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Fermi America Acquires 600MW of Gas Turbines for 11GW AI Mega Campus

Fermi America has acquired more than 600MW of natural gas generation for its planned HyperGrid AI campus in Amarillo, Texas across two deals in support of Fermi’s goal to deliver 1GW of AI power at the site by 2026."The executed agreements will allow Fermi America to acquire highly reliable, e...

July 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

EIF Invests €30m in Quantum-focused Venture Fund

The European Investment Fund (EIF) has invested €30 million ($35m) in Quantonation II, a French early-stage venture capital fund targeting quantum and ‘deep physics’ startups. This forms part of the wider InvestEU strategy that aims to close the equity gap faced by early-stage “innovative comp...

July 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

DigitalBridge and La Caisse Acquire Yondr

Investment manager DigitalBridge and Canadian pension fund La Caisse have completed their acquisition of Yondr, and appointed a new CEO for the hyperscale data center company. They now have joint control of Yondr, having purchased the firm from previous owner Cathexis Holdings for an undisclos...

July 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DigitalBridge

Kao Data CEO Doug Loewe Steps Down

The CEO of UK data center company Kao Data, Doug Loewe, has stepped down. The company claimed that Loewe had "decided to dedicate more of his time" to philanthropic work, a cause with which he has a long history. Loewe was CEO for a year and a half.“On behalf of the Board and the entire team a...

July 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

KAO Data

Premier League Signs Five-year Deal with Microsoft

The Premier League has made Microsoft Azure its official cloud and AI partner in a five-year deal. Microsoft will provide English football's top division with cloud computing and AI services to help modernize its digital infrastructure, broadcast match analysis, and organizational operations.R...

July 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Hut 8 Awarded Five-Year Capacity Contract for 310MW of Natural Gas Power in Ontario

Cryptomining and HPC firm Hut 8 has been awarded a five-year capacity contract with the Ontario Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) for 310MW of natural gas generation assets. The portfolio is owned and operated by Far North Power Corp, a partnership between Hut 8 and Macquarie Equi...

July 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Hut 8 Mining

T-Mobile Completes $2bn Florida Network Expansion

T-Mobile, in an announcement this week, said the multi-year expansion of its 5G network has concluded. The carrier said it has upgraded new and existing cell sites across the state.In total, the carrier has upgraded 1,350 sites across Florida, while also bolstering 1,375 sites to shore up emer...

July 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Florida

HPE Closes $14bn Acquisition of Juniper Networks

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has completed its long-awaited $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks. The Department of Justice (DOJ) approved the deal following HPE's agreement to a number of potentially significant conditions.“Today begins a new era for HPE – we are now at the epicent...

July 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

EdgeMode Acquires Infrastructure Investor Blackberry AIF

EdgeMode has acquired an infrastructure firm as it plans to develop data centers across Spain. The merger would see EdgeMode, which describes itself as an AI data infrastructure company, acquire BAIF’s assets in exchange for equity and investment capital, forming a “platform to support EdgeMod...

July 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Spain

Slam Corp Sues Lynk Global for Attempt to cancel merger

Slam Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) founded by former baseball star Alex “A-Rod” Rodriguez, is suing satellite mobile provider Lynk Global in a Florida court to prevent it from backing out of a proposed merger.Virginia-based Lynk moved to terminate its business combination ...

July 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Hut 8 Launches Cryptomine Data Center in Texas

Cryptomining and HPC data center firm Hut 8 Corp. has launched a Bitcoin mining data center in Texas which spans 162,000 sq ft (15,050 sqm) and will offer 205MW of capacity at full energization. Vega features a proprietary, rack-based, direct-to-chip liquid cooling system designed in-house by ...

July 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Hut 8 Mining

University of Texas to Get $3m Data Center

The University of Texas is looking to deploy a new data center to be housed in the education building at 500 W University Avenue in El Paso, Texas. The data center will span 4,568 sq ft (424.4 sqm) and is estimated to cost around $3 million.According to the posting, the project will be private...

July 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Datum Launches Second Manchester Data Center

UK operator Datum Datacentres this week officially launched MCR2, marking the completion of the almost two-year construction project. The facility, located in Wythenshawe, provides capacity for up to 1,200 racks, each offering densities up to 30kW.Matt Edgley, COO at Datum Datacentres, said: “...

July 02, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United Kingdom

Palantir to Develop AI Software for The Nuclear Company

Military and surveillance company Palantir is partnering with The Nuclear Company (TNC) to co-develop and deploy NOS, an 'AI-driven' real-time software system focused on the construction of nuclear reactors.“Our mission is to build nuclear power the way America once built its greatest infrastr...

July 01, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Crusoe and Redwood Launch Microgrid to Power Data Centers

AI data center developer Crusoe has partnered with battery recycling firm Redwood Energy to develop a microgrid system powered through solar and repurposed electric vehicle (EV) batteries for modular AI data centers.This project is supposedly the largest microgrid in the North American market ...

July 01, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Microsoft Launches Austrian Azure Cloud Region in Vienna

Microsoft has officially opened its cloud region in Austria at a joint press conference with State Secretary Alexander Pröll this week, but said companies would be able to start processing from the region in August.Hermann Erlach, general manager of Microsoft Austria, said: "The use of AI is o...

July 01, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft to Buy 1.1m Tons of Carbon Removal Credits in Norway

Microsoft has agreed to purchase 1.1 million tons of carbon removal credits from Hafslund Celsio, an energy from waste (EfW) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) firm which is set to be delivered over a ten-year period, will be generated by a CCS project under development at the site of Norway...

June 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Top Data Center News from 23rd-28th June 2025

Kakao Plans Data Center in Namyangju, South KoreaSouth Korean Internet firm Kakao has committed to a KRW 600 billion ($442.3m) investment that will see the company develop a 92,000 sqm (990,280 sq ft) AI-focused facility in Namyangju, a city in the nation's Gyeonggi province.DigitalBridge and ...

June 30, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

AMD and HCLTech Team Up for AI and Cloud Solutions

AMD has partnered with Indian tech company HCLTech to boost the development of solutions across AI, digital, and cloud. The partnership will support the creation of a “robust digital ecosystem,” the two companies said in a statement.This will include joint investments in innovation labs and tr...

June 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Lockton Launches New Data Center Insurance Product

Insurance brokerage Lockton has partnered with Parametrix, a provider of digital business interruption risk solutions, to bring a Service Level Agreement (SLA) insurance offering to the data center market. The companies said the parametric coverage offers immediate payouts triggered by predefi...

June 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

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