Data Center News

D-Wave to deploy on-premise quantum computer in Alabama

Quantum computing firm D-Wave will be placing an Advantage system on-premise at a new site operated by defense company Davidson Technologies. The QPU will be located at Davidson’s new global headquarters in Huntsville and placed in a secure facility developed to run sensitive applications.“Dav...

Reliance Jio experiences nationwide outage across India

Reliance Jio is experiencing a nationwide outage across India as customers are experiencing issues with mobile Internet services, Jio Fiber, and other Jio services."Metrics show a disruption to leading India Internet provider Reliance Jio (AS55836) affecting multiple regions, corroborating use...

Petronas unveil data center cooling fluid

Malaysia

Oil and gas company Petronas Lubricants International announced this week that it will be launching its Petronas Iona Tera, a liquid coolant specifically designed for data centers, and has partnered with Iceotope.Petronas Lubricants International’s MD and group CEO, Hezlinn Idris said: "Petron...

HPE and Danfoss team up on modular data center heat reuse package

United States

HPE has partnered with engineering company Danfoss on a new package to help data center operators recover waste heat in a deal which will see HPE’s scalable modular data center (MDC) products combined with Danfoss heat reuse solutions.“Our strategic partnership with HPE is a great example of h...

UK Home Office to migrate systems out of police data center

United Kingdom

The UK's Home Office is planning to migrate all the systems and services out of a core Police data center located in Hendon, northwest London. The data center is government-owned, and has been home to the Police National Computer - a database of more than 130 million items - for the past 50 ye...

StackPath to close down business and liquidate assets

United States

Edge computing firm StackPath is closing the business and liquidating its assets as confirmed by many of its employees on LinkedIn. StackPath services set to be shuttered include Edge compute, DNS, object storage, network transit, data center colocation, and server monitoring. “After careful c...

Africa Data Centres secures $109 million in financing

Africa Data Centres

Cassava Technologies group ADC has secured a bespoke financing solution worth ZAR2 billion ($109m) arranged by the South African banking group RMB. The funding will allow the company to expand its data center capacity and meet the growing demand for cloud computing in South Africa – expanding ...

Microsoft to invest heavily in new data centers in Aragon, Spain

Microsoft is planning to invest €6.69 billion ($7.16bn) in developing new data centers in the northeastern region of Aragon, Spain in a deal expected to span over the next 10 years. The regional government of Aragon has said that Microsoft filed for a construction permit to build data centers ...

Microsoft confirms Project Natick underwater data center is no longer active

Microsoft has confirmed that its Project Natick which had been quiet for a number of years but has continued to be referenced by media and other companies as an ongoing initiative is no longer active."I'm not building subsea data centers anywhere in the world," Noelle Walsh, the head of the co...

Vantage closes $9.2bn equity raise

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers revealed this week that it had completed a $9.2 billion equity investment led by investment vehicles managed by DigitalBridge and Silver Lake.“It’s exciting to experience such strong investor demand to fuel our unprecedented growth across North America and EMEA,” said Sure...

Provident Realty Advisors withdraws proposal for Indiana data center

Indiana

Provident Realty Advisors notified Chesterton officials on June 10 about its intention to withdraw its proposal for a $1.3 billion data center in Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana.The led to from residents regarding the development, with concerns surrounding negative impacts of air, water, en...

Google signs new power supply deal with Nevada Energy

Google

Google has signed a new type of power supply deal with Nevada utility company NV Energy. Dubbed a “clean transition tariff," it will see NV Energy procure 115MW of renewable energy from a geothermal power plant run by Fervo Energy.In a joint blog post on the deal, Amanda Peterson Corio, Google...

2Africa cable now live between South Africa and Kenya

South Africa

Airtel Africa announced on LinkedIn that a large portion of the 2Africa cable, connecting Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, is now operational. It currently is the world’s largest subsea cable and will connect 33 countries with 46 landing points across Europe, Africa, and Asia. The cable is e...

AWS to launch Taipei cloud region in 2025

Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is planning to launch a cloud region in Taipei, Taiwan and also invest "billions of dollars" in the country over the next 15 years.“Today, we’re announcing that a new AWS Region will be coming to Taiwan by early 2025,” the company said in an announcement this week. “T...

Telehouse launches from three data centers in Toronto, Canada

Telehouse

KDDI-owned Telehouse Canada this week officially launched its first three data centers in downtown Toronto and is now offering services from three carrier-neutral data centers, located at 151 Front Street West, 250 Front Street West, and 905 King Street West."We are the first global leader wit...

Du to unveil cloud and sovereign AI services for UAE

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Du, an Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC)-owned company is set to deploy Oracle Alloy to offer cloud and sovereign AI services to the government and public sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The company will focus its offering on Dubai and the Northern Emirates and wi...

DPA Samrand data center campus outside Johannesburg, South Africa

South Africa

Digital Parks Africa (DPA) has revealed plans to extend its Samrand data center campus outside Johannesburg, South Africa by  4.5MW, adding 810 sqm and 570 racks as it currently offers more than 1,620 sqm of dedicated whitespace with the potential to expand to more than 9,000 sqm and 24MW.“The...

Microsoft signs 420MW worth of PPAs

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has signed a number of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to procure renewable energy in Sweden and Denmark from European Energy. It will procure the output of six wind and solar sites in Spain from Repsol.“We are excited that Microsoft has committed itself to driving forward the green...

ZutaCore partners with Taiwanese IT infrastructure provider Wiwynn

United States

Taiwanese IT infrastructure provider Wiwynn has invested in liquid cooling firm ZutaCore as part of the agreement to help accelerate the deployment of its HyperCool liquid cooling technology.“With dozens of HyperCool deployments in production, ZutaCore has emerged as the clear leader of direct...

Fintech executives express concerns about increasing reliance on AI

Amsterdam

Fintech executives are concerned about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) increasing banks' reliance on the big US tech firms. At a gathering in Amsterdam last week, some executives suggested that the sector will increasingly have to turn to the likes of Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web...