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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has provided a few more details about Blue Origin's plans to put compute in space, which was first announced in October. Bezos explained on the Lex Fridman podcast that the 'Blue Ring' project, aims to provide multiple services to space customers. He said, "Blue Ring ...

Singapore’s government is currently contemplating marking data centers and clouds as "critical infrastructure,” and extending oversight to cloud service providers and data center operators. A decision in this regard is expected to be made by January 15, 2024.  Currently, the  Cybersecurity Age...

The UAE's Ministry of Investment and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Egypt have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to invest in Egypt's digital infrastructure. This MoU could lead to the development of 1GW of data center capacity in Egypt, though timelines have n...

Iliad Group has secured a €300 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to use in supporting its 5G network expansion in France. This marks the seventh loan issued to the telco by the EIB since 2009.  Thomas Reynaud, CEO of the Iliad Group, said, “This financing transaction – the s...

STC Group subsidiary Center3 has now agreed to acquire CMC Networks, a global service provider offering networking solutions across Africa and the Middle East, though terms of this agreement have not been shared. Fahad Alhajeri, CEO of Center3, said, "This acquisition is a landmark moment for ...

A group of seven Dutch companies and research institutes recently won funding of  €70 million for a project looking at efficient Edge data centers. The members include liquid cooling specialist Asperitas, along with BetterBe, Deerns, Eurofiber, NBIP (National Internet Providers Management Orga...

Applied Digital has recently signed a long-term retail electric agreement with TerraForm Power for its 200MW data center in Garden City, Texas. Following this agreement, Applied Digital will use wind power produced in Texas by TerraForm Power.  Wes Cummins, Applied Digital chairman and CEO sai...

Space infrastructure business Axiom Space has planned to develop an 'orbital data center.' The company is currently developing the world’s first commercial space station, which will initially be a part of the International Space Station, but is planned to separate and remain in orbit, once the...

Digital Edge Holdings Ptd. Ltd has purchased the remaining shares of Indonesian digital infrastructure company PT Indointernet Tbk (Indonet) in a transaction representing the full acquisition of Indonet, with the last shares being previously held by Indonet’s founders.  Digital Edge CEO Samuel...

Microsoft has recently signed a large deal to pay for biochar production in Bolivia to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Following this deal, Exomad Green, the world’s largest biochar producer, will create the inert carbon residue at its facility in Concepción, Bolivia. Microsoft will pay for...

Google and AirTrunk have signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy provider OX2 in Australia for the development of a new solar farm in the Riverina district of New South Wales, from which Google and AirTrunk will receive 25MW of renewable power. Damien Spillane, AirTrunk chief custo...

Virginia's Fauquier County Board of Supervisors has approved a set of policies designed to curb data center developments in the area. These guidelines have been put in place to protect the county's rural character, the health and welfare of its citizens, as well as the value of the residential...

AI infrastructure company CoreWeave recently purchased thousands of Dell PowerEdge servers for its cloud, some of which will feature Nvidia's H100 Tensor Core GPUs to provide AI and generative AI services to CoreWeave's customers.  Brian Venturo, co-founder and chief technology officer, CoreWe...

US data center operator Involta recently revealed plans to expand its Tucson facility in Arizona at the 38,000 square feet to 1MW. This facility located at 1215 East Pennsylvania Street was launched in January this year. It currently offers capacity for 600 racks across 20,000 sq ft of technic...

Yondr Group has finally powered up its first data center in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, after breaking ground on the facility in October 2022. Once completed, this facility will be able to deliver 96MW of IT capacity across two buildings, with the potential for further expansion. Eanna ...

Photonic computing company Lightmatter has now been crowned a Unicorn, raising $155 million at a $1.2 billion valuation. This funding is part of the series C investment round, which helped the company raise $154 million in May, successfully tripling the company’s value at the time. Overall, Li...

UK alternative network provider Gigaclear has recently secured a new debt facility of up to £1.5 billion, which is split between an upfront facility of around £1bn ($1.26bn) and an uncommitted accordion of circa £500 million. This new debt facility was provided by a consortium of banks includi...

Renewables transaction company LevelTen Energy has set up a marketplace for time-based energy certificates to support renewable energy commitments around he clock. The GC Trading Alliance, supported by Google, Microsoft, and others, will be a platform to exchange "granular certificates" that v...

Crusoe Energy Systems LLC has announced a collaboration with atNorth, a Nordic colocation, computing and AI service provider, to colocate Crusoe Cloud GPUs in atNorth's ICE02 data center in Iceland, marking Crusoe’s first project in Europe.  Cully Cavness, Crusoe's co-founder and president, sa...

New Zealand’s Datagrid announced this week that it has appointed Perrine Dhalluin as its new CEO, replacing Ludovic Hutier. Dhalluin was the CEO at Pacific Islands telecoms firm Intelia, before she left the role in November 2022, joining BW Digital as chief network officer. She has also held p...