Data Center News

Iberia Airlines Migrates to AWS

Amazon AWS

Iberia Airlines has decommissioned its data centers and has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider, and in a multi-year transformation project, has successfully migrated to the cloud. The airline is now using AWS services, including Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Dyn...

Digital Edge Partners with B.Grimm for Thai Data Centers

Thailand / Prathet Thai

APAC data center firm Digital Edge this week announced a strategic joint venture with Thai energy firm, B.Grimm Power (BGRIM), to develop hyperscale and AI-ready data center campuses across Thailand.“Thailand stands out as one of Asia’s most compelling digital growth markets,” said John Freema...

Top Data Center News from 2nd - 7th of June 2025

United States

Amazon to Invest $10bn in North CarolinaAmazon will be making a $10 billion investment in the expansion of its data center infrastructure in North Carolina, which will be used to support the company's cloud and AI services, bringing at least 500 full-time jobs to the region in the process.Gree...

AWS Establishes European Sovereign Cloud as Separate Company

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has established a new company for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud in light of increasing anxiety expressed by European customers. AWS European Sovereign Cloud will now have an independent European governance structure and its own dedicated Security Operations Center,...

Texas Critical Data Centers signs MoU for AI Data Center

Texas

Texas Critical Data Centers (TCDC) has entered a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with PowerForward Energy to supply onsite generation at its proposed 250MW AI data center in Ector County, Texas.The MoU will set the parameters for a power supply agreement between the companies, wh...

GreenScale Acquires Land in Norway for New Data Center

GreenScale Data Centres

GreenScale this week announced the acquisition of Tonstad DataPark, a new data center development located in the municipality of Sirdal in West Agder County (NO2), Norway.Tonstad DataPark spans a 420,000 square meter (4.5 million sq ft) site with 300MW of grid capacity, approved by Glitre Nett...

Amazon to Invest $10bn in North Carolina

Amazon AWS

Amazon has revealed plans to invest $10 billion for the expansion of its data center infrastructure in North Carolina which will be used to support the company's cloud and AI services, and is expected to bring 500 full time jobs to the region.“Artificial intelligence is changing the way we wor...

FlexGen, Rosendin to Develop Utility-Scale BESS Solution

United States

FlexGen Power Systems and Rosendin have partnered on the development of a utility-scale Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) designed to replace traditional UPS infrastructure in data centers. The partnership will combine FlexGen’s energy management software and BESS technology with Rosendin’s...

GridFree AI raises $5m for Off-Grid Data Center Deployment

United States

GridFree AI, an infrastructure startup backed by Montauk Climate, has raised $5 million in seed funding as it looks to streamline and accelerate data center deployment using its Power Foundry platform, which integrates power generation, battery storage, and cooling into a modular, grid-indepen...

TECfusions to Develop Data Center Campus in Puente Alto, Chile

Chile

TECfusions and Baeza Group have secured land for a 100MW data center project in Puente Alto, Chile. The campus is expected to be able to launch with an initial 10MW of capacity, and an additional 10MW available from the local grid. Eventually, TECfusions plans to expand the campus to 100MW.The...

Brookfield Plans $10bn Investment on a Swedish AI Data Center

Sweden

Brookfield Asset Management plans to spend up to 95 billion kronor ($9.9 billion) on an AI data center in Strängnäs, Sweden. The investment more than doubles a planned 300MW facility to 750MW, with the company planning to purchase 350,000 sqm of additional land in Strängnäs to support the larg...

Oppidan Breaks Bround on Data Center in Eagan, Minnesota

Minnesota

US real estate firm Oppidan Investment Company this week broke ground on a 61,000 sq ft (5,667 sqm) build-to-suit data center on Argenta Trail in Eagan. Oppidan is serving as the landlord and directly financing, developing, and delivering the facility in partnership with a tenant.“This is a de...

Vantage Secures $5 Billion in Green Loans

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has secured $5 billion in incremental green loan financings to meet data center demand in the US which includes a $2.25 billion financing to fully fund construction of the company’s campus in New Albany, Ohio, as well as a $2.75 billion upsizing of an existing $3 billion 2...

Vertiv Unveils Liquid Cooling CDUs for AI data centers

United States

Vertiv has launched three new coolant distribution units (CDUs) for liquid cooled data centers as it is expanding its CoolChip CDU range with the addition of the CoolChip CDU 70, CoolChip CDU 100, CoolChip CDU 600 models.“As workloads continue to drive higher rack densities and cooling demands...

Siemens Launches Prefabricated Data Center Module

United States

Siemens Smart Infrastructure, Cadolto Datacenter, and Legrand Data Center Solutions announced this week that they are jointly unveiling a new turnkey modular Edge data center. The companies are offering customizable, prefabricated modules that can be tailored to unique operational needs and de...

Bitzero Blockchain Announces Four Data Centers

United States

Bitzero Blockchain, the cryptomining and HPC infrastructure firm backed by Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary, has announced the development of four data centers across the US, Finland, and Norway, with the locations for its new data centers all seclected based on their cold climates.By "combining ...

AWS' Quantum General Manager Joins Google

Amazon AWS

The general manager of quantum technologies at Amazon Web Services Simone Severini has left for Google after spending more than six years at the cloud giant, which is developing its own quantum computers along with offering other companies' systems on its Braket service. He is also a professor...

Principal Acquires Connecta Park in Germany

Texas

Principal Asset Management has acquired a data center complex in Düsseldorf, Germany.The site is let to a number of tenants, including Digital Realty, Colt, Pluserver, Comtrance, 1&1 Versatel, Telia, Vodafone, and Zayo. The site is also home to the DE-CIX and ECIX (Megaport) Internet excha...

Laura Swett to Replace Mark Christie as Chairman of FERC

United States

The chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Mark Christie, is set to be replaced when his term expires at the end of the month and President Donald Trump has nominated Laura Swett, who currently serves as energy litigation counsel at the law firm Vinson & Elkins, as Ch...

GRC Secures Investment from Samsung Ventures

GRC, a provider of single-phase immersion cooling for data centers this week announced it has secured investment from Samsung Ventures to support its growth. Ventures joins GRC's major shareholders, including HTS, SK Enmove, and ENEOS in the latest financing, while Samsung’s C&T constructi...