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US Energy Sec Plans 11GW Data Center Campus in Texas

The Texas Tech University System (TTU System) announced a collaboration with recently founded energy and technology company Fermi America to develop a large AI and energy campus near Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. The Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus will reportedly include “18 millio...

June 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Qarnot Launches Italian Data Center Facility

French data center firm Qarnot has launched a new data center deployment at the Lamarmora power plant in Brescia in Lombardy, in partnership with local energy firm A2A and connected it to the city’s local district heating network.Paul Benoit, Qarnot's CEO, said: "Partnering with A2A represents...

June 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Italy

Meta Purchases 791MW of Renewable Power in the US

Meta has signed four renewable energy agreements across four projects in Ohio (x2), Arizona, and Texas, for a combined capacity of 791MW from Invenergy to power its US data center portfolio.The four contracted projects include the 300MW Yellow Wood Solar Energy Center in Clinton County, Ohio, ...

June 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Sonim Looks to Merge with AI Data Center Firm

Nasdaq-listed Sonim Technologies, a provider of rugged mobile phones and other products, this week announced the signing of a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) for a proposed reverse take-over (RTO) with a privately owned US-based company that is “building out Nvidia-based high-performance co...

June 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Jet.AI Partners with Consensus Core for Canadian Data Centers

Jet.AI Inc., a company pivoting from aviation software and services into data centers, this week announced that it and Consensus Core Technologies, a Canadian provider of GPU infrastructure and AI cloud services, have executed a definitive agreement to jointly develop a phased hyperscale data ...

June 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Canada

Can the Cloud Go Green? Exploring the Path to Carbon-Neutral Data Centers

People consider the cloud to be intangible. However, there are dozens of servers powering that invisible force in thousands of data centers stationed around the world. These facilities, many of which operate continuously without interruption, consume vast amounts of energy and are increasingly...

June 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Gridmatic Inks 10MW PPA in Texas

US-based power marketer Gridmatic has signed a 10MW Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Sol Systems in Texas, with a portion of the power supplied to data center developer EdgeConneX under a 24/7 carbon-free energy agreement (24/7 CFE). The PPA has a capacity of 14MW and reached commercial op...

June 26, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Texas

Deep Green to Deploy Compute at Manchester Leisure Center

Deep Green, a company that deploys small data centers close to swimming pools, is planning to deploy 400kW of compute hardware within a 150 sqm (1,614 sq ft) space at the Move Urmston Leisure center in Urmston, southwest of Manchester. It will be the company’s first deployment in the UK’s Nort...

June 26, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Manchester

DigitalBridge and ArcLight Invest $500m in Takanock

DigitalBridge and energy investor ArcLight Capital have invested capital commitments totaling $500 million in a new dispatchable power firm targeting data centers- Takanock, which describes itself as a provider of digital and power infrastructure solutions. The company aims to address the powe...

June 26, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DigitalBridge

Google buys land for data center in Botetourt County, Virginia

Google has spent $14 million to buy a plot of land for a data center development in Botetourt County, Virginia. The deal for the 312-acre site at the Botetourt Center industrial park, Greenfield, was announced on Tuesday.“We are always looking for communities that have the innovative and colla...

June 26, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Google

STT GDC Launches Data Center in Tokyo

APAC data center firm ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has launched a new data center in Tokyo, Japan.Tokyo 1 is the first of two buildings at the company’s STT Tokyo campus within the Goodman Business Park, Inzai. The campus will support up to 70MW of IT load when completed, with ST...

June 26, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC)

Microsoft Signs Carbon Removal Deal in the US

Microsoft has signed yet another carbon removal deal, this time buying carbon removal credits from forestry projects in the US with Anew Climate and sister company Aurora Sustainable Lands. Both companies announced a 10-year agreement to deliver 4.8 million nature-based carbon removal credits ...

June 26, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Azure

Time Energy Launches Malaysia’s First Community Solar Project

Time Energy, the renewable division of Malaysian telco Time dotCom, has launched the country’s first community solar project for data centers. The company signed an agreement with AIMS Group, a colocation and Edge data center provider, which will be the first anchor customer, via the Community...

June 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Malaysia

Cryptominer Hive Digital acquires Toronto data center

Crypto firm Hive Digital this week announced the signing of a purchase and sale agreement to acquire a facility with 7.2MW of installed capacity. Hive said the acquisition will support the development of a “sovereign Canadian AI ecosystem” through its wholly owned subsidiary, Buzz High Perform...

June 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Toronto

Vultr Secures $329m in Credit Financing

Cloud infrastructure provider Vultr has secured $329 million in credit financing to help further expand its AI infrastructure and cloud computing platform. The financing is made up of a $255 million syndicated credit facility, including a $35 million uncommitted accordion, and $74 million of r...

June 25, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Utilidata Raises $60.3m for Energy Infrastructure AI Platform

Utilidata has raised $60.3 million in Series C funding to scale its energy infrastructure AI platform, Karman, developed in partnership with Nvidia. The platform provides real-time visibility, identifies and manages distributed energy resources, enhances resiliency, and offsets the need for fu...

June 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

HPE Expands its Nvidia AI Computing Portfolio

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has expanded its portfolio of Nvidia AI computing solutions, including the launch of the next generation of HPE's Private Cloud AI, and plans to work with KDDI on a new GB200 NVL72 system.HPE's Private Cloud AI is described as an "integrated turnkey AI factory ...

June 24, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

Stoneweg Announces Data Center Investment Fund for Europe

Swiss real estate investment advisor Stoneweg is entering the data center market, launching its own data center fund and platform via its Stoneweg Europe Stapled Trust (SERT) unit. The company this week announced Stoneweg European Business Trust has made a €50 million ($58m) investment in the ...

June 23, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Europe

Kakao Plans Data Center in Namyangju, South Korea

South Korean Internet firm Kakao is to build a data center in Namyangju, a city in the nation's Gyeonggi province. The KRW 600 billion ($442.3m) investment will see the company develop a 92,000 sqm (990,280 sq ft) AI-focused facility. Work is set to start next year, targeting a 2029 completion...

June 23, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Kakao Corp.

Top Data Center News from 16th-21st of June 2025

Amazon to Invest $13bn in Data Centers in AustraliaAmazon is planning to invest AU$20 billion (US$13bn) by 2029 in expanding data center infrastructure in Australia as it looks to develop additional data centers and expand its existing facilities in Sydney and Melbourne.Cawley Partners Acquire...

June 23, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

United States

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