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UK gov pours $36 million into district heating system to heat 10,000 homes

The UK Government has awarded £36 million to a district heating system in West London, which will share data center waste heat with up to 10,000 new homes. The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) will be paid this fund to create the heating system to harness waste heat betwee...

November 07, 2023

United Kingdom

SiTime Corporation acquires time-related IP for $148 million

SiTime Corporation announced this week that it agreed with Aura Semiconductor to purchase its clock products and license all its clock IPs. This agreement between both companies allows SiTime to hold exclusive, perpetual, and irrevocable rights to sell existing and new products based on Aura’s...

November 07, 2023

United States

Goodman says it has capacity for 3.7GW of data centers

Real estate group Goodman has over 3GW of potential data center capacity in its pipeline, according to a Q1 2024 operational update published yesterday. The company notes that this is an opportunity worth tens of billions of dollars as it outlines its ambitions for the data center space. The ...

November 07, 2023

Germany / Deutschland

Liberty Latin to acquire Dish's spectrum assets in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands

Liberty Latin America Ltd has struck a deal with Dish Network to acquire Dish's spectrum assets in Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands, including 120,000 prepaid mobile subscribers in those markets, for $256 million. This amount will be paid in four annual installments commencing ...

November 07, 2023

Puerto Rico

Companies plan new “Fuel cell-powered” data center in Ireland

SK Ecoplant and Lumcloon Energy are planning to create a new age data center in Ireland that will depend on gas-powered fuel cells rather than the regular grid connection. The Irish development company and SK Group’s construction subsidiary signed this agreement this week during a trade missi...

November 03, 2023

Europe

Gaw & Sinar Primera to construct new DC facility in Batam, Indonesia

Real estate private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners and Indonesian developer Sinar Primera announced a partnership this week to build a data center in Batam, Indonesia. Gaw will be acting as the primary investor in this partnership with Sinar Primera as the development manager will take a min...

November 03, 2023

Batam

Dominion to construct the largest-ever authorized wind project in the US

Utility Dominion Energy has recently received permission from the US Interior Department for a 2.6 gigawatt offshore wind farm near the Virginia coast, the largest-ever wind project to be authorized in the US. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said, “The Interior Department is committed to...

November 03, 2023

United States

Biden orders companies to report large compute deployments to US gov

Biden has imposed an executive order focused on artificial intelligence, mandating all large computing clusters to be registered with the federal government. Following this order, "companies, individuals, or other organizations or entities that acquire, develop, or possess a potential large-...

November 02, 2023

United States

X claims $100m annual savings upon exiting Sacramento data center

X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, claims to have saved $100 million annually after exiting its Sacramento data center via a post on the platform. X further claimed to have saved a significant amount by repatriating some of its workloads to on-prem data centers. The company...

November 02, 2023

Sacramento

Gaza completely loses Internet access again after another outage

Internet services have now returned in Gaza after another outage, which took the connectivity in the entire country down for several hours. This disruption occurred just before 3:00 a.m. local time, with Palestinian telco Paltelco announcing that connectivity to the Gaza Strip had been cut off...

November 01, 2023

Israel

Mira Aerospace successfully completes 5G trial from the stratosphere

High altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) firm Mira Aerospace has successfully conducted a 5G connectivity trial from the stratosphere - which ranges from 4-12 miles (6-20 km) above the Earth's surface to around 31 miles (50km). Mira said in an announcement last week, “Our team is excited to anno...

October 31, 2023

Abu Dhabi

Cirion Technologies expands DC facility in São Paulo, Brazil

Cirion Technologies has expanded its SAO1 data center campus in São Paulo with a new data center building spanning 3,600 square meters, increasing its capacity by 50 percent. The two data center facilities in Cotia, São Paulo, share a 20MW power substation, are carrier-neutral, and have receiv...

October 31, 2023

Brazil / Brasil

DC fire kills three and takes millions offline

A fire that broke out on the 13th floor of the 14-story Khawaja Tower in the Mohakali district of the Bangladesh capital yesterday killed three people and severely disrupted the Internet in Bangladesh. The fire broke out at 16:58, and the Dhaka fire department arrived at the location at 17:07 ...

October 27, 2023

Bangladesh

VNPT unveils new DC campus outside Hanoi

State-owned telco Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) announced the launch of a new 23,000-square-meter data center campus outside Hanoi this week. The new Tier III facility known as VNPT IDC Hoa Lac – in the Hoa Lac High-Tech Park in the Thach That district, Ha Tay province, can...

October 27, 2023

Vietnam

Meta reduces CapEx by about $3bn amid DC construction pause

Global social media firm Meta has reduced its capital expenditure by almost $3 billion this quarter as it takes a break in data center construction. The company now expects its CapEx costs for the year to reach $27-29 billion instead of the original $27-30 billion. Meta CFO Susan Li said, “Ca...

October 27, 2023

United States

Quantum computing firm D-Wave faces delisting from NYSE again

Quantum computing firm D-Wave is facing delisting from the New York Stock Exchange over its low stock price for the second time this year. The company announced this week that it received a notice from the NYSE that it is not in compliance with listing requirements as the average closing price...

October 26, 2023

New York

DOL provides $5m funds to Virginia colleges for DC construction careers

The US Department of Labor (DOL) has awarded community colleges in Virginia $5 million in funding in an attempt to bridge the data center skills gap as a part of its Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs grant program. Seven of Virginia's community colleges will be using this grant which w...

October 26, 2023

Virginia

Telecom Group purchases wireless network operator Luminet

Specialist alternative asset manager Telecom Group confirmed on Wednesday that it has completed the purchase of London-based wireless network operator Luminet, effectively expanding its footprint across the UK. The Manchester-based Telecom already provides fiber networks to Manchester, Leeds, ...

October 25, 2023

United Kingdom

Dish Network, T-Mobile agree on spectrum purchase extension

Dish Network and T-Mobile informed a US court last week about an agreement to extend Dish’s deadline for the purchase of T-Mobile’s 800MHz spectrum. Both companies have now agreed on April 1, 2024 as the new deadline for Dish to buy a set of T-Mobile airwaves. The court filing notes, “Taken to...

October 25, 2023

United States

Atos signs IT contract with Special Olympics

Atos has signed an agreement with non-profit sports organization Special Olympics Games for the provision of IT services until 2027. Atos is now in charge of handing and maintaining the organization’s Games Management System, its software, IT security services and innovations; infrastructure s...

October 24, 2023

England

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