Data Center News

Atalait to expand its data center in Metepec, Mexico

México

Mexican IT firm Atalait has announced plans to invest $100 million expanding the site, located in Mexico State. The initiative aims to double the capacity of the data center and significantly expand its offerings. Leonardo Rodríguez, vice chairman of Aktiva Capital and vice president of Atalai...

Sabey completes first data center consultation in Texas

Texas

Sabey Data Centers has announced the completion of the first 430,000-square-foot (39,950 sqm) building at its new campus in the Round Rock area of Austin. The SDC Austin campus will offer up to 84MW of critical power capacity across two buildings at full build-out. Building A is designed to su...

Hemlock Semiconductor secures direct funding under CHIPS Act

United States

Chip firm Hemlock Semiconductor (HSC) has secured up to $325 million in proposed direct funding from the Department of Commerce under the CHIPS and Science Act. The funding is intended to shore up the production of semiconductor-grade polysilicon, a a highly pure form of silicon that is used i...

EuroHPC JU selects LuxProvide to host MeluXina-Q quantum computer

Luxembourg

The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has announced that LuxProvide in Luxembourg will host the initiative’s MeluXina-Q quantum computer. The system will be integrated with EuroHPC JU’s MeluXina supercomputer and will be made available to European members of th...

Veon investor calls for shake-up, criticizes current strategy

Shah Capital, a long-term investor with a seven percent stake in telecoms company Veon, has criticized the company's current strategy, claiming that its share price is 80 percent lower than it should have been over the last decade. In an open letter to Veon's board of directors, Himanshu H Sha...

Macquarie Data Centres secures debt refinancing

Macquarie Data Centres

The owner of Australia’s Macquarie Data Centres has secured additional financing to fund further development as Macquarie Technology Group Limited announced the successful signing of a debt refinancing to support its data center expansion. Following the recently signed  facility agreement, the...

V.tal launches Tecto data center subsidiary

Brazil / Brasil

Brazilian fiber firm V.tal has launched a new data center subsidiary. At the same time, the company has broken ground on a new facility in Fortaleza and acquired land in São Paulo for its first data center in the city.“The Tecto Data Centers brand was officially launched yesterday during an ev...

Edged & Merlin launch new campus in Lisbon, Portugal

Portugal

Real estate firm Merlin Properties and data center company Edged Energy this week announced the start of construction on the 180MW campus located in the Parque das Nações business district of Vila Franca de Xira. The campus will be constructed in phases with the first of five facilities expect...

Keppel signs conditional offtake agreement with Woodside

Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel Data Centers has signed a conditional offtake term sheet to supply and purchase liquid hydrogen from Woodside. The company plans to integrate the potential liquid hydrogen supply into a broader, long-term portfolio of low-carbon power solutions that it is developing to meet the energy n...

CloudCoCo to sell IT services business to Aspire for £9.2m

United Kingdom

Managed services provider CloudCoCo has announced plans to sell its IT services business to Aspire in a £9.2 million ($11.9m) deal that will help the company pay off its debts. The company, which is based in Leeds, UK, added it is in advanced discussions to sell Connect, its data center busine...

HF Sinclair unveils immersion cooling fluid

Oil company HF Sinclair has launched an immersion cooling fluid for high-density workloads which it announced this month as a line of single-phase immersion cooling fluids under a new brand, Innovate. Developed by HF Sinclair’s Lubricants & Specialties business, Innovate is a series of die...

Photonics startup Oriole Networks raises funds to scale technology

United Kingdom

UK photonic networking startup Oriole Networks has raised $22 million to scale up its technology. The startup has raised the cash in a funding round led by VC group Plural, with existing investors UCL Technology Fund, XTX Ventures, Clean Growth Fund, and Dorilton Ventures all contributing.Orio...

Area Group starts construction of Malaysian data center campus

Malaysia

Real estate private equity firm Area Group has begun constructing its 156-acre data center campus in Kedah, northern Malaysia. The firm  has now officially purchased the land in a sale and purchase agreement for an undisclosed amount, and begun construction on the first 30-acre parcel of land....

Aizo Group and Netrunner plan new data center in Malaysia

Malaysia

Aizo Group has announced plans to build a data center in Sarawak, Malaysia, with Netrunner Sdn Bhd, a special purpose vehicle focused on data center investment in Sarawak. The company will lead the technical development and design of the data center park, which is expected to meet Tier IV stan...

TMF Group selects Orange for hybrid cloud solution

Microsoft Azure

Professional services firm TMF Group  which provides administrative services such as tax, HR, and payroll services across 125 offices in 86 jurisdictions, has selected Orange Business to help it deploy a centralized managed hybrid cloud solution. The company is now using Microsoft's Azure Stac...

AWS and e& sign $1bn cloud agreement

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and UAE-based telco e& have signed a $1 billion cloud agreement in the Middle East, combining AWS' cloud infrastructure and solutions with e& networking capabilities with an aim to offer cloud services to customers in the public sector and heavily regulated in...

Perennial Power and CEP Solar partner on renewable energy development in Virginia

Virginia

Energy firm Perennial Power has partnered with CEP Solar in a collaboration that will prioritize solar and battery storage projects, with construction on the 1.5GW portfolio planned for late 2025.Perennial Power, part of the Sumitomo Group's renewable energy efforts, currently operates five pr...

CBRE acquires NRG Energy's renewable advisory division

CBRE Group has acquired NRG Energy's renewable advisory division. Led by Miro Sutton, the NRG advisory group specializes in facilitating renewable energy deals, brokering over 5GW of clean power, focusing on community solar, large-scale energy contracts, such as Virtual Power Purchase Agreemen...

Neste to supply Verne's Finnish data centers with HVO

Finland

Finnish oil refining firm Neste Oyj has signed an agreement with European data center firm Verne to supply renewable diesel to power the company's backup generators in Finland. The oil firm will deploy the renewable diesel at all of Verne’s Finnish data centers. Verne currently has three opera...

BPA proposes 13 new transmission projects to expand Pacific Northwest grid infrastructure

The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) has proposed 13 new transmission projects to expand the Pacific Northwest's grid infrastructure. Combined, the projects are estimated to cost approximately $3 billion. Each project must undergo preliminary engineering and environmental review to inform...