August 30, 2024 Venezuela
A huge power outage in Venezuela has brought a significant portion of the country offline and Minister of Communications and Information, Freddy Ñañez, claimed that the outage was due to intentional sabotage. A similar, smaller outage was blamed on saboteurs three days ago. "Live network data...
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August 28, 2024 United States
Meta this week announced a deal with startup Sage Geosystems to use the latter’s new proprietary Geopressured Geothermal System (GGS) to provide carbon-free power for its data centers. Meta did not specify where the geothermal projects would be located or which data centers would be powered via...
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August 28, 2024 California
IBM has announced two new AI-focused chips for its Z-systems mainframes at the Hot Chips 2024 event this week in California. The new Telum II chip which was designed to power IBM Z systems features increased frequency, memory capacity, a 40 percent growth in cache, and integrated AI accelerator...
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August 28, 2024 Japan
Singaporean telco Singtel and Japanese giant Hitachi have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on “next-generation data centers and GPU cloud” in Japan and potentially the wider Asia Pacific region under the lead of Singtel's Digital InfraCo unit. Bill Chang, CEO of Singtel’s...
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August 28, 2024 France
Qualcomm has acquired 4G IoT technology assets from France-based Sequans specializes in supplying 4G and 5G semiconductor products for IoT. This acquisition includes certain employees, assets, and licenses. Nakul Duggal, group general manager of automotive, industrial and embedded IoT, and cloud...
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August 27, 2024 United States
Private equity firm and investor Warburg Pincus has acquired data center service company Service Express which provides third-party post-warranty data center maintenance services and managed services from Harvest Partners LP on August 15. Steve Fessler, partner at Harvest, said: "When we...
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August 27, 2024 Japan
Japanese tire company Toyo Tire Corporation has selected Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deliver a high-performance computing (HPC) system via its GreenLake cloud offering. It will be providing its seventh-generation HPC system, which is three times more powerful than its predecessor, as a...
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August 27, 2024 Canada
Cryptomining firm Bitfarms has entered into a definitive partnership with Stronghold Digital Mining under which Bitfarms will acquire Stronghold in a stock-for-stock merger transaction. The deal is valued at approximately $125 million equity value plus the assumption of debt valued at...
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August 25, 2024 Indonesia
Indonesian IT service management company Lintasarta has launched an AI cloud service called GPU Merdeka, a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) would be a sovereign AI cloud featuring Nvidia chips. The GPU Merdeka service features GPU servers with a configuration of 8x Nvidia H100 SXM Tensor Core GPUs, with...
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August 25, 2024 Canada
Avaio has signed a renewable energy deal with Quebec-based renewable energy firm, Sunbird Energy for its upcoming data center project outside Ottawa, Canada. The partnership integrates Sunbird’s renewable energy capabilities with ADP’s data center project in development in Gatineau, Quebec. “As a...
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August 25, 2024 Europe
IPTO subsidiary Grid Telecom and Israeli firm Tamares Telecom have signed a Heads of Agreement to both participate in the joint venture Tamares Telecom Cyprus. The venture will establish a carrier-neutral, open-access hub with interconnection data center facilities to connect the island to...
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August 25, 2024 United States
Nokia has partnered with Axiom Space to equip the company's next-generation spacesuits with advanced 4G/LTE communications to be used by astronauts on Axiom's Artemis III lunar mission. This partnership will see the two companies incorporate high-speed cellular-network capabilities in the Axiom...
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August 25, 2024 Indiana
Meta has signed a long-term Environmental Attributes Purchase Agreement with Arevon Energy, a renewable energy developer, owner, and operator for its Heirloom Solar Project in Pike County, Indiana. “Arevon is proud to once again partner with Meta and contribute to their sustainability goal of...
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August 25, 2024 Russia / Россия
Six Russian supercomputing centers are teaming up to form a research consortium called the Distributed Scientific Supercomputer Infrastructure consortium. These facilities will combine a relatively meager 1.5 petaflops of compute performance with scientific data storage systems exceeding 15 PB...
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August 23, 2024 Northern Virginia
A report from Synergy Research Group found that just twenty state or metro markets account for 62 percent of the world’s current hyperscale data center capacity. Northern Virginia tops this list while the Greater Beijing Area takes the second place, with both making up 22 percent of global...
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August 23, 2024 Germany / Deutschland
The US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is setting up a Joint Operational Edge (JOE) cloud in Germany in an attempt to expand DISA cloud offerings outside of the US. According to DISA, JOE is an "interconnected and integrated mesh of large form factor Edge computing platforms, installed...
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August 23, 2024 United Kingdom
The UK's Post Office chief transformation officer, Chris Brockleby, has stepped down from his post following delays in replacing the controversial Horizon IT system. He will depart from the Post Office on September 6, with Andy Nice set to take on the role on an interim basis. Nice was previously...
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August 23, 2024 Latvia
Latvian telco Tet has announced plans to invest €30 million ($33.2m) in developing the facility in Salaspils, to the south of the capital city. The construction on the new data center is planned to start at the end of 2024 for a 2028 completion with Tet's construction subsidiary Citrus Solutions...
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August 23, 2024 United States
A portfolio of eight switch and data center sites in the US are up for sale. The sites are located in eight cities across seven states, totaling 379,000 square feet (35,210 sqm) spread across 26 acres. The facilities are located in Lexington, Kentucky; Texarkana and Sugar Land, Texas; Colorado...
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August 22, 2024 Switzerland
IonQ last week announced the delivery of an ion trap to its European quantum data center in the QuantumBasel business park. It's specialists working out of the company’s Basel, Switzerland headquarters will be on site to receive the quantum processor and continue the build and commissioning of...
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