Data Center News

Bell Canada Plans AI 'Data Center Supercluster'

British Columbia

Canadian telecoms operator Bell Canada has launched 'Bell AI Fabric,' a plan to help build AI data centers across the country, starting with six data centers in British Columbia, supported by 500MW of hydroelectric power. The very first facility is set to come online this June, operated by AI ...

APL Plans 100MW Data Center Campus in Finland

Finland

International private equity firm APL Group (also known as Asia Pacific Land) this week announced the development of a hyperscale data center campus in Varkaus, in the province of Eastern Finland.The data center will be built on a 28-hectare site and has a planned capacity of up to 100MW. The ...

IQM Installs Quantum Computer at Politecnico di Torino Data Center

IQM Quantum Computers has brought its first quantum computer in Italy online.The 5-qubit IQM Spark system has been installed in the Turin data center belonging to Politecnico di Torino (PoliTo), Italy’s oldest technical university.IQM’s Spark quantum machines have been specifically tailored fo...

Colovore Appoints Jeffrey Springborn as CEO

Liquid cooled data center firm ​​Colovore has appointed Jeffrey Springborn as chief executive officer. He was previously the CEO of energy monitoring startup Best.Energy USA and prior to that, he was at fiber firm Lightedge for more than 20 years, and also had stints at Terabeam and Inteliant....

Parish Council Objects to Google’s Proposed Data Center Development

United Kingdom

A local council in Essex, UK, has voiced opposition to a proposed data center campus from Google on a 52-acre site at North Weald Airfield, east of London, from the Epping Forest District Council.The company aims to develop two data center buildings and separate offices, delivering up to 77,15...

Sophia Space Secures $3.5m for Orbital Data Centers

Seattle

Seattle-based Sophia Space, an orbital computing venture, has raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding led by Unlock Ventures with the participation of angel investors, to develop Edge compute solutions for orbit and what they call space-based data centers.“We are at the dawn of a new era where...

Hyper Bit to Acquire Dogecoin Mining

United States

Cryptomining firm Hyper Bit Technologies this week announced it has signed a non-binding agreement to purchase Dogecoin Mining Technologies in a structured deal that will include an 11MW data center hosting facility based in Canada, along with a minimum of 2,000 ElphaPex DG2 mining rigs.“We vi...

Top Data Center News from 17th -24th of May 2025

United States

Gigawatt Scale Data Center Cluster to be developed Outside ParisFrench national investment bank Bpifrance, UAE investment fund MGX, French AI firm Mistral AI, and Nvidia have formed a joint venture to establish Europe’s first purpose-built intelligence hub; supporting the full AI lifecycle fro...

Microsoft Partners with Norden to Cut Scope 3 Maritime Emissions by 10k tons

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has partnered with Danish shipping company Norden to cut its Scope 3 CO2 emissions by approximately 10,000 tons over three years. Both companies will collaborate on a pilot project, utilizing Norden’s biofuel book and claim solution which allows companies that rely on maritime transp...

Penta Infra Data Center to Supply Waste Heat to Heating Network

Penta Infra

European operator Penta Infra this week signed a letter of intent to supply residual heat from its Leeuwarden data center to a new sustainable heat network being developed at the De Zwette IV business park.“This project is a great example of how local collaboration can turn sustainability ambi...

Microsoft to Purchase Carbon Removal Credits from Exomad Green

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has reached a deal to purchase 1.24 million tons of carbon removal credits from Exomad Green, in the largest biochar removal agreement to date. The ten-year deal will see the tech giant purchase removal credits generated from Exomad's biochar operations in Concepción and Riberalta, B...

CoreWeave Selected as AI Partner by Aston Martin Aramco

CoreWeave

Formula One team Aston Martin Aramco has signed a multi-year agreement with AI cloud provider CoreWeave. As part of the partnership, CoreWeave will help Aston Martin Aramco to move its on-premises computing infrastructure to a cloud computing environment, which Aston Martin hopes will "elimina...

Hunter Newby & Connected Nation Break Ground on IXP

Connected Nation and Wichita State University (WSU) last week broke ground on Kansas’ first carrier-neutral Internet Exchange Point (IXP). The facility is being developed by Connected Nation Internet Exchange Points, LLC – a joint venture between Connected Nation and Telx co-founder Hunter New...

Duos to Deploy Edge Data Center in Victoria, Texas

North Texas

Duos Technologies this week announced a strategic partnership with Region 3 Education Service Center (ESC) to deploy a new Edge data center in Victoria, Texas.Dr. Morris Lyon, executive director of Region 3 ESC, said: “We are proud to partner with Duos Edge AI, Inc. to bring secure, innovative...

IHS Towers to sell Rwandan Operations to Paradigm Tower Ventures

Rwanda

Tower firm IHS Holding Limited has reached an agreement with Paradigm Tower Ventures for the acquisition of its 1,465 tower sites in Rwanda for an enterprise value of $274.5 million. IHS said it expects the sale of IHS Rwanda Limited to close in the second half of 2025, pending government and ...

American Tower Opens Edge Data Center in Raleigh, North Carolina

American Tower Corporation

American Tower Corporation has opened its Edge data center in Raleigh, North Carolina, marking the occasion with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the site, the company's first data center in North Carolina’s Research Triangle region.The company notes that its Edge data centers are able to address ...

Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Cluster to be Developed Outside Paris, France

Paris

French national investment bank Bpifrance, UAE investment fund MGX, French AI firm Mistral AI, and Nvidia this week announced the formation of a joint venture to establish what they claim will be Europe’s largest AI campus in France.The companies said they aim to develop Europe’s first purpose...

Google Reaffirms Sovereign Cloud Solutions for EU

Google

Google has announced a series of additional security and sovereignty elements for its sovereign cloud in response to EU groups' concerns about trade tensions and the reliance on US tech companies.The move comes as European groups are raising concerns about the potential for the Trump administr...

Turkcell Secures €100m for Data Center Expansion

Turkish telco Turkcell this week announced that its subsidiary, TDC Veri Hizmetleri (TDC), has secured €100 million ($112.5m) in murabaha financing through a strategic agreement with Emirates NBD Bank.The five-year financing agreement will be used towards Turkcell Group’s data center investmen...

Digital Realty to Purchase 5.1MW of Solar Energy from Summit Ridge Energy

Digital Realty Trust

Colo data center developer Digital Realty has signed an agreement to purchase 5.1MW of solar power from Summit Ridge Energy. The solar projects are part of Summit Ridge’s broader portfolio of solar assets across the state of Illinois. According to the company, its Illinois portfolio has a comb...