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Infrastructure investment firm Stonepeak  this week announced that it has formed a joint venture with American Tower subsidiary CoreSite to develop, construct, and operate an 18MW data center in Denver.   Stonepeak is expected to hold 85 percent of the equity of the CoreSite DevCo JV, with Cor...

Recently formed colocation firm Alerify, Inc. announced this week that it will be acquiring the assets of the hosting and Internet services business of Elevated MSP which was built in 1981 and is owned by local real estate firm the Vartan Group. The two-story building totals 68,830 square feet...

Liquid cooling firm Iceotope has announced that CEO David Craig will be retiring, effective September 30 after spending nine years at the helm of Iceotope, previously serving as COO of McLaren Software and the founder of wind turbine developer Green Power partnership.  Nathan Blom, chief comme...

Humana Inc., a healthcare insurance company and Google Cloud have entered into an agreement which  will see Humana modernizing its cloud infrastructure with Google Cloud, and using the Google's artificial intelligence technologies.  Jim Rechtin, Humana CEO said: “Embracing technology solutions...

Dutch transmission system operator TenneT is looking to invest up to €4.6bn in thousands of kilometers of new transmission infrastructure across the Netherlands and Germany as it looks to update the grid.  TenneT CEO Manon van Beek said: “To achieve the 2030, 2045, and 2050 climate milestones ...

Transworld Associates (TWA) has announced it will land the 2Africa cable in Karachi, Pakistan, the world’s largest subsea cable network, and will connect 33 countries with 46 landing points in Europe and Asia. Eight partners including China Mobile International, Baobab, center3, Meta, Orange, ...

APAC data center firm AirTrunk has launched its first campus in Johor, Malaysia and has officially commenced operations at the JHB1 data center . The facility features the company’s first deployment of direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology alongside traditional indirect evaporative cooling ...

Data Journey this week announced it has acquired the former purpose-built enterprise data center from Bed Bath & Beyond data center in Claremont, Catawba County, and has converted the facility into a colocation facility. This marks the company’s second facility acquisition, after acquiring...

Equinix has acquired land in Cyberjaya, Malaysia to expand its data center capacity in the country and has invested RM23 million (approximately $5 million) in acquiring land in Cyberjaya, Kuala Lumpur, from Cyberview Sdn Bhd.  Dato’ Seri Amirudin Shari, Chief Minister of Selangor, said: “Selan...

Microsoft has claimed that its rivals Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google are 'muddying the waters' of the antitrust investigation currently underway by the UK Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA).   Google reiterated the criticism of Microsoft in its six-page response. which said; "We be...

Kiwi information management services provider Team IM has deployed Oracle Alloy in its data centers and is set to launch a sovereign cloud for New Zealand which it claims will be New Zealand's first sovereign hyperscale cloud.  Ian Rogers, CEO of Team IM. said: “Many companies have promised to...

Israeli quantum computing startup Quantum Transistors has secured funding of up to €17.5 million ($19 million)  from the European Innovation Commission. The council selected 68 companies that will receive an estimated €411 million ($446.1m) in funding, of which up to €165 million ($179m) is in...

GPU cloud company Lambda Labs has launched Nvidia HGX H100 and Quantum-2 InfiniBand Clusters for AI model training. The Silicon Valley-based company targets its Click clusters  at AI developers that need access to high-end AI hardware, but not for long periods.  “Lambda has solved a complex co...

Jason Rees, SVP of technology and cloud engineering EMEA at Oracle Cloud during a roundtable this week confirmed that Oracle is not currently looking at developing its own custom chips for artificial intelligence (AI).  When asked if Oracle was exploring the possibility of developing its own c...

AI chip startup Fractile has exited stealth with $15 million in seed funding round  co-led by Kindred Capital, NATO Innovation Fund, and Oxford Science Enterprises and included participation from a number of angel investors, including Stan Boland, co-founder of Icera, and Amar Shah, co-founder...

 Modular data center firm Secure I.T. Environments (SITE) has completed a mechanical and electrical upgrade at the data center of St Mary’s Hospital in the Isle of Wight, the UK  to accommodate 14 racks with a capacity of 80kW.  This upgrade will allow the Isle of Wight NHS Trust to reach its ...

Microsoft has announced plans to deploy Lumen’s Private Connectivity Fabric (PCF) to improve its data center network infrastructure.  Lumen will also migrate its workloads to Microsoft Azure and work with the company to deliver “telecom industry-specific solutions.”  Erin Chapple, corporate vi...

Jaguar's Formula E team has selected Google Cloud as cloud partner and will be using Google Cloud's artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing technologies both on and off the track during the 2024/25 season. James Barclay, managing director of JLR Motorsport and Jagar TCS racing team pr...

Grid Telecom, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) of Greece has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Saudi Electricity-owned Dawiyat Integrated to build a subsea cable system connecting Greece to Saudi Arabia, and other major destinations ...

Investment management company Blackstone in its latest earnings call mentioned that it has more than $70 billion in prospective data center pipeline development and over $70 billion in prospective data center pipeline development. CEO Stephen Schwarzman said that "the consequences of AI are as...