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Read Indus Towers to Boost Infra Footprint to Africa
Indus Towers to Boost Infra Footprint to Africa

Indus Towers to Boost Infra Footprint to Africa

September 05, 2025 Africa

Indian tower company Indus Towers has outlined plans to expand its footprint into Africa. The company's board has approved plans to expand its tower portfolio into Africa, kicking off with Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia.In the announcement, Indus has said that it will leverage its financial position...

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Read Rackspace Appoints Gajen Kandiah as CEO
Rackspace Appoints Gajen Kandiah as CEO

Rackspace Appoints Gajen Kandiah as CEO

September 04, 2025 United States

Rackspace Technology appointed Gajen Kandiah as its new CEO to drive its cloud AI ambitions in the sector, after joining the hybrid cloud provider from Hitachi Digital, where he served for more than five years across various divisions, most notably as COO and executive chairman."I am honored to...

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Read Optus to Offload 340 Mobile Towers to Waveconn
Optus to Offload 340 Mobile Towers to Waveconn

Optus to Offload 340 Mobile Towers to Waveconn

September 04, 2025 Australia

Australian telco Optus has this week announced it will sell 340 mobile towers and rooftop sites to Australian digital infrastructure company Waveconn. The carrier said the transaction is part of the company's strategy to "unlock capital for future investment and enhance customer experience."...

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Read Dominion Proposes New Rate Class for Data Centers
Dominion Proposes New Rate Class for Data Centers

Dominion Proposes New Rate Class for Data Centers

September 04, 2025 Virginia

Virginia’s primary electrical utility, Dominion Energy, has proposed the creation of a new rate class for data centers.The new class would apply to utility customers who consume more than 25MW of energy and have a monthly load factor of more than 75 percent. This will result in many, if not most,...

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Read North Dakota State University Awarded $3.85m for Supercomputer
North Dakota State University Awarded $3.85m for Supercomputer

North Dakota State University Awarded $3.85m for Supercomputer

September 03, 2025 North Dakota

North Dakota State University (NDSU) has been awarded $3.85 million to acquire and deploy an AI supercomputer named Bison, which will be housed in the university’s Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology (CCAST) data center and is expected to come online in the summer of...

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Read Former Air Force Data Center up for Sale in Michigan
Former Air Force Data Center up for Sale in Michigan

Former Air Force Data Center up for Sale in Michigan

September 03, 2025 Michigan

A former US Air Force data center, used as a call center until recently, is up for sale in Michigan. Sitting on 3.6 acres in Iosco County’s Wurtsmith Industrial District, the single-story facility spans 13,100 sq ft (1,215 sqm).It was originally a data center supporting Wurtsmith Air Force Base...

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Read Virtus Signs cPPA for 31MW of Power
Virtus Signs cPPA for 31MW of Power

Virtus Signs cPPA for 31MW of Power

September 02, 2025 United Kingdom

UK data center developer Virtus has signed a corporate Power Purchase Agreement (cPPA) for 31MW of wind power from the Lynn and Inner Dowsing (LID) windfarms, a pair of offshore wind farms in the North Sea. Virtus will offtake 16 percent of the total generation from LID, with a commencement date...

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Read Top Data Center News for 25th - 30th August, 2025
Top Data Center News for 25th - 30th August, 2025

Top Data Center News for 25th - 30th August, 2025

September 01, 2025 United States

Google to Invest $9bn in Virginia Data Centers Google announced this week that it will invest an additional $9 billion in Virginia through the end of 2026, which will go towards the development of a new data center in Chesterfield County and the expansion of the existing facilities in Loudoun and...

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Read Rezoning Requests Approved for Data Center in Ohio
Rezoning Requests Approved for Data Center in Ohio

Rezoning Requests Approved for Data Center in Ohio

September 01, 2025 Ohio

Rezoning requests for a data center outside Toledo, Ohio, have been approved. The land parcels are located in Oregon, a city in Lucas County east of Toledo. The Oregon City Council unanimously approved requests for seven land parcels totaling 20 acres to be rezoned from ‘Agricultural District’ to...

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Read Stack Joins Multi-Billion-Dollar Data Center Project in New Mexico
Stack Joins Multi-Billion-Dollar Data Center Project in New Mexico

Stack Joins Multi-Billion-Dollar Data Center Project in New Mexico

August 30, 2025 New Mexico

Stack this week announced its role in Project Jupiter, a proposed large data center campus in Doña Ana County. Stack is collaborating with BorderPlex Digital Assets, with the two companies aiming to invest up to $165 billion over the entire project. Stack hasn’t detailed its exact role in the...

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Read FPT Launches Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City
FPT Launches Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City

FPT Launches Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City

August 30, 2025 Vietnam

FPT Corporation last week officially inaugurated and put into operation the FPT Fornix HCM02 Data Center at the Ho Chi Minh City High-Tech Park, an eight-story Fornix HCM02 which totals 10,000 sqm (110,000 sq ft) and has capacity for 3,600 racks. FPT said this is the first data center in Vietnam...

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Read Data Journey Ends Deal with Greenidge to Acquire 152-acre Data Center
Data Journey Ends Deal with Greenidge to Acquire 152-acre Data Center

Data Journey Ends Deal with Greenidge to Acquire 152-acre Data Center

August 30, 2025 United States

US cryptocurrency data center and power generation firm Greenidge Generation has seen a deal to sell off two parcels of land to Data Journey in South Carolina fall through.As part of the initial agreement, Greenidge was set to support Data Journey in developing and building a new data center that...

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Read Singapore Gov't Launches Data Center Efficiency Standard
Singapore Gov't Launches Data Center Efficiency Standard

Singapore Gov't Launches Data Center Efficiency Standard

August 29, 2025 Singapore

The Singaporean government has launched a new standard to support data center operators. The standard - SS 715:2025: Energy Efficiency of Data Centre IT Equipment - aims to save energy consumption of IT equipment in data centers by at least 30 percent.The standard will also aid data center users...

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Read Crusoe Adds 24MW of Capacity in atNorth Facility in Iceland
Crusoe Adds 24MW of Capacity in atNorth Facility in Iceland

Crusoe Adds 24MW of Capacity in atNorth Facility in Iceland

August 29, 2025 Iceland

AI cloud and data center firm Crusoe and atNorth this week announced a “significant expansion” of Crusoe Cloud’s capacity within atNorth’s ICE02 data center in Keflavik. This strategic expansion is designed to meet the surging demand for Crusoe Cloud services from customers of all sizes across...

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Read Hyperscale to Hyper-Space: Data Centers Beyond Earth
Hyperscale to Hyper-Space: Data Centers Beyond Earth

Hyperscale to Hyper-Space: Data Centers Beyond Earth

August 29, 2025 United Kingdom

Every day, humans generate more data than they did the previous day. In 2010, the planet generated approximately two zettabytes of digital information, a figure that increased to 64 zettabytes over the next decade. For comparison, one zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes, so large that if you tried...

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Read OpenLight Secures $34m in Funding
OpenLight Secures $34m in Funding

OpenLight Secures $34m in Funding

August 28, 2025 United States

OpenLight, a designer of custom application-specific photonic chips, has secured $34 million in a funding round that was co-led by Xora Innovation and Capricorn Investment Group. Other participants include Mayfield; HPE’s Juniper Networks; Lam Capital, the corporate venture arm of Lam Research...

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Read Zenith Obtains Planning Approval for 1.24GW Data Center Project
Zenith Obtains Planning Approval for 1.24GW Data Center Project

Zenith Obtains Planning Approval for 1.24GW Data Center Project

August 27, 2025 New Mexico

US energy infrastructure developer Zenith Volts has been granted approval from the Chaves County Commission for a 300-acre data center project designed to support 1.24GW or more of power capacity. The entire site will span 8,500 acres and integrate advanced power solutions, including on-site...

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Read Compass Mining, Onmine Partner to Energize 10MW site in Texas
Compass Mining, Onmine Partner to Energize 10MW site in Texas

Compass Mining, Onmine Partner to Energize 10MW site in Texas

August 26, 2025 Texas

Bitcoin mining company Compass Mining has announced the full energization of a 10MW cryptomine data center facility in Texas, a project developed in partnership with Onmine, which helped provide crucial infrastructure, and coordinated the site’s development with ERCOT - the Electric Reliability...

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Read Top Data Center News from 18th - 22nd August, 2025
Top Data Center News from 18th - 22nd August, 2025

Top Data Center News from 18th - 22nd August, 2025

August 25, 2025 United States

Vantage Plots 1.4GW Data Center Campus in Texas Vantage Data Centers is expanding in Texas with a new gigawatt-scale campus outside Abilene in Shackelford County, Texas, set to be the largest across its global portfolio and its biggest investment to date, totaling more than $25 billion. AirTrunk...

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Read Meeza Secures $219m Funding for 44MW expansion
Meeza Secures $219m Funding for 44MW expansion

Meeza Secures $219m Funding for 44MW expansion

August 25, 2025 Qatar

Meeza, a data center and IT firm in Qatar announced this week that it has secured a QAR 800 million ($219.3m) Commodity Murabaha bank facility from Dukhan Bank to fund its build-out. The financing will fund expansion plans to add 44MW of data center capacity. The first phase will deliver 24MW,...

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