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Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has unveiled its new data center in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and has launched the first phase of OADC Texaf Digital - Kinshasa, a joint venture between OADC and TEXAF. Mohammed Bouhelal, managing director of OADC Texaf DRC, s...

APAC data center operator Bridge Data Centres has acquired 20 acres of land in the Mukim of Plentong, District of Johor Bahru, State of Johor  from real estate and construction holding company Paragon Globe Bhd (PGB)  for a cash consideration of RM99 million ($22.4m). This is the second land d...

Meta has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to procure the output of two solar farms in the US, currently in development in Louisiana and Illinois. Construction is underway at RWE’s 274MWac County Run Solar in Illinois and 100MWac Lafitte Solar in Louisiana, both are due to go live in lat...

Colocation firm Equinix is exploring deployment of hydrogen fuel cells at its data center in Dublin, Ireland. A spokesperson for the company noted that while a temporary demonstration pod was deployed at one of the company's sites on tour from ESB and GeoPura, is not a permanent deployment.  P...

Australian data center firm NextDC this week officially opened D1 data center in Darwin, developed in partnership with the Northern Territory Government and Vocus.  NextDC CEO Craig Scroggie said: “D1 will play a pivotal role in accelerated computing and represents the next step towards achiev...

US operator TierPoint this week announced that it has acquired a building in downtown St. Louis which it plans to retrofit into an enterprise-grade data center. ver the next year, the first phase of investment will build out 22,600 square feet of data center production space and 5MW of utility...

Rowan owner Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners this week announced that  Rowan Digital Infrastructure has secured a co-investment from University Pension Plan Ontario (UPP). The companies said UPP’s investment in Rowan will allow Quinbrook to “further advance its efforts” to provide solutions t...

Data center firm Edged Energy has officially announced plans for a new data center located at 6525 New Albany Road East, the 206,000 sq ft (19,140 sqm) facility will offer 24MW across two stories. Construction is underway and expected to be completed in July 2025.  “We are on a mission to buil...

Princeton Digital Group this week announced the acquisition of Yahoo’s Singapore data center, SG3 which offers 5MW across 5,400 sqm (58,125 sq ft).  Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Yahoo will continue to host its infrastructure at the facility.  Rangu Salgame, chairman, CEO and co-fo...

Foundry has launched its GPU-based Foundry Cloud Platform for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads which it claims can reduce operational complexity and compute cost by up to six times.  The company seeks to overcome the GPU shortage by turning to existing GPUs that it claims are "vastly und...

Telekom Malaysia (TM) has deployed a Private 5G network for oil and gas company Petronas at its  LNG Complex in Bintulu, Sarawak.  According to TM, this location is one of four Petronas sites installed with a Private 5G network.  TM deployed the network along with the Digital Nasional Berhad (...

UK data center operator Iomart has announced it has installed 560 solar panels on its flagship data center in Maidenhead, the largest of Iomart’s 13 data centers in the UK. This investment will contribute to the aim of self-sustaining energy during the summer to power the site.  David Gammie, ...

RadiusDC this week announced the acquisition of Miami I in the Sweetwater area of the city from NextStream, a data center operator in Latin America owned by Actis.  RadiusDC said it plans to immediately expand the site's capacity from 3.2MW to 9.2MW.  "We believe Miami I is an ideal asset to e...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has confirmed its plans to expand its data center presence in Hyderabad, India with investment in the Telangana region. The discussions were held in California in the US, and have seen AWS express a desire to expand its data center facilities and workforce in Hyderaba...

 Indonesian telco Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership to create sovereign and Edge cloud services in Indonesia. The telco will offer Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) on-premises to customers in Indonesia via its data center arm. Customers will also have acc...

TalkTalk has struck a refinancing deal with lenders in the UK worth £400 million. This deal will enable TalkTalk to alleviate fears it would default on payments and extend its debt maturities to 2027. A group of SSN holders, a group of RCF banks, Ares Management Funds, and the company’s major ...

Investment firm Waterland Private Equity has revealed its plans to acquire MVNO Lebara Group by buying out Alchemy and Triton Partners, the existing owners of Lebara since 2019. The company, founded in 2001 does not own a mobile spectrum license but sells mobile services to more than four mill...

 AI cloud company CoreWeave has added several hyperscale executives to its team and has appointed Chen Goldberg as SVP of engineering and Sachin Jain as chief operating officer.  Sachin Jain came from Oracle, where he spent less than a year at the company in charge of AI Infrastructure, data c...

Artificial intelligence (AI) cloud provider Consensus Core has selected Cologix's Montreal data center for its Canadian deployment where it will offer its Nvidia-powered GPU-as-a-Service to the Canadian market.  Wayne Lloyd, co-founder and CEO of Consensus Core, said of the partnership with Co...

Microsoft and Palantir Technologies are teaming up to provide cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics capabilities to the US Defense and Intelligence Community units to help them access Microsoft's large language models (LLMs) via Azure OpenAI Service within Palantir's AI Platforms ...