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30-meter 4G telecom tower destroyed in Mullumbimby, Australia

A 30-meter 4G telecom tower in Mullumbimby, Australia owned by telco Optus, was destroyed on May 18. The New South Wales Police estimating that this destruction most likely caused by vandals occurred “sometime between 12am and 8pm."Tweed-Byron Police District Inspector Matt Woods said they r...

May 31, 2024

Australia

US Gov't outlines governmental guidelines for carbon offsets.

The United States government in a May 28 document has outlined "voluntary principles" that US participants should "embrace" when it comes to carbon offsets.The document notes that: "Widespread confidence in the integrity of credited emissions reductions and removals is critical for voluntary c...

May 29, 2024

United States

NcodiN closes a €3.5 million funding round

NcodiN, a French optical interposer startup, has closed a €3.5 million ($3.8m) funding round, with Elaia, Earlybird, and OVNI Capita amongst the investors as the company looks to improve chiplet-to-chiplet communications with optical interposer technology.The company said the technology will e...

May 27, 2024

France

Aston partners with GLL for grid independent campuses in the US

A startup offering self-contained, grid-independent ‘clean energy campuses’ which it says can help businesses design and build new industrial projects is marketing renewable energy campuses across the US to host data centers. This week, Aston announced a “Rapid Development Program (RDP) for cl...

May 24, 2024

United States

Stulz launches new coolant management and distribution unit

Stulz, an air conditioning specialist this week announced the launch of a new coolant management and distribution unit called CyberCool CMU which was designed to maximize heat exchange efficiency in liquid cooling solutions.Comprising water pumps, plate heat exchangers, water valves, and cont...

May 24, 2024

United States

Soluna secures $30 million in funding for data center expansion

Data center operator Soluna has secured $30 million in funding from Spring Lane Capital to expand its data center in Texas. Soluna said the financing will accommodate approximately 12,700 Bitcoin mining rigs, each with a power consumption of around 3.5kW, totaling 48MW. Soluna has an existing ...

May 24, 2024

Soluna

Scala conducts successful HVO test

Scala Data Centers has conducted a trial of using hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) to power its backup generators. However, the company noted the alternative fuel’s prohibitive costs meant it wasn’t adopting it more widely. “When HVO enters commercial-scale utilization, the plan is to begin r...

May 23, 2024

Brazil / Brasil

Sparkle lands BlueMed Subsea cable in Crete

Sparkle, part of the Telecom Italia Group, has landed its BlueMed subsea cable which connects Italy with France, Greece, and several countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, before ending in Jordan in Chania, on the Greek island of Crete. The system is part of the Blue & Raman cable bui...

May 22, 2024

Europe

Infineon unveils new power supply unit solutions

Infineon has unveiled a number of new power supply unit (PSU) solutions to meet the energy demands of AI data centers. The company notes that the power supply units will combine silicon (Si), silicon carbide (SiC), and gallium nitride (GaN) in a “strategic configuration,” which the company sa...

May 22, 2024

United States

Italian government approves Swisscom's acquisition of Vodafone Italy

Swisscom revealed that the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers "unconditionally approved the acquisition pursuant to the golden power legislation." Swisscom noted that it was informed that its acquisition of Vodafone would not threaten competition within the Italian telecoms market....

May 21, 2024

Italy

Ericsson to invest $50 million for data center expansion

Ericsson this week revealed it will invest an additional $50 million to expand its four-year-old 5G Smart Factory in Lewisville, Texas, an investment which "will further accelerate local production to address the demand for 5G infrastructure made in the USA, compliant with the Build America B...

May 21, 2024

Texas

Cerebras Systems and Aleph Alpha team up for sovereign AI solutions

Cerebras Systems and Aleph Alpha have entered an agreement to develop sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, first focusing on creating generative AI models that are trained to a high degree of accuracy. This will be done alongside BWI GmBH, the German public IT services provider ow...

May 20, 2024

Germany / Deutschland

Nokia completes purchase of Fenix Group

Nokia has confirmed the completion of its purchase of Fenix Group which specializes in providing tactical communications solutions for defense communities, including tactical broadband products. Its networks are "designed to provide for mission-critical services at the Edge, mitigating relianc...

May 20, 2024

United States

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

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