United States Data Center News

DOE's advisory board proposes ways to combat AI data center power challenges

The US Department of Energy's advisory board has proposed ways to combat the growing challenge of AI data center power use and its impact on the grid. The board suggested building an AI data center for national labs, academia, and industry "to collaborate in development and assessment of alg...

August 31, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Nvidia posts revenues of $30 billion in latest earnings report

Nvidia posted revenues of $30 billion in its latest earnings report, with its data center division continued to show significant growth, bringing in $26.3bn - an increase of 154 percent from the same period last year. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia said; “Hopper demand remains strong...

August 30, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

IBM announces two new AI-focused chips for its Z-systems mainframes

IBM has announced two new AI-focused chips for its Z-systems mainframes at the Hot Chips 2024 event this week in California. The new Telum II chip which was designed to power IBM Z systems features increased frequency, memory capacity, a 40 percent growth in cache, and integrated AI accelerato...

August 28, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

California

Meta signs geothermal energy deal in US

Meta this week announced a deal with startup Sage Geosystems to use the latter’s new proprietary Geopressured Geothermal System (GGS) to provide carbon-free power for its data centers. Meta did not specify where the geothermal projects would be located or which data centers would be powered ...

August 28, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Equity investor Warburg Pincus acquires Service Express

Private equity firm and investor Warburg Pincus has acquired data center service company Service Express which provides third-party post-warranty data center maintenance services and managed services from Harvest Partners LP on August 15. Steve Fessler, partner at Harvest, said: "When we part...

August 27, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Meta signs new renewable energy deal in Indiana

Meta has signed a long-term Environmental Attributes Purchase Agreement with Arevon Energy, a renewable energy developer, owner, and operator for its Heirloom Solar Project in Pike County, Indiana. “Arevon is proud to once again partner with Meta and contribute to their sustainability goal o...

August 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Indiana

Nokia partners with Axiom Space for 4G-enabled spacesuits

Nokia has partnered with Axiom Space to equip the company's next-generation spacesuits with advanced 4G/LTE communications to be used by astronauts on Axiom's Artemis III lunar mission. This partnership will see the two companies incorporate high-speed cellular-network capabilities in the Axio...

August 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Eight Windstream switch and data center sites portfolios up for sale

A portfolio of eight switch and data center sites in the US are up for sale. The sites are located in eight cities across seven states, totaling 379,000 square feet (35,210 sqm) spread across 26 acres. The facilities are located in Lexington, Kentucky; Texarkana and Sugar Land, Texas; Colorad...

August 23, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Synergy Group names Northern Virginia, Beijing, and Dublin as top 3 hyperscale locations

A report from Synergy Research Group found that just twenty state or metro markets account for 62 percent of the world’s current hyperscale data center capacity. Northern Virginia tops this list while the Greater Beijing Area takes the second place, with both making up 22 percent of global hyp...

August 23, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Northern Virginia

Swiss startup to use metal foam for cooling data centers

Swiss company Apheros this week raised $1.85 million in a funding round led by venture capital firm Founderful to help commercialize its metal foam product. The foam is meant to cover the chip, which helps dissipate the heat generated during use through its large surface area. The company not...

August 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Natron Energy to invest $1.4 billion on a giant factory in Edgecombe County, North Carolina

Sodium-ion battery manufacturer Natron Energy plans to spend $1.4 billion on a 1.2 million square foot (111,500 sqm) facility, at the Kingsboro CSX Select Megasite which is expected to produce 24GW of batteries annually at full capacity and lead to 1,000 jobs. “Today is a momentous day for Na...

August 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

North Carolina

Talen Energy looks to sell nuclear powered facility in Pennsylvania

Independent power firm Talen Energy is looking to pivot away from crypto mining operations to supply power to data center developers instead and has confirmed its plans to sell its stake in the Bitcoin mining center located at its Pennsylvania nuclear power plant. The company first announced i...

August 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pennsylvania

Texas Instruments awarded $1.6bn in US CHIPS funding

The US Department of Commerce has signed a memorandum of terms with Texas Instruments that could see the company awarded $1.6 billion in CHIPS and Science Act funding which would support Texas Instrument’s plans to invest $18bn in the construction of two fabs in Sherman, Texas, and one in Lehi...

August 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Blueprint plans data center outside Austin, Texas

Taylor City Council last week granted unanimous approval to give Austin-based Blueprint Projects tax breaks on a proposed data center project in the city of Taylor. The company plans to use land owned by the Taylor Economic Development Corp. at 1601 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Williamson ...

August 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Meta signs new solar PPA in US

Meta has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure the output of two solar farms in the US, currently in development in Louisiana and Illinois. Construction is underway at RWE’s 274MWac County Run Solar in Illinois and 100MWac Lafitte Solar in Louisiana, both are due to go live in lat...

August 17, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

TierPoint to expand data center footprint in St. Louis, Missouri

US operator TierPoint this week announced that it has acquired a building in downtown St. Louis which it plans to retrofit into an enterprise-grade data center. ver the next year, the first phase of investment will build out 22,600 square feet of data center production space and 5MW of utility...

August 16, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Missouri

Edged unveils new data center in New Albany, Ohio

Data center firm Edged Energy has officially announced plans for a new data center located at 6525 New Albany Road East, the 206,000 sq ft (19,140 sqm) facility will offer 24MW across two stories. Construction is underway and expected to be completed in July 2025. “We are on a mission to buil...

August 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Ohio

RadiusDC acquires data center in Miami

RadiusDC this week announced the acquisition of Miami I in the Sweetwater area of the city from NextStream, a data center operator in Latin America owned by Actis. RadiusDC said it plans to immediately expand the site's capacity from 3.2MW to 9.2MW. "We believe Miami I is an ideal asset to e...

August 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Miami

Foundry unveils GPU-based Foundry Cloud Platform

Foundry has launched its GPU-based Foundry Cloud Platform for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads which it claims can reduce operational complexity and compute cost by up to six times. The company seeks to overcome the GPU shortage by turning to existing GPUs that it claims are "vastly und...

August 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

JLL predicts Edge data center market to surpass $300bn by 2026

A report from real estate consulting firm JLL has predicted that the global Edge data center market will hit a valuation of $317 billion by 2026. The report notes that a surge in data-dependent technologies, including AI and the Internet of Things (IoT), will drive the market growth, which can...

August 11, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

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