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Read Soluna to Develop Two New Data Centers in Texas
Soluna to Develop Two New Data Centers in Texas

Soluna to Develop Two New Data Centers in Texas

August 27, 2025 Soluna

Cryptomining and high-performance computing data center developer Soluna has announced two new projects in Texas with a combined capacity of 350MW, bringing its total capacity in operation and development to 1GW.The first project announced was Project Fei, a 100MW data center project colocated...

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Read QTS Plans Data Center in Forssa, Finland
QTS Plans Data Center in Forssa, Finland

QTS Plans Data Center in Forssa, Finland

August 20, 2025 QTS Data Centers

Data center firm QTS is expanding its European footprint with plans for a campus in Finland. The City of Forssa signed a preliminary agreement earlier this year with QTS for more than 100 hectares of land in Ratasmäki. "The interest of a large investor like Blackstone in Forssa is very good news....

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Read Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas
Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas

Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas

August 18, 2025 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers is expanding in Texas with a new gigawatt-scale campus outside Abilene in Shackelford County, Texas. Situated on 1,200 acres, Vantage’s Frontier campus is set to be the largest across its global portfolio, with the project set to be its biggest investment to date, totaling...

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Read QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa
QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa

QTS Breaks Ground on Data Center in Iowa

August 13, 2025 QTS Data Centers

QTS has officially announced plans for a new data center campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The campus could support up to seven data center buildings at full build-out and see up to $10 billion invested.Tag Greason and David Robey, co-CEOs of QTS, said: “From day one, we believe in being a good...

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Read Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank
Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank

Microsoft Signs $236.4m Deal with Maybank

August 12, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Malaysian financial group Maybank has selected Microsoft Azure as one of its main cloud platforms in a five-year agreement. Valued at RM1 billion ($236.4m), the contract will see Maybank using Microsoft Azure for some of its "most strategic systems, functions, and data workloads."Dato’ Sri...

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Read Core Scientific's Largest Shareholder Opposes CoreWeave Acquisition
Core Scientific's Largest Shareholder Opposes CoreWeave Acquisition

Core Scientific's Largest Shareholder Opposes CoreWeave Acquisition

August 08, 2025 Core Scientific

Core Scientific's largest shareholder, Two Seas Capital LP, has announced its opposition to the $9bn acquisition proposed by CoreWeave. The alternative investment manager shared its dissatisfaction with the terms proposed on July 7, which would see AI cloud firm CoreWeave acquiring developer...

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Read Google, I&M and TVA to Expand Use of Demand Response in Data Centers
Google,  I&M and TVA to Expand Use of Demand Response in Data Centers

Google, I&M and TVA to Expand Use of Demand Response in Data Centers

August 04, 2025 Google

Google has signed agreements with utilities Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to enable demand response capabilities at its data centers doing machine learning (ML) workloads. The agreements are part of a broader strategy by Google to bring flexible demand...

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Read Microsoft Cuts Off Cloud Services to Nayara Energy
Microsoft Cuts Off Cloud Services to Nayara Energy

Microsoft Cuts Off Cloud Services to Nayara Energy

July 28, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has cut off cloud computing services to India's Nayara Energy, following EU sanctions on the oil refinery company. Nayara revealed it had initiated legal proceedings against Microsoft after the "abrupt and unilateral suspension of critical services," with Nayara claiming that Microsoft...

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Read Aligned to Develop 200-Acre Data Center Campus
 Aligned to Develop 200-Acre Data Center Campus

Aligned to Develop 200-Acre Data Center Campus

July 25, 2025 Aligned

Aligned Data Centers this week announced plans to expand in Central Ohio with the development of a data center campus inside the Conesville Industrial Park in Coshocton. Coshocton is located approximately 63 miles (101 km) northeast of Columbus.Aligned will develop a 197-acre parcel adjacent to...

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Read Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal
Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal

Microsoft Signs 4.9 Million-tonne Carbon Removal Deal

July 24, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a 12-year carbon offtake agreement with Vaulted Deep that will see the removal of up to 4.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and enable Vaulted to expand its operations to new sites across the US."As carbon removal moves beyond pilots and prototypes, there is growing demand...

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Read Google Signs Long Duration Energy Storage Partnership
Google Signs Long Duration Energy Storage Partnership

Google Signs Long Duration Energy Storage Partnership

July 24, 2025 Google

Google has signed its first partnership with a long-duration energy storage (LDES) company, Energy Dome to support multiple commercial deployments worldwide to help scale the company’s CO2 battery technology. The company has developed a 20MW/200MWh battery, which it claims has a lifetime of more...

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Read Microsoft and CISPE Agree to New Commercial Terms
Microsoft and CISPE Agree to New Commercial Terms

Microsoft and CISPE Agree to New Commercial Terms

July 19, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft and Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) have made a commercial agreement that the two say will help "reform licensing terms" for Microsoft software on CISPE member cloud infrastructure. This comes after it was decided that the previously required solution being...

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Read Vantage Announces 224MW Data Center Campus in Nevada
Vantage Announces 224MW Data Center Campus in Nevada

Vantage Announces 224MW Data Center Campus in Nevada

July 18, 2025 Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers this week announced its entry into the Nevada market with a 224MW campus in Storey County just outside of Reno. The campus will include four multi-story data centers totaling more than 1 million square feet. Nearly $3 billion is set to be invested in the project.Vantage said...

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Read Westinghouse to Use Google Cloud AI Tools
Westinghouse to Use Google Cloud AI Tools

Westinghouse to Use Google Cloud AI Tools

July 17, 2025 Google

Westinghouse Electric Company is teaming up with Google Cloud to use AI for the construction of nuclear reactors. Under the agreement with Google, Westinghouse will combine its existing HiVE and bertha nuclear AI solutions with Google Cloud technologies to help improve both the construction of...

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Read Google Wins $200m Contract with US DoD
Google Wins $200m Contract with US DoD

Google Wins $200m Contract with US DoD

July 16, 2025 Google

Google has won a contract valued up to $200 million with the US Department of Defense's (DoD) Chief Digital and Intelligence Office (CDAO) to provide infrastructure for AI. Under the contract with Google Public Sector, the DoD can access Google's cloud infrastructure, including its tensor...

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Read Frontier Consortium Buys $1.75 Million of Carbon Credits
Frontier Consortium Buys $1.75 Million of Carbon Credits

Frontier Consortium Buys $1.75 Million of Carbon Credits

July 15, 2025 Google

Frontier, a carbon credit purchasing consortium that counts Google and Meta as founding members, this week announced it has facilitated $1.75 million of carbon removal purchases from Karbonetiq (United States), Limenet (Italy), and pHathom (Canada) on behalf of buyers Stripe, Shopify, and...

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Read Google Signs 3GW US Hydro Energy Deal with Brookfield
Google Signs 3GW US Hydro Energy Deal with Brookfield

Google Signs 3GW US Hydro Energy Deal with Brookfield

July 14, 2025 Google

Brookfield Asset Management and Brookfield Renewable this week announced a first-of-its-kind Hydro Framework Agreement (HFA) with Google to deliver up to 3,000MW of carbon-free hydroelectric capacity across the United States.Under the agreement, hydroelectric assets will be relicensed,...

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Read Glenn Lockwood Departs from Microsoft
Glenn Lockwood Departs from Microsoft

Glenn Lockwood Departs from Microsoft

July 12, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Glenn K. Lockwood has left Microsoft after spending the last three years at the company, initially as the HPC/AI workload lead in Azure Storage's product group, before working more broadly on the design of Microsoft's largest AI supercomputers."Everything I did at Microsoft touched supercomputers...

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Read Google Cloud Signs Agreement with UK gov't to Reduce Legacy Tech Reliance
Google Cloud Signs Agreement with UK gov't to Reduce Legacy Tech Reliance

Google Cloud Signs Agreement with UK gov't to Reduce Legacy Tech Reliance

July 11, 2025 Google

Google Cloud and the UK government are teaming up to tackle the UK's reliance on legacy IT as both parties hope to save taxpayer money by replacing old technology. Google has also teamed up with the Imperial War Museum to digitize and transcribe its oral history collection, and is working with...

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Read Microsoft to Deploy Energy Efficiency Platform across Data Centers
Microsoft to Deploy Energy Efficiency Platform across Data Centers

Microsoft to Deploy Energy Efficiency Platform across Data Centers

July 04, 2025 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has partnered with Univers, a Singapore-based software development firm, to explore energy enhancement measures across its data centers. This MoU will support the use of Microsoft AI Cloud capabilities to strengthen Univers' sustainability solutions.The platform enables organizations to...

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