Data Center News

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

New York

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...

Santee Cooper proposes nuclear power station acquisition

South Carolina

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...

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

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...

AWS to invest in cloud infrastructure in Maharashta, India

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has committed to invest $8.3 billion in developing cloud infrastructure for its AWS Asia-Pacific (Mumbai) Region in Maharashtra, India. The company signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on January 22, 2025, during the World Economic Forum 2025 to formalize the pl...

Susquehanna Nuclear files petition to review FERC order

Amazon AWS

Susquehanna Nuclear LLC, the owner and operator of the 2.5GW Susquehanna steam electric station, has filed a petition in the Fifth Circuit court seeking a review of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) order rejecting an expanded interconnection service agreement (ISA) at the powe...

Novacap closes first digital infrastructure fund

New York

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...

Harrison Street raises $600m for data center fund

North America

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...

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

United Kingdom

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...

Clayco launches dedicated data center division

Equinix

US construction contractor Clayco last week announced the launch of Clayco Compute, an integrated data center delivery business unit focused on specialized construction of advanced technology centers to cater to data center and quantum computing construction projects. The unit will encompass l...

EU tech players team up for sovereign Edge cloud in Europe

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...

Tonaquint rebrands to ValorC3 Data Centers

ValorC3 Data Centers

US data center firm Tonaquint announced this week that it has rebranded to ValorC3 Data Centers, saying the move aligns with its focus to expand colocation, cloud, and connectivity services across the US.“Technology is advancing at lightning speed – and so are we,” said Jim Buie, CEO of ValorC...

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

Canada

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...

Northpoint proposes 15-building data center campus in Pennsylvania

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...

Adarga teams up with Oracle Cloud

Oracle

UK AI defense company Adarga is teaming up with Oracle Cloud  to offer Adarga's defense and security software Vantage via Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle's distributed cloud. Vantage will initially be deployed in the Oracle Cloud for UK Government and Defence, Oracle's cloud region spec...

CloudHQ forms a JV with ESR Group

Japan

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...

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

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...

ABC WFAA used Baxtel's research for the Texas market

ABC WFAA used Baxtel's research on the Texas data center market in an article about OpenAI's Stargate data center. Read more on the WFAA ABC news site

Servier expands partnership with Google AI

Google

International pharmaceutical group Servier has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate the research and development (R&D) of pharmaceuticals.This expanded five-year agreement will see Servier using Google Cloud's AI offerings for R&D. Google Cloud will help Servier to ...

Rowan secures $975 million for Maryland data center campus

Rowan Digital Infrastructure

Data center developer Rowan Digital Infrastructure has closed $975 million of construction financing to build out its upcoming campus in Maryland. The funds will be used to build the first phase of a hyperscale data center campus in Maryland at the TPG-owned site in Frederick County. Phase one...

University of Stuttgart’s Hunter supercomputer now online

Germany / Deutschland

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...