World Data Center News

University of Stuttgart’s Hunter supercomputer now online

The University of Stuttgart’s Hunter supercomputer has begun operations in Germany. This is one of two HPE supercomputers ordered by the university to take its High-Performance Computing Center (HLRS) up to exascale level. The second system, named Herder, is due to be installed in 2027. The €1...

January 21, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Germany / Deutschland

Edged and Merlin plan two gigawatt-scale data center campuses in Spain

Data center firm Edged Energy and real estate firm Merlin Properties this week announced a public-private project with the regional government of Extremadura to develop facilities located in Navalmoral de la Mata in Cáceres Province and Valdecaballeros in Badajoz Province, each site offering u...

January 18, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

Australian gov't to provide additional $3bn to complete fiber build-out

The Australian government has pledged this week to provide an additional AU $3 billion (US$1.86bn) to support NBN Co's fiber network upgrades. NBN Co noted that the investment is in addition to more than AU$800 million (US$494m) of its own investment.NBN, which is a state-owned corporation of ...

January 18, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Australia

Oklo and RPower to deploy nuclear and natural gas hybrid power model for data centers

Small modular reactor and nuclear recycling firm Oklo has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with RPower, a provider of onsite prime and backup power solutions, to deploy a phased power model that combines natural gas and nuclear power for the data center sector. The model will combine...

January 18, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Cottonwood Group closes $56 million in financing

Cottonwood Group closed $56 million in financing for three data center developments in Arizona, Ohio, and Virginia. Based in California, Cottonwood is a private equity real estate investment firm headed up by CEO Alexander Shing.“The timing for these investments was ideal, given the sector’s e...

January 17, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

DOE details upcoming ATS-5 supercomputer

The Department of Energy (DOE) has released details about an incoming supercomputer dubbed ATS-5. This system will replace the 30 petaflops ATS-3 Crossroads machine which the DOE said is “nearing the end of its useful lifetime.” While no information about the compute power of the ATS-5 has bee...

January 17, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Telstra to form AI JV with Accenture

Australian carrier Telstra has this week detailed plans to form a joint venture (JV) with Accenture to speed up the company's data and AI roadmap. Telstra noted that the JV will enable its teams to operate more efficiently and effectively. The JV, which is set to be 60 percent owned by Accentu...

January 17, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Australia

SUR Holdings acquires debt-ridden WOM

SUR Holdings has acquired Colombian telco WOM, providing a lifeline for Colombia's fourth-largest mobile network operator, which filed for bankruptcy in April of last year, weeks after its Chilean counterpart. The country's ICT minister Mauricio Lizcano said the investment from SUR Holdings, w...

January 17, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Colombia

PowerSecure partners with Edged Energy to supply backup generation for US data centers

PowerSecure, the distributed energy solution subsidiary of US utility Southern Company, has partnered with Edged Energy to supply critical electrical and mechanical systems for Edged data center operations in the US, coinciding with the opening of the Edged Atlanta Campus in Atlanta, Georgia, ...

January 16, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

EdgeConneX to expand into Japan

Data center firm EdgeConneX this week announced plans to develop a facility in the greater Osaka-Kyoto area alongside Kagoya Asset Management. The EdgeConneX greater Osaka-Kyoto data center development is targeted to be ready-for-service in 2027 with a total capacity of more than 140MW when f...

January 15, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Japan

Ligado sues Inmarsat following bankruptcy ruling

Satellite operator Ligado Networks has sued its contract partner Inmarsat shortly after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In its lawsuit, Ligado claims Inmarsat failed to make the required upgrades to its satellite network while still demanding payments from Ligado, at a time when Ligado has ...

January 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Indosat pairs with ZTE for rural 4G coverage in Indonesia

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) has paired with Chinese vendor ZTE to bolster 4G coverage across remote areas of rural Indonesia. In an announcement last week, the carrier said that it has worked with ZTE to deploy more than 550 ultra-capacity backbone microwave links across Indonesia, which i...

January 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Indonesia

Sierra Club appeals against data center in Reno, Nevada

The Sierra Club, an environmental preservation organization with chapters in all 50 states has filed an appeal against the approval of the Webb Data Center by the Reno Planning Commission on December 18. The commission voted 4-2 for recommending proposals from Ellis Partners for an 82,000-squa...

January 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Nevada

US government signs executive order for gigawatt-scale data center campus development on federal lands

Outgoing US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to open up federal lands for data center development. This will make government-owned land available to developers for lease and require agencies to make efforts to improve transmission infrastructure to those developments.“Today, P...

January 14, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

PowerHouse and Provident partner for data center campus in Texas

Data center firm PowerHouse has partnered with Provident Data Centers for the development of a 768-acre data center campus in Texas. Provident Data Centers is the data center arm of the Dallas-based real estate development firm Provident.“The demands on digital infrastructure are accelerating ...

January 13, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Constellation Energy to acquire Calpine Corporation

US energy giant Constellation Energy has agreed to acquire Calpine Corporation, an independent power producer, for $26.6 billion, including debt considerations in a transaction that includes 50 million shares of Constellation stock, $4.5 billion in cash, and the assumption of about $12.7 billi...

January 13, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Substrate AI plans 10MW data center outside Toledo

Spanish AI firm Substrate AI this week announced it aims to develop a 10MW facility on a 25,000 sqm (269,095 sq ft) site at the Torrehierro industrial estate in Talavera de la Reina that will host Nvidia GPU hardware, including NVL72 racks. The company will invest €100 million ($102.3m) in the...

January 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

Deep Fission to supply Endeavour data centers with 2GW of nuclear energy

Deep Fission, a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) developer, has partnered with Endeavour Energy, a US sustainable infrastructure developer, to develop and deploy its technology at scale. They have committed to co-developing 2GW of nuclear energy to supply Endeavour's global portfolio of dat...

January 09, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Swisscom seals Vodafone Italy acquisition

Swisscom has finalized its €8 billion ($8.33bn) acquisition of Vodafone Italy, noting that the acquisition is "a key step for Swisscom to achieve its strategic objective of profitable growth in Italy." Swisscom confirmed that the existing commercial brands Fastweb, Vodafone, and Ho Mobile will...

January 09, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Italy

InterServer selects 365 Data Centers for New Jersey expansion

Web hosting and managed service provider InterServer has selected 365 Data Centers as its colocation provider as it looks into expanding its offering in the New Jersey market. 365 has 20 data centers across the US, including multiple New Jersey locations such as Carlstadt and Bridgewater, enab...

January 09, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

New Jersey

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