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Microsofr this week announced that it has entered into a two 200MW Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with Energy firm Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) which will help it purchase the power generated from two 200MW LRE solar facilities currently under development in Texas: Morrow Lake Solar in Frio...

Steelmaker Nucor Corporation this week announced that it has acquired  Southwest Data Products, Inc. (SWDP), a manufacturer and a data center supplier and launched a new business unit that will help better serve its customers in the data center infrastructure industry. Nucor said SWDP and the ...

Amazon has invested an additional $2.75 billion in AI startup Anthropic in a deal which marks the second round of funding provided by the cloud and eCommerce giant under a previously agreed plan to invest up to $4bn in the startup. Amazon made an initial investment of $1.25bn for a minority st...

JLL has revealed its plans to offer free educational and training opportunities for the next generation of data center operators. The company has  teamed up with non-profit organization Nomad Futurist Foundation to create a 16-hour curriculum called the Technical Development Program (TDP), bas...

IT services provider Advania and colocation company atNorth have agreed to a deal that will see Advania take extra capacity at atNorth’s ICE03 site in Iceland, a 12MW data center in Akureyri that opened last year. A statement from both companies noted that “The expansion onto the ICE03 campus ...

BT has entered a 10-year partnership with media group Global to repurpose its legacy payphones and kiosks into brand-new street WiFi hubs which will provide digital connectivity for more than 200 towns and cities across the UK. Followinf this agreement, Global will convert more than 2,000 conv...

University College London (UCL) spinout Oriole Networks has raised £10 million ($12.6m) in a seed funding round co-led by UCL Technology Fund, Clean Growth Fund, XTX Ventures, and Dorilton Ventures, with support from Innovate UK Investor Partnership. “As the demand for compute continues to inc...

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week rejected SpaceX’s bid to use the 1.6GHz and 2GHz radio spectrums due to a technicality. SpaceX's satellite division Starlink, had been seeking approval to use up to 7,500 second-generation satellites with spectrum in the 1.6 GHz, 2 GHz, and 2.4...

IPI-owned company Stack Infrastructure announced this week that it has broken ground on a 60MW data center expansion in Silicon Valley, California. The company plans to build two data centers to add 60MW of capacity, an advanced manufacturing facility, and a parking structure, spanning 19 acre...

NTT Data is opening a third campus in Berlin, with up to 96MW of capacity planned across two data centers. This new campus will be built on a 10.8-hectare (26.6-acre) plot, with construction work to start in 2025. “Berlin is an important market in our growing portfolio and expansion plans," sa...

Virginia's Fauquier County has approved zoning changes for Vint Hill relating to the "planned commercial and industrial district" that will limit data centers. These zoning rules will require any buildings or assemblages of buildings of more than 50,000 sq ft (4,645 sqm) to apply for and recei...

Internet Vikings is opening its first data center in Latin America to cater to the growing demand for licensed iGaming and sports betting services. The company said it would offer “reliable and secure hosting services that enable operators to develop in this competitive environment.” It added ...

The University of Pisa in Italy has selected Vertiv to help extend its existing data center infrastructure and will be providing critical power and cooling systems, including liquid cooling equipment, to enable the university to deploy high-performance computing (HPC) systems and Artificial In...

Italian broadcaster RAI this week announced its board of directors had approved a new 2024-2027 business plan, which includes a number of data center investments. The company said it plans to invest €140m related to the roll-out of its ‘diversification initiatives’ by 2027. These investments i...

The CEO of British utility National Grid has warned that data center power use is set to grow dramatically which will put further strain on an already-constrained grid. John Pettigrew said that the UK's energy industry has reached a "pivotal moment," and pitched the development of an ultra-hig...

Data center operator Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has completed the first phase of its 96MW data center campus, TY1, in Tokyo, Japan which included the core and shell construction of a six-story facility, expected to supply 48MW of IT capacity. The TY1 data center located in Saitama City, 30k...

Cloud computing startup Hive has completed a Series A round of funding led by SC Ventures, the venture arm of Standard Chartered with $13 million and plans to use this fund to further its plans for a decentralized cloud, using an aggregation of individual devices' unused storage and computing....

Denmark's Danske Bank has signed a multi-year cloud contract with Amazon Web Services (AWS). This will include systems for business, institutional and personal customers, and will see more than 16,000 physical and virtual servers, and 1,000 applications being migrated. Danske Bank said it will...

Ericsson has announced it will cut 1,200 jobs in its home market of Sweden as a part of cuts announced earlier this year, with the company citing a "challenging mobile networks market in 2024." "In addition to the headcount reduction, the cost-saving initiatives cover various areas such as red...

Veon subsidiary Kyivstar upgraded approximately 4,000 4G base stations in Ukraine last year and has increased its 4G user base in the country to 14.3 million. However, revenue slumped by 3.3 percent during the fourth quarter of last year, with Kviystar blaming this on a cyberattack, which resu...