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Chirisa Technology Parks (CTP), the wholesale and hyperscale data center development platform of Chirisa Investments, this week announced that it is expanding its data center portfolio in partnership with PowerHouse Data Centers. CTP plans to expand its footprint across Virginia, Illinois, Was...

Texas man Sean Aaron Smith, 30, who set fire to approximately 22 cell towers was sentenced to six and a half years in prison last week, according to court records. Prosecutors said he “maliciously attempted to damage and destroy, using fire, multiple cellular telephone towers around San Antoni...

Swedish vendor Ericsson has secured a seven-year €420 million loan with the European Investment Bank to support its investment in research and development for enhanced wireless technology until 2025. The vendor noted that €250m of the sum had already been disbursed. Carl Mellander, Ericsson’s ...

The University of Hawaii and Ocean Networks recently announced that they will be collaborating on a subsea cable system connecting the islands of Hawaii. This project, named the Hawaiian Islands Fiber Link (HIFL) falls under the state's broadband initiative, Connect Kakou and will potentially ...

The Neocortex AI system has been selected to participate in the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) two-year pilot plan to democratize access to AI technology and research. This AI supercomputer incorporating two Cerebras CS-2 AI servers is one of six AI supercomputers in the US that will be...

DCI Data Centers (DCI) and Daelim Co have begun construction of a data center in Seoul, South Korea. This project, which will be DCI’s first data center in South Korea, is a result of a joint venture between the two companies. Nicholas Toh, CEO of DCI, said, "Building our first Asian data cent...

Goodman Group recently announced that it will be developing 1GW of data center capacity in Tsukuba City, Japan and has  also started construction of a new 50MW data center in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. The company has entered into agreements that will see a 1GW data center campus developed in Japan...

Equinix is launching a fully managed private cloud service for customers to get privately-owned Nvidia DGX AI supercomputers hosted in Equinix data centers. The company will install and operate the supercomputers for its customers. in the data center company's International Business Exchange (...

Meta recently revealed its plans to build a new data center campus in Jeffersonville, located on the southern border of Indiana along the Ohio River. The company will invest  $800 million to develop a facility spanning almost 700,000 square feet on the 619-acre site. Brad Davis, director of da...

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently began investigating the AI deals made by the likes of OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Anthropic. The investigation is to determine how these deals may impact competition in the market, with concerns that the AI boom is deepening the power o...

Oracle and telecoms company Du have signed a partnership framework to develop a sovereign cloud platform to address regulatory and data sovereignty requirements within the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Jasim Al Awadi, CICTO of Du said, “The UAE is one of the most innovative countries in the worl...

European renewable energy firm Enery this week announced it had signed two virtual power purchase agreements with the companies part of the Orange Romania Group. Following the agreement, Enery is expected to provide an annual supply of 70,000MWh of clean energy to Orange. Severin Vartigov, chi...

Cloud storage company Wasabi Technologies has acquired Curio AI, its intellectual property and the team behind it from GrayMeta. Following this acquisition, Wasabi will use Curio AI's technology as part of its storage offering for the media and entertainment industry which is expected to be wi...

Atos-owned company Eviden this week announced it has been awarded a contract by Jülich Supercomputing Centre (Germany) to build a new data center in Germany to host Europe’s first exascale supercomputer system: the EuroHPC-funded Jupiter supercomputer. Prof. Dr. Thomas Lippert, director of the...

Mississippi’s Republican Governor Tate Reeves is seeking approval for a $10 billion investment in two hyperscale data center developments in Canton and wider Madison County. Reeves called a special session to discuss this opportunity on January 25, noting on X that this is a project that will ...

Millicom subsidiary Tigo Colombia has agreed to sell 1,100 telecom towers to US investment firm KKR. This deal will see KKR lease the wireless communications towers to Tigo Colombia to support its wireless networks. KKR has also revealed plans to work with digital infrastructure platform NEXO ...

German data center firm Maincubes recently announced it is expanding its presence in Frankfurt with a new facility located in the Rhine-Main metropolitan area, south of Frankfurt in Dietzenbach. This facility called FRA04 will provide approximately 12,500 square meters (134,550 sq ft) of white...

Real estate-focused private investment firm Starwood Capital Group recently announced the launch of Starwood Digital Ventures, a new platform dedicated to the group’s data center investment strategy. Starwood Digital will use funds from different Starwood investment vehicles to develop its pip...

Data center and cable entrepreneur Rémi Galasso announced on LinkedIn this week that Intelia is planning a new subsea cable connecting the southern island of New Zealand to Australia. The 3,000 km system will include a total of 16 fiber pairs; 4 fiber pairs from Invercargill to Australia, offe...

As part of a partnership between Danfoss and Google, Danfoss is set to provide cooling and heat reuse systems for Google's data centers. Google on the other hand, will provide artificial intelligence solutions to the multinational engineering group for customer experience improvements, interna...