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Lumen Technologies has secured a contract worth about $73.6 million from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) under the General Services Administration's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program. This multi-million dollar contract will see Lumen modernize network, data, voice...

NTT has conducted low-latency data center-to-data center light-based photonics tests in the UK and US, claiming latency of less than 1 millisecond between facilities almost 90km apart.  In the UK, two data centers around 100 km apart communicated via IOWN APN connection with a round trip of 1...

Edged Energy announced this week that it was pressing ahead with building the data center in Irving. This comes after the Irving City Council voted unanimously in support of the development of a new data center campus in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas“Sustainability is at the core of our...

This week, EdgeConneX announced it had secured an additional $1.9 billion in sustainability-linked financing to support its EMEA expansion. The company mentioned that this financing consolidates it’s portfolio across EMEA, transitioning it from “stand-alone project-based funding to a more robu...

Eviden this week announced that it has signed a new $19.4 million contract with Brazil’s National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC, aka Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica) to extend the compute capacity of its Santos Dumont supercomputer. “We're thrilled to continue our lo...

The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (UC Chile) has installed the new Geryon 3 supercomputer in a 36 sqm (387 sq ft) room at the UC Institute of Astrophysics in Santiago. "To complement our observational capabilities, we will need a strong group of theorists who can help interpret the ...

Semiconductor manufacturing company Rapidus has formed a US subsidiary, Rapidus Design Solutions (RDS), is opening an office in Santa Clara, California, and appointed Henri Richard as president and general manager of the US organization. The company works with IBM on the development of 2nm chi...

US private equity firm Blackstone has bought a majority stake in data center engineering firm Winthrop Technologies. Financial details of this deal have not been shared. However, reports have it that Blackstone took a 50,5 percent stake, previously valued at over  €800 million. The remaining ...

Google has revealed its plans to invest $1 billion in creating two new subsea fiber cable routes between the US and Japan which will be called Proa and Taihei and will be built by Japan's NEC Corp. In a blog post, Google revealed that the investment is in support of Google's Japan Digitizatio...

Australian data center operator NextDC is seeking to raise AU$1.3 billion to fund its expansion plans. The company plans to raise the cash from existing investors via a share issue, which will allow its backers to purchase one new share in the company for every six they already own. NextDC say...

European countries including Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Airbus, and 15 others, have criticized the latest draft of the European Union's cybersecurity certification scheme (CCS), which they claim will make it easier for hyperscalers to bid for EU cloud computing contracts. The US tech giants inc...

Cloud hosting firm Vultr has launched a new sovereign and private cloud offering as a response to the increased importance of digital sovereignty, and the need to reduce reliance on hyperscalers. This new offering which was made available from April 10 shortly follows the release of Vultr Clou...

Vantage Data Centers this week announced that it will open a second Zurich campus (ZRH2) this summer. This new campus located 30 kilometers north of Zurich’s City Center in Glattfelden, will offer a total of 226,000 square feet (21,000 sqm) of space and 24MW of critical IT capacity. “Zurich is...

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has announced that it is set to start work on a AU$2.5 billion ($1.7bn) data center campus in Queensland, Australia. The first phase of development at the campus, known as Supernode, will see a 250MW battery energy storage system (BESS) installed at the site. ...

Alibaba has revealed that it is now slashing its prices by as much as 59 percent for customers "from the US to Singapore." This comes shortly after  the company's March 2024 announcement that it would be cutting cloud costs for its Chinese customers by up to 55 percent with the hope of winnin...

Content Delivery Network (CDN) company Cloudflare suffered a second data center power failure at its core facility in Portland, Oregon, within six months. As a result of the first incident which happened in November, Cloudflare introduced ‘Code Orange’; a new process where the company shifts m...

Crown Castle has announced Steven J. Moskowitz as president and CEO, bringing an end to Crown Castle's search for a successor to former CEO Jay Brown, who announced his departure in December. Anthony Melone acted as interim CEO from January 16, 2024. “I have long admired Crown Castle’s quality...

Tape Ark has moved a significant collection of tape-based sports video footage to Google Cloud. The cloud ingest of the collection measures over 40 petabytes of video footage. By moving it to the cloud, the broadcaster will be able save time and money on the maintenance of the collection inclu...

Singaporean real-estate firm Asia-Pacific Strategic Investments Limited (APS)  this week announced plans to acquire a 100 percent stake in Taiwanese sustainable data solutions provider, Mobii Genius Co., Ltd., for US$150 million. “Creating green data processing and storage facilities is of par...

T-Systems has been selected to operate the mainframe infrastructure of Danish IT service provider KMD from 2025 in a contract which is the largest the company has won yet in Denmark. While T-Systems handles the operation and maintenance of KMD's mainframes, KMD will be able to focus on develop...