Data Center News

Microsoft acquires acres of land in North Carolina

Microsoft Azure

Person County last week announced that Microsoft had acquired the 1,350-acre Person County Mega Park. Citing county property records, local press report Microsoft paid $26.85 million for the site, located in Woodsdale Township."Microsoft's presence in Person County will boost our local economy...

Schneider Electric appoints Olivier Blum as new CEO

France

French energy equipment giant Schneider Electric, a significant supplier of the data center industry has removed CEO Peter Herweck and has appointed long-time employee Olivier Blum as the new chief executive, effective immediately. Schneider said that its Board of Directors "decided to remove ...

Wesco purchases data center firm Ascent for $185 million

United States

Wesco International this week announced it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Ascent LLC., a provider of data center facility management services, for a cash-free, debt-free purchase price of $185 million. The acquisition is anticipated to close in the fourth quarter following custo...

Google Cloud makes custom CPU-based C4A virtual machines generally available

Google Cloud's custom CPU-based C4A virtual machines (VMs) are now generally available. The VMs are the first series based on Google's Arm-based Axion CPUs. Axion is based on Arm’s Neoverse V2 designs and is built on the standard Armv9 architecture and instruction set.C4A VMs are now available...

Investment firm CVC acquires Spanish colo provider Adam Ecotech

Europe

CVC DIF, the infrastructure arm of leading global private markets manager CVC, this week announced it has agreed to acquire Adam Ecotech.  CVC said it will support Adam Ecotech in its expansion into other regions of Spain and the wider European market. Adam Ecotech owns three operating data ce...

Equinix opens second data center in Istanbul, Türkiye

Equinix

US colocation giant Equinix this week opened its second International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Istanbul, known as IL4. The new facility is located on the same campus as Equinix’s existing Istanbul facility, IL2 and it  offers capacity for 1,125 cabinets across 3,045 sqm (32,775 s...

Tecfusions signs AI infrastructure deal with TensorWave

US data center firm Tecfusionshas has signed an AI infrastructure commitment with TensorWave which will see TensorWave lease 1GW of AI capacity across Tecfusion's data center portfolio.“This collaboration with TensorWave marks a watershed moment in the AI infrastructure landscape,” said Shawn ...

NTT Data to use Oracle Alloy for sovereign cloud in Japan

NTT Data

NTT Data has selected Oracle Alloy to enhance its sovereign cloud services in Japan.  The company will deploy Oracle Alloy in its data centers, giving customers access to more than 150 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, including its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings.“The aim of ...

Former Involta CEO Jim Buie joins Tonaquint Data Centers

ValorC3 Data Centers

US data center firm Tonaquint has appointed Jim Buie as its new chief executive officer, replacing Matt Hamlin, who had led the company for more than 16 years. Buie has previously held leadership positions at Ark Data Centers (formerly Involta) as CEO, as well as roles at Flexential (formerly ...

Infineon launches world’s thinnest silicon power wafers

Infineon has unveiled the world’s thinnest silicon power wafers, with a thickness of 20 micrometers and a diameter of 300 millimeters. The company said the newly produced wafers are half as thick as current state-of-the-art wafers, which measure between 40-60 micrometers. One millimeter is the...

Verizon touts Gen AI potential for sustainable revenue

Verizon executives have touted the potential for Generative AI to provide a solid revenue stream in the future, but cautioned that it won't happen overnight. The carrier stated that it plans to make money from the sale of computing infrastructure for AI operations."We're getting a lot of good ...

Connectbase acquires Network Capacity Solutions

United States

Connectivity marketplace platform Connectbase has acquired Network Capacity Solutions (NCS). Connectbase said the acquisition marks a pivotal step in its mission to digitally transform the connectivity and digital infrastructure marketplace.“By bringing Network Capacity Solutions into Connectb...

Trump bashes CHIPS Act at Interview

United States

Former President Donald Trump criticized the CHIPS and Science Act during a three-hour interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, saying that the government should have levied tariffs on the semiconductor industry."That chip deal is so bad, we put up billions of dollars for rich companies to come and...

UK government launches National Quantum Computing Centre in Harwell

United Kingdom

The UK government has announced the opening of the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) in Harwell, UK. The 4,000 sqm (43,056 sq ft) facility will house 12 quantum computers and will provide industry, academia, and other sectors with open access to quantum computing platforms. It forms par...

Fujitsu and Supermicro to jointly develop "green" servers and liquid cooling solutions

Fujitsu and Supermicro have announced plans to jointly develop “green” energy-efficient servers for high-performance computing. The companies said they will also jointly develop liquid-cooled solutions for high-performance computing, generative AI, and next-generation green data centers."Super...

Vantage unveils New Albany data center in Ohio

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers has broken ground on a new data centre campus located 70 acres outside Columbus in New Albany. OH1 will provide a total of 192MW of IT capacity across more than 1.5 million square feet (139,355 sqm). The company said more than $2 billion will be invested in the project, wi...

NextSilicon launches Maverick-2 Intelligent Compute Accelerator

NextSilicon has unveiled what it claims is the world’s first Intelligent Compute Accelerator (ICA). Dubbed the Maverick-2 ICA, the Israeli startup said “the novel and original computing architecture” delivers more than 4x the performance-per-watt of traditional GPUs and 20x that of high-end CP...

Indian companies order thousands of Nvidia chips

Several companies in India have made significant orders for Nvidia chips. Among those firms are Reliance Industries, Tech Mahindra, Tata Communications, and Yotta Data Services. As reported by TechCrunch, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has revealed a slew of partnerships with Indian firms to deploy i...

ParTec partners with HDRZ research lab for petaflops AI supercomputer

Germany / Deutschland

German modular supercomputing company ParTec has partnered with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HDRZ) research lab to jointly develop and operate an AI supercomputer. No information has been provided about the system’s hardware but in a statement, the two companies said it will be on...

Indiana advocacy group calls for state data center moratorium

Indiana

Indiana consumer and environmental advocacy organization Citizens Action Coalition (CAC) has called for a pause on new hyperscale data center development in the state. The group this week called on the Indiana General Assembly to enact a moratorium on new hyperscale data centers used to power ...