Read HPE Closes $14bn Acquisition of Juniper Networks
HPE Closes $14bn Acquisition of Juniper Networks
July 02, 2025

HPE Closes $14bn Acquisition of Juniper Networks

United States

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has completed its long-awaited $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks. The Department of Justice (DOJ) approved the deal following HPE's agreement to a number of potentially significant conditions.“Today begins a new era for HPE – we are now at the epicent...

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Read Datum Launches Second Manchester Data Center
Datum Launches Second Manchester Data Center
July 02, 2025

Datum Launches Second Manchester Data Center

United Kingdom

UK operator Datum Datacentres this week officially launched MCR2, marking the completion of the almost two-year construction project. The facility, located in Wythenshawe, provides capacity for up to 1,200 racks, each offering densities up to 30kW.Matt Edgley, COO at Datum Datacentres, said: “...

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Read Hut 8 Launches Cryptomine Data Center in Texas
Hut 8 Launches Cryptomine Data Center in Texas
July 02, 2025

Hut 8 Launches Cryptomine Data Center in Texas

Hut 8 Corp

Cryptomining and HPC data center firm Hut 8 Corp. has launched a Bitcoin mining data center in Texas which spans 162,000 sq ft (15,050 sqm) and will offer 205MW of capacity at full energization. Vega features a proprietary, rack-based, direct-to-chip liquid cooling system designed in-house by ...

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Read EdgeMode Acquires Infrastructure Investor Blackberry AIF
EdgeMode Acquires Infrastructure Investor Blackberry AIF
July 02, 2025

EdgeMode Acquires Infrastructure Investor Blackberry AIF

Spain

EdgeMode has acquired an infrastructure firm as it plans to develop data centers across Spain. The merger would see EdgeMode, which describes itself as an AI data infrastructure company, acquire BAIF’s assets in exchange for equity and investment capital, forming a “platform to support EdgeMod...

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Read Palantir to Develop AI Software for The Nuclear Company
Palantir to Develop AI Software for The Nuclear Company
July 01, 2025

Palantir to Develop AI Software for The Nuclear Company

United States

Military and surveillance company Palantir is partnering with The Nuclear Company (TNC) to co-develop and deploy NOS, an 'AI-driven' real-time software system focused on the construction of nuclear reactors.“Our mission is to build nuclear power the way America once built its greatest infrastr...

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Read Microsoft Launches Austrian Azure Cloud Region in Vienna
Microsoft Launches Austrian Azure Cloud Region in Vienna
July 01, 2025

Microsoft Launches Austrian Azure Cloud Region in Vienna

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has officially opened its cloud region in Austria at a joint press conference with State Secretary Alexander Pröll this week, but said companies would be able to start processing from the region in August.Hermann Erlach, general manager of Microsoft Austria, said: "The use of AI is o...

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Read Crusoe and Redwood Launch Microgrid to Power Data Centers
Crusoe and Redwood Launch Microgrid to Power Data Centers
July 01, 2025

Crusoe and Redwood Launch Microgrid to Power Data Centers

United States

AI data center developer Crusoe has partnered with battery recycling firm Redwood Energy to develop a microgrid system powered through solar and repurposed electric vehicle (EV) batteries for modular AI data centers.This project is supposedly the largest microgrid in the North American market ...

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Read Top Data Center News from 23rd-28th June 2025
Top Data Center News from 23rd-28th June 2025
June 30, 2025

Top Data Center News from 23rd-28th June 2025

United States

Kakao Plans Data Center in Namyangju, South KoreaSouth Korean Internet firm Kakao has committed to a KRW 600 billion ($442.3m) investment that will see the company develop a 92,000 sqm (990,280 sq ft) AI-focused facility in Namyangju, a city in the nation's Gyeonggi province.DigitalBridge and ...

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Read Microsoft to Buy 1.1m Tons of Carbon Removal Credits in Norway
Microsoft to Buy 1.1m Tons of Carbon Removal Credits in Norway
June 30, 2025

Microsoft to Buy 1.1m Tons of Carbon Removal Credits in Norway

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has agreed to purchase 1.1 million tons of carbon removal credits from Hafslund Celsio, an energy from waste (EfW) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) firm which is set to be delivered over a ten-year period, will be generated by a CCS project under development at the site of Norway...

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Read US Energy Sec Plans 11GW Data Center Campus in Texas
US Energy Sec Plans 11GW Data Center Campus in Texas
June 28, 2025

US Energy Sec Plans 11GW Data Center Campus in Texas

Texas

The Texas Tech University System (TTU System) announced a collaboration with recently founded energy and technology company Fermi America to develop a large AI and energy campus near Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. The Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus will reportedly include “18 millio...

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Read Lockton Launches New Data Center Insurance Product
Lockton Launches New Data Center Insurance Product
June 28, 2025

Lockton Launches New Data Center Insurance Product

United States

Insurance brokerage Lockton has partnered with Parametrix, a provider of digital business interruption risk solutions, to bring a Service Level Agreement (SLA) insurance offering to the data center market. The companies said the parametric coverage offers immediate payouts triggered by predefi...

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Read AMD and HCLTech Team Up for AI and Cloud Solutions
AMD and HCLTech Team Up for AI and Cloud Solutions
June 28, 2025

AMD and HCLTech Team Up for AI and Cloud Solutions

United States

AMD has partnered with Indian tech company HCLTech to boost the development of solutions across AI, digital, and cloud. The partnership will support the creation of a “robust digital ecosystem,” the two companies said in a statement.This will include joint investments in innovation labs and tr...

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Read Jet.AI Partners with Consensus Core for Canadian Data Centers
Jet.AI Partners with Consensus Core for Canadian Data Centers
June 27, 2025

Jet.AI Partners with Consensus Core for Canadian Data Centers

Canada

Jet.AI Inc., a company pivoting from aviation software and services into data centers, this week announced that it and Consensus Core Technologies, a Canadian provider of GPU infrastructure and AI cloud services, have executed a definitive agreement to jointly develop a phased hyperscale data ...

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Read Meta Purchases 791MW of Renewable Power in the US
Meta Purchases 791MW of Renewable Power in the US
June 27, 2025

Meta Purchases 791MW of Renewable Power in the US

United States

Meta has signed four renewable energy agreements across four projects in Ohio (x2), Arizona, and Texas, for a combined capacity of 791MW from Invenergy to power its US data center portfolio.The four contracted projects include the 300MW Yellow Wood Solar Energy Center in Clinton County, Ohio, ...

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Read Sonim Looks to Merge with AI Data Center Firm
Sonim Looks to Merge with AI Data Center Firm
June 27, 2025

Sonim Looks to Merge with AI Data Center Firm

United States

Nasdaq-listed Sonim Technologies, a provider of rugged mobile phones and other products, this week announced the signing of a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) for a proposed reverse take-over (RTO) with a privately owned US-based company that is “building out Nvidia-based high-performance co...

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Read Qarnot Launches Italian Data Center Facility
Qarnot Launches Italian Data Center Facility
June 27, 2025

Qarnot Launches Italian Data Center Facility

Italy

French data center firm Qarnot has launched a new data center deployment at the Lamarmora power plant in Brescia in Lombardy, in partnership with local energy firm A2A and connected it to the city’s local district heating network.Paul Benoit, Qarnot's CEO, said: "Partnering with A2A represents...

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Read Can the Cloud Go Green? Exploring the Path to Carbon-Neutral Data Centers
 Can the Cloud Go Green? Exploring the Path to Carbon-Neutral Data Centers
June 27, 2025

Can the Cloud Go Green? Exploring the Path to Carbon-Neutral Data Centers

United States

People consider the cloud to be intangible. However, there are dozens of servers powering that invisible force in thousands of data centers stationed around the world. These facilities, many of which operate continuously without interruption, consume vast amounts of energy and are increasingly...

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Read Gridmatic Inks 10MW PPA in Texas
Gridmatic Inks 10MW PPA in Texas
June 26, 2025

Gridmatic Inks 10MW PPA in Texas

Texas

US-based power marketer Gridmatic has signed a 10MW Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Sol Systems in Texas, with a portion of the power supplied to data center developer EdgeConneX under a 24/7 carbon-free energy agreement (24/7 CFE). The  PPA has a capacity of 14MW and reached commercial op...

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Read DigitalBridge and ArcLight Invest $500m in Takanock
DigitalBridge and ArcLight Invest $500m in Takanock
June 26, 2025

DigitalBridge and ArcLight Invest $500m in Takanock

DigitalBridge

DigitalBridge and energy investor ArcLight Capital have invested capital commitments totaling $500 million in a new dispatchable power firm targeting data centers- Takanock, which describes itself as a provider of digital and power infrastructure solutions. The company aims to address the powe...

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Read Google buys land for data center in Botetourt County, Virginia
Google buys land for data center in Botetourt County, Virginia
June 26, 2025

Google buys land for data center in Botetourt County, Virginia

Google

Google has spent $14 million to buy a plot of land for a data center development in Botetourt County, Virginia. The deal for the 312-acre site at the Botetourt Center industrial park, Greenfield, was announced on Tuesday.“We are always looking for communities that have the innovative and colla...

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