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Polish data center operator Beyond.pl has announced plans to expand its Poznan campus to offer 150MW of IT capacity, almost doubling its current capacity with stands at 86MW. The existing facility on the campus, dubbed Data Center 2, has a target capacity of 42MW. The company is now set to bui...

EE has launched its 5G Standalone (5G SA) network in the UK, becoming the third carrier in the country to launch 5G SA, following Vodafone and Virgin Media O2.However, EE is the first to charge a premium for its 5G SA service.“Today, EE is launching UK firsts in network capabilities designed t...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk confirmed this week that its satellite broadband subsidiary Starlink will provide mobile phone Internet in the US exclusively to T-Mobile for just one year. After that,the service will be opened up to other mobile carriers, he added in a post on X (formerly Twitter) ea...

Seagate Technology has expanded its Lyve Cloud Object Storage offering and added new regions in Europe and Japan. Melyssa Banda, VP of enterprise systems and solutions at Seagate said that the new features and expanded regional coverage will help customers build out their regional presence and...

Liberty Latin America (LLA) has acquired spectrum assets from EchoStar in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.The acquisition also includes close to 85,000 pre-paid mobile subscribers, confirmed LLA in a statement.LLA will pay $255 million for the assets, to be paid across four installments,...

Australian regulator ACCC has approved the proposed regional network-sharing agreement struck by Optus and TPG Telecom, enabling the telcos to create a regional Multi-Operator Core Network (MOCN), which will last for 11 years.  ACCC said it would not oppose the plans in a statement yesterday. ...

Philippines officials  are making plans to convert Bataan Nuclear Power Plant [BNPP], the country's only nuclear power station into a data centre. Construction began on the plant in 1976 and was completed in the mid-1980s despite delays and ballooning costs. However, it was never fuelled or ac...

 PowerHouse Data Centers's alongside real estate investment management firm Town Lane this week announced the completed purchase of 122 acres in Charlotte via a joint venture partnership between both companies. The site is intended for a five-building, 2.5 million square feet (232,255 sqm) dat...

 Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) and Harrison Street announced the acquisition of the Global Access Point Union Station data center located in Northern Indiana. This facility offers access to more than 20 telecommunication network service providers, totaling  75,000 sq ft (6,9...

 European data center firm Penta Infra has announced the acquisition of a site that will be developed into a 20,000 sqm (215,280 sq ft) data center, delivering 20MW of IT load. This will be the company's second facility in the Danish capital. Penta acquired its Glostrup, Copenhagen, data cente...

 Blackstone has acquired APAC data center firm AirTrunk from Macquarie Asset Management and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board. for US$16.1 billion, making it the largest-ever deal in the space. This deal was secured with funds from Blackstone along with the Canada Pension Plan Investm...

Diamond-based quantum technology company Quantum Brilliance has partnered with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to integrate room-temperature quantum computers with classical supercomputers. They aim to build a platform that will support the on-premises integration of Quantum Brilliance’s ...

 Duos Technology, a company specializing in machine vision and AI to analyze fast-moving objects including trains, this week announced the launch of its first Edge data center at the Region 16 Education Service Center in Amarillo.  Doug Recker, president of Duos Edge AI said Amarillo is a loca...

 Singaporean telco Singtel has formed a strategic partnership with AI cloud provider Nscale to accelerate GPU capacity across Europe and Southeast Asia. This partnership dubbed GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), will see Nscale receive access to Singtel’s Nvidia H100 GPU capacity in Southeast Asia thr...

 Microsoft has signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with EDP Renewables (EDPR) to purchase 100 percent of the renewable energy exported to the grid from the energy firm's 200MWp SolarNova 8 project.  EDPR said phase eight of the SolarNova program is both the largest solar project in Singa...

 APAC data center firm Empyrion Digital  this week announced it has signed a binding agreement with “one of Japan’s largest diversified financial services groups” to develop a 25MW AI-ready data center in Tokyo.  Mark Fong, CEO of Empyrion Digital described the news as a "significant milestone...

 UK colo firm Stellium Datacenters this week announced a collaboration with immersion cooling firm Submer and petrochemical/immersion cooling fluid supplier ExxonMobil as it plans to develop Submer’s immersion cooling technology at its data center campus in Newcastle. Under the agreement, Subm...

 The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has selected NTT Australia for the 'design and implementation' of its new IT infrastructure. This contract worth AU$12.7 million is part of RBA's CoreMod program, an effort that was revealed at the end of 2023.  While this "design and implementation phase" ...

 Thai telco True Corporation has confirmed it's taking legal action against thieves stealing mobile tower equipment from its sites. The company has appointed a legal firm to collaborate with the police on all cases, including thefts of lithium batteries, cables, and base station equipment acro...

Mining company Gold Fields revealed at the recent AWS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa that it has migrated its SAP and treasury systems to Amazon Web Services. Gold Fields has been able to adopt advanced analytics, machine learning (ML), and generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabil...