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UK Post Office chief transformation officer to step down

The UK's Post Office chief transformation officer, Chris Brockleby, has stepped down from his post following delays in replacing the controversial Horizon IT system. He will depart from the Post Office on September 6, with Andy Nice set to take on the role on an interim basis. Nice was previo...

August 23, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Tet plans new data center outside Riga

Latvian telco Tet has announced plans to invest €30 million ($33.2m) in developing the facility in Salaspils, to the south of the capital city. The construction on the new data center is planned to start at the end of 2024 for a 2028 completion with Tet's construction subsidiary Citrus Soluti...

August 23, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Latvia

Eight Windstream switch and data center sites portfolios up for sale

A portfolio of eight switch and data center sites in the US are up for sale. The sites are located in eight cities across seven states, totaling 379,000 square feet (35,210 sqm) spread across 26 acres. The facilities are located in Lexington, Kentucky; Texarkana and Sugar Land, Texas; Colorad...

August 23, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

IonQ delivers quantum processor to its European quantum data center

IonQ last week announced the delivery of an ion trap to its European quantum data center in the QuantumBasel business park. It's specialists working out of the company’s Basel, Switzerland headquarters will be on site to receive the quantum processor and continue the build and commissioning of...

August 22, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Switzerland

Singtel and Bridge Alliance to launch GPU-as-a-Service in South Asia

Singapore's Singtel and the Bridge Alliance are set to launch a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offering in Southeast Asia. In February 2024 when the company first announched the launch, it mentioned that Singtel’s GPUaaS will be powered by Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU-powered clusters that are opera...

August 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Asia

Swiss startup to use metal foam for cooling data centers

Swiss company Apheros this week raised $1.85 million in a funding round led by venture capital firm Founderful to help commercialize its metal foam product. The foam is meant to cover the chip, which helps dissipate the heat generated during use through its large surface area. The company not...

August 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Sapeon Korea and Rebellions to merge operations

Two Korean AI chip startups with wealthy backers have decided to merge on an equity value ratio of 1:2.4, respectively. The new company will retain the name Rebellions, and be run by Rebellions’ CEO Park Sung-hyun. Sapeon counts SKT, SK Square, and SK Hynix as investors. The company launched ...

August 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Korea

Blueprint plans data center outside Austin, Texas

Taylor City Council last week granted unanimous approval to give Austin-based Blueprint Projects tax breaks on a proposed data center project in the city of Taylor. The company plans to use land owned by the Taylor Economic Development Corp. at 1601 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Williamson ...

August 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Texas Instruments awarded $1.6bn in US CHIPS funding

The US Department of Commerce has signed a memorandum of terms with Texas Instruments that could see the company awarded $1.6 billion in CHIPS and Science Act funding which would support Texas Instrument’s plans to invest $18bn in the construction of two fabs in Sherman, Texas, and one in Lehi...

August 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Talen Energy looks to sell nuclear powered facility in Pennsylvania

Independent power firm Talen Energy is looking to pivot away from crypto mining operations to supply power to data center developers instead and has confirmed its plans to sell its stake in the Bitcoin mining center located at its Pennsylvania nuclear power plant. The company first announced i...

August 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pennsylvania

Natron Energy to invest $1.4 billion on a giant factory in Edgecombe County, North Carolina

Sodium-ion battery manufacturer Natron Energy plans to spend $1.4 billion on a 1.2 million square foot (111,500 sqm) facility, at the Kingsboro CSX Select Megasite which is expected to produce 24GW of batteries annually at full capacity and lead to 1,000 jobs. “Today is a momentous day for Na...

August 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

North Carolina

Quantum Circuits raises over $60m Series B funding round

Quantum Circuits Inc. (QCI) has closed its Series B funding round which raised over $60 million to further its development of quantum technology in an investment round led by Arch Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Hither Creek Ventures. The Yale spin out was founded in 20...

August 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Meta signs new solar PPA in US

Meta has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure the output of two solar farms in the US, currently in development in Louisiana and Illinois. Construction is underway at RWE’s 274MWac County Run Solar in Illinois and 100MWac Lafitte Solar in Louisiana, both are due to go live in lat...

August 17, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

TierPoint to expand data center footprint in St. Louis, Missouri

US operator TierPoint this week announced that it has acquired a building in downtown St. Louis which it plans to retrofit into an enterprise-grade data center. ver the next year, the first phase of investment will build out 22,600 square feet of data center production space and 5MW of utility...

August 16, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Missouri

Quinbrook’s Rowan secures investment from Canadian pension fund

Rowan owner Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners this week announced that Rowan Digital Infrastructure has secured a co-investment from University Pension Plan Ontario (UPP). The companies said UPP’s investment in Rowan will allow Quinbrook to “further advance its efforts” to provide solutions t...

August 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Canada

Edged unveils new data center in New Albany, Ohio

Data center firm Edged Energy has officially announced plans for a new data center located at 6525 New Albany Road East, the 206,000 sq ft (19,140 sqm) facility will offer 24MW across two stories. Construction is underway and expected to be completed in July 2025. “We are on a mission to buil...

August 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Ohio

Foundry unveils GPU-based Foundry Cloud Platform

Foundry has launched its GPU-based Foundry Cloud Platform for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads which it claims can reduce operational complexity and compute cost by up to six times. The company seeks to overcome the GPU shortage by turning to existing GPUs that it claims are "vastly und...

August 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Iomart deploys rooftop solar in Maidenhead data center

UK data center operator Iomart has announced it has installed 560 solar panels on its flagship data center in Maidenhead, the largest of Iomart’s 13 data centers in the UK. This investment will contribute to the aim of self-sustaining energy during the summer to power the site. David Gammie, ...

August 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

PDG acquires new data center in Singapore

Princeton Digital Group this week announced the acquisition of Yahoo’s Singapore data center, SG3 which offers 5MW across 5,400 sqm (58,125 sq ft). Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Yahoo will continue to host its infrastructure at the facility. Rangu Salgame, chairman, CEO and co-fo...

August 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Singapore

Telekom Malaysia to deploy Private 5G network at Petronas

Telekom Malaysia (TM) has deployed a Private 5G network for oil and gas company Petronas at its LNG Complex in Bintulu, Sarawak. According to TM, this location is one of four Petronas sites installed with a Private 5G network. TM deployed the network along with the Digital Nasional Berhad (...

August 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Malaysia

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