United States Data Center News

Former SiFive executives join leadership team at MIPS

MIPS, a company focused on the development of high-performance RISC-V compute IP recently announced that two former SiFive executives have joined its executive leadership team. Drew Barbier has joined as VP of products and Brad Burgess has been named chief architect. Sameer Wasson, CEO of MIPS...

January 03, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Virginia residents file lawsuit over data center development

A group of residents in Prince William County, Virginia recently sued the Board of County Supervisors through their formed non-profit "Devlin Defend Corporation” over a data center development. The residents submitted this lawsuit on December 28, hoping to stop the development of a nine-buildi...

January 03, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Meta to proceed with 750,000 square feet facility in Rosemount city Council

The Rosemount City Council has voted unanimously in favor of the Meta data center development in Minnesota. Following this vote, the facility will be developed on part of the University of Minnesota's UMore Park. The approved plan d will see a 750,000 sq ft (69,670 sqm) data center campus be d...

December 28, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Minnesota

Intel announces layoff plans across its Californian campuses

Intel has announced its plans to lay off 311 employees across two Californian campuses. This marks the second round of job cuts carried out by the company in California this year. Two separate "worker adjustment and retraining notifications" (WARNs) filed with the State of California’s Employ...

December 27, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

California

Hourigan proposes 320-acre facility outside Richmond, Virginia

Hourigan, a local developer has proposed a 320-acre data center campus outside Richmond, Virginia. The company has requested to rezone the land from agricultural to light industrial, noting that it expects to see around $1 billion invested in the project. The company said in a filing with regu...

December 27, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Arrcus joins UEC to support AI and HPC demands

Hyperscale networking firm Arrcus has joined the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), a group dedicated to delivering Ethernet-based interoperable and high-performance architecture to meet the growing network demands of AI and high-performance computing (HPC). With this move, Arrcus has committed ...

December 26, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

ASU wins $17.5 million in funding for chip manufacturing

Arizona State University (ASU) is set to receive $17.5 million worth of investment from the Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA) to expand the state’s advanced semiconductor manufacturing capabilities. Sandra Watson, president and CEO of the ACA said, “This new investment showcases Arizona’s conti...

December 23, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Arizona

Applied Digital signs retail electric agreement with TerraForm Power

Applied Digital has recently signed a long-term retail electric agreement with TerraForm Power for its 200MW data center in Garden City, Texas. Following this agreement, Applied Digital will use wind power produced in Texas by TerraForm Power. Wes Cummins, Applied Digital chairman and CEO sai...

December 21, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Marathon Digital: Garden City TX

Axiom Space to launch orbital data center

Space infrastructure business Axiom Space has planned to develop an 'orbital data center.' The company is currently developing the world’s first commercial space station, which will initially be a part of the International Space Station, but is planned to separate and remain in orbit, once the...

December 21, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Houston

Virginia’s Fauquier County adopts policies curbing data centers

Virginia's Fauquier County Board of Supervisors has approved a set of policies designed to curb data center developments in the area. These guidelines have been put in place to protect the county's rural character, the health and welfare of its citizens, as well as the value of the residential...

December 20, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Lightmatter officially becomes a unicorn

Photonic computing company Lightmatter has now been crowned a Unicorn, raising $155 million at a $1.2 billion valuation. This funding is part of the series C investment round, which helped the company raise $154 million in May, successfully tripling the company’s value at the time. Overall, Li...

December 19, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Boston

Armada raises funds for data center modules

Washington-based Edge computing firm Armada has announced that it recently raised $55 million for its Edge computing modules and management platform. The funds was raised from investors including Founders Fund, Lux Capital, Shield Capital, and 8090 Industries, with participation from Felicis, ...

December 16, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Washington

Cielo to develop massive data center in Virginia’s Culpeper County

Cielo Digital Infrastructure is now on track to develop a 1.4 million square feet data center facility upon approval from Virginia’s Culpeper Country board. This project will be built on a 121-acre parcel along Nalles Mill Road following the County Board of Supervisors' vote to approve the pro...

December 14, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Virginia

Meta signs renewable energy deal in Arizona

Social network company Meta announced this week that it has signed a new renewable energy deal in Arizona with Ørsted to support its Mesa data center with new solar energy from the Salt River Project. Following this contract, the social network company will receive most of the output of Ørsted...

December 13, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Arizona

ASM to expand R&D efforts in Arizona

Dutch chip equipment manufacturer ASM International has announced it plans to invest €300 million over a five-year period to expand its R&D efforts in Arizona. The company mentioned that this new 20-acre facility, set to be located in Scottsdale, will create an additional 500 jobs in softw...

December 07, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Arizona

Liberty Networks and Gold Data partner to develop new subsea cable

Liberty Networks and Gold Data have entered a partnership with the aim to develop a new subsea cable system connecting the US and Latin America. This system scheduled to be ready for operation by 2026, will be split into two segments: the Gold Data 1 system and Liberty Networks 1 system. Ray...

December 06, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Extropic raises $14.1 million in seed funding to build physics-based AI computers

Startup Quantum computing startup Extropic which was founded last year by former members of Alphabet’s quantum computing research team has raised $14.1 million in seed funding to build physics-based AI computers. The company plans to build computers that allow generative AI to scale in an eff...

December 05, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Ardent to purchase new data center facilities across US and UK

Ardent Data Centers recently revealed its plans to acquire three data centers as part of a €110 million investment plan. The company mentioned it has successfully agreed letters of intent with two sites in the US and is the preferred bidder on a third in the UK. Once all three sites are acquir...

December 04, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Vertiv purchases liquid cooling business CoolTera

Data center and digital infrastructure power and cooling company Vertiv recently purchased liquid cooling business CoolTera. Vertiv is now in charge of the provider of coolant distribution infrastructure, including certain contracts, patents, trademarks, and intellectual property from an affil...

December 04, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Meta unveils new Illinois data center

Meta has finally launched its 2.3 million square feet DeKalb, Illinois, data center three years after construction began. According to the company, this construction took over $1 billion to complete and required 1,200 skilled workers. This site is expected to provide over 200 operational jobs ...

November 30, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Illinois

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