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TSMC chairman to retire next year

TSMC chairman Mark Liu will retire next year after holding the position since 2018, replacing the semiconductor manufacturer’s founder Morris Chang who retired the same year. Now, the board has recommended that the company’s current CEO and vice chairman, C.C. Wei replace Liu as chairman. On ...

December 29, 2023

Taiwan

Meta to proceed with 750,000 square feet facility in Rosemount city Council

The Rosemount City Council has voted unanimously in favor of the Meta data center development in Minnesota. Following this vote, the facility will be developed on part of the University of Minnesota's UMore Park. The approved plan d will see a 750,000 sq ft (69,670 sqm) data center campus be d...

December 28, 2023

Minnesota

The University of Stuttgart acquires two supercomputers from HPE

The University of Stuttgart has ordered two supercomputers called Hunter and Herder from HPE for its High Performance Computing Center. These systems will cost €115 million and they are expected to take the HLRS up to exascale level in two stages by 2027. Anna Steiger, Chancellor at the Univer...

December 27, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

New supercomputer inaugurated in Barcelona, Spain

The MareNostrum 5 supercomputer was recently inaugurated in Barcelona, Spain, hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. It cost roughly €151 million to acquire and maintain this supercomputer, a fee which was split evenly between the EU and a Spanish-led consortium which includes Portuga...

December 27, 2023

Barcelona

Intel announces layoff plans across its Californian campuses

Intel has announced its plans to lay off 311 employees across two Californian campuses. This marks the second round of job cuts carried out by the company in California this year. Two separate "worker adjustment and retraining notifications" (WARNs) filed with the State of California’s Employ...

December 27, 2023

California

Hourigan proposes 320-acre facility outside Richmond, Virginia

Hourigan, a local developer has proposed a 320-acre data center campus outside Richmond, Virginia. The company has requested to rezone the land from agricultural to light industrial, noting that it expects to see around $1 billion invested in the project. The company said in a filing with regu...

December 27, 2023

Virginia

Meta-led 2Africa subsea cable lands on the Canary Island

The Meta-led 2Africa subsea cable landed at Salinetas Beach in Telde, on the island of Gran Canaria. This project was carried out through a 50:50 partnership between Vodafone and the Cabildo de Tenerife, through Canalink. Canalink said, “We are delighted to be part of this project that will in...

December 27, 2023

Africa

Arm begins job cuts across China

British semiconductor and software company Arm has laid off more than 70 software engineers based in China due to a downturn in the country's sales of devices such as smartphones and personal computers. In 2022, the company announced that it would cut about 1000 jobs, about 15 percent of its o...

December 27, 2023

China

Nokia to sell management businesses to Lumine Group

Finnish vendor Nokia has agreed to sell its device management and service management platform (SMP) businesses to Lumine Group. This deal, valued at €185 million is expected to close in the first quarter of next year, subject to approval.According to Nokia, Lumine "intends to operate DM and SM...

December 26, 2023

Finland

Colombia’s 5G spectrum raises $380 million

Colombia’s ICT Ministry MinTIC has confirmed that the country's 5G spectrum auction raised about $380 million, falling short of the expected $500 million. Claro, Partners Telecom Colombia (WOM), and Union Temporal Colombia Móvil-Telefónica all secured 5G licenses in the auction, which lasted ...

December 26, 2023

Colombia

Avacon & enviaM partner to develop new facility in Hanover, Germany

Engineering firm Avacon Group and regional energy provider enviaM Group have patnered to develop a data center in the Sehnde-Ost industrial area of Hanover, Germany. This facility will span 2,000 square meters and will potentially house 28,000 servers. The data center is being developed by a j...

December 26, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Arrcus joins UEC to support AI and HPC demands

Hyperscale networking firm Arrcus has joined the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), a group dedicated to delivering Ethernet-based interoperable and high-performance architecture to meet the growing network demands of AI and high-performance computing (HPC). With this move, Arrcus has committed ...

December 26, 2023

United States

ASU wins $17.5 million in funding for chip manufacturing

Arizona State University (ASU) is set to receive $17.5 million worth of investment from the Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA) to expand the state’s advanced semiconductor manufacturing capabilities. Sandra Watson, president and CEO of the ACA said, “This new investment showcases Arizona’s conti...

December 23, 2023

Arizona

Cordiant acquires two businesses in the cloud and data center sector

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure, through its Czech portfolio company České Radiokomunikace (CRA), has acquired cloud services provider Cloud4com and data center company DC Lužice. Cordiant is to acquire a Tier-III data center, DC Lužice for CZK130 million ($5.8m), and Cloud4com for an initial...

December 23, 2023

Czech Republic

Yahsat and analytics provider Bayanat agree to an all-share merger

In a joint announcement earlier this week, Satellite operator Yahsat and analytics provider Bayanat revealed that they have agreed to an all-share merger. The combined entity will be worth 15 billion dirhams ($4.1 billion), with the new entity named Space42 with Bayanat being the legal entity ...

December 23, 2023

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Singapore considers making data centers and clouds "critical infrastructure"

Singapore’s government is currently contemplating marking data centers and clouds as "critical infrastructure,” and extending oversight to cloud service providers and data center operators. A decision in this regard is expected to be made by January 15, 2024. Currently, the Cybersecurity Age...

December 22, 2023

Singapore

UAE & Egypt to collaborate on data center projects

The UAE's Ministry of Investment and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Egypt have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to invest in Egypt's digital infrastructure. This MoU could lead to the development of 1GW of data center capacity in Egypt, though timelines have n...

December 22, 2023

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Iliad secures €300 million EIB loan

Iliad Group has secured a €300 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to use in supporting its 5G network expansion in France. This marks the seventh loan issued to the telco by the EIB since 2009. Thomas Reynaud, CEO of the Iliad Group, said, “This financing transaction – the s...

December 22, 2023

France

Dutch firms win finding for Edge data center-related project

A group of seven Dutch companies and research institutes recently won funding of €70 million for a project looking at efficient Edge data centers. The members include liquid cooling specialist Asperitas, along with BetterBe, Deerns, Eurofiber, NBIP (National Internet Providers Management Orga...

December 22, 2023

Netherlands

Applied Digital signs retail electric agreement with TerraForm Power

Applied Digital has recently signed a long-term retail electric agreement with TerraForm Power for its 200MW data center in Garden City, Texas. Following this agreement, Applied Digital will use wind power produced in Texas by TerraForm Power. Wes Cummins, Applied Digital chairman and CEO sai...

December 21, 2023

Marathon Digital: Garden City TX

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