May 23, 2025 Paris
French national investment bank Bpifrance, UAE investment fund MGX, French AI firm Mistral AI, and Nvidia this week announced the formation of a joint venture to establish what they claim will be Europe’s largest AI campus in France.The companies said they aim to develop Europe’s first...
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May 23, 2025 Rwanda
Tower firm IHS Holding Limited has reached an agreement with Paradigm Tower Ventures for the acquisition of its 1,465 tower sites in Rwanda for an enterprise value of $274.5 million. IHS said it expects the sale of IHS Rwanda Limited to close in the second half of 2025, pending government and...
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May 20, 2025 Singapore
Global private markets firm Partners Group is set to acquire Singapore-based Digital Halo- a data center operator with facilities located across Southeast and North Asia. The company is currently owned by Arch Capital, which will remain a minority shareholder in the business.Following the terms...
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May 19, 2025 United States
Blue Owl Closes $7 billion Digital Infrastructure Fund Blue Owl Capital Inc. has successfully closed its latest digital infrastructure fund focused on data center development and acquisition with $7 billion of total capital commitments, exceeding the original target of $4 billion.FivePoint...
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May 19, 2025 Saudi Arabia
Qualcomm has signed a memorandum of understanding with Humain to develop AI data centers, hybrid AI across Edge and cloud, and AI chips which would cover facilities in Saudi Arabia and around the world.Humain and Qualcomm plan to develop and build AI data centers in Saudi Arabia, develop CPU and...
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February 13, 2025 Austin
What's causing the growth in data centers in Austin, TX? The answer is AI. Data centers and large AI consumers, like the Texas Advanced Computing Center’s supercomputers, require enormous amounts of energy and water, raising environmental concerns. Our research reveals there are 386 data centers...
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January 30, 2025 France
European semiconductor firm STMicroelectronics has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Total Energies. The PPA will power STMicroelectronics sites in France and will be supplied from two recently constructed wind and solar farms with a combined capacity of 75MW."We are delighted...
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January 29, 2025 United States
DeepSeek's announcement of a new large language model achieving state-of-the-art performance at significantly reduced computational costs sent shockwaves through the AI infrastructure market, triggering a $1.2 trillion market decline and a 15% drop in Nvidia's stock value. The market's reaction...
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January 29, 2025 United Kingdom
British chip company Arm is expanding its presence in Cambridge and has signed a lease to take over new office and laboratory space at the developer’s Peterhouse Technology Park. Arm already occupies all six buildings at Peterhouse Technology Park, totaling 330,000 sq ft (30,658 sqm).The Optic is...
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January 29, 2025 Florida
The IM-2 mission lunar lander has been delivered to Cape Canaveral, Florida, currently set to launch on February 26, prepared to carry what could be the first data center on the Moon. Lonestar plans to use the system to see how storage behaves on the Moon's surface, with an eventual aim to use...
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January 29, 2025 California
GPU cloud provider Lambda has deployed an Nvidia GB200 NVL72 rack system at EdgeCloudLink's (ECL) data center in Mountain View, California. The rack was installed on January 22, and the installation process took around "one hour" due to the flexibility of the data center.In a LinkedIn post, ECL's...
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January 28, 2025 United Kingdom
A former tech contractor at the British Museum reportedly shut down some of its IT systems, causing the museum to close some galleries and exhibitions. He allegedly gained access to an unauthorized area of the British Museum last week and turned off some of its IT systems after being dismissed by...
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January 28, 2025 Georgia
The Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) has voted to approve a new rule that allows new large-load Georgia Power customers using more than 100MW of electricity to be billed based on the risks associated with their projects.The rule, which passed unanimously, requires data centers to pay the...
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January 27, 2025 United Kingdom
UK telco BT issued a rallying cry last week urging the UK's Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) providers to move away from the outdated analog copper landline network by the end of this year. The telco warned that the country's switch from its historic Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)...
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January 27, 2025 United States
US energy generator NextEra Energy has partnered with energy equipment manufacturer GE Vernova to develop gas-fired generation to meet the energy demands of data centers and will be taking further steps to restart the idled Duane Arnold Energy Center, a nuclear power plant in Iowa.NextEra CEO...
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January 25, 2025 South Carolina
Santee Cooper, South Carolina’s state-owned electric and water utility, has launched a Request for Proposals (RFP) to acquire and complete or propose alternatives for two partially constructed generating units at the Virgil C Summer Nuclear Power Station in Fairfield County, South Carolina.The...
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January 25, 2025 New York
Chiplet technology startup Baya Systems has raised more than $36 million in a Series B funding round led by Maverick Silicon and backed by a strategic investment from Synopsys. It also saw participation from current investors, including Matrix Partners and Intel Capital.Growing AI workloads are...
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January 25, 2025 Texas
Ryan Hughes, founder of real estate firm Sailfish, this week announced Comanche Circle, a 2,600-acre master-planned data center community in Hood County’s Tolar, Texas. Hughes said Sailfish Digital Ventures (SDV) will develop nine data center campuses with a cumulative 5GW of power delivered via...
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January 24, 2025 North America
Investment firm Harrison Street this week announced that it had closed approximately $600 million in capital commitments across its HS Digital Fund and associated vehicles. The fundraise represents Harrison Street’s first dedicated pool of investment capital for its digital assets platform.“For...
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January 24, 2025 New York
North American investment firm Novacap this week announced the final closing of Novacap Digital Infrastructure Fund I, the firm's first fund dedicated entirely to investing in digital infrastructure. The firm has also named its recently announced data center joint venture with H5, HyScale Data...
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