United States Data Center News

Nano Nuclear X Digihost to deploy nuclear microreactor

Bitcoin miner and clean energy infrastructure developer Digihost Technology and Nano Nuclear have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to deploy a 60MW microreactor at Digihost’s New York power plant. They will collaborate on designing, constructing, testing, and commissioning a microrea...

December 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

GMI Cloud and Vast Data to partner on AI infrastructure

GMI Cloud and Vast Data are teaming up on an artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure offering, combining Vast Data's AI data platform with GMI Cloud's AI cloud solution to develop scalable AI infrastructure. The GMI Cloud built on the Vast Data Platform will support Magnum IO GPUDirect Sto...

December 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Verizon deploys Ener.co retrofit cooling solution

Verizon has deployed Ener.co’s retrofit cooling solution in 36 of its US data centers. Ener.co said the project has saved Verizon annual electricity savings of 7,700,000 kWh and has reduced annual greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 1,700 tonnes.“Data centers are proliferating across the...

December 17, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Crusoe Energy closes funding round with $600m

Crusoe Energy has closed its Series D funding round with $600 million. The round valued Crusoe at $2.8 billion, less than the $3 billion the company originally aimed for. The investment was led by venture capital firm Founders Fund, and others including Fidelity, Long Journey Ventures, the Uni...

December 17, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

MISO approves regional transmission plan

The Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s (MISO) board has approved a $21.9 billion long-range transmission plan. The new transmission lines will span 1,800 miles and include some that will connect directly to PJM Interconnection’s 765kV system in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. “The main t...

December 17, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Illinois

Subsea Internet cable to Antarctica proposed

The US government’s National Science Foundation (NSF) is investigating the possibility of building a cable connecting the largest US Antarctic Program research facility, McMurdo Station, with either New Zealand or Australia.The main scope of the installation “is to provide advanced high-speed,...

December 16, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

EchoStar, CWA opposes $4.4bn T-Mobile UScellular deal

EchoStar and Communications Workers of America (CWA) have stepped up their opposition to T-Mobile's proposed $4.4 billion deal to acquire significant assets from regional carrier UScellular. In a filing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week, Dish Network owner EchoStar state...

December 13, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Nexalus partners with liquid cooling technology

Nexalus has teamed up with HPE in a partnership will see Nexalus deploy its liquid cooling technology - which it claims can recycle excess heat - into three of HPE’s server models, which it says offer enhanced thermal performance and reduced energy consumption.Kenneth O’Mahony, co-founder and ...

December 13, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Prologis sells Chicago warehouse to HMC Capital

Prologis has sold a data center development in Chicago, Illinois to HMC Capital. The industrial real estate giant said the warehouse is held in the US Logistics Fund, a Prologis co-investment vehicle focused on premier logistics real estate, including higher and better-use conversions.HMC Capi...

December 12, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Chicago

Micron to receive $6.2bn in direct CHIPS Act funding

The Department of Commerce has reached a binding agreement with Micron to award the company $6.165 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act. In a statement, the department confirmed the funding will be used to support the construction of three new memory chip fabs: two in Clay...

December 11, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Data Journey acquires South Carolina data center site

Cryptocurrency and power generation company Greenidge Generation has agreed to sell its 152-acre Spartanburg, South Carolina property to Data Journey for $12.1 million in cash and an 8 percent profit participation interest in a planned data center on the site. Greenidge will support Data Journ...

December 10, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Carolina

HPE walks away from $700m AI hardware deal

HPE revealed it walked away from a $700 million AI hardware deal over concerns about the customer. CEO Anthonio Neri told analysts on the enterprise IT vendor’s most recent earnings call that the company chose to “de-book” the order for an unnamed client because it considered it too risky.“We ...

December 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Senator Ernst moves to cancel Biden's BEAD program

Senator Joni Ernst has told the US Department for Government Efficiency (DOGE) to shut down the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. DOGE was formed by Trump as part of his campaign plans to significantly slash federal spending and is not actually a federal exec...

December 06, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Indiana Michigan Power agrees grid connection deal large load customers

Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) has reached an agreement with the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor, Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana, Amazon Data Services, Google, Microsoft, and the Data Center Coalition outlining the terms for connecting new large loads to the Indiana grid.A...

November 30, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Michigan

Core Scientific to upgrade Texas data center

Core Scientific plans to refurbish its data center in Denton, Texas, turning it from a crypto facility into an AI site, spending as much as $6.1 billion on the new campus, the Denton City Council said, with a planned launch in 2027. As part of the deal, the City of Denton will lease 78.85 acr...

November 29, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Kairos gets construction permits for Hermes Two Demonstration Plant

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued construction permits to Kairos Power for its Hermes Two Demonstration Plant at the Heritage Center Industrial Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The plant will also host a proposed single 35MW Hermes One Test Reactor, a non-nuclear engineering test...

November 26, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Tennessee

DirecTV terminates offer to acquire EchoStar

DirecTV has terminated its offer to acquire EchoStar's satellite television business stating its failure to gain approval from Dish bondholders as a reason for termination. The proposed $1 sale to DirecTV would have included the sale of Dish's DBS pay-TV business as well as Dish and Sling TV, ...

November 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

AP&T completes SeaLink South subsea cable

Alaska Power & Telephone Company (AP&T) has completed the SeaLink South subsea cable a year ahead of schedule. AP&T said the project will expand and improve connectivity in Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago region.Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski said: “After hearing from Alaskans, stren...

November 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Boldyn Network and Verizon deploy small cells at Texas

Boldyn Network has partnered with Verizon Wireless to install millimeter wave 5G small cells at Fort Cavazos US Army base in Texas. The company notes that the small cells will "enhance coverage and speeds" for the more than 60,000 soldiers and family members living on base.“This project is abo...

November 22, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Michigan extends data center tax breaks

Legislators in the Michigan House of Representatives have approved extended tax breaks for data centers in a move aimed at attracting business from the hyperscalers. It was approved 64-45 in a vote led by the Democrats, but with support from many Republican lawmakers.Rep. Joey Andrews, who spo...

November 21, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Michigan

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