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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has introduced a new liquid cooling architecture which it describes as the industry’s first 100 percent fanless direct liquid cooling (DLC) systems architecture. HPE said the new architecture was designed to enhance the energy and cost efficiency of large-scale...

NTT Data has partnered with Gaia-X to deploy a testbed for a Gaia-X Digital Clearing House in Japan, which is the first outside of Europe, which is the first outside of Europe. Gaia-X is a European initiative seeking to establish a federated European cloud platform that is big enough to challe...

Atos-owned Eviden has partnered with IQM to install a quantum computer in France which will be housed at Eviden’s flagship factory in Angers, with both physical and remote access to be made available to users, the latter via an Eviden private cloud. IQM Spark is a 5-qubit superconducting quant...

The Dutch economy minister told attendees of a G7 meeting in Rome that he believes a European Union (EU) "coalition of the willing" to strengthen the political bloc’s semiconductor industry. Dirk Beljaarts said: “To have a stronger EU, between the other global players, to get leverage, it's im...

AI GPU cloud platform TensorWave has closed a $43 million SAFE (simple agreements for future equity) funding round. This included participation from Maverick Capital, Translink Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, Granite Partners, and AMD Ventures. The participating investors have the right to ...

FirstEnergy Corp, Dominion Energy Virginia, and American Electric Power have signed a joint planning agreement to develop proposals for new regional transmission projects in the PJM market. The companies submitted their joint proposals through PJM's Regional Transmission Expansion Plan Open Wi...

Engineering and architecture consulting firm Woolpert has acquired Greenbox Architecture. The Sydney-based architectural firm has specialized in data center, commercial, and residential architecture in the APAC region since 2009.“By joining a tech-driven company like Woolpert, we will be able ...

US data center operator DC Blox this week announced it has raised incremental equity capital from its existing and new investors, led by Post Road Group and Bain Capital Credit. The funding will enable the deployment of more than $1 billion of total capital to finance future construction and t...

European AI data center developer Nebius has announced plans to triple the capacity of its data center in Mäntsälä, Finland. This expansion will see Nebius place upwards of 60,000 GPUs at the facility, growing its capacity from 25MW to 75MW. This is part of a broader program that will see the ...

According to a report from Linklaters, data centers form 40 percent of the total target investment for more than 50 global real estate funds. Out of the $50 billion target size for total investment across all asset classes, the capital being raised specifically for data center investment is sa...

A large-scale data center powered by hydrogen is reportedly being planned in New Zealand by Mobii Green and North Rakaia.  Mobii Green Energy founder Kenny Tseng said the first phase of the project will see sovereign funds and international private equity funds invest US$2 billion to develop 8...

Global manufacturing company Jabil Inc. has announced it has acquired liquid cooling firm Mikros Technologies which  specializes in liquid cooling solutions and thermal management capabilities.Ed Bailey, Jabil’s senior vice president and CTO, said: “We are thrilled to welcome Mikros Technologi...

Chipmaker TSMC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with US semiconductor product packaging and test services company, Amkor Technology. Following their agreement, Amkor will provide TSMC with turnkey advanced packaging and test services at its planned outsourced semiconductor assemb...

 US independent power producer Talen Energy has acquired full ownership of Nautilus Cryptomine, a 200MW Bitcoin mining facility in Berwick, Pennsylvania, from TeraWulf.  Talen acquired TeraWulf’s 25 percent interest in Nautilus and obtained full control of the legacy Power Purchase Agreement (...

D-Wave last week announced the introduction of service-level agreements (SLAs) specifically tailored for its Leap quantum cloud service customers who are transitioning applications into production. The company said it “stands behind the high levels of availability, reliability, and scalability...

 Swedish Edge data center firm T.Loop l ast week announced it had entered into an agreement with real estate development firm Atrium Ljungberg for operational management of the Palmfelt Datacenter in the Slaughterhouse area of the capital.  "We see great potential in the data center, which is ...

Alternative investment firm H.I.G. Capital through  one of its affiliates had acquired a controlling interest in PolarDC Group Limited, The investment firm said Polar's first data center in Norway will provide up to 48MW of capacity once fully operational – with 100 percent of its initial capa...

Cirrascale Cloud Services has added Nvidia HGX H200 servers to its AI Innovation Cloud. The  servers platform is available in the form of integrated baseboards in eight Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPU configurations. It also provides up to 32 petaflops of FP8 deep learning compute and more than 1....

Russia is reportedly planning to spend more than 240 billion rubles ($2.54 billion) on 110 R&D projects focused on developing domestic chip-making equipment and materials. A report revealed that the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade and the International Scientific and Technical Cente...

 Microsoft has committed to investing €4.3 billion ($4.75bn) in expanding its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) data centre infrastructure in Italy, making this Microsoft's largest investment in the country to date.  It will be expanding its data center in Northern Italy, and has also com...