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NXP Semiconductors Acquires Kinara for $307m

Netherlands-based NXP Semiconductors has acquired AI chip startup Kinara in a $307 million all-cash agreement. The company says this acquisition would enable it to “enhance and strengthen” its ability to provide scalable AI platforms by combining Kinara’s NPUs and AI software with NXP’s soluti...

Reimei Quantum Computer goes Online

Quantinuum has successfully deployed its Reimei quantum computer at the Wako, Saitama, campus of Japanese research institute Riken. It is now fully operational and will be used to accelerate quantum applications across physics and chemistry.The Quantinuum H1-1 ion trap quantum computer contain...

UK Government Pledges 500MW for its AI Growth Zones

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...

Riot Platforms plans expansion into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads

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Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms is considering an expansion into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads and has appointed three new directors to its board to evaluate whether spare capacity can be repurposed.Riot, which develops some of the largest mining facilities in t...

Rocky Mountain Power and Torus Partner on Energy Storage Integration

Rocky Mountain Power, the Utah-based subsidiary of Northwestern US electric power company Pacficorp, and Torus, a US energy storage firm, are working together to integrate Torus’s energy storage technology into Rocky Mountain’s Wattsmart Battery program."As Utah attracts more data centers, man...

Johnson Controls Appoints Joakim Weidemanis as CEO

Industrial machine manufacturer Johnson Controls has appointed Joakim Weidemanis as CEO, effective March 12, 2025. During his stint at Danaher, Weidemanis grew the company’s diagnostics business through acquisitions and organic growth, taking leadership of an approximately $15 billion group ac...

Top Data Center News from 3rd-8th February 2025

Amazon has signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) in India for a combined 199MW across two onshore wind projects. The first PPA was signed with CleanMax, an Asia-focused renewable developer, while the second PPA was signed with BluPine Energy, an Indian renewable energy developer, for ene...

3M Joins Semiconductor US-JOINT Consortium

Multinational technology company 3M has joined the US-JOINT Consortium, a group of 12 semiconductor suppliers focused on developing next-generation semiconductor advanced packaging and back-end processing technologies. Since its inception, US-JOINT has also been overseeing the construction of ...

CtrlS Completes 125MW Solar Farm to Power Mumbai Campus

Indian data center developer CtrlS Datacenters has completed the construction of a 125MW captive solar farm in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. CtrlS has said that the project will cover 60 percent of the energy requirements at its Mumbai data center campus. The campus currently houses five data ce...

LANL to Lead Multi-institution Project

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) will lead a multi-institution project focused on transforming how chips are designed and manufactured and will explore how to fabricate chips that are more energy efficient and able to operate in extreme environments, in particular those with high levels o...

Singtel Secures $475.9 Million Green Loan

Singtel’s regional data center arm, Nxera, this week announced a S$643 million five-year green loan to finance the development of the 58MW DC Tuas data center in Singapore. The funds will go toward funding the development and capital expenditure of DC Tuas, which is due to go live in 2026.As p...

Equinix Launches Data Center in Paris, France

Equinix this week inaugurated its PA13x facility in the Meudon area of Île-de-France. It is part of Equinix’s xScale portfolio, targeting hyperscale customers. The €350 million ($361.4m) facility, located at 9 Avenue du Marechal Juin, totals 78,910 sq ft (7,330 sqm) of colocation space across ...

Borealis Raises $148m in Debt Funding

Nordic firm Borealis Data Center (BDC) this week announced $148 million in funding from infrastructure investment firm Infranity and Iceland’s Arion Bank. The funds will support Borealis’ expansion plans in the Nordics, though further details weren't shared.“Our strategy for growth is rooted i...

BT Ireland Sells Wholesale and Enterprise Units

BT has agreed to sell its Irish wholesale and enterprise unit including BT’s domestic network infrastructure, more than 400 customers, and associated teams supporting the wholesale and business enterprises to Cordiant subsidiary Speed Fibre Group.The transaction will not include BTCIL’s multin...

Meta Attempts to Redesign Fiber Signal Amplification Sites

Social media firm Meta is attempting to redesign fiber signal amplification sites, just like subsea cable systems have repeaters every ~100km to amplify signals being sent between locations, in-line amplifier (ILA) sites amplify signals sent along terrestrial fiber. “Buildings were constructed...

Beyon Solutions and Oracle to Develop Sovereign Cloud in Bahrain

Beyon Group has signed an agreement with Oracle to develop a sovereign cloud solution in Bahrain. The company's Beyon Solutions division will use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's (OCI) Dedicated Region offering to provide sovereign cloud services to businesses and government entities in Bahrain.T...

Amazon Signs two PPAs in India

Amazon has signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) in India for a combined 199MW across two onshore wind projects. The first PPA was signed with CleanMax, an Asia-focused renewable developer, for energy from a 100MW onshore wind project currently under development in Koppal, Karnataka.Kulde...

Armada to Deploy Containerized Edge Data Centers in Saudi

Aramco Digital, Armada, and Microsoft this week announced a collaboration to deploy Armada’s satellite-connected Galleon Edge data centers and Commander software platform in Saudi Arabia. These deployments utilize Microsoft Azure's cloud in Armada's Galleon infrastructure; this includes Azure ...

Amazon Signs PPA with ERG in Northern Ireland

Amazon has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Italian energy firm ERG Group as a pay-as-produced agreement in which ERG will supply the cloud giant with Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGOs) produced by the Corlacky wind farm. According to ERG, the PPA will deliver ...

520-acre Data Center Campus Planned Wisconsin

A data center campus could be coming to Wisconsin as local press reports an unnamed developer is looking to build a campus in Beaver Dam in Dodge County, some 60 miles northwest of Milwaukee. A company working through the Degas LLC affiliate is seeking to invest around $567m developing a data ...