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Pembina and Kineticor to Develop 1.8GW Gas Project in Alberta

Canadian midstream gas company Pembina Pipeline Corporation (PBA) and Kineticor Asset Management, a Canadian power generation firm, have formed a joint venture (JV) to develop a natural gas power plant in Alberta, Canada, to serve the data center sector. will co-develop the Greenlight Electric...

March 05, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Teraco Signs PPA with NOA in South Africa

Teraco, Digital Realty's African arm, has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with NOA, a South African integrated energy aggregator, to supply renewable energy from multiple wind projects to Teraco’s facilities through a wheeling arrangement.“The conclusion of this PPA supports our sustai...

March 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Principal Closes $3.64bn Data Center Fund

Principal Asset Management, the investment management unit of Principal Financial Group, this week announced it has reached the final investor close for its Principal Data Center Growth & Income Fund. The new fund, dedicated to the development of a portfolio of hyperscale data center proje...

March 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NTT Data Partners with Holy See for digital archive

NTT Data has signed a partnership with the Holy See (Vatican) to support its activities in Japan. Both companies will be expanding their existing relationship to "identify opportunities for future collaboration.""NTT Data is our technology partner in Japan. We appreciate their support for our ...

March 04, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Skylo Secures $30m in Funding

Direct-to-device satellite firm Skylo has secured $30 million in funding round led by NGP Capital, with participation from Westly Group and existing investors including Intel Capital, BMW i Ventures, Samsung Catalyst Fund, and Next47.Parthsarathi Trivedi, CEO and co-founder of Skylo, said: “Sk...

March 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

AWS Launches New Outposts Rack for Telcos

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched new Outpost offerings including racks and servers designed for telecommunications customers. These racks have been designed for high throughput, network-intensive workloads, and AWS Outposts servers designed for Cloud Radio Access Network (RAN) workloads....

March 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Lumen Orbit Rebrands to Starcloud

Lumen Orbit, the startup aiming to deploy data centers in space, has recently announced a name change, rebranding to Starcloud and has secured a further $10m to fund its plans. The additional funding comes from previous seed investors and several new venture capital firms in the form of a simp...

March 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Top Data Center News for 24th- 28th February 2025

Rowan Digital Infrastructure this week announced it closed a $1.24 billion of construction financing to build the second phase of its flagship hyperscale data center campus at TPG's Quantum Frederick site in Maryland.Crypto firm DMG Blockchain Solutions Inc. this week announced it has signed a...

March 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

AWS Launches New Outposts Rack for Telcos

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched new Outpost offerings including racks and servers designed for telecommunications customers. These racks have been designed for high throughput, network-intensive workloads, and AWS Outposts servers designed for Cloud Radio Access Network (RAN) workloads....

March 03, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Colt Launches Data Center in Tokyo, Japan

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) this week announced the launch of its latest hyperscale data center, Inzai 4. Colt launched its first Inzai data center back in 2011. This expansion is the second site developed under the joint venture between Fidelity Investments and Mitsui & Co., Ltd....

February 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Rowan Secures $1.2bn for Maryland Data Center Campus

Rowan Digital Infrastructure this week announced it closed a further $1.24 billion of construction financing to build the second phase of its flagship hyperscale data center campus at TPG's Quantum Frederick site in Maryland.The financing was led by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) a...

February 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Iron Mountain Launches First Data Center in Miami

Iron Mountain has broken ground on its first data center in Miami-Dade County, Miami known as MIA-1. This facility will deliver 16MW of capacity across 150,000 sq ft (13,935 sqm) on a 3.4-acre site in Miami's District 12 and would be run on 100 percent carbon-free energy when operational in 20...

February 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Continent 8 Launches Data Center in Missouri

Continent 8 Technologies, a global managed hosting and cloud provider focused on iGaming and online sports betting sectors, has launched a new data center in Missouri in preparation for the opening of Missouri's regulated online sports betting market, which is scheduled for December 1, 2025.Mi...

February 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Microsoft Completes EU Data Boundary for Microsoft Cloud

Microsoft has completed its EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud data sovereignty project. According to TechCruch, the boundary means that European commercial and public sector customers can store and process customer data and “pseudonymized” personal data for core cloud services within th...

February 28, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Meta Sifns Solar EAPA with Cypress Creek in Texas

Meta this week signed an Environmental Attribute Purchase Agreement (EAPA) with Cypress Creek Renewables to support the construction of a 505MW solar facility in Texas. Construction of the project is scheduled to begin later this year, with operations expected to commence in 2027."We are thri...

February 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Quantum Machines Raises $170m in Funding Round

Processor-based quantum controller startup Quantum Machines has raised $170 million in an oversubscribed Series C funding round which was led by PSG Equity with participation from Intel Capital, Red Dot Capital Partners, and existing investors.“Turning a quantum processor into a functional qua...

February 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

LCL Powers up Three Wind Turbines in Belgium

Belgian data center firm LCL Data Centers has powered up three wind turbines in Belgium with a combined capacity of 6.9MW. Each turbine will have a capacity of 2.3MW and, according to the company, will contribute to LCL’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030. Laurens van Reijen, managin...

February 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

PowerHouse and Provident to Develop New Campus in Texas

AREP-owned PowerHouse and Provident Data Centers this week announced the co-development of a 768-acre data center campus with a 1.8GW switchyard in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. Located just outside of Grand Prairie in northern Ellis County, the first 500MW tranche has already been appr...

February 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Edged Launches First Phase of Chicago Facility

Data center firm Edged this week launched the first of three facilities at its 96MW Aurora campus. The two-story ORD01-1 offers 24MW across 210,000 sq ft (19,510 sqm). The site is equipped with a waterless cooling system from Edged's sister company ThermalWorks. The company said the modular sy...

February 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

DMG Looks to Buy 10MW of Prefab Modular Data Centers

Crypto firm DMG Blockchain Solutions Inc. this week announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with an undisclosed counterparty to purchase the infrastructure for 10MW worth of prefabricated air-cooled data centers for its deployment of generative AI facilities.Upon execution ...

February 27, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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