Global Data Center News

January 20, 2025

Sabey Data Centers names Tim Mirick as president

Sabey Data Centers

Sabey has appointed a new president for its data centers business, naming Tim Mirick as a replacement for the outgoing presodent Rob Rockwood, who stepped down from his role at the end of December. Mirick, who has served as chief revenue officer since 2012, joined Sabey in 2012. He previously ...

January 20, 2025

Telehouse launches liquid cooling lab at London data center

Telehouse

Telehouse has teamed up with four cooling technology vendors; Accelsius, EkkoSense, JetCool, and Legrand to launch a liquid cooling lab at its London data center. Liquid cooling technologies from these vendors will be on display at Telehouse South, at the company’s London Docklands campus. Mar...

January 20, 2025

Apollo Global Management is acquiring Argo Infrastructure Partners.

TierPoint

Investment giant Apollo Global Management is acquiring Argo Infrastructure Partners in a deal that will add approximately $6 billion of assets to the Apollo infrastructure platform. Argo is the majority owner of US data center firm TierPoint, which operates around 40 facilities across 18 US m...

January 20, 2025

Colorado gov't completes migration to state-owned data center

LDeX Group

The government of Colorado has completed its migration to a state-owned data center, marking the end of a two-year process exiting the leased eFORT data center and entering the state-owned Lakewood Data Center. The project has been ongoing since June 2022, with the Governor's Office of Informa...

January 20, 2025

Macquarie invests in Applied Digital's AI data center business

Applied Digital

Investment firm Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) is set to invest $5 billion into Applied, a cryptomining firm pivoting to AI and HPC data centers. Under the deal, MAM will invest up to $900 million in Applied's Ellendale campus in development in North Dakota, and has the right of first refusa...

January 18, 2025

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

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

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

Australia

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

General Catalyst chooses AWS as primary cloud provder

Amazon AWS

General Catalyst, a global investment company, is teaming up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the development of healthcare AI tools, to be the company's official preferred cloud provider, supplying the necessary technology and compute for the development of solutions for healthcare systems....

January 18, 2025

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

United States

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 17, 2025

SUR Holdings acquires debt-ridden WOM

Colombia

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

DOE details upcoming ATS-5 supercomputer

United States

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

Cottonwood Group closes $56 million in financing

United States

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

Telstra to form AI JV with Accenture

Australia

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 16, 2025

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

United States

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 15, 2025

EdgeConneX to expand into Japan

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

Uranium prices hit all-time high

Microsoft Azure

Uranium prices have hit an all-time high, with artificial intelligence data centers driving increased demand for nuclear fuel. comes as large data center operators have begun prioritizing nuclear power as a crucial energy source for their operations. According to an FT report, the price of enr...

January 15, 2025

Everseen X Google Cloud partner for Vision AI for retail stores

Google

Everseen and Google Cloud are partnering on a Vision AI offering for retail stores, combining Everseen's Vision AI platform with Google Distribute Cloud and Google's Vertex AI platform."Our goal is to provide Vision AI solutions that drive measurable results for retailers— reducing shrink, enh...

January 15, 2025

Google Cloud and Formula E announce expanded multi-year partnership

Google

Google Cloud and Formula E have announced that they will be entering a new multi-year artificial intelligence (AI) and technology partnership. As part of the agreement, Google Cloud will serve as Formula E’s Official Cloud Technology Services Partner and Official Cloud Security Partner.Jeff Do...

January 14, 2025

Indosat pairs with ZTE for rural 4G coverage in Indonesia

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

Ligado sues Inmarsat following bankruptcy ruling

United States

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 ...

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Data Centre Developer Sues New Jersey Town for $300m

Sabey Data Centers names Tim Mirick as president

Telehouse launches liquid cooling lab at London data center

Apollo Global Management is acquiring Argo Infrastructure Partners.

Colorado gov't completes migration to state-owned data center

Macquarie invests in Applied Digital's AI data center business

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

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

General Catalyst chooses AWS as primary cloud provder