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KYEC to exit china following semiconductor sanctions

King Yuan Electronics Co (KYEC), one of the world's largest testing and packaging services firms, has sold its entire 92.1 percent stake in its King Long Technology (KLT) subsidiary, a manufacturing hub in the Chinese city of Suzhou as the company sets out to leave China. KYEC cites issues ari...

May 02, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

China

Coreweave secures $1.1 billion in new funding

GPU cloud provider CoreWeave announced that it has secured $1.1 billion in new Series C funding round this week led by Coatue, with participation from Magnetar who led the last primary round, as well as Altimeter Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and Lykos Global Management....

May 02, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

US DISA unveils Five-year strategy

The US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has unveiled its updated strategy for the next five years which will align the IT service provider of the Department of Defense (DoD) with the 2022 National Defense Strategy.“As a combat support agency and the premier IT service provider for the...

May 01, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Eviden launches new server line

Atos-owned Eviden has announced a new server line called BullSequana AI product line. This product line includes five AI server models that the company says have been optimized for AI workloads, all offering different levels of performance, scalability, and flexibility, depending on customers’...

May 01, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

SES to acquire rival satellite operator Intelsat for $3.1 billion

European satellite firm SES is set to acquire Virginia-based Intelsat via 100 percent of the equity of Intelsat Holdings S.a.r.l. for a cash consideration of €2.8 billion ($3.1 billion) and certain contingent value rights. The companies said the partnership will create a “stronger multi-orbit ...

April 30, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Edinburgh University to use waste heat from data center to warm up buildings

Edinburgh University has announced plans to use waste heat from its data center to warm up its buildings and has has received grant funding of just under £2.1 million ($2.62m) to support the energy-saving project at its Kings Buildings campus.The university will also invest £520,000 of its own...

April 30, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Edinburgh

Hydrogen demonstration facility launches in Austin, Texas

A hydrogen demonstration facility has launched in Austin, Texas and will help provide power to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) data center via a fuel cell. The project – located at the University of Texas (UT) J.J. Pickle Research Campus in Austin – is a collaboration between GTI En...

April 29, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Austin

Schneider Electric partners with Terrestrial Energy for small reactors

Nuclear small modular reactor (SMR) company Terrestrial Energy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Schneider Electric to jointly develop commercial opportunities and advance the deployment of IMSR plants as the reactor company is currently developing a 190MWe Integral Molten Salt Rea...

April 26, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Canada

SES unveils new satellite service

SES this week announced that it has launched its O3b mPower satellite connectivity service and will be deploying it worldwide. SES will be introducing services in the coming months to O3b mPower customers to deliver reliable connectivity services ranging from tens of Mbps to multiple gigabits ...

April 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Sky signs new wing PPA in Scotland

UK telco and media firm Sky has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Octopus Renewables Infrastructure to procure the output of a Scottish windfarm. Following this deal, ky UK buy 69 percent of the electricity produced by the 46MW Crossdykes windfarm, located in Lanarkshire, Scotland, ...

April 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Scotland

Danfoss selects HPE GreenLake for cloud Services

Danish engineering group Danfoss has selected HPE GreenLake for SAP S/4HANA Cloud at all it’s data centers for its cloud journey. It is now a joint offering from HPE and SAP and aims to bring SAP workloads to private cloud environments.“We have selected RISE with SAP and HPE GreenLake not only...

April 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Oxide deploys hardware on CoreSite data center in California

New cloud company Oxide is deploying its on-premise hardware at CoreSite’s data center in Silicon Valley. It also announced this week that it would ‘leverage colocation solutions’ at CoreSite's Silicon Valley SV2 data center. “The Oxide Cloud Computer empowers developers to build, run, and ope...

April 24, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

California

WSF signs new MoU with Alibaba for cloud services

The World Squash Federation (WSF) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Alibaba Cloud for cloud and AI technologies and is now set to use Alibaba's cloud computing to augment content, management and commercialization. WSF will also use the cloud provider's platform to develop a squash ...

April 23, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Axis-REIT sells former steel site in Johor to unnamed data center operator

Malaysian firm Axis Real Estate Investment Trust (Axis-REIT) announced this week that it has sold a former steel complex in Johor to a data center operator in a deal valued at RM162 million ($33.9m) and is set to close in the second half of the year.The buyer wasn’t named, but the terms of the...

April 23, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Malaysia

United Airlines to complete cloud migration soon

United Airlines has almost completed its cloud migration as CFO Mike Leskinen revealed the company has migrated 70-90 percent of its workloads to the cloud, with the rest still on-premise.The company has had a challenging first quarter and is now attempting to offset those costs with "great op...

April 22, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

CRA unveils Edge data center in Cukrák, outside Prague

Czech telecoms firm České Radiokomunikace (CRA) has unveiled its data center at a broadcast tower site in Cukrák, outside Prague after investing tens of millions of crowns (around $422,000) in repurposing its former transmitter into its eighth data center.Miloš MastnÍk, CEO at CRA, said: “Usin...

April 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Prague

Zuckerberg says energy constraints are hindering AI data center buildout

Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that energy constraints have become the largest blockers to building out AI data centers as he echoed industry commentary on the challenges of building larger and larger data centers."Over the last few years, there's been this issue of GPU production," he said. "Even ...

April 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

T-Mobile completes 5G network upgade

T-Mobile announced that it has completed its 5G network upgrades in Louisiana, a multi-year investment totaling $290 million, including $50m towards an upgrade in its 5G service in the Greater New Orleans area. The company notes that the expansion provides access to 5G ultra capacity coverage ...

April 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Louisiana

Team Global Express moves to cloud with Infosys

Australian logistics firm Team Global Express has migrated to the cloud with help from Infosys in a program which required moving more than 300 application. This move was achieved without any business impact to the 4,000+ users or to network integration spread over 100 sites.Danny Gravell, CIO...

April 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Australia

Georgia Power increases capacity to meet data center demand

Electric utility Georgia Power (GP) has received approval from the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) to increase its generation capacity with both fossil fuels and renewable energy to meet power demand from data centers. This agreement will also allow Georgia Power to contract generation...

April 17, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Georgia

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