Data Center News

Uranium prices hit all-time high

Microsoft Azure

Uranium prices have hit an all-time high, with artificial intelligence data centers driving increased demand for nuclear fuel. comes as large data center operators have begun prioritizing nuclear power as a crucial energy source for their operations. According to an FT report, the price of enr...

Substrate AI plans 10MW data center outside Toledo

Spain

Spanish AI firm Substrate AI this week announced it aims to develop a 10MW facility on a 25,000 sqm (269,095 sq ft) site at the Torrehierro industrial estate in Talavera de la Reina that will host Nvidia GPU hardware, including NVL72 racks. The company will invest €100 million ($102.3m) in the...

Bit Digital acquires Montreal site for data center

United States

US data center developer and crypto firm Bit Digital has acquired the site for a build-to-suit 5MW data center expansion project in Montreal, Canada.The company initially used cash on hand to fund the acquisition and is working to obtain mortgage financing to cover the site's acquisition and s...

Equinix partners with Dell Technologies for private AI solution

Equinix

Equinix and Dell Technologies are teaming up to offer a private AI solution that enables customers to train AI models on public and private clouds deployed on-premises. Using the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia which combines Dell PowerEdge XE9680 with Nvidia GPUs, the Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet p...

Qualcomm claims win following mistrial in copyright battle with Arm

United States

Qualcomm is claiming victory in its court battle with chip design giant Arm after a jury in the US found that its processor designs are properly licensed, despite the case ended in a mistrial, leaving the door open for Arm to return with a fresh action.After a week-long federal court trial hel...

HPE to build Blue Lion supercomputer at LRZ

Germany / Deutschland

HPE will build an Nvidia-powered supercomputer at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) in Germany. Dubbed Blue Lion, the system will employ 100 percent direct liquid cooling. The water-cooling solution will allow waste heat from the supercomputer to be reused for heating local buildings.“Pr...

Will 2025 be the Year of the Data Center? Here are Three Promising Facts from the Virginia Market

Last summer, Sequoia partner David Cahn declared that 2025 would be the “Year of the Data Center,” as project developers and investors lined up to expand data center capacity in support of the AI industry’s massive build-out. To validate this thesis, we looked at Baxtel’s proprietary data in o...

Nexalus partners with liquid cooling technology

United States

Nexalus has teamed up with HPE in a partnership will see Nexalus deploy its liquid cooling technology - which it claims can recycle excess heat - into three of HPE’s server models, which it says offer enhanced thermal performance and reduced energy consumption.Kenneth O’Mahony, co-founder and ...

Civo launches sovereign cloud region in India

India / Bhārata

UK-based cloud provider Civo has launched a sovereign cloud region in Mumbai, India as a  part of a $25.52 million investment in the country. This investment will see India join Civo's existing regions across Europe, North America, and Asia. Civo said it aims to provide an equitable model of c...

EuroHPC JU selects seven hosting sites for AI factories

Europe

The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has selected seven sites to host the initiative’s new European AI factories. The factories represent a collaborative effort between 15 member states and two EuroHPC participating states and are the result of a €1.5 billion ($1.6bn) investment, combini...

Core Scientific to upgrade Texas data center

Texas

Core Scientific plans to refurbish its data center in Denton, Texas, turning it from a crypto facility into an AI site, spending as much as $6.1 billion on the new campus, the Denton City Council said, with a planned launch in 2027.  As part of the deal, the City of Denton will lease 78.85 acr...

RWE selects HPE Private Cloud AI for weather modeling

Renewable energy company RWE has selected HPE's private coud AI for weather modeling and will be using HPE's Private Cloud for evaluating, fine-tuning, and inferencing its weather models. “As a leading provider of renewable energy, RWE is at the forefront of balancing the increasing power dema...

Colovore to expand footprint of liquid-cooled colocation data centers beyond Silicon Valley

Chicago

Colovore is to expand its footprint of liquid-cooled colocation data centers beyond Silicon Valley and into Reno and Chicago. The company this week announced its second facility in Santa Clara, California, will open next month, and confirmed the locations of its next two sites.“We are staying ...

Microsoft's AI VP Luis Vargas quits

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft's vice president of AI, Luis Vargas, has quit the technology giant and will now be the founder and CTO of a new AI startup, details of which have yet to be revealed."I feel extremely fortunate to have worked with exceptional people on many exciting things, from introducing HA/DR in S...

ECL plans to construct a 1GW hydrogen-powered AI data center in Texas, with Lambda as its inaugural tenant.

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...

Lintasarta unveils AI cloud 'GPU Merdeka' in Indonesia

Indonesia

 Indonesian IT service management company Lintasarta has launched an AI cloud service called GPU Merdeka, a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) would be a sovereign AI cloud featuring Nvidia chips.  The GPU Merdeka service features GPU servers with a configuration of 8x Nvidia H100 SXM Tensor Core GPUs,...

Singtel and Bridge Alliance to launch GPU-as-a-Service in South Asia

South Asia

Singapore's Singtel and the Bridge Alliance are set to launch a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offering in Southeast Asia. In February 2024 when the company first announched the launch, it mentioned that Singtel’s GPUaaS will be powered by Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU-powered clusters that are opera...

Foundry unveils GPU-based Foundry Cloud Platform

United States

Foundry has launched its GPU-based Foundry Cloud Platform for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads which it claims can reduce operational complexity and compute cost by up to six times.  The company seeks to overcome the GPU shortage by turning to existing GPUs that it claims are "vastly und...

Microsoft partners with Palantir on AI for US defense and intelligence Community

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft and Palantir Technologies are teaming up to provide cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics capabilities to the US Defense and Intelligence Community units to help them access Microsoft's large language models (LLMs) via Azure OpenAI Service within Palantir's AI Platforms ...

CoreWeave hires execs from Google, Oracle, and AWS

 AI cloud company CoreWeave has added several hyperscale executives to its team and has appointed Chen Goldberg as SVP of engineering and Sachin Jain as chief operating officer.  Sachin Jain came from Oracle, where he spent less than a year at the company in charge of AI Infrastructure, data c...