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 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...

Data center firms Chirisa and PowerHouse are partnering with asset manager Blue Owl for a multi-billion-dollar joint venture to build data centers for AI cloud firm CoreWeave.  The agreement is intended as the first stage of a partnership with capacity to deploy up to $5 billion of capital for...

American Towner-owned company CoreSite is planning to “rehabilitate and activate” an abandoned industrial site in Denver as part of a proposed tax agreement. The data center campus will span 600,000 square feet and create up to 75 new trades and technology-oriented jobs, according to a present...

Zettabyte, which describes itself as “Asia's leading AI data center software and systems technology provider" has announced a strategic partnership with Wistron Corporation, a technology service provider, to build Taiwan's first hyperscale AI data center.  Kenneth Chung-Hou Tai, chairman of Ze...

ESR, an APAC real estate firm this week announced that it has successfully completed the core and shell of its Cosmosquare OS1 data center project in Nanko Kita. The facility will be ready for service in May 2025 and once fitted out, it will provide 25MW of capacity.  At full build-out, the $2...

Tract, a developer of master-planned data center parks, this week announced its acquisition of a 2,069-acre land parcel in the Buckeye area of Maricopa County. This park could potentially see up to 20 million square feet of data center space developed across as many as 40 individual data cente...

NTT this week revealed that it has entered into a sale and purchase agreement with Tropicana Firstwide Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tropicana Corporation Berhad for the purchase of freehold land in Gelang Patah, Johor Bahru.  The 68.457-acre plot was acquired for a cash consideration ...

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has annunced plans to pilot an artificial intelligence-based autonomous control system for cooling.   Daniel Pointon, group CTO at STT GDC, said: “Combining our expertise in delivering AI-ready data centers across major economic hubs with Phaidra’s in...

T5 Data Centers this week announced plans to expand its Atlanta footprint with the development of a new data center campus in South Fulton County known as ATL IV. The company has already acquired land outside Atlanta, Georgia, a 91-acre site in Palmetto already zoned for data center use and re...

Fiber firm euNetworks has closed on a €2.1 billion equity recapitalization led by a Stonepeak-managed vehicle anchored by Mercer and Aware Super. This funding received direct investments from the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO) and APG Asset Management. In a statement, euNe...

 The US Department of Energy's advisory board has proposed ways to combat the growing challenge of AI data center power use and its impact on the grid. The  board suggested building an AI data center for national labs, academia, and industry "to collaborate in development and assessment of alg...

Brazil’s Grupo ClickIP this week launched a new facility in Manaus is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas and launched a new data center unit.  The company said it invested more than R$20 million ($3.59m) in the project, reportedly the first of its kind in the area....

GPU cloud firm CoreWeave and Swedish colocation provider EcoDataCenter this week announced a partnership to host “one of Europe’s first large-scale Nvidia Blackwell clusters” in Sweden.  CoreWeave aims to deploy thousands of Blackwell GPUs to help meet demand for large-scale AI infrastructure ...

Nvidia posted revenues of $30 billion in its latest earnings report, with its data center division continued to show significant growth, bringing in $26.3bn - an increase of 154 percent from the same period last year. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia said;  “Hopper demand remains strong...

 Scala Data Centers has announced the largest agreement for the supply of renewable energy in Latin America with Serena which is set to come into effect in January 2025. "The agreement with Scala Data Centers reinforces how Serena is prepared to offer energy and infrastructure for high-perform...

 A huge power outage in Venezuela has brought a significant portion of the country offline and Minister of Communications and Information, Freddy Ñañez, claimed that the outage was due to intentional sabotage. A similar, smaller outage was blamed on saboteurs three days ago.  "Live network dat...

Aphorio Carter Critical Infrastructure Fund, LLC has announced that it has acquired the Centennial Data Center in Centennial, Arapahoe County, for approximately $7.3 million.The company said the property is a colocation data center fully leased to two "high-profile, Fortune 500 companies." One...

Microsoft this week announced the signing of a green attribute sale contract of 437.6MW with  Indian renewable energy firm ReNew in a deal said to be amongst India's largest corporate renewable agreements.  As part of the agreement, ReNew will direct approximately $15 million of revenue from t...

 Qualcomm has acquired 4G IoT technology assets from France-based Sequans specializes in supplying 4G and 5G semiconductor products for IoT. This acquisition includes certain employees, assets, and licenses.   Nakul Duggal, group general manager of automotive, industrial and embedded IoT, and ...

 Singaporean telco Singtel and Japanese giant Hitachi have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on “next-generation data centers and GPU cloud” in Japan and potentially the wider Asia Pacific region under the lead of Singtel's Digital InfraCo unit.  Bill Chang, CEO of Sing...