Data Center News

ICS Arabia and XDS to Deliver Immersion Cooled Facilities in Saudi Arabia

ICS, a data center operator and manufacturer based in Saudi Arabia and XDS  which is based in the UK and the UAE and specializes in cooling have signed a deal to construct two immersion-cooled data centers in Saudi Arabia.Arabia Abdullah Ayed Al Mazny, general manager of ICS, said: “Our partne...

CareSuper to Leave AWS for Microsoft Azure

Australian superannuation fund CareSuper is migrating its applications and data from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Microsoft Azure. Macquarie Cloud Services is to head the program, which will see the fund exiting VMware Cloud on AWS to a "Managed Edge Azure Local Offering."“Our goal is to optim...

MOL Partners with Kinetics for Floating Data Center Platform

Japan

Japanese shipping giant Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has partnered with Kinetics, an energy systems provider, to develop a floating data center platform. Both companies are to collaborate on the design, construction, and deployment of a data center hosted on a retrofitted vessel.The partnership w...

Alibaba Cloud Launches Third Data Center in Malaysia

Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud is continuing its global rollout of data centers, announcing the launch of a third site in Malaysia and also revealed that it will launch a second data center in the Philippines in October this year.In addition to the new data center locations, Alibaba Cloud has launched an AI Gl...

Fermi America Acquires 600MW of Gas Turbines for 11GW AI Mega Campus

Texas

Fermi America has acquired more than 600MW of natural gas generation for its planned HyperGrid AI campus in Amarillo, Texas across two deals in support of Fermi’s goal to deliver 1GW of AI power at the site by 2026."The executed agreements will allow Fermi America to acquire highly reliable, e...

Digerati Technologies Pivots from Cloud Offering to Colocation Services

United States

Digerati Technologies, the holding company of cloud service and colocation providers Waiv Cloud and Verve Cloud, has pivoted away from cloud computing. Digerati has completed the refinancing and debt-for-equity exchange for its former subsidiary Verve Cloud, enabling it to focus on colocation ...

Premier League Signs Five-year Deal with Microsoft

Microsoft Azure

The Premier League has made Microsoft Azure its official cloud and AI partner in a five-year deal. Microsoft will provide English football's top division with cloud computing and AI services to help modernize its digital infrastructure, broadcast match analysis, and organizational operations.R...

EdgeMode Acquires Infrastructure Investor Blackberry AIF

Spain

EdgeMode has acquired an infrastructure firm as it plans to develop data centers across Spain. The merger would see EdgeMode, which describes itself as an AI data infrastructure company, acquire BAIF’s assets in exchange for equity and investment capital, forming a “platform to support EdgeMod...

Datum Launches Second Manchester Data Center

United Kingdom

UK operator Datum Datacentres this week officially launched MCR2, marking the completion of the almost two-year construction project. The facility, located in Wythenshawe, provides capacity for up to 1,200 racks, each offering densities up to 30kW.Matt Edgley, COO at Datum Datacentres, said: “...

Hut 8 Launches Cryptomine Data Center in Texas

Hut 8 Corp

Cryptomining and HPC data center firm Hut 8 Corp. has launched a Bitcoin mining data center in Texas which spans 162,000 sq ft (15,050 sqm) and will offer 205MW of capacity at full energization. Vega features a proprietary, rack-based, direct-to-chip liquid cooling system designed in-house by ...

Palantir to Develop AI Software for The Nuclear Company

United States

Military and surveillance company Palantir is partnering with The Nuclear Company (TNC) to co-develop and deploy NOS, an 'AI-driven' real-time software system focused on the construction of nuclear reactors.“Our mission is to build nuclear power the way America once built its greatest infrastr...

Crusoe and Redwood Launch Microgrid to Power Data Centers

United States

AI data center developer Crusoe has partnered with battery recycling firm Redwood Energy to develop a microgrid system powered through solar and repurposed electric vehicle (EV) batteries for modular AI data centers.This project is supposedly the largest microgrid in the North American market ...

AMD and HCLTech Team Up for AI and Cloud Solutions

United States

AMD has partnered with Indian tech company HCLTech to boost the development of solutions across AI, digital, and cloud. The partnership will support the creation of a “robust digital ecosystem,” the two companies said in a statement.This will include joint investments in innovation labs and tr...

Qarnot Launches Italian Data Center Facility

Italy

French data center firm Qarnot has launched a new data center deployment at the Lamarmora power plant in Brescia in Lombardy, in partnership with local energy firm A2A and connected it to the city’s local district heating network.Paul Benoit, Qarnot's CEO, said: "Partnering with A2A represents...

Jet.AI Partners with Consensus Core for Canadian Data Centers

Canada

Jet.AI Inc., a company pivoting from aviation software and services into data centers, this week announced that it and Consensus Core Technologies, a Canadian provider of GPU infrastructure and AI cloud services, have executed a definitive agreement to jointly develop a phased hyperscale data ...

Sonim Looks to Merge with AI Data Center Firm

United States

Nasdaq-listed Sonim Technologies, a provider of rugged mobile phones and other products, this week announced the signing of a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) for a proposed reverse take-over (RTO) with a privately owned US-based company that is “building out Nvidia-based high-performance co...

Deep Green to Deploy Compute at Manchester Leisure Center

Manchester

Deep Green, a company that deploys small data centers close to swimming pools, is planning to deploy 400kW of compute hardware within a 150 sqm (1,614 sq ft) space at the Move Urmston Leisure center in Urmston, southwest of Manchester. It will be the company’s first deployment in the UK’s Nort...

Vultr Secures $329m in Credit Financing

United States

Cloud infrastructure provider Vultr has secured $329 million in credit financing to help further expand its AI infrastructure and cloud computing platform. The financing is made up of a $255 million syndicated credit facility, including a $35 million uncommitted accordion, and $74 million of r...

Cryptominer Hive Digital acquires Toronto data center

Toronto

Crypto firm Hive Digital this week announced the signing of a purchase and sale agreement to acquire a facility with 7.2MW of installed capacity. Hive said the acquisition will support the development of a “sovereign Canadian AI ecosystem” through its wholly owned subsidiary, Buzz High Perform...

Utilidata Raises $60.3m for Energy Infrastructure AI Platform

United States

Utilidata has raised $60.3 million in Series C funding to scale its energy infrastructure AI platform, Karman, developed in partnership with Nvidia. The platform provides real-time visibility, identifies and manages distributed energy resources, enhances resiliency, and offsets the need for fu...