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Vertiv installs grid-interactive UPS in Sweden data centers

Swedish colocation data center provider Conapto has installed Vertiv Liebert EXL S1, an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) system that provides an integrated solution for critical power protection and grid support capabilities. “With the introduction of dynamic grid support, we are empowering ...

March 19, 2024

Stockholm

Three companies invest in combined $200m data center in Oslo

Norwegian telco Telenor, energy company Hafslund and investment fund HitecVision are building a data center in Oslo, Norway, via a newly formed joint venture, Skygard. These companies are to make a NOK 2.4 billion ($200m) joint investment in this data center which is already undergoing constru...

March 19, 2024

Oslo

Exaion launches new data center in Canada

Exaion, an EDF Group subsidiary specializing in the development and operation of ‘eco-responsible digital services platforms,’ recently announced the opening of its data center in Sherbrooke, Canada. This facility called Bellevue, is located in the Humano District project, to which it will pro...

March 18, 2024

Canada

US government to award Intel $8.5 billion in direct funding under CHIPS Act

The US government is set to award Intel $8.5 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act as confirmed by the Department of Commerce on Tuesday. Intel is also to get an additional $11bn in low-interest rate loans and a 25 percent investment tax credit on up to $100 billion of Inte...

March 18, 2024

Arizona

UK telcos urged to stop installation of new telegraph poles

UK’s Data and Digital Infrastructure Minister Julia Lopez has urged telecommunication companies in the UK to stop the installation of new telegraph poles. The minister wrote a public letter to the operators asking them to prioritize sharing existing telegraph poles ahead of building new ones. ...

March 16, 2024

United Kingdom

WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) has selected CDC Data Centres for its digital tower deployment. WSI will be one of the first in Australia to run a digital air traffic control tower and has partnered with CDC, Frequentis Australasia, and Airservices to develop the system. WSI will de...

March 15, 2024

Sydney

Possible subsea cable damage linked to outage spike in West Africa

Outages are being reported along the western coast of Africa after a possible cable damage incident. Reports from MyBroadband have linked this downtime to multiple outages on undersea cables near Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire. Microsoft is reporting network latency issues in its South Africa North ...

March 15, 2024

Africa

Edenor completes cloud migration to AWS and Microsoft

Argentinian electricity company Edenor announced that its data architecture is now cloud-based, with Edenor using both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft's Azure cloud platforms. “It's a foundational project because it allows us to generate the bases to be a data-driven company and to be...

March 15, 2024

Argentina

UK joins the European Union’s CJU program

The UK has joined the European Union’s ‘Chips Joint Undertaking’ (CJU) program as a “participating state.” This is a move that gives the country access to a €1.3 billion semiconductor research and development fund. “We are very happy to welcome the UK to the Chips Joint Undertaking as a partic...

March 14, 2024

United Kingdom

CWCS acquires property in Nottingham for data center

UK hosting firm CWCS has acquired a property in Nottingham and plans to turn the site into its latest data center. LoopNet lists this property at 3 Padge Road, was built in 1980 and totals 9,300 sq ft (863 sqm) across two floors. Karl Mendez, managing director of CWCS Managed Hosting, said: “I...

March 13, 2024

United Kingdom

Airtel’s Nxtra begins construction on Lagos data center

Airtel Africa this week officially broke ground on a new facility in Lagos’s Victoria Island. The facility will deliver 38MW and is expected to be live by the first quarter of 2026. It will also be the first of five hyperscale data centers developed by Airtel Africa on the continent through N...

March 13, 2024

Lagos

US Politicians propose plan to restore the FCC’s spectrum authority

Two US politicians have proposed a new spectrum pipeline legislation to restore the US Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) authority to hold spectrum auctions. This comes about a year after the US Senate allowed it to lapse for the first time ever. The proposal by senators Ted Cruz and J...

March 13, 2024

United States

Arabsat signs MoU with Anexia

Arabsat and cloud and managed services company Anexia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for satellite-connected private cloud infrastructure. This new agreement will bring together satellite communications, private cloud services, and GPU technology services by combining their of...

March 13, 2024

United States

Optus' head of networks resigns after lengthy outage in Australia

Optus' head of networks, Lambo Kanagaratnam, has resigned months after the Australian telco suffered a lengthy outage, becoming the second high-profile name at the company to depart after CEO Kelly Bayer resigned in November. The company's interim CEO Michael Ventor informed staff at the telc...

March 12, 2024

Australia

WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) has selected CDC Data Centres for its digital tower deployment. WSI will be one of the first in Australia to run a digital air traffic control tower and has partnered with CDC, Frequentis Australasia, and Airservices to develop the system. WSI will de...

March 12, 2024

Sydney

Iridium Communications acquires PNT provider Satelles for $115 million

Iridium Communications, in its first ever acquisition has acquired Positioning Navigation and Timing (PNT) provider Satelles. The company revealed that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Satelles, Inc., a provider of satellite-based time and location services akin to GPS and other GNS...

March 11, 2024

United States

FCC increases benchmark for high-speed fixed broadband to 100Mbps

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has increased its benchmark for high-speed fixed broadband to download speeds of 100 megabits per second and upload speeds of 20 megabits per second. This fulfils a four-fold increase from the 25/3 Mbps benchmark set by the Commission in 2015 The in...

March 11, 2024

United States

HPE begins production at new facility in Riyah, Saudi Arabia

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has started production at its new facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, manufacturing servers for the company’s ProLiant Gen11 portfolio. The company first announced this production site as a partnership between HPE and digital solutions provider Alfanar in Februa...

March 09, 2024

Saudi Arabia

Singtel sells minority stake in Bharti Airtel

Singapore's Singtel has sold an 0.8 percent stake in Indian telco Bharti Airtel for S$950 million ($710m) to US-based investment firm GQG Partners, trimming it’s stake in the company from 29.8 percent to 29 percent. The company plans to invest the funds in data centers and IT services. "Last N...

March 09, 2024

India / Bhārata

Colt acquires land for new data center in Chennai, India

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) this week announced the acquisition of a 10-acre plot in Chennai, Tamil Nadu for a new data center development. The company had previously revealed its intention to expand into India last year with a large campus in Mumbai. In September it then said it was...

March 08, 2024

India / Bhārata

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