Data Center News

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 ...

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...

Microsoft Confirms Provision of AI and Cloud Services to Israeli Military

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has confirmed that it sold AI and cloud computing services to the Israeli military during the ongoing war in Gaza, though it denies its technology was used to harm people. The cloud company released a statement on May 15 in response to "concerns from our employees and the public" abo...

AtNorth Secures Swedish AI Cloud Provider as Customer

atNorth

Nordic data center firm atNorth this week announced it will host infrastructure that will support the development of a National AI Cloud in partnership with 6G AI Sweden.The National AI Cloud will reportedly “ensure data sovereignty under Swedish jurisdiction and will be fully compliant with G...

Qualcomm Signs MoU to Deliver AI data centers for Humain

Saudi Arabia

Qualcomm has signed a memorandum of understanding with Humain to develop AI data centers, hybrid AI across Edge and cloud, and AI chips which would cover facilities in Saudi Arabia and around the world.Humain and Qualcomm plan to develop and build AI data centers in Saudi Arabia, develop CPU a...

Insurer Marsh McLennan Selects AWS as Preferred Cloud Provider

Amazon AWS

Insurance giant Marsh McLennan has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider across its four global businesses - Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer, and Oliver Wyman. The company will migrate the majority of its global on-premises infrastructure to AWS, significantly reducing the company's physic...

Angela Rayner Overturns Decision to Block Data Center Planned for Hertfordshire, UK

UK deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has overruled local councillors and given the green light to a £1 billion ($1.32bn) data center in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire.Rayner made her decision based on a report from planning inspector Thomas Hatfield, who recommended that the development, prop...

Cooling fluids firm Arteco Moves into Data Centers

Industrial lubricants company Arteco recently announced its expansion into the data center and electronics market with its Zitrec EC brand. The company has traditionally been known for engine coolants and heat transfer fluids for applications such as heat pumps, air conditioning, refrigeration...

Akamai Completes Edgio Customer Migration

Akamai has completed the migration of customers from bankrupt CDN firm Edgio. Akamai Technologies' CEO Tom Leighton said that of those customer accounts acquired from Edgio, the company has seen a $16 million commitment over the next three years. In total, Akamai saw a revenue of $1.015 billio...

UniSC Plans Migration to Microsoft Azure

Australia's University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC is planning to start moving its core infrastructure workloads to the cloud out of two on-premises data centers by the second half of this year. Initially, the project will be a "lift and shift" migration according to the university, which wil...

PJM Selects 51 Projects for Fast Track Interconnection

US Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) PJM Interconnection, has selected 51 projects for its fast-track interconnection review process to meet surging energy demand primarily from the data center market. The projects selected have a combined capacity of 11.8GW. Of that, gas-fired generati...

Edged Breaks Ground on data center in Des Moines, Iowa

Edged this week announced the groundbreaking of its newest data center in Ankeny, located just north of Des Moines. The 13.2MW, 105,000-square-foot (9,755 sqm) facility, built for high-density artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, will be equipped with a closed-loop waterless cooling system....

Virginia Governor Vetoes Bipartisan Data Center Oversight Bill

The Governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, this week vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have installed new oversight measures for planned data centers in the state, in a rejection of calls for increased environmental and community protections.Democrat Josh Thomas proposed this bill which inclu...

Hudson IX to Expand Presence at the 60 Hudson Street Carrier Hotel

US data center firm Hudson InterXchange (Hudson IX) is expanding its presence at the 60 Hudson Street carrier hotel in New York City with the addition of a 2MW data hall. The expansion, integrated into Hudson IX’s sixth floor data center, is designed to deliver up to 40kW of capacity per cabin...

OData Launches First Phase of Mexican Facility

Latin American data center firm OData this week announced the launch of the first 75MW facility at its DC QR03 campus, located in the PyME Industrial Park in Querétaro. At full build-out, the campus will see an investment of more than $3 billion and provide up to 300MW of IT capacity across fi...

Meta Raises AI Data Center Capex Forecast to up to $72bn

Meta reported strong earnings and growing AI data center spend in its latest quarter,expecting its 2025 capital expenditure to increase to between $64 billion and $72bn, up from the $60bn to $65bn it previously planned to spend.CFO Susan Li  noted in an earnings call that the increase is parti...

Stack Infrastructure Sells European Colo Business to Apollo

Stack Infrastructure is selling its European colocation data centers to investment fund Apollo. Apollo will acquire seven data centers in five markets - Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Milan, and Geneva - and form a new, independent company to manage them. According to a statement from the busine...

BNP Paribas Signs Multi-Year Agreement with IBM Cloud

French multinational bank BNP Paribas has signed a ten-year agreement with IBM Cloud, expanding its use of the latter's cloud computing offering. BNP has been hosting IBM Cloud hardware in its data centers and the company will now build on that existing infrastructure by dedicating a new area ...

Nova Infrastructure Purchases Majority Stake in DartPoints

Investment fund Nova Infrastructure has purchased a majority stake in US-based data center operator DartPoints from Astra Capital Management. The investment includes an injection of growth capital that is designed to scale DartPoints’ platform and “expand its footprint through targeted investm...

CtrlS Breaks New Ground in Bhopal, India

Indian data center firm CtrlS has broken ground on a data center located on a five-acre land parcel at the Badwai IT Park. CtrlS said that the facility would possess “24/7 operational reliability and high uptime,” but specific figures were not provided. Sridhar Pinnapureddy, chairman of CtrlS,...