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Nvidia beat Wall Street expectations for sales and earnings in the latest quarter, records revenue of $26 billion.

GPU designer Nvidia beat Wall Street expectations for sales and earnings in the latest quarter, with record revenue of $26 billion."The next industrial revolution has begun — companies and countries are partnering with Nvidia to shift the trillion-dollar traditional data centers to accelerated...

May 20, 2024

United States

Virginia county recommends approval of applications to enable homeowners sell their lands for data center

The Loudoun County Planning Commission in Virginia has recommended approving the Hiddenwood Assemblage application to allow homeowners in Arcola to sell their land for a data center project. The Planning Commission described it as a "no-win situation," with some homeowners wanting the zoning c...

May 17, 2024

Virginia

Edgnex to build new data center in Indonesia

UAE data center firm Edgnex, a Damac-owned firm officially announced its investment into the Indonesian market at the Indonesia Cloud & Datacenter Convention this week.Hussain Sajwani, founder and chairman of Damac Group, said: "Edgenex identifies and invests in current and next-generation...

May 17, 2024

Indonesia

BW digital & Telin partner up on a portion of Hawaiki Nui subsea system

BW Digital and PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia International (Telin) have signed a memorandum of understanding in Washington DC this week to team up on constructing the 10,000km Hawaiki Nui 1 cable, which will be part of the wider 26,000km system. The Hawaiki Nui 1 cable will link Australia, Indon...

May 16, 2024

Washington

UK joins European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking

The United Kingdom has become a part of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), allowing British researchers and scientists to apply for Horizon Europe-funded research and innovation calls relating to supercomputing. Following this agreement. he UK will also hav...

May 16, 2024

United Kingdom

Zayo Group to split business into two independent entities

Zayo Group has announced plans to split its business into two independent entities, with one unit focusing on the company's European business and the other focusing on Zayo's business outside of its core European and North American markets.“The transition of our European business into an indep...

May 14, 2024

Europe

Sinn Fein politician describes Ireland’s lack of national supercomputer as “embarassing”

Louise O'Reilly, Teachta Dála (TD) and spokesperson for Enterprise, Trade, and Employment of the Sinn Féin political party has criticized the Irish government for failing to acquire a new supercomputer. "High performance computing (HPC) is at the core of the fifth industrial revolution and cen...

May 14, 2024

United Kingdom

New data center proposed outside Richmond, Virginia

California-based Province Group has proposed to develop a $3 billion data center campus outside Richmond in Powhatan County, Virginia. According to Roxanne Salerno, economic development manager of Powhatan County, Province Group plans to invest $1.5bn in building the data centers, and the othe...

May 13, 2024

Virginia

UK’s fastest supercomputer now online

The UK’s fastest supercomputer, Isambard-AI which ranked 128 on the most recent edition of the Top500 list has come online. The £225 million ($273m) machine has also placed second on the Green500, a list that ranks supercomputers in terms of energy efficiency, with a rating of 68.8 gigaflops ...

May 13, 2024

United Kingdom

Tishman enters data center market with plans for Frankfurt facility

US real estate firm Tishman Speyer is entering the data center market with plans for a campus in Frankfurt, Germany and has acquired a 75,000 sqm site in the Osthafen area of Frankfurt am Main in order to develop a data center. The property, located close to a number of Digital Realty faciliti...

May 13, 2024

Germany / Deutschland

Mitre Corporation to deploy Nvidia supercomputer for government

The Mitre Corporation is to deploy a GPU supercomputer, the new DGX SuperPod system from Nvidia for government use to support the company’s Federal AI Sandbox, a platform to improve experimentation with AI-enabled applications across federal government agencies.“Mitre’s purchase of a DGX Super...

May 13, 2024

United States

Georgia governor vetoes bill to pause data center tax breaks after it had passed both houses

Gov. Brian Kemp this week decided to veto HB 1192, a bill that would pause tax breaks for data centers in Georgia after it had passed both houses.In a statement explaining the veto, Governor Kemp said the state extended data center exemptions to 2031 just two years ago, with projects starting ...

May 11, 2024

Georgia

Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments

Atlanta City Councilmen Jason Dozier and Matt Westmoreland have introduced bills to block data center developments around certain areas of the Georgia city near transit stops and the Beltline.“Excited to introduce legislation alongside Matt Westmoreland to address the rapid growth of data cent...

May 10, 2024

Atlanta

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NaHS Trust's Dewsbury and District Hospital gets new data center

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NaHS Trust's Dewsbury and District Hospital in the UK has a new 'digital data center' (DDC). The DDC will be replacing the hospital's former data center, which has become outdated and was not able to be expanded as it was within an existing hospital building. Accordi...

May 10, 2024

United Kingdom

EchoStar reports subscriber losses as bankruptcy fears increase

EchoStar's financial fear increases as the company reports subscriber losses across the main areas of its business — wireless, broadband, and pay TV. The company ended Q1 with a net loss of $107.38 million, compared to net income of $253.53m the previous year. EchoStar said in its latest finan...

May 10, 2024

United States

NCSA expands Radiant Supercomputer

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s (UIUC) National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) this week announced it has installed additional graphics processing units (GPUs) to its private cloud Radiant system. The University acquired the GPU with a funding commitment of $50 m...

May 09, 2024

Illinois

Meta plans data center in Montgomery, Alabama

Tech giant Meta, formerly known as Facebook, this week announced plans to build an $800 million data center in Montgomery County, Alabama. The facility is located across from Hyundai’s automotive assembly plant and will join Meta’s other Alabama data center campus 190 miles north in Huntsville...

May 09, 2024

Alabama

Unity Group and Windstream Holdings announce merger agreement

Uniti Group Inc. and Windstream Holdings II, LLC last week announced a merger agreement which combines Uniti's wholesale-owned fiber network with Windstream's Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) business. The companies note that this merger will create a "premier insurgent fiber provider in the US," to c...

May 09, 2024

United States

Grid Telecom to build CLS in Crete

Grid Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) of Greece, and Quadrivium Digital, this week announced plans to build a cable landing station (CLS) on the Greek island of Crete. This CLS will be hosted within Quadrivium’s planned campus and will se...

May 08, 2024

Greece

New GPU cloud firm offering access to AMD GPUs launches

A new GPU cloud provider Nscale which relies on AMD hardware has announced its official launch and is now offering services based on AMD’s Instinct MI300X GPU accelerators from a cryptomining firm and sister company Arkon Energy’s data center in Glomfjord, Norway. “Over the coming years, AI wi...

May 08, 2024

Norway

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