Data Center News

The Associated Press used Baxtel's data for Malaysian article

The Associated Press used Baxtel's data on the size of the Johor data center market for an in-depth article on Malaysia's growing market located near the tapped-out Singapore market. Read the article on the AP website

Colovore Begins Work on Reno data center

Liquid-cooled data center provider Colovore this week announced it has broken ground on its RN01 facility in Reno, Nevada. The 20MW site is set to launch in late 2025/early 2026. The site will offer densities of up to 250kW per rack through direct-to-chip and rear-door cooling. "Colovore was b...

Wa'ed Ventures Invests in AI Cloud Provider Ori

Aramco's venture capital arm Wa'ed Ventures has invested in UK AI cloud provider Ori to support Ori's expansion into the Middle East market over the next 12 months. The investment follows Ori's recent £140 million ($176.23m) raise, and the AI cloud provider has another larger raise underway th...

Amazon to Expand Data Center Presence in Oregon

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its data center footprint in Oregon and is in the process of securing 400 acres in Arlington for the project. According to the company, it could still be many years until it is actually operating a site in Arlington due to the process of getting p...

Microsoft to Invest $704m in Polish Data Centers Expansion

Microsofthas announced that it intends to spend PLN 2.8 billion ($704m) by June, 2026 to expand its hyperscale cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in Poland. The company will also collaborate with Polish National Defense to establish a framework to strengthen national cyberse...

Google Appoints Juli Johnston as Data Center Energy Strategic Negotiator

Google has appointed Juli Johnston most recently worked as part of the charging leadership team at Tesla as a data center energy strategic negotiator. She is the latest in a number of hires from the division to find a job in the data center sector. The hire has not been previously reported. "I...

Top Data Center News for 10-15th February 2025

The UK government says it will work with power companies to make up to 500MW of electricity available for new data center developments in each of its planned AI growth zones. They aim to create areas with favorable conditions for building AI infrastructure, with streamlined planning rules to e...

Google Goes Back on Word Not to DFevelop AI weapons

Google's parent company Alphabet has ditched its promise to not use artificial intelligence (AI) in weapons systems or surveillance tools. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai wrote a blog post outlining the company's "AI principles," in which he listed AI applications that the company would not pursue,...

Synopsys Extends Hardware-Assisted Verification Portfolio

Synopsys has expanded its Hardware-Assisted Verification (HAV) portfolio to support advanced semiconductor design. The updates include adding HAPS-200 prototyping and ZeBu-200 emulation systems to its product line and enhancing its ZeBu Server 5 to support scalability beyond 60 billion gates t...

Iron Mountain Invests in Ooredoo's Data Center Unit

Qatari telco Ooredoo and Iron Mountain have announced a partnership for data center growth across the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. The deal will see Iron Mountain take a minority stake in Ooredoo’s data center company, MENA Digital Hub. “We are delighted to partner with Ooredoo ...

Zoom and Center3 to Deploy Node in Saudi Arabia

Zoom has partnered with data center provider Center3 to deploy a node in Saudi Arabia, it's first in the Kingdom, which will provide infrastructure to help address demand for its low-latency conferencing platform. "As part of our mission to provide seamless and reliable communications globally...

EU Allocates €20bn to Developing Four “AI gigafactories”

The European Commission is to spend billions of Euros on developing new AI supercomputing clusters. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the launch of InvestAI, an initiative to mobilize €200 billion ($209bn) for investment in AI, including a new European fund of €20bn ($20.9bn)...

Alibaba Cloud Launches New Data Center in Thailand

Alibaba Cloud has launched a second data center in Thailand today to meet increased demand in the country. The dual data centers will enable Alibaba Cloud to provide "scalable, elastic, and highly available cloud computing products with enhanced disaster recovery capabilities tailored to Thail...

Patrizia and CenterSquare Invest in Aligned Data Centers

Patrizia and CenterSquare have invested an undisclosed amount in Aligned data center which will support the previously announced $5bn primary equity and $7bn in debt commitments raised in January of this year. James Muir, head of Patrizia’s investment division, said: “This investment is a prim...

Vodafone and Three Unveil Leadership Team

Vodafone has announced its full leadership team ahead of its imminent merger with Three in the UK as the merger was cleared by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in December. The appointments have been made by Max Taylor, who has been appointed as CEO of the merged company.Accord...

Amadeus Renews Cloud Contract with Microsoft

Travel technology company Amadeus has renewed its cloud computing contract with Microsoft. The company has recommitted to its cloud migration strategy and will use Microsoft's cloud and AI technologies. Amadeus has thus far moved more than 50 percent of its applications to the public cloud. Th...

Meta Announces World’s Longest Subsea Cable Project

Meta plans to deploy a multi-billion dollar cable that will span the globe, a 50,000km (31,070 mi) Project called Waterworth. This project is expected to be the world's longest 24 fiber pair submarine cable, connecting the US, India, Brazil, South Africa, and other regions.The company said tha...

FirstLight Expands Maine Data Centers

US fiber firm FirstLight this week announced the expansion of its data center in Brunswick, Maine. The renovation project, which began last summer, doubled the power capacity at the facility. The facility, located at 14 Resilient Circle in Brunswick Landing, is a former NATO Command and Contro...

AI Drives Environmental Concerns Over Rise in Data Center Growth Across Central Texas

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What's causing the growth in data centers in Austin, TX? The answer is AI. Data centers and large AI consumers, like the Texas Advanced Computing Center’s supercomputers, require enormous amounts of energy and water, raising environmental concerns. Our research reveals there are 386 data cente...

Verne to Expand Helsinki Data Center

European data center firm Verne this week announced the acquisition of more land at its existing Helsinki data center campus, securing room for future expansion. The planned expansion will include two new buildings, which will be able to support liquid cooling and take the campus to a potentia...