Data Center News

Hyper Bit to Acquire Dogecoin Mining

United States

Cryptomining firm Hyper Bit Technologies this week announced it has signed a non-binding agreement to purchase Dogecoin Mining Technologies in a structured deal that will include an 11MW data center hosting facility based in Canada, along with a minimum of 2,000 ElphaPex DG2 mining rigs.“We vi...

Top Data Center News from 17th -24th of May 2025

United States

Gigawatt Scale Data Center Cluster to be developed Outside ParisFrench national investment bank Bpifrance, UAE investment fund MGX, French AI firm Mistral AI, and Nvidia have formed a joint venture to establish Europe’s first purpose-built intelligence hub; supporting the full AI lifecycle fro...

Microsoft Partners with Norden to Cut Scope 3 Maritime Emissions by 10k tons

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has partnered with Danish shipping company Norden to cut its Scope 3 CO2 emissions by approximately 10,000 tons over three years. Both companies will collaborate on a pilot project, utilizing Norden’s biofuel book and claim solution which allows companies that rely on maritime transp...

Penta Infra Data Center to Supply Waste Heat to Heating Network

Penta Infra

European operator Penta Infra this week signed a letter of intent to supply residual heat from its Leeuwarden data center to a new sustainable heat network being developed at the De Zwette IV business park.“This project is a great example of how local collaboration can turn sustainability ambi...

Microsoft to Purchase Carbon Removal Credits from Exomad Green

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has reached a deal to purchase 1.24 million tons of carbon removal credits from Exomad Green, in the largest biochar removal agreement to date. The ten-year deal will see the tech giant purchase removal credits generated from Exomad's biochar operations in Concepción and Riberalta, B...

CoreWeave Selected as AI Partner by Aston Martin Aramco

CoreWeave

Formula One team Aston Martin Aramco has signed a multi-year agreement with AI cloud provider CoreWeave. As part of the partnership, CoreWeave will help Aston Martin Aramco to move its on-premises computing infrastructure to a cloud computing environment, which Aston Martin hopes will "elimina...

Hunter Newby & Connected Nation Break Ground on IXP

Connected Nation and Wichita State University (WSU) last week broke ground on Kansas’ first carrier-neutral Internet Exchange Point (IXP). The facility is being developed by Connected Nation Internet Exchange Points, LLC – a joint venture between Connected Nation and Telx co-founder Hunter New...

Duos to Deploy Edge Data Center in Victoria, Texas

North Texas

Duos Technologies this week announced a strategic partnership with Region 3 Education Service Center (ESC) to deploy a new Edge data center in Victoria, Texas.Dr. Morris Lyon, executive director of Region 3 ESC, said: “We are proud to partner with Duos Edge AI, Inc. to bring secure, innovative...

IHS Towers to sell Rwandan Operations to Paradigm Tower Ventures

Rwanda

Tower firm IHS Holding Limited has reached an agreement with Paradigm Tower Ventures for the acquisition of its 1,465 tower sites in Rwanda for an enterprise value of $274.5 million. IHS said it expects the sale of IHS Rwanda Limited to close in the second half of 2025, pending government and ...

American Tower Opens Edge Data Center in Raleigh, North Carolina

American Tower Corporation

American Tower Corporation has opened its Edge data center in Raleigh, North Carolina, marking the occasion with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the site, the company's first data center in North Carolina’s Research Triangle region.The company notes that its Edge data centers are able to address ...

Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Cluster to be Developed Outside Paris, France

Paris

French national investment bank Bpifrance, UAE investment fund MGX, French AI firm Mistral AI, and Nvidia this week announced the formation of a joint venture to establish what they claim will be Europe’s largest AI campus in France.The companies said they aim to develop Europe’s first purpose...

Google Reaffirms Sovereign Cloud Solutions for EU

Google

Google has announced a series of additional security and sovereignty elements for its sovereign cloud in response to EU groups' concerns about trade tensions and the reliance on US tech companies.The move comes as European groups are raising concerns about the potential for the Trump administr...

Turkcell Secures €100m for Data Center Expansion

Turkish telco Turkcell this week announced that its subsidiary, TDC Veri Hizmetleri (TDC), has secured €100 million ($112.5m) in murabaha financing through a strategic agreement with Emirates NBD Bank.The five-year financing agreement will be used towards Turkcell Group’s data center investmen...

Digital Realty to Purchase 5.1MW of Solar Energy from Summit Ridge Energy

Digital Realty Trust

Colo data center developer Digital Realty has signed an agreement to purchase 5.1MW of solar power from Summit Ridge Energy. The solar projects are part of Summit Ridge’s broader portfolio of solar assets across the state of Illinois. According to the company, its Illinois portfolio has a comb...

Vertiv and Chemours Score DataVolt Deals

DataVita

Saudi Arabian data center company DataVolt has signed supplier contracts with Vertiv and Chemours. Vertiv's EMEA president, Karsten Winther, said that the company had signed a 'Technical Cooperation Agreement' with DataVolt "to advance next-generation data center innovation in Saudi Arabia and...

Patria Launches New Data Center Company

ODATA SA

The investment company that founded Latin American data center firm OData, through one of its infrastructure funds, has announced the launch of Omnia, a new data center platform.  Omnia will develop, build, and operate large-scale, purpose-built data centers across Latin America. Led by CEO Ro...

Microsoft Confirms Provision of AI and Cloud Services to Israeli Military

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has confirmed that it sold AI and cloud computing services to the Israeli military during the ongoing war in Gaza, though it denies its technology was used to harm people. The cloud company released a statement on May 15 in response to "concerns from our employees and the public" abo...

AWS Retires Private 5G Service

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in an update published on May 20, revealed that its 5G service had reached the end of its support date and could no longer be accessed. The Private 5G offering integrated small cell radio units, Outposts servers, a 5G core, and radio access network (RAN) software runn...

Applied Digital Proposes "Multi-Billion-Dollar" Facility

Applied Digital

Applied Digital is looking to develop a multi-billion-dollar data center in Deuel County, South Dakota which could see up to $16 billion in investment and create up to 200 high-paying jobs. In addition, Applied Digital has committed to improving local fiber infrastructure, and to minimize the ...

Google Signs 600MW Solar Energy Deal in South Carolina

Google

Google has signed an energy deal to procure renewable energy credits (RECs) in South Carolina that allows Google to invest in and purchase RECs from a portfolio of more than 600 MW of new solar and solar with storage projects being developed by EnergyRe in South Carolina."Strengthening the gri...