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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...

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...

Pakistani oil company Mari Petroleum Company Limited (MPCL) has revealed plans to develop data centers across the country as part of an expansion into digital infrastructure. This week the company said it has formed the new digital infrastructure subsidiary with an equity investment of Rs. 10 ...

Ethiopian telco Ethio Telecom has announced the final plan for its copper switch-off initiative. The carrier revealed plans to transfer the remaining 100,000 customers on its copper network over to fiber. Ethio, Ethiopia's biggest network operator with more than 78 million customers, said 60,0...

Brazilian firm Scala Data Centers has secured new financing to fund its data center roll-out. The DigitalBridge-owned company this week announced the successful completion of $500 million in structured financing. The investment includes $250 million from Coatue Tactical Solutions and $250m fro...

Deutsche Telekom (DT) has slammed Meta after the Facebook parent company ended its direct peering relationship with the German carrier. This follows a recent court decision in Germany that ruled in favor of DT. According to DT, all data traffic from Meta to the DT network used to run via direc...

Two companies are partnering to offer land and natural gas power to data center developers.Backup power provider Rpower and landowner Wise Asset this week announced a partnership to provide powered-land solutions to serve large energy users including data centers and heavy industrial manufactu...

Qatari telco Ooredoo has secured newQAR 2 billion ($552m) financing deal to fund the expansion of its data center portfolio across the MENA region. The 10-year hybrid facility, which comprises commercial and Islamic tranches, has been signed with Qatari National Bank (QNB), Doha Bank, and Masr...

Vodafone Group has extended its partnership with satellite network operator Intelsat to provide portable satellite broadband services to businesses in underserved areas. Intelsat will help the company to provide wider coverage of temporary and on-the-move satellite connectivity services to org...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded Equinix a contract for colocation services for its Homeland Security Enterprise Network.Published on SAM.gov on September 17, the tender called for "power, connectivity and related operations and maintenance," adding that the services wi...

Data center startup ECL claims that it will build a 1GW AI data center on a more than 600-acre site east of Houston, Texas, powered by hydrogen.The TerraSite-TX1 will initially have a capacity of 50MW, coming next summer, at a cost of around $450 million. AI cloud provider Lambda will be the f...

Blackstone has confirmed it plans to spend £10 billion ($13.3bn) developing an AI data center on a derelict industrial site in Blyth, UK. The plot of land, known as Northumberland Energy Park, had been earmarked for a battery factory by now-defunct electric vehicle battery maker Britishvolt.Jo...

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors has approved a rezoning requestto rezone the land from agricultural to planned business district to enable two data centers to be built. in Gainesville, Virginia. The data centers are expected to total nearly 815,000 sq ft (75,716 sqm) and are per...

Uber is set to use custom Ampere Computing chips on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Announced at Oracle CloudWorld 2024, Uber is partnering with Ampere and Oracle to have more control over how its workloads are running on OCI. The partnership enables Uber to co-design its chips with the US ...

Huawei has unveiled its latest all-flash storage solution, dubbed the OceanStor Dorado 18000 or, more informally, the Dorado V7  at the company's annual Huawei Connect event in Shanghai. According to Huawei, the new OceanStor Dorado 18000 minimizes power consumption whilst still providing 30 p...

Investment firm Sixth Street has acquired a minority stake in data center firm EdgeConneX from EQT as both companies announced that the EQT Infrastructure IV and V funds have signed an agreement to sell a minority stake in EdgeConneX to funds managed by Sixth Street. Infrastructure will remain...

Ephos, a startup building glass-based photonic chips, has raised $8.5 million in a seed funding round and is opening a research and manufacturing plant in Italy. The company plans to use the proceeds of the funding round to scale up operations at its headquarters in Milan, Italy, and its US ba...

Atos's Eviden business unit has been awarded a four-year multi-million euro contract to boost the performance of the Berzelius supercomputer at Linkoping University for the second time. Eviden will integrate and deploy further Nvidia GPUs into the system, adding an extra 512 petaflops of FP8 A...

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has announced plans to expand its data center capacity in Mumbai and Chennai, India through a $1 billion into the country which will bring its India portfolio to 230MW of capacity. DG plans to add three new facilities, bringing the total campus capacity to 150MW a...

Microsoft has signed a biomass carbon sequestration carbon capture deal with biomass sequestering company Arbor. The company's system uses waste biomass to create power, while also capturing the CO2 it says would have been released into the atmosphere via that biomass decomposing or burning up...