...

DayOne Signs 500MW Solar Deal with TNB

Malaysia

APACT data center firm DayOne has secured up to 500MW of solar power over 21 years from utility company Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) to power its operations in Malaysia. Power will be provided by TNB’s renewable power subsidiary and power DayOne’s Nusajaya Tech Park, in Gelang Patah, and Kempa...

Naver Plans 500MW Facility in Morocco

Morocco

Naver Cloud this week announced a partnership with Nvidia, Nexus Core Systems, and investment firm Lloyds Capital to build a 500MW AI data center in Morocco. The project aims to provide sovereign AI computing services throughout the EMEA region, which encompasses Europe, the Middle East, and A...

LLNL Partners with AWS on AI Troubleshooting System

Amazon AWS

The US' Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for an AI-driven troubleshooting and reliability system at LLNL's National Ignition Facility (NIF). While AI is already used to manage the data generated by those experiences and to improve predi...

OVH targets Latin America for Local Zone Deployments

European cloud firm OVH plans to expand into Latin America this year with new Local Zones in four countries. The company's website lists planned locations in Mexico City, Santiago, Buenos Aires, and São Paulo. Initially, the new Local Zones will operate out of colocation facilities. After eval...

AWS to Launch Second "Secret" Cloud Region for Federal Customers

United States

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to launch a second cloud region for federal customers' secret-classified workloads by the end of this year. This region will enable federal customers with "secret-level" workloads to be deployed in multiple regions, thus improving resiliency and speed.“The launc...

GoTo Group Migrates Digital Payments Unit to Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud

Indonesia's GoTo Group has moved the infrastructure of GoTo Financial, the company's digital payments unit, to Alibaba Cloud's data centers in Jakarta in hopes that the migration will help streamline its operations, reduce costs, and improve service efficiency.Patrick Walujo, GoTo Group CEO, s...

Crusoe Secures $750m Credit Facility from Brookfield

United States

Crusoe  this week announced it has secured a $750 million credit facility from Brookfield Asset Management, through its infrastructure debt platform to fuel its data center and cloud build-out. The financing will primarily be deployed to fuel the development of Crusoe’s planned data centers an...

Edgenet Launches Edge Data Centers in Mexico

Mexico City / Ciudad de México

Edgenet has launched in Mexico with aims to deploy a network of 30 Edge data centers across the country. Last week, the company announced the launch of Mayia, the first artificial intelligence (AI) center with the "Made in Mexico" designation, awarded by the Ministry of Economy.“Basically, our...

CyrusOne Plans 90MW Facility in Buckinghamshire, UK

CyrusOne

US operator CyrusOne this week announced its sixth campus in the UK, LON6. Located in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, the new site is set to deliver 90MW of IT capacity across 30,000 square meters (322,917 sq ft) of technical space. The campus will feature four two-story and two single-story data...

CoreWeave to Develop 180MW data center in Indiana

CoreWeave

AI cloud firm CoreWeave is to build a 180MW data center in Indiana. It was revealed ata city council meeting this week, the City of Hammond unanimously approved a development agreement for a multibillion-dollar data center investment with CoreWeave.CoreWeave will expand its current presence at...

Campaigners Oppose AWS-linked Data Center in Bedfordshire, UK

Amazon AWS

Campaigners are opposing a hyperscale data center campus planned for Bedfordshire, UK, over concerns about its impact on the water supply. The facility is likely to host servers for Amazon’s AWS cloud platform, with Amazon Data Services named in several council documents.  However, advocacy gr...

Amazon to expand Data Centers using Recycled Water to 120

Amazon AWS

Amazon this week announced it will expand its use of water recycling to more than 120 locations in states and counties where the cloud giant has data center operations by 2030.“By scaling our use of recycled water—water that has been previously used and treated—we expect to preserve over 530 m...

Amazon to Invest $20bn in Data Centers in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

Amazon is committing to investing $20 billion in Pennsylvania to expand its AI infrastructure. The company will initially focus that investment on Salem Township and Falls Township, intending to develop "innovation campuses.""Pennsylvania is competing again—and I'm proud to announce that with ...

CloudHQ Launches Data Center Campus in Paris, France

France

Data center developer CloudHQ has launched a new campus in Paris, France. The company aims to build two data center buildings, each comprising 53,000 sqm (570,000 sqft) and 24 data halls, within Essonne’s Leonardo da Vinci business park. The facility’s waste heat will be connected to Corbeil-E...

Nebius to Deploy Nvidia B300 GPU Cluster in UK

United Kingdom

Nebius will entered the UK with a deployment of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs which will include thousands of the Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs - the B300s - and is expected to be operational in Q4 of this year.Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of Nebius, said: “We’re pleased to be providing compute ...

UK District Heating Networks Look to Data Centers for Waste Heat

United Kingdom

The UK’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has published a list of district heating networks in development across the UK that have applied for funding and support from three of its programs.A project pipeline document published by DESNZ states: “The opportunities present a w...