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Top Data Center News for 10-15th February 2025

The UK government says it will work with power companies to make up to 500MW of electricity available for new data center developments in each of its planned AI growth zones. They aim to create areas with favorable conditions for building AI infrastructure, with streamlined planning rules to e...

Google Goes Back on Word Not to DFevelop AI weapons

Google's parent company Alphabet has ditched its promise to not use artificial intelligence (AI) in weapons systems or surveillance tools. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai wrote a blog post outlining the company's "AI principles," in which he listed AI applications that the company would not pursue,...

Synopsys Extends Hardware-Assisted Verification Portfolio

Synopsys has expanded its Hardware-Assisted Verification (HAV) portfolio to support advanced semiconductor design. The updates include adding HAPS-200 prototyping and ZeBu-200 emulation systems to its product line and enhancing its ZeBu Server 5 to support scalability beyond 60 billion gates t...

Iron Mountain Invests in Ooredoo's Data Center Unit

Qatari telco Ooredoo and Iron Mountain have announced a partnership for data center growth across the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. The deal will see Iron Mountain take a minority stake in Ooredoo’s data center company, MENA Digital Hub. “We are delighted to partner with Ooredoo ...

Zoom and Center3 to Deploy Node in Saudi Arabia

Zoom has partnered with data center provider Center3 to deploy a node in Saudi Arabia, it's first in the Kingdom, which will provide infrastructure to help address demand for its low-latency conferencing platform. "As part of our mission to provide seamless and reliable communications globally...

EU Allocates €20bn to Developing Four “AI gigafactories”

The European Commission is to spend billions of Euros on developing new AI supercomputing clusters. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the launch of InvestAI, an initiative to mobilize €200 billion ($209bn) for investment in AI, including a new European fund of €20bn ($20.9bn)...

Alibaba Cloud Launches New Data Center in Thailand

Alibaba Cloud has launched a second data center in Thailand today to meet increased demand in the country. The dual data centers will enable Alibaba Cloud to provide "scalable, elastic, and highly available cloud computing products with enhanced disaster recovery capabilities tailored to Thail...

Patrizia and CenterSquare Invest in Aligned Data Centers

Patrizia and CenterSquare have invested an undisclosed amount in Aligned data center which will support the previously announced $5bn primary equity and $7bn in debt commitments raised in January of this year. James Muir, head of Patrizia’s investment division, said: “This investment is a prim...

Vodafone and Three Unveil Leadership Team

Vodafone has announced its full leadership team ahead of its imminent merger with Three in the UK as the merger was cleared by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in December. The appointments have been made by Max Taylor, who has been appointed as CEO of the merged company.Accord...

Amadeus Renews Cloud Contract with Microsoft

Travel technology company Amadeus has renewed its cloud computing contract with Microsoft. The company has recommitted to its cloud migration strategy and will use Microsoft's cloud and AI technologies. Amadeus has thus far moved more than 50 percent of its applications to the public cloud. Th...

Meta Announces World’s Longest Subsea Cable Project

Meta plans to deploy a multi-billion dollar cable that will span the globe, a 50,000km (31,070 mi) Project called Waterworth. This project is expected to be the world's longest 24 fiber pair submarine cable, connecting the US, India, Brazil, South Africa, and other regions.The company said tha...

FirstLight Expands Maine Data Centers

US fiber firm FirstLight this week announced the expansion of its data center in Brunswick, Maine. The renovation project, which began last summer, doubled the power capacity at the facility. The facility, located at 14 Resilient Circle in Brunswick Landing, is a former NATO Command and Contro...

AI Drives Environmental Concerns Over Rise in Data Center Growth Across Central Texas

Austin

What's causing the growth in data centers in Austin, TX? The answer is AI. Data centers and large AI consumers, like the Texas Advanced Computing Center’s supercomputers, require enormous amounts of energy and water, raising environmental concerns. Our research reveals there are 386 data cente...

Verne to Expand Helsinki Data Center

European data center firm Verne this week announced the acquisition of more land at its existing Helsinki data center campus, securing room for future expansion. The planned expansion will include two new buildings, which will be able to support liquid cooling and take the campus to a potentia...

NXP Semiconductors Acquires Kinara for $307m

Netherlands-based NXP Semiconductors has acquired AI chip startup Kinara in a $307 million all-cash agreement. The company says this acquisition would enable it to “enhance and strengthen” its ability to provide scalable AI platforms by combining Kinara’s NPUs and AI software with NXP’s soluti...

Reimei Quantum Computer goes Online

Quantinuum has successfully deployed its Reimei quantum computer at the Wako, Saitama, campus of Japanese research institute Riken. It is now fully operational and will be used to accelerate quantum applications across physics and chemistry.The Quantinuum H1-1 ion trap quantum computer contain...

UK Government Pledges 500MW for its AI Growth Zones

The UK government says it will work with power companies to make up to 500MW of electricity available for new data center developments in each of its planned AI growth zones. They aim to create areas with favorable conditions for building AI infrastructure, with streamlined planning rules to e...

Riot Platforms plans expansion into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads

Microsoft Azure

Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms is considering an expansion into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads and has appointed three new directors to its board to evaluate whether spare capacity can be repurposed.Riot, which develops some of the largest mining facilities in t...

Rocky Mountain Power and Torus Partner on Energy Storage Integration

Rocky Mountain Power, the Utah-based subsidiary of Northwestern US electric power company Pacficorp, and Torus, a US energy storage firm, are working together to integrate Torus’s energy storage technology into Rocky Mountain’s Wattsmart Battery program."As Utah attracts more data centers, man...

Johnson Controls Appoints Joakim Weidemanis as CEO

Industrial machine manufacturer Johnson Controls has appointed Joakim Weidemanis as CEO, effective March 12, 2025. During his stint at Danaher, Weidemanis grew the company’s diagnostics business through acquisitions and organic growth, taking leadership of an approximately $15 billion group ac...