Data Center News

Vantage Announces 224MW Data Center Campus in Nevada

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers this week announced its entry into the Nevada market with a 224MW campus in Storey County just outside of Reno. The campus will include four multi-story data centers totaling more than 1 million square feet. Nearly $3 billion is set to be invested in the project.Vantage sa...

Exa Launches New Fiber Route from London to Brussels

Europe

Exa Infrastructure has launched a new European fiber route, including a subsea cable connecting the UK to mainland Europe. The 1,200 km project includes a 115km submarine cable linking Margate in the UK to Ostend, Belgium. Exa is responsible for providing landing party and backhaul services on...

Westinghouse to Use Google Cloud AI Tools

Google

Westinghouse Electric Company is teaming up with Google Cloud to use AI for the construction of nuclear reactors. Under the agreement with Google, Westinghouse will combine its existing HiVE and bertha nuclear AI solutions with Google Cloud technologies to help improve both the construction of...

Allianz Acquires Stake in Yondr

Yondr Group

Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) has announced tthat its subsidiary Allianz Capital Partners GmbH has acquired a minority stake in Yondr Group, joining DigitalBridge and La Caisse (formerly CDPQ) as investors in the firm. The stake was acquired on behalf of the Allianz insurance companies ...

InfraVia to Sell Switzerland’s Green Datacenter to IFM

Switzerland

Investment firm InfraVia Capital Partners this week announced IFM Global Infrastructure Fund (IFM GIF), advised by IFM Investors, has agreed to indirectly acquire 100 percent of Green Group AG. Terms were not shared, but the deal is set to close later this year.“We look forward to embarking on...

Duos Edge AI to Deploy Two Edge Data Centers in Texas

Texas

Duos Edge AI is set to deploy two of its Edge data centers in Corpus Christi, Texas which will serve as “central communications hubs for carriers delivering services to mobile operators, enterprises, local education, healthcare, and digital economy sectors while driving growth across the local...

National Bank of Bahrain Launches Data Center

Bahrain

The National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) has launched a new data center, a result of an 18-month effort to transform the bank's infrastructure, with support from the Central Bank of Bahrain. The data center is Tier III design certified by Uptime Institute and located on the 6th floor of NBB's headqu...

Oracle to Invest $3bn in Cloud and AI Infrastructure

Oracle

Oracle plans to invest a combined $3 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure in Germany and the Netherlands over the next five years. $2bn has been earmarked for Germany, while $1bn will go to the Netherlands.Germany's Federal Minister for Digital Affairs, Karsten Wildberger, said: "Oracle's st...

Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Proposed in Pennyslyvania

Pennsylvania

A large data center campus is being proposed in Northeast Pennsylvania. 1778 Rich Pike LLC is aiming to develop a 1.5GW, 1,000-acre campus on either side of Interstate 380, just north of Clifton Beach Road. The project is known as the Gouldsboro Data Center in some documents.Each building woul...

CoreWeave Plans $6bn Facility in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

AI cloud firm CoreWeave has revealed plans to invest up to $6 billion in developing a data center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania which will have an initial 100MW of IT capacity, though it will have the potential to scale up to 300MW, and will be "purpose-built" for AI use cases. Around 600 skilled...

Yondr Completes 40MW Frankfurt Data Center

Yondr Group

Data center firm Yondr Group this week announced that its 40MW data center in Bischofsheim, just south of Frankfurt, is now fully operational. The site includes a solar photovoltaic (PV) installation on the roof, a green wall, and electric vehicle charging points. Yondr said it has also comple...

Starwood Files for 1.2GW, 11-building Data Center Campus in Delaware

Delaware

Plans have been filed for a large gigawatt-scale data center campus in Delaware, filing two applications with New Castle County to develop a new campus that would total 1.2GW across 6 million sq ft (557,418 sqm). Project Washington would see 11 buildings developed on approximately 580 acres of...

Oakland University Calls for Data Center Proposals

Michigan

Oakland University (OU) in Rochester, Michigan, has released a "request for proposals" (RFP) last month, detailing the data center project planned for a five-acre site located at 253 Pioneer Drive, Rochester, on the existing parking lot P-35.The Oakland Press reports that it is this substation...

Vesper Infrastructure Acquires French Operator Thésée DataCenter

France

Vesper Next Generation Infrastructure Fund I SCSp announced this week that it has signed a binding agreement to acquire 100 percent of the share capital of Thésée from state-owned French investment group Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations/Banque des Territoires and Groupe IDEC Invest, the real...

Debenhams Group Signs Multi-Year Deal with AWS

UK retail company Debenhams Group has extended its existing partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) with a new multi-year contract. With Debenhams Group already using AWS, the new contract will expand this to include its other brands, such as PrettyLittleThing, Karen Millen, and Boohoo.“Col...

Ascenty Plans More Facilities in São Paulo, Brazil

Latin American data center firm Ascenty, a joint venture between Digital Realty and Brookfield Infrastructure, recently celebrated 15 years in the Latin American market by announcing a new 47MW, 40,000 sqm (430,555 sq ft) facility.“We’ve seen strong demand from clients for space in our data ce...

Adriatic DC Announces Plans for Three Data Center Campuses in Italy

Italy

Adriatic DC this month announced plans for multiple data center campuses across Puglia in the southeast of Italy. The company claims the 'Puglia Data Center Valley' will total more than 2GW of capacity at full build-out, but few details have been shared."The Puglia Data Center Valley was creat...

BluSky AI Secures site for Utah Data Center

New data center firm BluSky AI Inc. this week announced the acquisition of the land lease and secured a total of 9.3MW of power to support its debut data center project in Utah.Under the agreement, DAM has assigned BluSky AI its exclusive right to utilize 9.3MW of solar and grid-interconnected...

SambaNova Launches Turnkey AI Inference Offering

AI solutions provider SambaNova has launched a turnkey AI inference data center product, dubbed "SambaManaged," which can be deployed in just 90 days and enables existing data centers to begin offering AI inference services with "minimal infrastructure modification."“Data centers are strugglin...

Oracle Database@AWS Now Generally Available

Oracle's Database@AWS offering has been made generally available, launching in two Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud regions, placing Oracle hardware within Amazon data centers. T“Customers have been putting their most valuable data in Oracle databases for decades,” said Karan Batta, senior vice...