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STMicroelectronics Signs PPA with TotalEnergies in France

European semiconductor firm STMicroelectronics has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Total Energies. The PPA will power STMicroelectronics sites in France and will be supplied from two recently constructed wind and solar farms with a combined capacity of 75MW."We are delight...

January 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

France

Could DeepSeek's Efficiency Advances Boost Nvidia's Long-Term Prospects?

DeepSeek's announcement of a new large language model achieving state-of-the-art performance at significantly reduced computational costs sent shockwaves through the AI infrastructure market, triggering a $1.2 trillion market decline and a 15% drop in Nvidia's stock value. The market's reactio...

January 29, 2025

Marketing HQ

United States

Arm Expands Cambridge Presence

British chip company Arm is expanding its presence in Cambridge and has signed a lease to take over new office and laboratory space at the developer’s Peterhouse Technology Park. Arm already occupies all six buildings at Peterhouse Technology Park, totaling 330,000 sq ft (30,658 sqm).The Optic...

January 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 Lander Delivered to Cape Canaveral

The IM-2 mission lunar lander has been delivered to Cape Canaveral, Florida, currently set to launch on February 26, prepared to carry what could be the first data center on the Moon. Lonestar plans to use the system to see how storage behaves on the Moon's surface, with an eventual aim to use...

January 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Florida

Lambda Installs GB200 NVL72 Rack in California

GPU cloud provider Lambda has deployed an Nvidia GB200 NVL72 rack system at EdgeCloudLink's (ECL) data center in Mountain View, California. The rack was installed on January 22, and the installation process took around "one hour" due to the flexibility of the data center.In a LinkedIn post, EC...

January 29, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

California

Former Contractor Arrested for Shutting Down British Museum's IT systems

A former tech contractor at the British Museum reportedly shut down some of its IT systems, causing the museum to close some galleries and exhibitions. He allegedly gained access to an unauthorized area of the British Museum last week and turned off some of its IT systems after being dismissed...

January 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Georgia PSC Approves New Billing Rules for Data Centers

The Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) has voted to approve a new rule that allows new large-load Georgia Power customers using more than 100MW of electricity to be billed based on the risks associated with their projects.The rule, which passed unanimously, requires data centers to pay th...

January 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Georgia

BT urges CNI to shift away from copper networks

UK telco BT issued a rallying cry last week urging the UK's Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) providers to move away from the outdated analog copper landline network by the end of this year. The telco warned that the country's switch from its historic Public Switched Telephone Network (PS...

January 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

NextEra Partners with GE Vernova on Gas for Data Centers

US energy generator NextEra Energy has partnered with energy equipment manufacturer GE Vernova to develop gas-fired generation to meet the energy demands of data centers and will be taking further steps to restart the idled Duane Arnold Energy Center, a nuclear power plant in Iowa.NextEra CEO ...

January 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Santee Cooper proposes nuclear power station acquisition

Santee Cooper, South Carolina’s state-owned electric and water utility, has launched a Request for Proposals (RFP) to acquire and complete or propose alternatives for two partially constructed generating units at the Virgil C Summer Nuclear Power Station in Fairfield County, South Carolina.The...

January 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

South Carolina

Chiplet startup Baya Systems raises $36m in Series B funding round

Chiplet technology startup Baya Systems has raised more than $36 million in a Series B funding round led by Maverick Silicon and backed by a strategic investment from Synopsys. It also saw participation from current investors, including Matrix Partners and Intel Capital.Growing AI workloads ar...

January 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New York

Sailfish plans multi-gigawatt data center park outside DFW, Texas

Ryan Hughes, founder of real estate firm Sailfish, this week announced Comanche Circle, a 2,600-acre master-planned data center community in Hood County’s Tolar, Texas. Hughes said Sailfish Digital Ventures (SDV) will develop nine data center campuses with a cumulative 5GW of power delivered v...

January 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Harrison Street raises $600m for data center fund

Investment firm Harrison Street this week announced that it had closed approximately $600 million in capital commitments across its HS Digital Fund and associated vehicles. The fundraise represents Harrison Street’s first dedicated pool of investment capital for its digital assets platform.“Fo...

January 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

North America

Novacap closes first digital infrastructure fund

North American investment firm Novacap this week announced the final closing of Novacap Digital Infrastructure Fund I, the firm's first fund dedicated entirely to investing in digital infrastructure. The firm has also named its recently announced data center joint venture with H5, HyScale Data...

January 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New York

320MW data center campus planned for Hertfordshire, UK now approved

Plans for a 320MW UK data center, which developers claim will be the largest of its kind in Europe, has been given the go-ahead. The DC01UK campus in Hertfordshire will be built on 85 acres of land adjacent to the M25 motorway, to the east of the South Mimms Services.The scheme was given the o...

January 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Northpoint proposes 15-building data center campus in Pennsylvania

Northpoint Development is set to present plans for Project Hazelnut to Luzerne County Council’s infrastructure committee this week. According to council documents, Northpoint is planning a 1,283-acre, 15-building campus in Hazle Township’s 3,000-acre Humboldt North Industrial Park.The first me...

January 23, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Pennsylvania

EU tech players team up for sovereign Edge cloud in Europe

Eight European technology organizations have teamed up to launch a sovereign Edge cloud platform in Europe dubbed Virt8ra. The testbed platform is a collaboration between Arsys, BIT, the Gdańsk University of Technology, Infobip, Ionos, Kontron, Mondragon Corporation, and Oktawave. It is coordi...

January 23, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

Canadian government to support quantum technology projects with CA$74m

The Canadian government has announced more than CA$74 million (US$52 million) in funding for quantum technology projects which will be used to support 107 initiatives spanning quantum computing, communications, encryption, materials, and sensing.The government said the funding package aligns w...

January 23, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Canada

CloudHQ forms a JV with ESR Group

Data center provider CloudHQ has formed a joint venture with real asset manager ESR Group for the Cosmosqure data center project in Osaka, Japan. Located in Nanko Kita, 10km (6.2 miles) from Osaka’s central business district, the campus will see an investment of $2 billion to deliver a planned...

January 22, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Japan

GlobalFoundries to build an Advanced Packaging and Photonics Center in New York

GlobalFoundries (GF) has announced plans to build an Advanced Packaging and Photonics Center in the state of New York, USA, described as the center as “the first of its kind.” The company said the new facility would allow semiconductors to be “securely manufactured, processed, packaged, and te...

January 22, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New York

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