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Meta has partnered with CarbonBuilt, a company which develops low-carbon concrete solutions to reduce carbon footprints by up to 70 percent compared to industry baselines.This partnership aims to accelerate the production of low-carbon concrete and will allow CarbonBuilt to upgrade and scale t...

CyrusOne has launched its 40MW data centre campus outside of Chicago in Aurora, Illinois, set on a 32-acre site, to comprises two data centre buildings spanning 446,000 sq ft (46,500 sqm) across from Interstate 88 on Bilter Road in Kendall County. According to the filings, the development will...

Real estate firm Goodman this week said it has completed the third building at its Goodman Tsuen Wan West data center campus and handed over the 50MW facility to Chinese operator GDS.Goodman’s head of Asia, Paul McGarry, said: “This is the latest data center completion at the brand new 225MW G...

Investment firm Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP) has invested in Atlantic Hub, a data center developer based in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The company  is looking to develop data center campuses across the island of Ireland and has recently received planning pe...

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 comm...

Digital Realty  this week announced that it has amended, extended, and upsized its existing $3.75 billion senior unsecured multi-currency global revolving credit facility to $4.2 billion. The maturity date was extended by three years and total availability was expanded by $450 million which no...

 Crusoe Energy Systems is collaborating with Vast Data  to develop "Shared Disks," a petabyte-scale file system capable of reads up to 200Mbps per TiB per node with hundreds of GPps in aggregate read and write bandwidth per cluster.The Shared Disks also offer a 99.5 percent SLA that is offered...

NetApp and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership, integrating NetApp's unified data storage and intelligent services into its Distributed Cloud architecture. The companies aim to help public sectors and regulated industries access artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure while meetin...

Oracle revealed this week that it plans to open a cloud region in Malaysia, where it will be offering more than 150 infrastructure and cloud services, including Oracle's AI offerings. Customers in the country will have access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) generative AI agents, as well a...

Indonesian electric motorcycle company Alva has selected Google Cloud as its primary cloud service provider and plans to use  Google Cloud's artificial intelligence (AI) optimized infrastructure for innovation across R&D, customer service, productivity, and marketing. Alva will also look i...

IBM  this week announced the launch of the facility, at IBM's campus in Ehningen near Stuttgart, in a ceremony attended by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. It is IBM's second quantum data center, featuring three systems - one based on IBM's Heron processor, alongside two other new systems that w...

Google this week held a ceremonial groundbreaking for its first data center and cloud region in Malaysia located at the Elmina Business Park outside Kuala Lumpur.Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and Google, said: "Today, Google reaffirms its support for advancing ...

Dagang NeXchange Berhad (DNeX) and Google Cloud have signed a deal to deliver sovereign cloud services to Malaysia and  will operate the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) offering as a managed GDC provider, bringing a sovereign cloud offering to the country. Karan Bajwa, vice president for Asia P...

Indonesian technology company GoTo Group,  a provider of ride-hailing and delivery services, has signed five-year deals with Tencent and Alibaba to use their cloud infrastructure services. GoTo will use Tencent's Platform as a Service (PaaS) technology to support its end-to-end ecosystem, whil...

Telecommunications conglomerate Comcast said it will deploy Qwilt’s Open Edge platform to create “the most distributed content delivery network (CDN) in the US."  Comcast added that as entertainment moves to live streaming and demand for delivery quality continues to increase, a CDN is foundat...

A Houston, Texas, facility has received $40 million in investment to be upgraded as an artificial intelligence (AI) data center. This site is located at 11445 Compaq Center W. Drive and is part of the 66-acre Viva Center campus at State Highway 249 and Louetta Road. The $40 million will be use...

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has signed a deal with business park developer Mindspace REIT to develop three more data centers outside Mumbai, India. Under this partnership, Mindspace REIT will develop three additional built-to-suit data centers for PDG, adding a further 1 million sq ft to its...

Internet exchange operator DE-CIX is now offering its interconnection and cloud services in Sines, Portugal which will be hosted at Start Campus’ Sines DC facility outside Lisbon. The first building, with an initial capacity of 14MW, is expected to be operational in Q4 2024. The remaining five...

 Brazilian firm Scala Data Centers this week announced the successful completion of $500 million in structured financing. The investment includes $250 million from Coatue Tactical Solutions and $250m from the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO) which will be used to accelerate ...

The UK's Pirbright Institute, a global leader in the study and surveillance of viruses, has installed a new containerized data center.  The containerized data center will offer “scalable, resilient, flexible, and energy-efficient infrastructure” for the Pirbright Institute, Schneider and APT s...