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Spanish telco Telefónica confirmed the passing of its former chairman César Alierta Izuel today (January 10) at the age of 78 in Zaragoza, Spain. Alierta served as an executive chairman for 16 years as he was appointed executive chairman of Telefónica in July 2000, a position he held until Apr...

Alphabet quantum spinout Sandbox AQ has acquired quantum and computational chemistry startup Good Chemistry. Neither of the companies disclosed the terms of this acquisition. However, the Wall Street Journal reported that the deal is worth $75 million and comprises of cash and stock. SandboxAQ...

New Swedish operator T.Loop has acquired a 800 square meter data center located in the center of Stockholm, Sweden. Details about ths facility including the seller and the terms of the transaction have not been shared. However, the company noted that this facility will be modernized throughout...

Investment firm EQT’s Infrastructure VI fund has invested in EdgeConneX to build and operate purpose-built data centers for hyperscale customers around the world, expanding the company into new markets. Terms of this investment were not shared. However, EQT noted that this investment by EQT In...

US colocation provider TierPoint this week announced that it has acquired a multi-megawatt data center in Fort Worth, Texas. This data center located at 13701 Independence Parkway is the company’s third in the Dallas-Forth Worth area.  The colocation provider noted that this facility sitting o...

UK data center firm Kao Data this week announced a change of leadership with an appointment of Doug Loewe as its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective immediately. Loewe said, “For almost a decade, Kao Data has established an enviable reputation as a pioneer within the fields of AI and ...

South Korean solar panel producer Qcells this week announced an eight-year strategic alliance with Microsoft Corp. to extend the companies’ existing solar panel supply deal. This extension comes as Microsoft looks to procure a large amount of solar panels produced in the US for its renewable e...

Three Ireland has partnered with Ericsson to launch a 5G Standalone network said to be the first in Ireland. Ericsson noted that this launch is initially available on a trial basis and will eventually be available to select corporate customers who will have the opportunity to test and trial it...

The outage from AT&T which was blamed on copper thefts in the area have now impacted residents in South Dallas, Texas. Thiis outage which led to services going down since Christmas day have reportedly caused losses of revenue for businesses in the area. AT&T said in an announcement, "W...

New French operator Phocea DC has raised €5 million to develop a new data center in Marseille from French venture firm Reflexion Capital. The planned facility will span 1,700 square meters and offer around 1.2MW with a PUE of 1.2. It will also feature  two meet-me rooms, will look to reuse was...

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) recently announced plans to decommission its head office data center in Sydney and relocate to a colocation facility. Moreso, other RBA data centers will get an all-new core infrastructure, and the Bank will migrate all of its applications and workloads to t...

Stack Infrastructure recently announced that it is expanding its AI data center capabilities with high-density racks to help support the growing requirements of machine learning workloads. Matt VanderZanden, chief operating officer of Stack Americas said, “Stack was built for the world’s large...

In a January 4 announcement, Intel revealed that it has finally received a first-generation Twinscan EXE:5000 High-NA extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography scanner, which it ordered from ASML seven years ago. This scanner is set to be assembled by both companies in the next few months.  The  H...

Orange has noted that a weak password to its RIPE account was the primary cause of the outage at Orange Spain disrupted close to half of its network traffic earlier this week. This outage lasted for about three hours on January 4 after a hacker manipulated crucial information about the company...

In a recent development, Virginia's King George County Board of Supervisors voted to renegotiate the performance agreement with Amazon. This agreement is for the facility's first phase at the old Birchwood power plant on State Route 3 near Sealston.  Following the existing agreement, Amazon wo...

Keppel has filed with the Fingal and South Dublin County Councils as it seeks to install battery energy storage at its data centers in the Irish capital. These storage systems for both facilities are to be provided by Grid Beyond Limited, which provides grid-connected battery technologies and ...

The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has dismissed Motorola’s appeal against the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Motorola, in its appeal, had claimed that the CMA made errors in assessing competition in the relevant market and the profitability of the Airwave Network. However, the CM...

Microcontroller manufacturer Microchip Technology is set to receive $162 million in funding from the US CHIPS and Science Act to support an increase in the company’s production of microcontroller units (MCUs) and other technology in the country.  Ganesh Moorthy, President and CEO of Microchip,...

Analog machine learning chip developer Aspinity has announced Richard Hegberg as its new CEO to replace the company’s co-founder Tom Doyle, who has held the position of CEO for the previous seven years. Doyle will, however, remain as a board member and will become the company’s chief operating...

Irish managed service provider Servecentric has lodged an appeal to the Fingal County Council after its application to develop a new data center in Dublin was denied. This comes after the service provider’s proposal to develop a data center on land in the Blanchardstown Corporate Park in Bally...