Read Cathedra Sells Cryptomine Data Center in North Dakota
Cathedra Sells Cryptomine Data Center in North Dakota
March 14, 2025

Cathedra Sells Cryptomine Data Center in North Dakota

Cathedra Bitcoin, a Vancouver-based developer and operator of crypto mining and data center infrastructure, has announced the sale of a 60MW Bitcoin mining facility in North Dakota to an unnamed third-party Bitcoin miner for a fee of $21 million. The company intends to use the funds to “develo...

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Read Celestial AI Raises $250m in Funding Round
Celestial AI Raises $250m in Funding Round
March 14, 2025

Celestial AI Raises $250m in Funding Round

Optical interconnect company Celestial AI has closed a $250 million Series C1 funding round which was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and saw participation from existing investors AMD Ventures and Koch Disruptive Technologies, and new investors BlackRock, Maverick Silicon, an...

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Read University of Virginia on Lookout for New Research Data Center
University of Virginia on Lookout for New Research Data Center
March 14, 2025

University of Virginia on Lookout for New Research Data Center

The University of Virginia is looking to get a new data center which would be used for research purpose. If approved, the data center would have an initial 4MW of IT capacity and see $72 million of investment. This could be expanded to 16MW in the future.According to the university's vice pres...

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Read PDG Converts $105m Loan to Green Financing
PDG Converts $105m Loan to Green Financing
March 14, 2025

PDG Converts $105m Loan to Green Financing

APAC-focused data center firm Princeton Digital Group (PDG) this week converted a $105 million loan into green financing for its 22MW JC2 data center campus in Jakarta, Indonesia. The conversion was arranged in collaboration with Green Loan Coordinators, PT Bank DBS Indonesia, and PT Bank UOB ...

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Read Spark NZ Expands Partnership with HPE
Spark NZ Expands Partnership with HPE
March 13, 2025

Spark NZ Expands Partnership with HPE

Telco Spark New Zealand has expanded its partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). This new partnership will include the use of HPE's GreenLake cloud-to-Edge offering and Spark will be moving to a "variable model" for IT infrastructure by using the HPE GreenLake Cloud, a solution that...

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Read QuamCore Secures $9m Funding
QuamCore Secures $9m Funding
March 13, 2025

QuamCore Secures $9m Funding

Israeli quantum computing firm QuamCore has secured $9 million in seed funding in a round led by Viola Ventures and Earth & Beyond Ventures. The company emerged from stealth this week and with a patented architecture it claims will enable the integration of one million qubits into a single...

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Read Intel Appoints Lip-Bu Tan as CEO
Intel Appoints Lip-Bu Tan as CEO
March 13, 2025

Intel Appoints Lip-Bu Tan as CEO

Beleaguered chipmaker Intel has appointed former director Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO. Tan will take up his new role on March 18, and also rejoin the Intel board of directors.Intel named CFO David Zinsner and Intel Products CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus as interim co-CEOs following Gelsinger’s ...

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Read Ecoblox and Tenstorrent Form Partnership for AI and HPC Offerings
Ecoblox and Tenstorrent Form Partnership for AI and HPC Offerings
March 13, 2025

Ecoblox and Tenstorrent Form Partnership for AI and HPC Offerings

Modular data center firm Ecoblox and chip designer Tenstorrent have signed an agreement to help expand their AI and high performance computing (HPC) offerings in the Middle East and Africa. Both companies will work together to bring AI and HPC compute capacity to the Middle East/Africa region,...

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Read Eaton Acquires Fibrebond Corporation
Eaton Acquires Fibrebond Corporation
March 13, 2025

Eaton Acquires Fibrebond Corporation

Eaton this week announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Fibrebond Corporation, a designer and builder of pre-integrated modular power enclosures for data center, industrial, utility, and communications customers.“Fibrebond is known for its engineering capabilities and customer focus in...

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Read Digital Realty to Host Quantum Computer in Amsterdam
Digital Realty to Host Quantum Computer in Amsterdam
March 12, 2025

Digital Realty to Host Quantum Computer in Amsterdam

Digital Realty this week announced it would host a quantum system for SURF at the AMS17 facility in Amsterdam’s Science Park. The quantum computer will be deployed by SURF directly next to its existing national supercomputer, Snellius."We’re excited to partner with SURF to bring this pioneerin...

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Read OpenAI Signs AI Cloud Deal with CoreWeave
OpenAI Signs AI Cloud Deal with CoreWeave
March 12, 2025

OpenAI Signs AI Cloud Deal with CoreWeave

OpenAI has agreed an $11.9 billion deal to buy services from CoreWeave, which will see it take an equity stake in the AI cloud provider. This deal comes just before CoreWeave’s stock market debut, which is expected to happen in the next few weeks via an IPO. It will see OpenAI receive CoreWeav...

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Read Virgin Media O2 to Invest in UK Mobile Coverage Boost
Virgin Media O2 to Invest in UK Mobile Coverage Boost
March 12, 2025

Virgin Media O2 to Invest in UK Mobile Coverage Boost

Virgin Media O2 has announced plans to invest £700 million ($904m) into its mobile network this year in an effort to improve its reliability, speed, and coverage across the UK. The investment will be used to plug gaps in the telco's coverage in the country as the carrier reports that traffic o...

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Read JLL Secures Management Contract with Pure DC
JLL Secures Management Contract with Pure DC
March 11, 2025

JLL Secures Management Contract with Pure DC

JLL has announced it has secured a landmark facilities management contract with Pure Data Centres for a data center in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The company said its offerings will comprise ongoing maintenance and support for Yas Island’s low-voltage and high-voltage electrical systems, including its UP...

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Read Hyve Breaks Ground in Frankfurt, Germany
Hyve Breaks Ground in Frankfurt, Germany
March 11, 2025

Hyve Breaks Ground in Frankfurt, Germany

Managed hosting company Hyve has launched a new data center deployment in Frankfurt, Germany and has taken space in an Equinix data center. From there, Hyve will offer services including colocation, managed private cloud, managed enterprise cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud solutions, dedicated an...

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Read Data4 Signs Nuclear Deal with Westinghouse
Data4 Signs Nuclear Deal with Westinghouse
March 11, 2025

Data4 Signs Nuclear Deal with Westinghouse

European data center firm Data4 this week announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore the use of Westinghouse Electric Company’s AP300 SMR to power future data centers in Europe. Data4 will use the AP300 SMR as its technology of choice to evaluate deployment at one o...

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Read Partners Group Acquires GreenSquareDC
Partners Group Acquires GreenSquareDC
March 11, 2025

Partners Group Acquires GreenSquareDC

Swiss private equity firm Partners Group is to acquire Australian data center firm GreenSquareDC and will invest up to AU$1.2 billion (US$759m) in GreenSquare to establish the company as a “next generation data center platform.”Nicholas Kuys, managing director, Infrastructure Asia, Partners Gr...

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Read xAI Buys Land for Second Memphis Data Center
 xAI Buys Land for Second Memphis Data Center
March 11, 2025

xAI Buys Land for Second Memphis Data Center

xAI has bought a 1 million sq ft (92,905 sqm) site for a new data center in Memphis, as Elon Musk’s startup looks to expand its Colossus supercomputer. The company has purchased three parcels of land at 5400 Tulane Road, Whitehaven, through an affiliate company CTC Properties. It acquired an e...

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Read Crain's Chicago Business relies on Baxtel's data
Crain's Chicago Business relies on Baxtel's data
March 10, 2025

Crain's Chicago Business relies on Baxtel's data

Baxtel provided the data for the Crain Chicago Business Journal article that reports how the city is positioning itself for the data center boom. The city's efforts to attract more data centers will lead to economic growth, job creation, and property tax revenues. Read the article on Crain's C...

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Read Ori Industries Deploys GPUs at Kao Data Facility
Ori Industries Deploys GPUs at Kao Data Facility
March 10, 2025

Ori Industries Deploys GPUs at Kao Data Facility

AI cloud provider Ori's UK announced   that it would deploy Nvidia H200 GPUs in the UK late last year, but did not disclose which data center provider it would use.. However, the company has finally revealed that the GPU deployment is in Kao Data's facility in Harlow. “We are delighted to part...

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Read Orange Announces Plans to Leverage Data Center Assets
Orange Announces Plans to Leverage Data Center Assets
March 10, 2025

Orange Announces Plans to Leverage Data Center Assets

Orange has announced plans to leverage its data center assets as it looks to capitalize on the growth around data center demand. Michaël Trabbia, CEO of Orange Wholesale, noted last week at Mobile World Congress, the importance of Orange owning its own telecoms infrastructure, during a time wh...

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