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Grupo ClickIP launches data center in Manaus

Brazil’s Grupo ClickIP this week launched a new facility in Manaus is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas and launched a new data center unit. The company said it invested more than R$20 million ($3.59m) in the project, reportedly the first of its kind in the area....

August 31, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Brazil / Brasil

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

CoreWeave to deploy new Nvidia clusters in Sweden

GPU cloud firm CoreWeave and Swedish colocation provider EcoDataCenter this week announced a partnership to host “one of Europe’s first large-scale Nvidia Blackwell clusters” in Sweden. CoreWeave aims to deploy thousands of Blackwell GPUs to help meet demand for large-scale AI infrastructure ...

August 30, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sweden

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

Major power outage across Venezuela brings country offline

A huge power outage in Venezuela has brought a significant portion of the country offline and Minister of Communications and Information, Freddy Ñañez, claimed that the outage was due to intentional sabotage. A similar, smaller outage was blamed on saboteurs three days ago. "Live network dat...

August 30, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Venezuela

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

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

Singtel and Hitachi partner on new AI data centers in Japan

Singaporean telco Singtel and Japanese giant Hitachi have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on “next-generation data centers and GPU cloud” in Japan and potentially the wider Asia Pacific region under the lead of Singtel's Digital InfraCo unit. Bill Chang, CEO of Sing...

August 28, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Japan

Qualcomm acquires 4G IoT tech

Qualcomm has acquired 4G IoT technology assets from France-based Sequans specializes in supplying 4G and 5G semiconductor products for IoT. This acquisition includes certain employees, assets, and licenses. Nakul Duggal, group general manager of automotive, industrial and embedded IoT, and ...

August 28, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

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

Toyo Tire selects HPE for HPC via GreenLake cloud offering

Japanese tire company Toyo Tire Corporation has selected Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deliver a high-performance computing (HPC) system via its GreenLake cloud offering. It will be providing its seventh-generation HPC system, which is three times more powerful than its predecessor, as ...

August 27, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Japan

Bitfarms to acquire Stronghold Mining for $125 million

Cryptomining firm Bitfarms has entered into a definitive partnership with Stronghold Digital Mining under which Bitfarms will acquire Stronghold in a stock-for-stock merger transaction. The deal is valued at approximately $125 million equity value plus the assumption of debt valued at approxim...

August 27, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Canada

Lintasarta unveils AI cloud 'GPU Merdeka' in Indonesia

Indonesian IT service management company Lintasarta has launched an AI cloud service called GPU Merdeka, a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) would be a sovereign AI cloud featuring Nvidia chips. The GPU Merdeka service features GPU servers with a configuration of 8x Nvidia H100 SXM Tensor Core GPUs,...

August 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Indonesia

Avaio signs solar and storage deal in Canada

Avaio has signed a renewable energy deal with Quebec-based renewable energy firm, Sunbird Energy for its upcoming data center project outside Ottawa, Canada. The partnership integrates Sunbird’s renewable energy capabilities with ADP’s data center project in development in Gatineau, Quebec. ...

August 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Canada

Grid Telecom and Tamares Telecom partner on cable landing station in Cyprus

IPTO subsidiary Grid Telecom and Israeli firm Tamares Telecom have signed a Heads of Agreement to both participate in the joint venture Tamares Telecom Cyprus. The venture will establish a carrier-neutral, open-access hub with interconnection data center facilities to connect the island to Gr...

August 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

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

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

Six Russian supercomputing centers team up for research consortium

Six Russian supercomputing centers are teaming up to form a research consortium called the Distributed Scientific Supercomputer Infrastructure consortium. These facilities will combine a relatively meager 1.5 petaflops of compute performance with scientific data storage systems exceeding 15 PB...

August 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Russia / Россия

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

DISA sets up JOE cloud in Germany

The US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is setting up a Joint Operational Edge (JOE) cloud in Germany in an attempt to expand DISA cloud offerings outside of the US. According to DISA, JOE is an "interconnected and integrated mesh of large form factor Edge computing platforms, install...

August 23, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

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