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Partners Group Acquires GreenSquareDC

Swiss private equity firm Partners Group is to acquire Australian data center firm GreenSquareDC and will invest up to AU$1.2 billion (US$759m) in GreenSquare to establish the company as a “next generation data center platform.”Nicholas Kuys, managing director, Infrastructure Asia, Partners Gr...

March 11, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Ori Industries Deploys GPUs at Kao Data Facility

AI cloud provider Ori's UK announced that it would deploy Nvidia H200 GPUs in the UK late last year, but did not disclose which data center provider it would use.. However, the company has finally revealed that the GPU deployment is in Kao Data's facility in Harlow. “We are delighted to part...

March 10, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Orange Announces Plans to Leverage Data Center Assets

Orange has announced plans to leverage its data center assets as it looks to capitalize on the growth around data center demand. Michaël Trabbia, CEO of Orange Wholesale, noted last week at Mobile World Congress, the importance of Orange owning its own telecoms infrastructure, during a time wh...

March 10, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Top Data Center News for 3rd-8th March 2025

Nordic investment firm Areim this week announced it has completed an additional capital raise for its Nordic data center fund, Areim DC Fund, bringing the total raised capital to €900 million ($961m).AI infrastructure company Nebius has announced plans to build a 300MW data center in New Jerse...

March 10, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Crain's Chicago Business relies on Baxtel's data

Baxtel provided the data for the Crain Chicago Business Journal article that reports how the city is positioning itself for the data center boom. The city's efforts to attract more data centers will lead to economic growth, job creation, and property tax revenues. Read the article on Crain's C...

March 10, 2025

Eric Bell

SAM Announces Plans for Vietnam's Largest Data Center Campus

Saigon Asset Management (SAM) has announced plans for the SAM DigitalHub, outside of Hanoi, Vietnam. The campus is located at the Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP), a joint venture between Vietnam’s Becamex IDC Corporation and a Singaporean consortium led by Sembcorp Development. “The t...

March 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft to Invest $300m in Cloud and AI Infrastructure

Microsoft has committed to investing ZAR 5.4 billion ($298.6m) in cloud and AI infrastructure in South Africa by 2027. Microsoft has already invested ZAR 20.4 billion in infrastructure in South Africa over the past three years to establish data centers in Johannesburg and Cape Town.South Afric...

March 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

First Nation Prophet River FN Plans Data Center in British Columbia

Prophet River FN, an independent Dene Tsaa Nation, has signed a deal with VC firm ABCT Pacific, which will see the pair work together to develop the data center near Fort St. John, a city in Northeast BC.Valerie Askoty, Prophet River FN chief, described the project as a “unique and forward-loo...

March 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Nebius to Build 300MW Data Center in New Jersey

AI infrastructure company Nebius has announced plans to build a 300MW data center in New Jersey. The facility will be completed in phases, with the first due to be delivered by summer 2025.In a statement, Nebius said the new Icelandic deployment would be powered by geothermal energy to reduce ...

March 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Soluna Acquires Land in Texas for Bitcoin Mining Site

Crypto and HPC data center provider Soluna has finalized the purchase of 60 acres of land in Texas for the construction of its new 187MW data center, which will be allocated to Bitcoin mining and intensive AI computing tasks. The site is colocated with a 240MW wind farm, allowing the firm to h...

March 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Areim Raises €450m for Sweden’s EcoDataCenter

Nordic investment firm Areim this week announced it has completed an additional capital raise for its Nordic data center fund, Areim DC Fund, bringing the total raised capital to €900 million ($961m).The investment firm said the capital raise was “significantly oversubscribed,” adding both Nor...

March 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Novva Secures $2bn Loan for Utah Campus Expansion

US data center firm Novva has secured financing for the next phase of its campus outside Salt Lake City, Utah which will allow Novva to complete the second and third phases of construction of its 100-acre data center campus - adding two buildings and 144MW.“Our Salt Lake City center is the fir...

March 08, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

GE Vernova and AWS Partner on Data Center Decarbonization

GE Vernova has signed a deal to provide power equipment to four Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in North America, Europe, and Asia. GE Vernova will provide AWS with turnkey substation solutions to enable the connectivity of AWS data centers to the grid. This includes expanding major ele...

March 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DataOne to Expand into New Jersey

BSO’s new data center unit, DataOne, is expanding into the US and developing a data center for European cloud firm Nebius to be located in Vineland, Cumberland County. DataOne said it will be delivering the first phase of the new facility in 20 weeks. The site will be powered at least in part ...

March 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Onsemi Proposes to Acquire Allegro MicroSystems

US chipmaker Onsemi has proposed an acquisition of Allegro MicroSystems for $35.10 per share in cash. The company has made “numerous attempts over the past six months to enter into constructive discussions regarding a potential transaction,” with its most recent proposal representing an increa...

March 07, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft to Develop Azure Cloud Region in Kuwait

Microsoft announced a strategic partnership with the Government of Kuwait on March 6, that will see it develop an "AI powered" Azure region in the country. The cloud region will offer "advanced infrastructure" and is hoped to attract global businesses and researchers, and to help accelerate di...

March 06, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Edged Announces New Data Center in Iowa

Data center firm Edged this week announced a new data center in Ankeny in Polk County, to the north of Des Moines, located on 17.5 acres at 2701 Southeast 90th Street, The site will house an approximately 105,000-square-foot (9,755 sqm) facility known as Edged Des Moines and will offer 13.2MW ...

March 06, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Stream Proposes Data Center in Genesee County, New York

Dallas-based Stream US is proposing to build a large data center at the Science, Technology & Advanced Manufacturing Park (STAMP) in Genesee County, New York. The proposed facility is a 900,000 sq ft (83,600 sqm) facility, with around 250MW of capacity, including a 600MW substation, as sha...

March 06, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Salesforce Signs $2.5 billion Contract with Google Cloud

Salesforce has signed a $2.5 billion seven-year contract with Google Cloud which will enable its customers to run their customer-management software, Agentforce autonomous AI assistants, and Data Cloud products on Google Cloud.Google Cloud's CEO Thomas Kurian told Bloomberg that the two compan...

March 05, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Nicolas Roy to Lead Orange's Data Center Strategy

Totem CEO Nicolas Roy has announced on his LinkedIn that he will step aside to lead Orange Group's data center strategy and business development unit. Roy has been CEO of Totem, Orange's tower-focused subsidiary, since the division launched in October 2021."Accessing, storing, and processing ...

March 05, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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