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Diraq secures $15 million in a Series 2-A funding round

Quantum computing startup Diraq has raised $15 million in a Series 2-A funding round led by specialist investor Quantonation, a venture capital fund dedicated to quantum technologies, with participation from Higgins Family Investments and the University of New South Wales, Sydney. This latest ...

February 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Sydney

SpaceX to de-orbit Starlink satellites that could potentially cause failures

SpaceX has revealed plans to de-orbit about 100 of its early Starlink satellites after finding a “common error” that could potentially cause failures. In a recent update on the company site, it revealed plans to perform controlled descents of the early-version 1 Starlink satellites in the comi...

February 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

IHS Towers signs new deal with Airtel Nigeria

Tower company IHS Towers has announced that Airtel Nigeria has signed a deal to renew its contract in the country and has committed to take 3,950 tenancies over the next five years, with the majority expected over 2024/2025. Following the terms of the renewed agreement, Airtel is to extend the...

February 12, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Nigeria

Cloudflare extends server hardware lifespan to five years

Cloudflare, during its Q4 2023 earnings call this week, revealed has become the latest company to extend the lifespan of its server hardware and will save millions of dollars by adding a year to the operational lifespan of its data center IT kit. “With the evolution of the composition of our i...

February 10, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Viasat to enter ViaSat-3 F1 satellite into service next quarter

Satellite operator Viasat is to enter its ViaSat-3 F1 satellite into service next quarter, despite the new machine offering far less bandwidth than planned after a deployment issue. The company plans to make ViaSat-3 F1 the first in a constellation of three geostationary Ka-band communications...

February 10, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Americas

Aqua Comms signs new agreement with Energy Sciences Network for fiber pair

Aqua Comms has entered an agreement with Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) that for 25 percent of a fiber pair between New York, Dublin, and London. This agreement will last for 15 years and will give ESnet a dedicated 5Tbps data pipe on its AEC-1 subsea cable to accommodate data traffic from th...

February 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New York State

Azora to launch new European Edge data center platform

Investment manager Azora in collaboration with Core Capital, this week launched a new European Edge data center platform called Quetta Data Centers. The investment firm plans to invest over €500 million in constructing six Edge data centers in Spain and Portugal totaling 60MW of capacity. Sant...

February 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

Singapore-based startup receives $12.5 million in funding for electricity transformers

Singapore-based startup Amperesand, which makes SSTs that could replace standard transformers in electricity distribution, has been given $12.5 million in funding to develop solid-state transformers (SSTs), which could make electricity grids more efficient and flexible. "We are thrilled to par...

February 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Singapore

Iris Energy and Poolside sign new partnership

Iris Energy and AI startup Poolside have gotten into an agreement to give the latter cloud access to Nvidia GPUs. According to Iris Energy, the initial contract is three months, with a potential three month extension. Daniel Roberts, co-Founder and co-CEO of Iris Energy, said: “We are pleased ...

February 08, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Gcore launches new serverless Edge solution

European cloud and CDN firm Gcore has launched a new serverless Edge solution called FastEdge. FastEdge is built upon Gcore's content delivery network (CDN), which distributes the custom code across more than 160 Edge nodes worldwide. Gcore notes that this serverless Edge solution was designed...

February 07, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Luxembourg

Datacenter One opens up new facility in Hamburg

Datacenter One (DC1), the German colocation company acquired by AtlasEdge last year, has opened a new facility in Hamburg called HAM1. This facility is located in Ahrensburg, northeast of Hamburg. Phase one spans 3,500 square meters and it will offer 20MW across 10,000 square meters at full bu...

February 07, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

Verizon reveals deployment of 130,000 Open RAN-cabaple radios

Verizon revealed in an announcement this week that it has deployed more than 130,000 Open RAN capable radios. The telco noted that the figure includes the massive MIMO radios as part of the previously announced 15,000 O-RAN compliant virtualized cell sites with O-RAN compliant baseband units i...

February 07, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

UK government announces £45 million funding package for quantum projects

The UK government has announced a £45 million funding package to boost the use of quantum technology across a number of sectors, including healthcare, energy, and transport. This comes as quantum technologies is now recognized as one of the five critical technologies set out by the UK governme...

February 07, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Lunar Digital begins upgrade of the Reynolds House data center

Lunar Digital began the planned multi-million-pound upgrade of the Reynolds House data center in Manchester, UK. The company started development works across all the data halls at the site, including full renovations of the C5 and C6 data halls to optimize power and cooling, the deployment of ...

January 19, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Manchester

General Atlantic to plans Actis acquisition

Growth equity firm General Atlantic has recently revealed plans to acquire sustainable infrastructure investor Actis. This deal will create an investment platform with about $96 billion in combined assets under management. Company head Torbjorn Caesar, who will continue to run the business, s...

January 18, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

DigitalOcean to now offer Nvidia H100 GPUs

Cloud provider DigitalOcean which is dedicated to small-to-medium businesses and startups, has added to its GPU-accelerated cloud computing platform with Nvidia chips. With this new upgrade, DigitalOcean's ability to offer cloud-based artificial intelligence, machine learning applications, and...

January 17, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Seagate to ship 30TB hard drives with HAMR tech

Seagate Technology recently announced that it will be shipping 30TB hard drives based on its heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology. The company expects to conclude full production by the end of March as hyperscale customers already have evaluation units and are planning to adopt i...

January 17, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Stonepeak invests $200 million into GTA

Investment fund Stonepeak has invested $200 million into Guam telecoms firm TeleGuam Holdings (GTA). Huntsman Family Investments and its affiliates (HFI) will continue to be the majority owner of GTA and operate the company which will divert the investment into developing additional cable land...

January 16, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

International feasibility study tests storing waste heat underground

A £2.6 million ($3.3m) international project will investigate storing waste heat from an Edinburgh University supercomputer in old mine workings, before using it to heat local homes. This study will examine the idea of storing hot water at 40oC in disused mines before using it for domestic hea...

January 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Octopus Energy invests in UK-based data center business

British renewable energy group Octopus Energy has invested £200 million in UK-based data center business Deep Green which specializes in siting small data centers near locations that need waste heat. Zoisa North-Bond, CEO of Octopus Energy Generation, said, "To tackle the energy crisis head-on...

January 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

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