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Internet services have now returned in Gaza after another outage, which took the connectivity in the entire country down for several hours. This disruption occurred just before 3:00 a.m. local time, with Palestinian telco Paltelco announcing that connectivity to the Gaza Strip had been cut off...

Brookfield recently announced that it has entered an asset purchase agreement to acquire Cyxtera, following the latter’s bankruptcy, and will combine its new purchase with its other US colo provider, Evoque. Under this agreement, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and its institutional partner...

US colocation provider DataBank recently purchased 95 acres of land near Lithia Springs within a mile of the 18 acres where it is already building its ATL4 facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The newly acquired parcel can accommodate two multi-story data centers totaling 1 million gross square feet....

Microsoft revealed in an update that it has launched its newest Israeli Azure cloud region. The company noted in a now-deleted update, “We are launching our newest data center region in Israel. The new Israel Central data center region includes Azure availability zones, which offer you additio...

Vodafone has confirmed the sale of its Spanish business to UK investment firm Zegona for $5.3 billion. Once the transaction is completed, Vodafone will get about €4.1 billion in cash and up to €0.9bn in the Redeemable Preference Shares. Margherita Della Valle, chief executive of Vodafone, said...

American Tower Corporation (ATC) recently revealed that Tom Bartlett will retire as president, CEO, and board director on February 1, 2024. The company announced that Steve Vondran would succeed Barlett, taking over his positions. Moreso, Vondran has been appointed as the executive vice presid...

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Philippines has completed the construction of a 1.2MW data center in Makati City, the Philippines. This new facility on the outskirts of Manila, has a capacity for around 100 racks and can support loads between 5kW and 12kW. Operations. Carlo Malana, president ...

High altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) firm Mira Aerospace has successfully conducted a  5G connectivity trial from the stratosphere - which ranges from 4-12 miles (6-20 km) above the Earth's surface to around 31 miles (50km). Mira said in an announcement last week, “Our team is excited to anno...

Cirion Technologies has expanded its SAO1 data center campus in São Paulo with a new data center building spanning 3,600 square meters, increasing its capacity by 50 percent. The two data center facilities in Cotia, São Paulo, share a 20MW power substation, are carrier-neutral, and have receiv...

US colocation firm DC Blox has broken ground on a new data center campus on 55 acres of land in the Douglasville area of Atlanta, Georgia. This new facility will feature twelve data halls, totaling 750,000 square feet (69,680 sqm) of gross space, and will offer a 180 MW capacity to customers. ...

UK infrastructure fund Digital 9 Infrastructure has announced its intentions to sell its European data center company Verne Global amid shareholder pressure. Initially, the company announced plans only to sell a minority stake. However, it revealed last week that it intends to sell its entire ...

Cloud companies Proximus and LuxConnect recently launched a joint venture to offer Google Cloud services through a sovereign cloud. This venture called the Clarence JV, aims to provide a "disconnected sovereign cloud solution to governments, regulated companies, international organizations and...

A fire that broke out on the 13th floor of the 14-story Khawaja Tower in the Mohakali district of the Bangladesh capital yesterday killed three people and severely disrupted the Internet in Bangladesh. The fire broke out at 16:58, and the Dhaka fire department arrived at the location at 17:07 ...

Swiss data center firm Green announced this week that construction on data centers N and O has commenced on the Metro-Campus Zurich in Dielsdorf. Combined, new 11,600 square meter facilities will offer 35MW and accommodate about 4,000 racks.  Roger Süess, CEO of Green, said, “Our growth reflec...

State-owned telco Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) announced the launch of a new 23,000-square-meter data center campus outside Hanoi this week. The new Tier III facility known as VNPT IDC Hoa Lac – in the Hoa Lac High-Tech Park in the Thach That district, Ha Tay province, can...

Global social media firm Meta has reduced its capital expenditure by almost $3 billion this quarter as it takes a break in data center construction. The company now expects its CapEx costs for the year to reach $27-29 billion instead of the original $27-30 billion.  Meta CFO Susan Li said, “Ca...

Crusoe Energy,responsible for powering AI and crypto workloads from waste gas burnt at oil wells, is to borrow $200m from investment firm Upper90, to buy H100 TensorCore GPUs, the latest Nvidia GPU which launched in April and some of the previous version.  Crusoe notes the new GPUs will come o...

Quantum computing firm D-Wave is facing delisting from the New York Stock Exchange over its low stock price for the second time this year. The company announced this week that it received a notice from the NYSE that it is not in compliance with listing requirements as the average closing price...

The US Department of Labor (DOL) has awarded community colleges in Virginia $5 million in funding in an attempt to bridge the data center skills gap as a part of its Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs grant program.  Seven of Virginia's community colleges will be using this grant which w...

Amazon Web Services has revealed its plans to launch new cloud regions in Europe. The company notes that the first region will be in Germany, suggesting that the company plans to launch more than one.  “The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will allow government agencies, regulated industries, and ...